Stephen McHattie (born February 3, 1947) is a prolific and acclaimed Canadian character actor known for his distinctively intense screen presence, gaunt features, and extensive body of work spanning over two hundred film, television, and stage credits. Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and spent his early career building a formidable reputation in New York theater—earning critical acclaim and off-Broadway awards in productions like Ghetto and Mensch Meier. Transitioning to film and television in Los Angeles and later Canada, McHattie carved out a niche playing complex villains, authority figures, and brooding heavies in major projects such as A History of Violence, Watchmen (as the original Nite Owl), 300, Secretary, and cult horror favorites like Pontypool. He is also widely recognized for memorable television guest and recurring roles on series like Seinfeld (as Dr. Reston), The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Orphan Black, alongside celebrated Canadian dramatic turns that earned him a Gemini Award for Life with Billy and a Genie Award for playing hockey broadcaster Dick Irvin in The Rocket.

Filmography

• 2026Little Lorraine — Huey
• 2026Permanent Damage — Mr. Freeman
• 2024Deaner '89 — Dack
• The Madness — Emmett
• Accused — Joe
• Essex County — Lou
• 2023My Animal — Henry
• 2021Nightmare Alley — Hobo #1
• October Faction — Samuel Allen
• 2020Target Number One — Frank Cooper
• 2019Come to Daddy — Gordon
• 2019Dreamland — Johnny Deadeyes/ Trumpet Player
• 2019It Must Be Heaven — Tarot Reader
• 2019Rabid — Dr. Keloid
• 2019Z — Doctor Seager
• 2018Abandoned: Angelique's Isle — Captain
• 2018Birdland — John James
• 2018Crown and Anchor — Gus
• 2018Death Wish — Chief
• 2017Awakening the Zodiac — Zodiac
• 2017Juggernaut — Hank, Sr.
• 2017The Sound — Earl
• 2017Tokyo Trial — E. Stuart McDougall
• 2017mother! — Zealot
• 2016Khoya — Unclie Oliver
• Private Eyes — Leland Harrington
• 2016The Dark Stranger — Randall Toth / The Dark Stranger
• Tokyo Trial — Edward Stuart McDougall
• 2016Weirdos — Priest
• 12 Monkeys — Senator
• 2015Born to Be Blue — Dad
• 2015Pay the Ghost — Blind Man
• 2014Big Muddy — Stan Barlow
• 2014Dr. Cabbie — Pete Donaldson
• 2014Hellmouth — Charlie Baker/ The Barda, Producer
• 2014Lizzie Borden Took an Ax — Andrew Borden
• 2014Meetings with a Young Poet — Samuel Beckett
• 2014The Husband — Armand
• The Strain — Vaun
• 2014Wolves — John Tollerman
• 2013Exile — Maxwell
• 2013Haunter — The Pale Man
• 2013Manifold — Sheriff Noble
• Orphan Black — Percival "P. T." Westmorland
• 2013Septic Man — Mayor
• 2013The Art of the Steal — Dirty Ernie
• 2013Torment — Officer Hawkings
• 2012A Little Bit Zombie — Max
• 2012Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal — Ronny
• 2012Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt — Commander Healy
• 2012The Tall Man — Lt Dodd
• 2011Ecstasy — Jim Buist
• 2011Exit Humanity — Medic Johnson
• 2011Immortals — Cassander
• 2011Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost — Commander Healy
• Moby Dick — Rachel Captain
• 2011The Entitled — Clifford Jones
• 2010A Beginner's Guide to Endings — Fitz
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures — Dr. Standish
• 2010Die
• Haven — Ed Driscoll
• 2010Jesse Stone: No Remorse — Commander Healy
• 2010Red: Werewolf Hunter — Gabriel
• Republic of Doyle — Spencer Rennette
• 2010Score: A Hockey Musical — Walt Acorn
• 2010This Movie Is Broken — Security Guard
• 2010Who Is Clark Rockefeller? — Mark Sutton
• 20092012 — Captain Michaels
• 2009Diamonds — Llewellyn Anderson
• Diamonds
• 2009Jesse Stone: Thin Ice — Captain Healy
• 2009Pontypool — Grant Mazzy
• 2009Story Within a Story: The Books of Watchmen
• 2009Summer's Blood — Gant Hoxey
• 2009The Deaths of Chet Baker — Chet Baker
• The Listener — Arthur Stebbes, Bill
• 2009The Timekeeper — Fisk
• 2009Under the Hood — Hollis Mason
• 2009Watchmen — Hollis Mason / Nite Owl
• 2009You Might As Well Live — Fred Steinke
• Fringe — Colonel Raymond Gordon
• Murdoch Mysteries — Harry Murdoch
• The Summit — Tate
• The Trojan Horse — Jack Shea
• 2008Would Be Kings
• XIII — General Carrington
• 2007300 — Loyalist
• 2007All Hat — Earl Stanton
• 2007Jesse Stone: Sea Change — Captain Healy
• 2007Kaw — Clyde
• Killer Wave — Edgar Powell
• 2007Poor Boy's Game — Uncle Joe
• Reaper — Sheriff
• 2007Shoot 'Em Up — Hammerson
• 2006Absolution — Mike Lloyd
• 2006Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise — Captain Healy
• 2006Jesse Stone: Night Passage — Captain Healy
• 2006One Dead Indian — Police Field Commander
• 2006Solar Attack — Admiral Lawrence
• 2006The Covenant — James Danvers
• 2006The Fountain — Grand Inquisitor Silecio
• 2005A History of Violence — Leland
• 2005Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? — Attan
• 2005Stone Cold — Captain Healy
• 2005The Rocket — Dick Irvin
• The 4400 — Ian Dravitt
• 2004The Lazarus Child — Chief Prosecutor Warner
• 2003Twist — The Senator
• 2003Wall of Secrets — Hugh
• Birds of Prey — Frankie Spitz, Hawke
• Monk — Adam Kirk
• 2002Secretary — Burt Holloway
• Justice League — The Shade (voice)
• Mutant X — Aaron Gaumont
• Star Trek: Enterprise — Alien Foreman
• 2000The Highwayman — Frank Drake
• 2000The Hustle — Pierce
• 1998BASEketball — Narrator (voice)
• Cold Squad — Sgt. Frank Coscarella
• Emily of New Moon — Jimmy Murray
• 1998Midnight Flight — Lt. Jack Kelly
• 1998The Climb — Jack McLaskin
• The Magnificent Seven — Cletus Fowler
• La Femme Nikita — Willie Kane
• Lexx — Moss, E.J. Moss, Commander of Eagle 5, Field Commander Moss
• 1997Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills — Dr. Egbert Drum
• The Hunger — Strike
• 1996My Friend Joe — Curt
• Poltergeist: The Legacy
• 1995Convict Cowboy — Jegge Neff
• 1995Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14 — Jack Claremont
• 1995Deadly Love — Sean O'Connor
• JAG — Ray Crockett
• 1995Remember Me — Chief Nat Coogan
• The Outer Limits — Dr. Sherrick
• 1995Theodore Rex — Edge
• 1995Visitors of the Night — Bryan English
• 1994Art Deco Detective — Hyena
• 1994Beverly Hills Cop III — Steve Fulbright
• 1994Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence — Lieutenant Durant
• 1993Geronimo: An American Legend — Schoonover
• 1993Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord — FitzGibbon
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Diablo the Deceiver
• 1993Life With Billy — Billy Stafford
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Vreenak
• 1993The Dark — Gary 'Hunter' Henderson
• The X-Files — Red-Haired Man
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Karl Mayes, Thomas Openshaw
• Highlander: The Series — Michael Kent
• 1992Terror on Track 9 — Randolph Darnell
• Heritage Minutes — FitzGibbon
• Scene of the Crime
• The Hidden Room — Jack
• Counterstrike — Nick
• Law & Order — Joe Pilefsky
• Northern Exposure — Turk Tortelli
• 1989Bloodhounds of Broadway — Red Henry
• 1989Life Under Water — Hank
• 1989One Man Out — Erik
• Quantum Leap — Stawpah
• Seinfeld — Dr. Reston
• 1988Call Me — Jellybean
• 1988Sticky Fingers — Eddie
• Beauty and the Beast — Gabriel
• 1987Caribe — Whitehale
• 1987Salvation! — Revered Edward Randall
• 1986Belizaire the Cajun — James Willoughby
• Crime Story — Carlo Mastrangelo
• L.A. Law — Gordon Reeve
• The Equalizer — Eddie Washburn
• The Twilight Zone — Death
• 1984Best Revenge — Brett
• Miami Vice — Atty. Sam Boyle
• Tales from the Darkside — Robert Perry
• The Hitchhiker — Joe Caldwell, Johnny
• American Playhouse — Hank, James Willoughby, Red Henry
• 1982Death Valley — Hal
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980Roughnecks — Roy Bethke
• Highcliffe Manor — Rev. Ian Glenville
• 1979Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith — Judah
• Centennial — Jacques 'Jake' Pasquinel
• 1978Gray Lady Down — Murphy
• 1978Tomorrow Never Comes — Frank
• 1976James Dean — James Dean
• 1976Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby — Adrian / Andrew
• 1976Moving Violation — Eddie Moore
• 1975Search for the Gods — Willie Longfellow
• Starsky & Hutch
• 1975The Ultimate Warrior — Robert
• 1974The Lady's Not for Burning — Nicholas
• Kojak — Paul Nelson, Ray Blaine
• 1971Star Spangled Banner — Soldier (as Stephen McChattie)
• 1971Von Richthofen and Brown — Werner Voss
• 1970The People Next Door — Artie Mason
• The Stolen Child — The Poet

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth — Himself