Wayne Best

Acting

Wayne Best is a veteran Canadian actor originally from New Brunswick who is highly respected for his extensive work on stage and screen. He is perhaps most recognized for his long-standing association with the Stratford Festival, where he has performed for over 25 years in various Shakespearean and classical roles.

Filmography

• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Nell's Father
• 2023All's Well That Ends Well — Lafew
• 2023Richard III — King Edward IV, Christopher Urswick
• SkyMed — Buzz
• SurrealEstate — Magnus Clifford
• 2019Coriolanus — Host / Doctor / Father / Sentinel #1
• 2019Henry VIII — Duke of Suffolk
• Hudson & Rex — Mac MacLennon
• 2019The Tempest — Master
• 2018Romeo and Juliet — Friar Laurence
• Anne with an E — John Blythe
• 2016The Adventures of Pericles — Antiochus / Simonides / Mytilene Gentleman
• 2015Stratford Festival: King John — Hubert
• Suits — Robert Stamos
• Republic of Doyle — Staff Sergeant Banfield
• 2005Ambulance Girl — Ed
• 2005Heritage Minutes: Tommy Prince — Colonel
• 2005Our Fathers — Father Doyle
• 2004Gracie's Choice — English Teacher
• Mayday — Captain Allan
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery — Attorney Albert Irby, Agent Morrison, Frank Edey, D.A. Mandelbaum
• 2001Driven — Target Manager
• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot — George Smathers
• Mutant X — John Bishop
• 2001The Day Reagan Was Shot — FBI Agent Kirkus
• 2001The Little Bear Movie — Mountain Lion
• 2000Tribulation — Morgan
• 1999Life in a Day — Detective Ed Carlisle
• 1999The Battle of Vimy Ridge — Claude Williams
• 1999Winslow Homer: An American Original
• 1998Bone Daddy — Rodman
• 1998Summer of the Monkeys — Mr. Patterson
• Earth: Final Conflict — Mark Rusk
• La Femme Nikita — John Wicke
• Once a Thief
• Due South — Hall
• Heritage Minutes — Le colonel
• 1989Sea of Love — Hallway Cop
• 1988No Blame — Dr. Fitzpatrick
• 1988Short Circuit 2 — Officer O'Malley
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future — Commander Lorek
• 1986Christmas Eve — Harley
• 1986The High Price of Passion — Keefe
• 1985The Hearst and Davies Affair — Byron Sloane
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Spindle Cook, Mark Taylor
• 1984Cougar
• 1984Heartsounds — Intern 'Lover'
• 1979Summer's Children — Bob
• The Littlest Hobo