Eric Breker
Biography
Eric Breker is a Canadian actor from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, who came to screen work by way of the stage. He began acting in high school, worked with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in 1988, and attended the National Theatre School of Canada before building a stage career in Victoria and Vancouver, where he played the title role in Woyzeck in 1992 and originated the part of Frank Pickersgill in Night and Fog in 1994. He is best known for playing Colonel Albert Reynolds in 16 episodes of Stargate SG-1 from 1998 to 2007, a role he reprised in Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008). His genre television work includes Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, The Dead Zone and Arrow, and he took the lead in the independent film Captive (2013).
Movie Career
- Films
- 18
- Career span
- 25 years1999 to 2024
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Early training
Breker started acting while in high school. He credits Gord McCall, an actor and director, along with the touring company Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, for introducing him to theater, and he worked with that company in the summer of 1988.
Early training
Breker joined the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal in the fall of 1989, in the same incoming class as Karen Turner, a fellow Saskatchewan actor. After one year there, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, for stage work.
Big break
Breker first played Major Reynolds on Stargate SG-1 in the second-season episode "Touchstone", broadcast on Showtime on October 30, 1998. In a 2024 interview, he recalled producer Robert C. Cooper saying the part called for "an intelligent officer", not a stock military type.
First role
In 1994, Breker was the first to play Frank Pickersgill, a spy executed in the Second World War, in the Belfry Theatre's premiere of Night and Fog by Bill Penner and Jim Read.
Eric Breker movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Vic Sarin directed three of these films. Alex Zahara appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Alex Zahara's page
Jay Brazeau's page
Terry Chen's page
Matty Finochio's page
Bradley Stryker's page
Matthew MacCaull's page
Vic SarinDirector, 3 films, 2012 to 2014
All films by Vic Sarin
Also two films together5 more actors
- Colin LawrenceA Mother's Nightmare (2012) and The Thing Below (2004)
- Paul JarrettInterrogation (2016) and A Daughter's Nightmare (2014)
- Michael RogersInterrogation (2016) and The Thing Below (2004)
- Erica CarrollInterrogation (2016) and A Mother's Nightmare (2012)
- Neil DenisLiving with the Dead (2002) and Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.