Michael Kane

Michael Kane was a Canadian actor who worked in film and television in both Canada and the United States. A Montreal native, he started his career in New York City with guest roles in anthology shows such as Omnibus, Lights Out, The Web and Camera Three, played Angus in a 1954 television Macbeth, and spent several months on Guiding Light. He won an award in 1957 for his Off-Broadway performance in James Joyce's Exiles, and later staged a one-man show of his own in Stratford. He played Jamie in a 1959 Montreal production of Long Day's Journey into Night, then worked in English stage roles before appearing in The Bedford Incident (1965). Returning to Canada, he took the role of Jim Brewer for the first season of the police drama The Collaborators, earned ACTRA Award nominations for that series and for The Disposable Man, and narrated documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada. He died in 2007.