Chuck Shamata

Chuck Shamata's career spans four decades in film, television and theatre. Among his most recent credits are the feature films One Week, The Sentinal, Cinderella Man and War Games 2; the cable movies Tipping Point,The Engagement Ring and Kojak (and the ensuing series). Don Shebib's classic Between Friends - often recognized by critics as one of Canada's all time best - was the film for which Shamata received his first Genie Award nomination, and was presented with a Migliore Attore award by the legendary Vittorio De Sica at the Sorrento Film Festival. His other feature credits include The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper, Joshua Then and Now with James Woods, Power Play with Peter O'Toole, The Devil and Max Devlin with Bill Cosby and Night Friend with Art Carney. On the small screen, Shamata was nominated for a Gemini Award for his starring role as a family man facing his homosexuality in the network film The Running Man. Other network movie credits include A Father for Brittany, On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story, the Cable Ace Award-winning Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, Echoes in the Darkness and Between Friends alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett. He played Pierre Salinger in the mini-series Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and for Showtime Networks he co-starred in the Tony Bill-directed cable feature Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story; as mafia boss Sam Giancana in The Family; The Thin Blue Lie with Rob Morrow; and Escape Clause with Paul Sorvino. On stage, Shamata played Dr. Astrov opposite Peter O'Toole in Uncle Vanya in Toronto and Chicago, Torvald in A Doll's House and leading roles in Doc, Good Woman of Setzuan, To Clothe The Naked, You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy, Battering Ram, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, The Country Girl and The Indian Wants The Bronx in theaters from Halifax to Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography

Known For: Acting

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No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Between Friends	Chino	0
2	1976	The House by the Lake	Harry	58
3	1976	The Italian Machine		60
4	1977	Welcome to Blood City	Ricardo	49
5	1978	I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses	Gershen Isen	46
6	1978	Power Play	Hillsman	70
7	1979	Stone Cold Dead	Sgt. Tony Colabre	60
8	1979	Running	Howard	66
9	1981	Scanners	Tony (uncredited)	67
10	1981	The Running Man	Ben Carfield	50
11	1981	The Devil and Max Devlin	Jerry Nadler	58
12	1983	The Terry Fox Story	Wilson	61
13	1983	Between Friends	Dr. Seth Simpson	60
14	1984	Unfinished Business	Carl	70
15	1985	The Suicide Murders	Pete Staziak	0
16	1985	Starcrossed	Chairman	51
17	1985	In Like Flynn	Danton	0
18	1985	Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks		65
19	1985	Joshua Then and Now	Seymour Kaplan	53
20	1985	A Time to Live	Dr. Strathmore	85
21	1986	Mafia Princess	Louie	100
22	1986	Act of Vengeance	Millard Atler	56
23	1986	Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star		40
24	1987	Nowhere to Hide	Mike Watson	63
25	1988	Night Friend	Jack	20
26	1988	Martha, Ruth & Edie	Mario Cellini	0
27	1990	Uncut Gem	Max	0
28	1990	On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story	Connie Babilonia Sr.	0
29	1991	Princes In Exile	Dr. Merritt	53
30	1993	Family of Strangers	Tim	58
31	1994	Death Wish V: The Face of Death	Sal Paconi	55
32	1995	Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story	Al Binder	55
33	1995	Sugartime	Michael Delfano	59
34	1996	Escape Clause	Captain Vincent Nalli	46
35	1996	Virus	Leo Burns	27
36	1998	A Father for Brittany	Bob Minkowitz	75
37	1999	Alegría: An Enchanting Fable	Narrator (Voice)	66
38	1999	Bonanno: A Godfather's Story	Santo Trafficante	43
39	1999	When Justice Fails	Captain Tanner	44
40	2000	Spreading Ground	Capt. Neiman	31
41	2000	The Thin Blue Lie	Vinnie	60
42	2000	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	Pierre Salinger	0
43	2001	Snap Decision	Jack Bradley	61
44	2002	Guilty Hearts	Det. Mike Virgilio	43
45	2002	Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story	Don Brown	0
46	2003	Behind the Red Door	Father	55
47	2003	DC 9/11: Time of Crisis	Shelton	67
48	2004	Crimes of Fashion	Sal Hugo	45
49	2004	Saving Emily	Russo	50
50	2005	Cinderella Man	Father Rorick	76
51	2005	The Perfect Neighbor	Detective Lupo	53
52	2005	The Engagement Ring	Johnny Anselmi	48
53	2006	The Sentinel	Director Overbrook	61
54	2007	Tipping Point	John Patterson	62
55	2008	WarGames: The Dead Code	Bill Carter	51
56	2008	Flash of Genius	Professor Irwin	65
57	2008	One Week	Gerald Tyler	68
58	2008	The Two Mr. Kissels	Bill Kissel	53
59	2009	Break a Leg	Hit-man	20
60	2012	Still Mine	Judge	69
61	2014	Clown	Walt	58
62	2015	Gone Tomorrow	Frank Thompson	57
63	2016	Miss Sloane	Bill Sanford	74
64	2019	Breakthrough	Chief Marlo	76
65	2020	A Simple Fucking Gesture	Man	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Sidestreet		50
2	1976	Teleplay	Reinhardt	70
3	1977	For The Record	Ben Carfield	0
4	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Philip Bellamy	72
5	1987	Echoes in the Darkness	Costopoulos	0
6	1988	War of the Worlds	Bradley	62
7	1996	FX: The Series	Mini the Pickpocket	62
8	1997	La Femme Nikita	Stephan Vacek	74
9	1998	Highlander: The Raven	Martin Foster	55
10	1999	Twice in a Lifetime	Coach Rybeck	55
11	2004	This Is Wonderland		90
12	2004	ReGenesis	Eric Dixon	74
13	2005	Kojak	Henry Mussina	44
14	2009	The Listener	Charles Harrow	68
15	2010	Republic of Doyle	Anton Strata	69
16	2019	Blood & Treasure	Sharif Gazal	66

Chuck Shamata

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