Jan Rubeš

Born in Czechoslovakia. After graduating in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague, Jan Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member of the Canadian Opera Company, he achieved recognition for his roles, as Boris in "Boris Godunov", Schigolch in "Lulu" and as Mephisto in "Faust". As well, he served as the company's director of touring and program development. Branching out into radio and, eventually, TV, he wrote and hosted from 1975-83 TVOntario's "Guess What?" and acted in many TV dramas, later receiving the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.

Known For: Acting

Born: Volyně, Czechoslovakia, 1920-06-06

Died: 2009-06-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	The Incredible Journey	Carl Nurmi	66
2	1975	Lions for Breakfast	Ivan	80
3	1977	Deadly Harvest	Swenson	43
4	1981	Mr. Patman	Vrakettas	45
5	1981	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid	Psychiatrist	50
6	1981	The Amateur	Kaplan	54
7	1985	Charlie Grant's War	Jacob	70
8	1985	Witness	Eli Lapp	71
9	1985	Murder in Space	Gregory Denarenko	48
10	1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity	Giorgi Denerenko (uncredited)	35
11	1985	One Magic Christmas	Santa Claus	58
12	1986	The Marriage Bed	Max Ehrlich	70
13	1987	Dead of Winter	Dr. Joseph Lewis	60
14	1988	Blood Relations	Andreas	39
15	1988	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick	Augustus Glick	55
16	1988	The Kiss	Gordon Tobin	58
17	1988	Something About Love		62
18	1988	No Blame		0
19	1989	Blind Fear	Lasky	40
20	1989	The Experts	Illyich	44
21	1989	Cold Front	Zoubov	44
22	1990	Divided Loyalties		0
23	1990	Courage Mountain	Grandfather	60
24	1990	The Amityville Curse	The Priest	39
25	1990	Descending Angel	Bishop Dancu	50
26	1991	Class Action	Pavel	63
27	1991	Deceived	Tomasz	57
28	1992	The Witches of Eastwick	Fidel	60
29	1992	Devlin	Vittorio Di Fabrizi	50
30	1993	On My Own	The Colonel	60
31	1994	The Birds II: Land's End	Karl	37
32	1994	D2: The Mighty Ducks	Jan	62
33	1994	Mesmer	Professor Stoerk	60
34	1994	Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio	Phantom	0
35	1995	Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story	Far	57
36	1995	Roommates	Bolek Krupa	59
37	1996	Never Too Late	Joseph	40
38	1997	Sarabande	Dr. Kassovitz	65
39	1997	Flood: A River's Rampage	Jacob Gunderson	48
40	1998	Music from Another Room	Louis Klammer	58
41	1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples	Hendrick de Vries	10
42	1998	The White Raven	Markus Strand	35
43	1999	What Katy Did	Dr. Reinhart	70
44	1999	Nightmare Man	Evan Hannibal	0
45	1999	Snow Falling on Cedars	Ole Jurgensen	61
46	2000	Believe	Jason Stiles	53
47	2000	The Christmas Secret	Andree	58
48	2001	Anthrax	Arthur Kowalski	37
49	2002	The Burial Society	Marvin Telekunsky	53
50	2004	Daniel and the Superdogs	The Colonel	68
51	2005	Our Fathers	Pope John Paul	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Little Gloria... Happy at Last		68
2	1985	Kane & Abel	The Polish Consul	76
3	1986	Kay O'Brien		50
4	1988	War of the Worlds	Dr. Von Deer	62
5	1992	By Way of the Stars	Hausierer Nathan	57
6	1993	The X-Files	Vassily Peskow (uncredited)	84
7	1993	The X-Files	Vassily Peskow	84
8	1994	ER	Mr. Duzak	78
9	1994	Due South	Dr. Mort Gustafson	75
10	1995	The Outer Limits	Robert Greene / Older Karl Rademacher	77
11	1997	Stargate SG-1	Nicholas Ballard	83
12	1997	The Third Twin	Mr. Oliver	51
13	2005	Tilt	Frank Modeste	63

Jan Rubeš

Film

Television