John Colicos Biography (1928-2000)
Born December 10, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Details
- December 10, 1928
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Death Details
- March 12, 2000
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Famous Works
- Credits; STAGE APPEARANCES
- OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT--Edmund, King Lear, City Center Theatre, 1956.
- BROADWAY DEBUT--De Laubardemont, The Devils, Broadway Theatre, 1965.
- Lodovico, Othello, Gratiano, The Merchant of Venice, and Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing, all American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1957.
- Sir Edward Mortimer, Mary Stuart, Phoenix Theatre, New York City, 1957.
- Laertes, Hamlet, Leontes, A Winter's Tale, and Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream, all American Shakespeare Festival, 1958.
- Tullus Aufidius, Coriolanus and Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost, both Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, ON, Canada, 1961.
- Caliban, The Tempest, Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, and Comte de Guiche, Cyrano de Bergerac, all Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962.
- Hector, Troilus and Cressida, title role, Cyrano de Bergerac, and title role, Timon of Athens, all Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1963.
- title role, King Lear and Mr. Horner, The Country Wife, both Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1964.
- title role, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Theatre De Lys, New York City, 1966.
- title role, Macbeth, American Shakespeare Festival, 1967.
- Churchill, Soldiers, Billy Rose Theatre, New York City, 1968, then New Theatre, London, 1968.
- Also appeared in Hogan's Goat, Olney, MD, 1966.
- Credits; FILM APPEARANCES
- Student, Forbidden Journey, United Artists, 1950.
- Dewar, Bond of Fear, Eros, 1956.
- first man, Murder on Approval (also known as Barbados Quest), RKO, 1956.
- Pietro, Passport to Treason, Astor, 1956.
- Chino, War Drums, United Artists, 1957.
- Cromwell, Anne of the Thousand Days, Universal, 1969.
- Mort Dellman, Doctors' Wives, Columbia, 1971.
- Sergeant Major Al MacKenzie, Raid on Rommel, Universal, 1971.
- Jimbob Buel, Red Sky at Morning, Universal, 1971.
- Colonel Santilla, The Wrath of God, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1972.
- McLeod, Scorpio, United Artists, 1973.
- Vincent Karbone, Breaking Point, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976.
- DeMarigny, Drum, United Artists, 1976.
- Allan Quartermain, King Solomon's Treasure, Canafox/Towers, 1978.
- Count Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, Universal, 1979.
- Count Baltar, Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack, Universal, 1979.
- DeWitt, The Changeling, Associated Film Distributors, 1980.
- Count Baltar, Conquest of the Earth, Glen A. Larson, 1980.
- Inspector Barnes, Phobia, Paramount, 1980.
- Nick Papadakis, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Paramount, 1981.
- General Howard, Nowhere to Hide, New Century/Vista, 1987.
- Anthony Podopolis, Shadow Dancing, Glickenhaus, 1988.
- Credits; TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SERIES
- Count Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, ABC, 1978-79.
- Mikkos Cassadine, General Hospital, ABC, 1981.
- MINI-SERIES Lord North, The Bastard (also known as The Kent Family Chronicles), syndicated, 1978.
- Credits; PILOTS
- Joe Ruby, A Matter of Wife ... and Death, NBC, 1976.
- Major Derek Barclay-Battles, The Paradise Connection, CBS, 1979.
- Credits; EPISODIC
- Kor, "Errand of Mercy," Star Trek, NBC, 1967.
- Lech, Night Heat, CBS, 1987.
- Kavakonis, Night Heat, CBS, 1988.
- Also "Lone Survivor," Rod Serling's Night Gallery (also known as Night Gallery), NBC, 1971; Profiles in Courage, NBC.
- Credits; MOVIES
- Paul Jamison, Goodbye Raggedy Ann, CBS, 1971.
- Lester Maypole, I'll Take Manhattan, CBS, 1987.
- Credits; SPECIALS
- Lucentio, "Taming of the Shrew," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1956.
- Tom Pettigrew, "Berkeley Square," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1959.
- Comte de Guiche, "Cyrano de Bergerac," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1962.
- Porthos, The Three Musketeers, CBS, 1960.
- Rawdon Crawley, Vanity Fair, CBS, 1961.
- Wentworth, The Lives of Ben Franklin: The Ambassador, CBS, 1971.