Len Cariou Biography (1939-)

Full name, Leonard Joseph Cariou; born September 30, 1939, in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada; son of George Marius (a salesman) and Molly Estelle (maidenname, Moore) Cariou; married Patricia Otter (divorced); married Susan Kapilow, 1975 (divorced, 1978), married Heather Summerhayes, October 25, 1986; children: (first marriage) Laurel Freedy. Addresses: Agent: Paradigm New York, 500 Fifth Ave., 37th Floor, New York, NY 10100.; Manager: Alan Siegel Entertainment, 345 N. Maple Dr., Suite 375, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director
Birth Details: September 30, 1939; St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
(Stage debut) Chorus, Damn Yankees, Rainbow Theatre, Winnipeg, Canada, 1959
The Threepenny Opera, Manitoba Theatre Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba,1961
Mr. Roberts, Manitoba Theatre Center, 1961
Walter Sugarsop, The Taming of the Shrew, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 1962
The Tempest, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Macbeth, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Cyrano de Bergerac, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Margrelon, Troilus and Cressida, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Macbeth, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Cyrano de Bergerac, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1963
The Comedy of Errors, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Longaville, Love's Labour's Lost, Chichester, England, 1964
Sir John Bushy, Richard II, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1964
Cleante, Le bourgeous gentilhomme, Stratford Shakespeare Festival,1964
The Country Wife, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1964
Orlando, As You Like It, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1966
The Skin of Our Teeth, Guthrie Theatre, 1966
S.S. Glencairn, Guthrie Theatre, 1966
Orestes, The House of Atreus, Guthrie Theatre, 1968
Feste, Twelfth Night, Guthrie Theatre, 1968
Title role, Sergeant Musgrave's Dance, Guthrie Theatre, 1968
(New York City debut) Orestes, The House of Atreus, Billy Rose Theatre, 1968
Othello, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1969
Title role, Henry V, American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT,1969
Much Ado about Nothing, American Shakespeare Festival, 1969
The Three Sisters, American Shakespeare Festival, 1969
Title role, Henry V, American National Theatre and Academy, New York City, 1969
Bill Sampson, Applause, Palace Theatre, New York City, 1970
Christian, Cyrano de Bergerac, Guthrie Theatre, 1971
The Taming of the Shrew, Guthrie Theatre, 1971
John Wheeler, Night Watch, Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1972
Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Guthrie Theatre, 1972
Title role, Oedipus the King, Guthrie Theatre, 1973
Frederick Egerman, A Little Night Music, Shubert Theatre, New YorkCity, 1973
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute, Shubert Theatre, 1973
Title role, King Lear, Guthrie Theatre, 1974
Equus, Manitoba Theatre Center, 1975
Cyrano de Bergerac, Manitoba Theatre Center, 1975
Monodrama, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, New York City, then Guthrie Theatre, 1977
Richard Landau, Cold Storage, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1977
Title role, Sweeney Todd, Uris (now Gershwin) Theatre, New York City, 1979
Harry, Dance a Little Closer, Minskoff Theatre, New York City, 1983
Up from Paradise, Broadway production, 1983
Title role, Coriolanus, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1984-85
Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1984-85
Sergius, Arms and the Man, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1984-85
Brutus, Julius Caesar, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1984-85
Prospero, The Tempest, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1984-85
Sam, Traveler in the Dark, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1985
Stalin, Master Class, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1986
Teddy and Alice, Broadway production, 1987
Day Six, Baldwin Youth Theatre, New York City, 1987
Vicentio, Measure for Measure, Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 1989
The Anastasia Game, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, MA, 1990
William O'Douglass, Mountain, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ, then Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1990
Joe, The Speed of Darkness, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1991
Cornelius Melody, A Touch of the Poet, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1992
Ernest Hemingway, Papa: The Legendary Lives of Ernest Hemingway, Caldwell Theatre Company, Boca Raton, FL, 1994
Ernest Hemingway, Papa, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City,1996
Angela Lansbury--A Celebration, Majestic Theatre, New York City, 1996
General St. Pe, Paramour, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA, 1998
Title role, Sweeny Todd (concert), London, 2000
Andre Bouville, The Dinner Party, Music Box Theatre, 2000
Robert, Proof, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 2002-2003
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Funny Girl (concert), New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, 2002
Walsh, Rose and Walsh, Geffen Playhouse, Westwood, CA, 2003
Darius, The Persians, National Actors Theatre, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, New York City, 2003
Kismet, Freud Playhouse, Los Angeles, 2004
Also appeared in Mother Courage and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, both Manitoba Theatre Center; Timon of Athens and Mahagonny, both Stratford Shakespeare Festival; The Skin of Our Teeth andDiary of a Scoundrel, both Guthrie Theatre; The Physicists, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC.
Major Tours
Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, U.S. cities, 2001
Stage Director
Of Mice and Men, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1972

The Petrified Forest, Guthrie Theatre, also off-Broadway production, 1974
The Crucible, Guthrie Theatre, 1974
Don't Call Back, Broadway production, 1979
Death of a Salesman, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1984
Cold Storage, Jewish Repertory Theatre, NY, 1985
Also directed Of Mice and Men, Manitoba Theatre Center, Manitoba,Winnipeg, Canada.
Film Appearances
Blindness (documentary short film), National Film Board of Canada,1964
Larry, Drying up the Streets, Live Entertainment, 1976
Jason Brady, One Man (also known as Un homme), National Film Board of Canada, 1976
Frederick Egerman, A Little Night Music (also known as Das Laecheln einer Sommernacht), New World, 1978
Nick Callan, The Four Seasons, Universal, 1981
Phil Terragarossa, Lady in White (also known as The Mystery ofthe Lady in White), Vista, 1988
Narrator, The Johnstown Flood (documentary), 1989
Narrator, An Amazin' Era (documentary), 1989
Dr. Lionel Higgs/Dr. Ezekial Higgs, Getting In (also known as Student Body), Trimark Pictures, 1994
Henry Taylor, Never Talk to Strangers (also known as L'inconnu and Spiel mit dem Feuer), TriStar, 1995
Secretary of Defense Charles White, Executive Decision (also knownas Critical Decision), Warner Bros., 1996
Narrator, Race for the Record (documentary), 1998
Foreign Policy Advisor Dean Acheson, Thirteen Days (also known asThirteen Days Which Shocked the World), New Line Cinema, 2000
Ray Nichols, About Schmidt, New Line Cinema, 2002
Dean Lawton, The Skulls III, Universal Home Entertainment, 2003
Sheriff Dave Newsome, Secret Window, Sony Pictures Entertainment,2004
Norm Archer, The Untitled Onion Movie, Fox Searchlight, 2005
Stedman Comstock, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Buena Vista, 2005
Jack, The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club, 2005
Television Appearances
Series
Sergeant Michael Swift, Swift Justice, UPN, 1996
Miniseries
Oswald, Louisiana (also known as Louisiane), Cinemax, 1984
Judge Francis Biddle, Nuremberg, TNT, 2000
Magnus Herzoff, Sex Traffic, CBC and Channel 4, 2004
Movies
Matt Laver, Who'll Save Our Children, CBS, 1978
John Abbott, Madame X, NBC, 1981
David Brogan Surviving (also known as Surviving: A Family in Crisis and Tragedy), ABC, 1985
Jason Howell, Killer in the Mirror, NBC, 1986
Buck Helm, Miracle on I-880 (also known as Miracle on Interstate 880), NBC, 1993
Doc Picard, The Sea Wolf (also known as The Seawolf), TNT,1993
Dr. Leland Peyton, Class of '61, ABC, 1993
Noah Cross, Love on the Run, 1994
Jake Tyler, Witness to the Execution, NBC, 1994
Walt Disney, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette FunicelloStory (also known as A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes), CBS, 1995
Joe Heldmann, The Man in the Attic, Showtime, 1995
Henry Woods, Derby, ABC, 1995
Spencer Maitland, "The Summer of Ben Tyler," Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 1996
Harry Jansen, A Brother's Promise: The Dan Jansen Story (also known as The Dan Jansen Story and Fall and Rise: The Dan Jansen Story), CBS, 1996
U.S. President, In the Company of Spies, HBO, 1999
Jerry, Allison's associate, Border Line, NBC, 1999
Also appeared in Applause.
Specials
Bob Millard, There Were Times, Dear, PBS, 1987
"An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner," Great Performances, PBS, 1989
Sweeney, The Rope, Arts and Entertainment, 1989
"Cabaret," In Performance at the White House, PBS, 1994
Narrator, Pablo Picasso: A Primitive Soul (documentary), Arts andEntertainment, 1999
Himself, The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS, 2000
Also appeared in Juno and the Paycock.
Awards Presentations
Himself, The 44th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 1990
The 50th Annual Tony Awards, 1996
Pilots
Sergeant Michael Swift, Swift Justice, UPN, 1996
Senator William Abbot, D.C., The WB, 2000
Episodic
(Television debut) Ragnar Brovik, The Master Builder, 1965
Michael Haggerty, "Widow, Weep for Me," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1985
Michael Haggerty, "One White Rose for Death," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1986
Michael Haggerty, "J. B. as in Jailbird," Murder, She Wrote, CBS,1988
Michael Haggerty, "Appointment in Athens," Murder, She Wrote, CBS,1989
Michael Haggerty, "The Sicilian Encounter," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1990
Judge Norton Heller, "Judgments," Gabriel's Fire, 1990
American Ambassador, "All the King's Horses," Kurt Vonnegut's "MonkeyHouse," Showtime, 1991
Michael Haggerty, "The List of Yuri Lermentov," Murder, She Wrote,CBS, 1991
Douglas, "The Anthem Sprinters," The Ray Bradbury Theater, USA Network, 1992
Michael Haggerty, "Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice," Murder, SheWrote, CBS, 1992
Captain Allard Bunker, "Conduct Unbecoming," Law & Order, NBC,1993
Father Anton Jonascu, "Corner of the Eye," The Outer Limits, Showtime, 1995
Mac Geller, "Aftershock," Law & Order, NBC, 1996
Vice Admiral Edward Janeway, "Coda," Star Trek: Voyager, UPN, 1997
"Double Image," F/X: The Series, 1997
Defense Attorney Weiland, "Lawyers, Reporters and Cockroaches," The Practice, ABC, 1999
Alexander Graham Bell, "Smart Aleck," Mentors, 1999
Doc Wells, "Seeds of Destruction," The Outer Limits, Showtime andsyndicated, 2000
Alan Damson, pharmaceutical executive, "In This White House," The WestWing, NBC, 2000
"History Lessons," Ed, NBC, 2003
Also appeared as Mike Birkett, "Bless This House," North of 60.
RECORDINGS
Albums
Applause: Original Broadway Cast, ABC, 1970
Sweeney Todd: Original Cast, RCA, 1979
Sondheim Songbook, 1992
Taped Readings
The Cold War Swap, Newman Communications, 1987
The Novel, 1991
Kiss, Harper, 1992
Long Time to SEE: An 87th Precinct Novel, Harper Audio, 1995
(With others) Great American Writers: 21 Unabridged Stories, AudioPartners, 1996
The Last Heroes, Volume 1, Putnam, 1997
Little Boy Blue: A Novel, Time Warner Audio Books, 1997
The Redhunter, Time Warner, 1999
(With Ally Sheedy) Cradle and All, Time Warner AudioBooks, 2000
Lost Light, Warner Audiobooks, 2003
Videos
Narrator and voice, Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales (documentary), 1978
Narrator and voice, Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic (documentary), 1978
Narrator and voice, Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson (documentary), 1978
Narrator and voice, Something Hidden: A Portrait of Wilder Penfield (documentary), 1981
Narrator and voice, Leo Mol in Light and Shadow (documentary), 1994

User Contributions:

Dick Varone

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How about the TV series "Bluebloods"? The series is in its 3rd year. He has also hosted a PBS promo for "Foyle's War".

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