Chuck Shamata

Chuck Shamata

Chuck Shamata

Charles (Chuck) Shamata (born 1942) is a Canadian actor.Born and raised in Toronto, he worked at Honest Ed's, and studied acting at the Ryerson Theatre School. He had stage roles and bit parts in film and television, before his breakthrough role in the 1969 television film Dulcima, as the love interest of Jackie Burroughs' title character. His later roles included the films Between Friends (1973), Death Weekend (1976), Welcome to Blood City (1977), Power Play (1978), I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978), Stone Cold Dead (1979) and Running (1979), and guest appearances in the television series The Mod Squad, Police Surgeon, Baretta and The Littlest Hobo. In 1980 he appeared alongside Earl Pennington and Marcel Sabourin in The Mounties, Stuart Gillard's pilot for a proposed comedy series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but the show was not picked up to series.In 1981 he played the lead role in "The Running Man", an episode of the CBC Television anthology series For the Record which was one of the first LGBT-themed television films ever to air in Canada.Through the 1980s, he continued to appear in films such as The Devil and Max Devlin (1981), The Terry Fox Story (1983), Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986), Nowhere to Hide (1987), Night Friend (1987) and Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988), and in television series such as Seeing Things, Joshua Then and Now, Sylvanian Families, Katts and Dog, Street Legal and Night Heat. In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as Princes in Exile (1990), Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994) and Virus (1996), and on television in Bordertown, E.N.G., Due South, Traders and Wind at My Back. In 2005, Shamata appeared as Det. Henry Messina in the short-lived Ving Rhames revival of Kojak. His most recent roles have included a regular voice role as Uncle Cheech in Fugget About It, the films The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), The Sentinel (2006), Flash of Genius (2008), One Week (2008), Still Mine (2012), Clown (2014) and Miss Sloane (2016), and guest appearances in the television series Cracked, Beauty and the Beast and The Art of More.

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Miss Sloane (2016)

IMDB: 7.5 (59348 votes)
Tipping Point (2007)

IMDB: 6.2 (420 votes)
Sentinel, The (2006)

IMDB: 6.1 (50293 votes)
Cinderella Man (2005)

IMDB: 8.0 (171548 votes)
Crimes of Fashion (2004)

IMDB: 4.8 (1191 votes)
Snap Decision (2001)

IMDB: 6.1 (310 votes)
Act of Vengeance (1986)

IMDB: 6 (744 votes)
Stone Cold Dead (1979)

IMDB: 5.3 (359 votes)
Power Play (1978)

IMDB: 6.1 (286 votes)