Ken Pogue
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Born |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | July 26, 1934
Kenneth Pogue (born July 26, 1934) is a Canadian actor.
He is married to the actress Diana Barrington. His first motion picture role in 1973 was in The Neptune Factor. He almost drowned in SCUBA gear. He worked on stage at the Crest Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Guthrie Theater in the 1960s through 1980s before moving to television and film. He played the vice-president in the 1983 film The Dead Zone, and Father Dominic in 2006 in The Mermaid Chair. He was also Detective Chambers in the 1991 action crime film, The Hitman, co-starring Chuck Norris.
One of his memorable roles is Gerrard in CTV's pilot of Due South in 1994. It aired on CBS in the United States. Pogue reprised his character in the Season 2 episode "Bird in the Hand" where Constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) is forced to choose duty or vengeance.