Nicholas Campbell News

Before there was CSI , there was the Canadian forensics series Da Vinci's Inquest , which ran from 1998 to 2005.

The Best TV Cop Show is...Canadian? Into this musty attic, Canada's Da Vinci's Inquest comes like a cool breeze off the Pacific.

Nicholas Campbell is holding court - Camel cigarettes and coffee in hand - at a diner in one of downtown Toronto's seedier neighbourhoods, where the cops and drug dealers still routinely duke it out for control ...

Two of Canadian television's most familiar names - Eric Peterson and Nicholas Campbell - will join acclaimed stage actors Martha Burns, Tara Rosling and Caroline Cave in the Company Theatre production at ... via The Globe and Mail

Fans who have missed Dominic Da Vinci since Da Vinci's Inquest and Da Vinci's City Hall vanished from the small screen will be excited to know he's returning to the airwaves once again. via The Georgia Straight

“The whole thing's just been torture”

Classification: NA If there's one saving grace about this abysmal comedy, it's that the decision to shoot in Uruguay probably gave the Canadian members of the cast and crew an opportunity to enjoy some warm ... via The Globe and Mail

“If I'd had the kind of financial advice I'm getting now, I probably would have been okay, but let's face it, I was never making huge money as an actor in Canada anyway. You can make okay money here, but you're never going to be wealthy.”

Actor Nicholas Campbell says it astounds him when people assume he should be enjoying a jet-setting retirement after his years as a staple of Canadian television. via The Toronto Star

Intelligence has been cancelled at the CBC. No, this is not a new corporate policy announced from on high, it's merely confirmation the national broadcaster is no longer interested in providing the best drama ... via The StarPhoenix

“I was living a fool's paradise.”

Nicholas Campbell explains how he threw it all away The great actor is broke, in trouble with the taxman -- and needs a job Fans of CBC's onetime hit show Da Vinci's Inquest might be surprised to learn their ... via MacLeans

“By the time I finished reading”

British actor Bob Hoskins has a unique ritual when it comes to vetting scripts. He gives them what he calls the "cold-bum test." "As soon as one comes through the post, I take it to the loo," the 65-year-old ... via The Globe and Mail

“It was the most amazing collection of characters”

You can barely recognize him. In The Englishman's Boy, a CBC miniseries airing Sunday, Nicholas Campbell - once the lean, mean coroner from Da Vinci's Inquest - plays a derelict cowboy named Shorty, a paranoid ... via Macleans

“I think because the screenplay actually was in gestation or being worked on for such a long time, I managed to get out of the novelist's head”

Canadian actor Nicholas Campbell says he approached the iconic role of Shorty McAdoo in The Englishman's Boy with some trepidation. via CBC News

“I was living there, had a green card and I gave my green card back”

Montreal director had a shot in Hollywood but decided he rather tell Canadian stories BRENDAN KELLY, The Gazette One of the central themes of The Englishman's Boy, Montreal director John N. Smith's harrowing, ... via Montreal Gazette

“We are honoured to have Nick Campbell along with the esteemed group of industry professionals making up the inaugural CFTPA Indie Awards National Jury”

The Canadian Film and Television Production Association is extremely pleased to announce critically-acclaimed and multi-award winning actor and director Nicholas Campbell as the host of the Awards ceremony. via Canada NewsWire

“A lot of Canadian filmmakers and American filmmakers for that matter make films for their own country and never stop to think, 'how is this going to play in Spain or outside of Canada?'”

Too many aspiring filmmakers to count have abandoned their dreams amidst the murkiness of that path, but Robert Cuffley isn't one of them. via Gauntlet