| Wayne Robson | |
| Birth Date: | 29 April 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Yearsactive: | 1971–2011 |
| Children: | 2 |
Wayne Robson (April 29, 1946 – April 4, 2011) was a Canadian television, stage, voice, and film actor known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.
Robson was also known as the escape artist character Rennes, "the Wren", from the 1997 science fiction film Cube.[1] He was in the episode “A Miracle of a Rare Device” on The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989.
Robson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He began his acting career on stage there but moved with his family to Toronto, Ontario, where he continued stage acting and appeared in Canadian television commercials in the 1970s. After receiving several small character roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller[2] (1971) and Popeye[2] (1980), Robson starred in the 1984 film The Grey Fox, for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Robson voiced Bloom in the cartoon Pippi Longstocking[2] and Matthew Cuthbert in . He also voiced Professor Cuthbert Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin between 1991 and 1992 and Melvin Fish in the animated series Bob and Margaret. Robson played minor characters in such films as Finders Keepers (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Parents (1989), Frank on The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), Dolores Claiborne[2] (1995), Two If by Sea[2] (1996), Cube (1997),[1] Wrong Turn[2] (2003), Welcome to Mooseport[2] (2004), The Incredible Hulk[2] (2008), and Survival of the Dead (2009).
He appeared as Christie in the TV movie The Diviners[2] (1993), based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan County War (2000). Robson was nominated and won several Gemini Awards. He appeared in the TV series and miniseries The New Twilight Zone, The Good Germany, Puppets Who Kill, Relic Hunter, and Lexx.
Robson died while in rehearsals for The Grapes of Wrath at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, on April 4, 2011, from a heart attack, at age 64.[3]
His son, Louis McKeen Robson (b. 1991), who did a part on The Red Green Show with his father, died on December 25, 2016, aged 25.[4]