Acting
Mar 9, 1947
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Colin Stinton
Acting
Biography
Colin Stinton (born March 10, 1947, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned over four decades across stage, film, and television. He earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his role in the U.S. premiere of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad and played Mr. Robinson in both the London and New York stage productions of The Graduate. He made his screen debut in 1980 and has since accumulated over 100 credits. His most notable film roles include Dr. Dave Greenwalt in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Neal Daniels (CIA Deputy Director) in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Teddy Mayer in Rush (2013), a Customs Officer in Closer (2004), Inspector Rogers in The Machinist (2004), a Theoretical Physicist in Proof (2005), Daniel Burnham in The Current War (2017), a NORAD Colonel in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and Moscow Station Chief in All the Old Knives (2022). Other credits include The Verdict (1982), The Russia House (1990), Spy Game (2001), The Hours (2002), TransSiberian (2008), Borg vs. McEnroe (2017), and Hunter Killer (2018). On television, Stinton is best known as President Arthur Coleman Winters in the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" (2007), US Secretary of State Traynor Styles in Spooks (2006), Justice Robert H. Jackson in Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006), Anthony Markowitz in Broken News (2005, series regular), US Ambassador in Veep (2014), Dean Jackson in Outlander (2017), Lawrence Spivak in The Crown (2019), Chennault in The Queen's Gambit (2020), and Bastien in The Serpent (2021). He has also done extensive voice-over work for video games including Overwatch, Apex Legends, and RoboCop: Rogue City.
Feature Films (49)
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Closer
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
The Bourne Ultimatum
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
TransSiberian
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
The Verdict
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
Proof
Television & Series (31)
Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.
My Family
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Jonathan Creek
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
The Serpent
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
