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Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of
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."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011.


Career

Born in
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, England, and raised in
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,
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, Negin had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series ''First Performance'', and as a chorus member in
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's 1957 film of the
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production of ''
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''. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of ''
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'', which had a run on Broadway in 1956,Louis Negin
at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
and later appeared in London productions of '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' and his own play ''Love and Maple Syrup''; in ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'', he became one of the first actors ever to appear fully nude on stage in England. Negin later appeared in films including '' The Ernie Game'', '' Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?'', '' Ooh… You Are Awful'', '' Barry McKenzie Holds His Own'', '' Rabid'', '' Two Solitudes'' and '' Highpoint''. As well as appearing in TV series such as ''Brett'', ''Mousey'' and ''The Zoo Gang'' and episodes of '' King of Kensington'' and '' The Littlest Hobo''. In the 1980s he had a recurring role on '' Seeing Things'', as well as acting in the television films ''
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'', ''Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner'' and '' Charlie Grant's War''. In 1994, he acted in drag as Mrs. White in a Toronto production of John Wimbs and Christopher Richards' play '' Molly Wood''."Molly Wood goes the way of all flash". ''
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'', October 27, 1994.
In 1998, he played
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in a production of
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' play ''The Duchess'' at
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. He played
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, both in a Toronto stage production of the play '' Tru'' in 1996 and in the film '' 54''. In later years, he acted in several of Guy Maddin's films, including '' Cowards Bend the Knee'', '' Sissy Boy Slap Party'', '' The Saddest Music in the World'', ''
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'', and '' The Forbidden Room'' as well as narrating Maddin's semi-documentary films '' Brand Upon the Brain!'' and ''
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''. He also had guest roles in the television series '' Lord Have Mercy!'', ''
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'', '' ReGenesis'' and '' Slings and Arrows'', and in Bruce McDonald's film ''
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''. In 2008, he performed ''The Glass Eye'', a semi-
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play which he wrote in collaboration with Marie Brassard, in
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and Toronto. In 2019, he appeared in
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's film '' The Twentieth Century'', acting in drag as the mother of Prime Minister
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. He received a
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award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.Adrian Mack
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''
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'', December 13, 2019.


Personal life and death

Negin, who was gay, was the partner of former television and film designer Charles Dunlop. In a 2007 interview with ''
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'', Negin described his age as "Write that I'm 95 years old, and that I've been to Hungary to have some work done." Guy Maddin announced Negin's death on his
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on December 3, 2022. Negin had died the previous day, in
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, at the age of 93.


Filmography


Films


TV


References


External links

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