Frank Adamson
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frank Adamson is a Canadian actor, director, writer, and casting director born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His career spans from 1972 to the present with over 60 credited roles. He worked at CBC in the 1960s before transitioning into full-time acting, directing, and producing. His film credits include Mrs. Soffel (1984), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Big White (2005), Something Beneath (2007), and Wait Till Helen Comes (2016). On television he has appeared in Friday the 13th: The Series, Cashing In (2010–2014), and Sunnyside (2015). He also directed a short film and served as casting director on Nostradamus (1994). His date of birth is unconfirmed. No major awards are on record.
Filmography
2019
- Night Hunter as Elderly Man
2017
- Stegman Is Dead as Harry
2016
- Wait Till Helen Comes as Mr. Simmonds
2014
- Perfect Sisters as Judge
2008
- The Lazarus Project as Danny
2007
- The Stone Angel as Mr. Oakley
- Something Beneath as Lowell Kent
2006
- Population 436 as Mayor Grateman
2005
- The Big White as Detective Boyle
- Six Figures as Alan
2004
- Corner Gas as Fred
2003
- Fear X as Adamson
- On Thin Ice as John Moran
- Cowboys & Indians as Judge Enns
2002
- A Season on the Brink as President Ryan
1998
- A Marriage of Convenience as Frank Sellers
1997
- The Arrow as Air Marshall Wilf Curtis
- Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow as Wilf Curtis
- The Arrow as Air Marshal Wilf Curtis
1995
- Dolores Claiborne as Detective Supervisor
1994
- Heads as Photographer
- Harvest for the Heart as Colin Scott
1991
- Heritage Minutes as Wilf Curtis
- The Return of Eliot Ness as Martin Labine
1990
- In Defense of a Married Man as Judge Perini
- Hitler's Daughter as Mitchell
1988
- Short Circuit 2 as Desk Sergeant
1986
- The Wake as Crawford
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bartender
- Perry Mason Returns as Mr. Williams
- Martin's Day as Garby
- Gentle Sinners as Bert
- Reckless Disregard
1984
- Mrs. Soffel as Swinehart
- Draw! as Lenny
1983
- The Terry Fox Story as Rolly Fox
1978
- A House on The Prairie as Narration (voice)