August Schellenberg
August Schellenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on July 25th, 1936 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 77, August Schellenberg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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August Werner Schellenberg (July 25, 1936 – August 15, 2013) was a Canadian theatre, film, and television actor.
He is best known for his appearance in the first three installments of the Free Willy film series (1993–1997).
Black Robe (1991) and The New World (2005) are two of his other film credits. Schellenberg also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007, 1986 and a Genie Award in 1991.
Life and career
Schellenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, before he migrated to Toronto, Ontario, in 1967. He was of English, Mohawk, and Swiss-German descent. He was based in Toronto from 1995 to 1995. He and his partner, actress Joan Karasevich, lived in Dallas, Texas. He was the father of three children, two with Karasevich. He attended the National Theatre School of Canada from 1963 to 1966.
In 1971, Don Shebib-directed coming-of-age film Rip-Off. He appeared in the animated film Heavy Metal in 1981. During the 1990s, he appeared in Black Robe (as Chomina), Free Willy (Ned Dodd), True Heart (Khonanesta), and the television film Crazy Horse (Sitting Bull). In Terrence Malick's 2005 film The New World, he continued to act as Chief Powhatan. He appeared in Disney's Eight Below and the doco in a film The Green Chain (2007). Yaozu appeared in two episodes of Stargate Universe in 2011. Sitting Bull in the film Crazy Horse, a character he reprised in the Dee Brown book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee for which he received an Emmy Award, was his favorite part. Pete Chasing Horse appeared in Dreamkeeper (2003).
Schellenberg was nominated for three Genie Awards and received one (for Black Robe). He was also nominated for two Gemini Awards and one of them (for the television film The Prosthetic).
In 2012, he appeared as King Lear in an all-aboriginal production at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside Billy Merasty as Gloucester, Tantoo Cardinal as Regan, Jani Lauzon in a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool, Craig Lauzon as Kent, and Lorne Cardinal as The Duke of Albany.
Schellenberg taught acting seminars at Toronto's Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York University throughout his lifetime. He held motivational workshops in schools and for cultural and community organizations throughout North America. In Grey's Anatomy, the younger brother of Schellenberg played Dior. August died of lung cancer shortly after.