Victor Garber
- Highest Rated: Exotica (1994)
- Lowest Rated: Mixed Nuts (1994)
- Birthday: Mar 16, 1949
- Birthplace: London, Ontario, Canada
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Broadway actor Victor Garber was born on March 16th, 1940 in London, Ontario, Canada. Through years of working on-stage, he has earned several Tony and Drama Desk nominations. He earned his first Obie award for his performance in Wenceslas Square at the 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival. Some of his other stage credits include Macbeth, Sweeney Todd, Damn Yankees, and Yasmina Reza's Art. After playing Jesus on-stage in Toronto, Garber reprised his role in David Greene's 1973 film musical Godspell. He joined Greene again to play the lead in Liberace: Behind the Music (1988).Staying busy with theater, Garber occasionally acts in supporting roles on the big screen. He appeared in two of Nora Ephron's feature comedies: Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and Mixed Nuts (1994). He also appeared in the tense drama Exotica in 1994, directed by fellow Canadian Atom Egoyan. Throughout the '90s and beyond, he appeared in countless TV movies, from Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993) to Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (2002). Some of his mainstream feature appearances include small parts in The First Wives Club, Titanic, and Legally Blonde. Meanwhile, he regularly appeared in a Canadian television mystery series, Criminal Instincts, based on the novels by Gail Bowen, starting with the first installment Love and Murder in 2000. He played Inspector Phillip Menard to head police detective Joanne Kilborne (Wendy Crewson). He also had a very comfortable home in Disney movies during this time, as he played the dad in Tuck Everlasting, the king in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Daddy Warbucks in Rob Marshall's 1999 TV feature Annie.In 2001, Garber was cast as another dad in the dramatic spy series Alias. He played Jack Bristow, the CIA agent dad of Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner). He earned an Emmy nomination for his work on the show. Characters for 2003 included a mayor in the ABC musical The Music Man and a detective in the independent drama Home Room. The actor continued his work in Alias until 2005, and enjoyed further success on the television series' Justice and Eli Stone. In 2008, the actor took on the role of Mayor Moscone for the Academy Award-winning Milk, and lent his voice to Kung Fu Panda 2 in 2011.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Waters | Actor | — | 2019 | |
| 28% | Rebel in the Rye | Sol Salinger | $0.4M | 2017 |
| Vixen: The Movie | Firestorm | — | 2017 | |
| Consumed | Dan Conway | — | 2015 | |
| 92% | Sicario | Actor | — | 2015 |
| 19% | Self/less | Martin | — | 2015 |
| 78% | Big Game | Vice President | $17.9K | 2015 |
| 33% | I'll Follow You Down | Sal | — | 2014 |
| Wonders Of The Arctic 3D | Actor | — | 2014 | |
| The Guys Who Move Furniture | Actor | — | 2013 | |
| The Hunters | Mason | — | 2013 | |
| 96% | Argo | Ken Taylor | $136.1M | 2012 |
| Moving Day | Actor | — | 2012 | |
| 81% | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Master Thundering Rhino | $165.3M | 2011 |
| The Entitled | Bob Vincent | — | 2011 | |
| William & Catherine: A Royal Romance | Prince Charles | — | 2011 | |
| 17% | You Again | Mark | $25.7M | 2010 |
| Ice Quake | Colonel Bill Hughes | — | 2010 | |
| 50% | Green Lantern: First Flight | Sinestro | — | 2009 |
| Last Templar | Monsignor De Angelis | — | 2009 | |
| Waking the Baby Mammoth | Actor | — | 2009 | |
| Everything She Ever Wanted | Actor | — | 2009 | |
| Waking the Baby Mammoth | Narrator | — | 2009 | |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture | Narrator | — | 2009 | |
| 93% | Milk | Mayor George Moscone | $31.8M | 2008 |
| 55% | Home Room | Det. Martin Van Zandt | — | 2003 |
| The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | — | 2003 | |
| Invisible Child | Actor | — | 2003 | |
| 61% | Tuck Everlasting | Robert Foster | $19.1M | 2002 |
| Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story | J.J. Robinette | — | 2002 | |
| Criminal Instinct - A Colder Kind of Death | Actor | — | 2002 | |
| Call Me Claus | Taylor | — | 2001 | |
| 69% | Legally Blonde | Professor Callahan | $95.1M | 2001 |
| Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Sid Luft | — | 2001 | |
| The Wandering Soul Murders | Insp. Philip Millard | — | 2001 | |
| Neil Simon's 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' | Kenny | — | 2001 | |
| A Colder Kind of Death | Philip Millard | — | 2001 | |
| Annie | Daddy Warbucks | — | 1999 | |
| Invisible Child | Tim Beeman | — | 1999 | |
| 89% | Titanic | Thomas Andrews | — | 1997 |
| Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella | King Maximilian | — | 1997 | |
| 84% | Marvin's Room | Minister | — | 1996 |
| 49% | The First Wives Club | Bill Atchison | — | 1996 |
| Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story | Jack Gilcrest | — | 1996 | |
| 67% | Jeffrey | Tim | — | 1995 |
| 10% | Mixed Nuts | Irate Neighbor | — | 1994 |
| 97% | Exotica | Harold | — | 1994 |
| Kleptomania | Actor | — | 1994 | |
| 73% | Sleepless in Seattle | Greg | — | 1993 |
| 27% | Life with Mikey | Brian Spiro | — | 1993 |
| Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story | Frank Marrocco | — | 1993 | |
| Dieppe | Actor | — | 1993 | |
| The First Circle | Lev Rubin | — | 1992 | |
| 87% | Light Sleeper | Tis | — | 1992 |
| Liberace: Behind the Music | Liberace | — | 1988 | |
| Cyrano | Christian | — | 1988 | |
| Private Sessions | Actor | — | 1985 | |
| Tartuffe | Actor | — | 1978 | |
| 64% | Godspell | Jesus | — | 1973 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 82% |
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
2019
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Sam Garland |
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| 84% |
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016
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Martin Stein |
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Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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Guest |
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| 95% |
Difficult People
2015-2017
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Mr. Passias |
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| 86% |
Modern Family
2009
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Victor |
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| 65% |
The Orville
2017
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Admiral Halsey |
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Motive
2013-2016
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The Talk
2010
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Guest |
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| 88% |
The Flash
2014
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Dr. Martin Stein Dr. Stein |
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Web Therapy
2011-2014
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Kip Wallice |
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Blue Bloods
2010
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Donald Stein |
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| 96% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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Judge Spencer |
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| 38% |
Deception
2013
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Robert Bowers |
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| 55% |
The Big C
2010-2013
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Willy |
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| 39% |
The Firm
2012
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Flashpoint
2008-2013
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Dr. Toth |
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| 59% |
Law & Order: LA
2010-2011
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The View
1997
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Guest |
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| 81% |
Nurse Jackie
2009-2015
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Nutterman |
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| 71% |
Glee
2009-2015
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Will's Father |
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| 60% |
Eli Stone
2008-2009
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Jordan Wethersby |
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| 97% |
Ugly Betty
2006-2010
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Prof. Barrett |
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Justice
2006
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Ron Trott |
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| 89% |
Alias
2001-2006
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Jack Bristow |
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Will & Grace
1998
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Peter Bovington |
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| 94% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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Guest Ferguson |
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The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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Ben |
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| 86% |
Almost Perfect
1995-1996
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Howard |
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Law & Order
1990-2010
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Paul Sandig |
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American Playhouse
1982-1996
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John White White Jack |
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The Twilight Zone
1985-1989
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| 0% |
Charlie's Angels
2011
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Voice Charles "Charlie" Townsend |
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Republic of Doyle
2010-2014
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Garrison Steele |
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| 39% |
Working the Engels
2014
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QUOTES FROM Victor Garber CHARACTERS
- Thomas Andrews
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She can stay afloat with the first four compartments breached but not five. Not five. She goes down by the head, the water will spill over the bulkheads, from one to the next back and back there's no stopping it.
- Capt. Smith
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The pumps, we open the doors,
- Thomas Andrews
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The pumps buy you time! But minutes only. from this moment there's no matter what to do. Titanic will founder.
- Bruce Ismay
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But this ship can't sink.
- Thomas Andrews
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She's made of Iron sir! I assure you she can! And she will. It is a mathematical certainty.
- Capt. Smith
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How much time?
- Thomas Andrews
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An hour. Two at most.
- Capt. Smith
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And how many aboard Mr. Murdoch?
- 1st Officer Murdoch
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2,200 souls on board sir.
- Capt. Smith
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Well I believe you may get your headlines Mr. Ismay.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater
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Mr. Andrews... I saw the iceberg and I see it in your eyes... please, tell me the truth.
- Thomas Andrews
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The ship will sink.
- Rose DeWitt Bukater
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You're certain?
- Thomas Andrews
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Yes. In an hour or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
- Cal Hockley
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What?
- Thomas Andrews
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Please, tell only who you must. I don't wanna be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly, don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats?
- Rose DeWitt Bukater
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Yes... I understand.
- Mark
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Scientific fact: When you wear a blindfold, you rely on your stomach. I already lost six pounds.
- Ben
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And where did you go to medical school?
- Mark
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Scientific Fact: When you wear a blindfold, you rely on your stomach. I already lost six pounds.
- Ben
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And where did you go to Medical School?
- Ben
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And where did you go to medical school?
- Gail
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Ben!
- Elle Woods
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Here it is!
- Professor Callahan
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It's pink...
- Elle Woods
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Oh! And it's scented! I think it gives it a little something extra, don't you think? Ok, well, see you next class!
- Bruce Ismay
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But this ship can't sink!
- Thomas Andrews
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She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty.
- Lord Shen
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Show-off.
- Master Thundering Rhino
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That is a warning. You are no match for our Kung Fu.
- Lord Shen
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[Before shooting Thundering Rhino with his cannon] I agree, but this is.
- Master Thundering Rhino
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[To Lord Shen] Gongmen City is under the stewardship of the Master's Council and we will protect it. Even from you.
- Master Thundering Rhino
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What do you want, Shen?
- Master Thundering Rhino
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What do you want, Shen?
- Lord Shen
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What is rightfully mine: Gongmen City!
- Master Thundering Rhino
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Gongmen City is under the stewardship of the Masters' Council and we will protect it, even from you.
- Lord Shen
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I am so glad you feel that way! Otherwise, I'd have dragged that here for nothing!
- Master Thundering Rhino
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What's in the box, Shen?
- Lord Shen
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Well, you see, it's a gift. It's your parting gift, in that it'll part you; part of you here, part of you there, and part of you WAY over there staining the wall!
- Mark
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Would anyone else like to toast?
- Tim
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TIM DOES!