R. H. Thomson

Robert Holmes Thomson (born 1947), known as R. H. Thomson, is a Canadian television, film, and stage actor. With a career spanning five decades he remains a regular presence on Canadian movie screens and television. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the arts, and to war veterans.

Life and career Thomson was born on September 24, 1947, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School.

His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at Canadian Stage in February 2002. He has also hosted programming for CBC Radio and CBC Television. Thomson has portrayed a number of historical figures including Samuel Lount, Edsel Ford, Frederick Banting, Duncan Campbell Scott, Mitchell Sharp, and James Cross.

In 2010, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. In May 2015 Thomson received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. Eric Peterson performed in his honour at the gala celebrating the laureates at the National Arts Centre. In 2017 to 2019, Thomson co-starred in the Netflix series Anne with an E as Matthew Cuthbert.

Personal life 1914-1918-Vigil Project (2009). Names of more than 68,000 Canadians who died in WWI were projected over 6 nights onto monuments including St. Paul's Church in Halifax. Thomson is married with two sons.

Thomson has had a long-standing interest in Canada's military and war veterans. In 1995 he narrated a three-part documentary series about Canada's involvement in international conflicts. On the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in which nearly 3,600 Canadians died, he co-created, with lighting designer Martin Conboy, a commemoration in which the name of each soldier was projected onto the National War Memorial. The following year in 2009, he and Conboy undertook an ambitious project to project the names of the more than 68,000 Canadians who died in World War I onto famous monuments across the country. Projections occurred during the night. In 2010, the Government of Canada honoured Thomson for this effort with a Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation. R.H. Thomson at a CFC reception, for Business for the Arts, 2013

Filmography Film

Television

Awards

Wins 1989 : Gemini Award, for Glory Enough for All 1983 : Gemini Award, for If You Could See What I Hear 2015: Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Theatre) 2018 : Canadian Screen Award, for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Anne with an E

Nominations 1982 : Genie Award, for Ticket to Heaven 1986 : Genie Award, for Samuel Lount 1986 : Gemini Award, for Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks 1987 : Gemini Award, for Screen Two 1987 : Gemini Award, for Ford: The Man and the Machine 1988 : Gemini Award, for And Then You Die 1993 : Genie Award, for The Lotus Eaters 1994 : Gemini Award, for Road to Avonlea 2008 : Gemini Award, for The Englishman's Boy