Cause of death Heart attack Name Wayne Robson Resting place Cremation Role Television actor | Occupation Actor Years active 1971 - 2011 | |
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Spouse Lynn Woodman (m. 1985–2011) Awards Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Movies and TV shows Cube, Wrong Turn, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, The Red Green Show, Interstate 60 Similar People Bob Bainborough, Steve Smith, Patrick McKenna, Vincenzo Natali, Jeff Lumby | ||
Children Ivy Robson, Louis Robson |
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Wayne Robson (April 29, 1946 – April 4, 2011) was a Canadian television, stage and film actor known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.
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- Wayne Robson 1946 2011
- Background
- Death
- Filmography
- References

Robson was also known as the escape artist character Rennes, "the Wren", from the 1997 science fiction film Cube.

Wayne Robson 1946-2011
Background

Robson was born in Vancouver. He began his acting career on stage there, but moved with his family to Toronto, where he continued his stage acting career and appeared in Canadian television commercials in the 1970s. After receiving several small character roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Popeye (1980), Robson starred in the 1984 film The Grey Fox for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Robson voiced Bloom in the cartoon Pippi Longstocking and Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series. He also voiced Professor Cuthbert Calculus on The Adventures of Tintin (TV series) between 1991-1992, and voiced Melvin Fish in the animated series Bob and Margaret. Robson played minor characters in such films as Finders Keepers (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Parents (1989), Frank on The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Two If by Sea (1996), Cube (1997), Wrong Turn (2003), Welcome to Mooseport (2004), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Survival of the Dead (2009).

He appeared as Christie in the TV movie The Diviners (1993) based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan County War (2000). Robson was nominated and won several Gemini Awards. He appeared in the TV series and miniseries The Good Germany, Puppets Who Kill, Relic Hunter, and Lexx.
Death
Robson died at his home on April 4, 2011 from a heart attack, just twenty five days before his 65th birthday. He is survived by his wife Lynn and daughter Ivy.
His son, Lou, died December 25, 2016.