Editing Greg Rogers

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'''Greg Rogers''' (born March 12, 1951, in [[w:Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John, New Brunswick]])<ref group="external" name="theprovince_davis_birthdays_rogers_42">{{cite news|author=Davis, Chuck|title=Birthdays Etc.|work=The Province|location=[[w:Vancouver|Vancouver]], [[w:British Columbia|British Columbia]]|date=12 March 1993|page=2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/503076734/#:~:text=Northwood%20actor%20Greg%20Rogers%20turns%2042|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_birth_evangeline_home">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=born%20in%20the%20Evangeline%20Home|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> is a [[w:Canadians|Canadian]] [[w:Acting|actor]] who appeared as a [[Businessman]] in {{CAP|Unvanquished|prose=Y}}. A stage, [[w:Radio drama|radio]], and television performer whose career began in the early 1970s, Rogers has appeared in numerous Canadian and American television series and films, including ''[[w:The X-Files|The X-Files]]'', ''[[w:Highlander: The Series|Highlander: The Series]]'', ''[[w:The Commish|The Commish]]'', and a recurring role on ''[[w:Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]''.

== Career ==

=== Theatre and radio (1970s–1980s) ===
Rogers began performing on Canadian stages in the early 1970s, playing the role of Rocky in a [[w:Buffalo, New York|Buffalo, New York]], production of [[w:John Herbert (playwright)|John Herbert]]'s prison drama ''[[w:Fortune and Men's Eyes|Fortune and Men's Eyes]]'' roughly twenty years before he directed a Vancouver revival of the same play.<ref group="external" name="vancouversun_dykk_rogers_rocky_buffalo_1972">{{cite news|author=Dykk, Lloyd|title=Prison Drama Held Captive by Its Contrived Archetypes|work=The Vancouver Sun|location=Vancouver, British Columbia|date=14 October 1992|page=39|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/494831247/#:~:text=played%20Rocky%20in%20Buffalo|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

By the early 1980s Rogers was based in [[w:Calgary|Calgary, Alberta]], working as an actor and director and serving as associate director of the [[w:Citadel Theatre|Citadel Theatre]] in [[w:Edmonton|Edmonton]].<ref group="external" name="calgaryherald_brennan_rogers_citadel_associate_director">{{cite news|author=Brennan, Brian|title=Viewers Face a Long Wait for Sharon Pollock Movie|work=Calgary Herald|location=Calgary, Alberta|date=15 June 1983|page=44|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/483398481/#:~:text=former%20associate%20director%20of%20the%20Citadel%20Theatre|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> In May 1983, after two years as a freelance actor and director, he took over as drama producer for the [[w:CBC Radio|CBC radio network]]'s Calgary-based operations,<ref group="external" name="calgaryherald_brennan_rogers_cbc_radio_producer">{{cite news|author=Brennan, Brian|title=Viewers Face a Long Wait for Sharon Pollock Movie|work=Calgary Herald|location=Calgary, Alberta|date=15 June 1983|page=44|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/483398481/#:~:text=Calgary-based%20drama%20producer%20for%20the%20CBC|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> overseeing productions including a radio adaptation of [[w:Sharon Pollock|Sharon Pollock]]'s ''Whiskey Six'' for ''Saturday Stereo Theatre'' and ''The Long Lance'', a serialized dramatization of Donald B. Smith's biography of [[w:Sylvester Long|Sylvester Long]] broadcast in fifteen-minute segments on [[w:Peter Gzowski|Peter Gzowski]]'s CBC morning program.<ref group="external" name="calgaryherald_brennan_rogers_radio_productions_whiskey_six_long_lance">{{cite news|author=Brennan, Brian|title=Viewers Face a Long Wait for Sharon Pollock Movie|work=Calgary Herald|location=Calgary, Alberta|date=15 June 1983|page=44|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/483398481/#:~:text=Whiskey%20Six|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> Rogers later said he spent several years in production work at the Citadel during the mid-1980s.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_citadel_theatre_anecdote">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=renowned%20theatre%20in%20Edmonton|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> A July–August 1983 ''Cinema Canada'' survey of the [[w:Alberta|Alberta]] acting scene independently corroborated the CBC appointment, describing Rogers as "already a busy actor" at the time he took on the radio drama producer assignment,<ref group="external" name="cinemacanada_kupecek_rogers_busy_actor_cbc_producer">{{cite magazine|author=Kupecek, Linda|title='A' as in Alberta Actor|magazine=Cinema Canada|date=July–August 1983|page=23}}</ref> and named him among the Alberta performers featured in ''Bush Pilots'', a three-part pilot for [[w:Pay television|pay television]], alongside [[w:Frank C. Turner|Frank C. Turner]], [[w:Francis Damberger|Francis Damberger]], Jan Miller, and [[w:Fred Keating (actor)|Fred Keating]].<ref group="external" name="cinemacanada_kupecek_rogers_bush_pilots_credit">{{cite magazine|author=Kupecek, Linda|title='A' as in Alberta Actor|magazine=Cinema Canada|date=July–August 1983|page=23}}</ref>

=== Vancouver-area stage work (1990s) ===
By the late 1980s Rogers had relocated to British Columbia, settling in the Vancouver-area fishing village of [[w:Steveston, British Columbia|Steveston]] around 1989.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_steveston_residence">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=until%20he%20landed%20in%20Steveston|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> In October 1992 he directed a production of ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'' for the Actors Resource Group at a basement venue on [[w:Main Street (Vancouver)|Main Street]] in Vancouver — the same play in which he had appeared as Rocky two decades earlier.<ref group="external" name="vancouversun_dykk_rogers_director_fortune_mens_eyes">{{cite news|author=Dykk, Lloyd|title=Prison Drama Held Captive by Its Contrived Archetypes|work=The Vancouver Sun|location=Vancouver, British Columbia|date=14 October 1992|page=39|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/494831247/#:~:text=is%20directed%20by%20Greg%20Rogers|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> Four years later he starred opposite Julian Fargey in [[w:Willy Russell|Willy Russell]]'s ''[[w:Educating Rita|Educating Rita]]'' for Jupiter Theatre's run at [[w:Vernon, British Columbia|Vernon]]'s Powerhouse Theatre from July 19 to August 2, 1996, playing the role of Frank.<ref group="external" name="morningstar_educating_rita_cast_frank">{{cite news|title=Rita Gets an Education|work=The Morning Star|location=Vernon, British Columbia|date=30 June 1996|page=28|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/326454339/#:~:text=Greg%20Rogers%20as%20Frank|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> By that point Rogers had been acting on Canadian stages for roughly two decades, having appeared the previous year in ''The Long Weekend'' at [[w:Kelowna|Kelowna]]'s Sunshine Theatre.<ref group="external" name="morningstar_rogers_20_years_acting_career">{{cite news|title=Rita Gets an Education|work=The Morning Star|location=Vernon, British Columbia|date=30 June 1996|page=28|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/326454339/#:~:text=acting%20on%20Canada%27s%20stages|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

=== Television and film ===
Rogers built a steady career as a supporting and guest performer on Vancouver-shot television series beginning in the late 1980s, with credits including ''[[w:Danger Bay|Danger Bay]]'', ''[[w:The Adventures of Max Glick|Max Glick]]'', ''[[w:Neon Rider|Neon Rider]]'', ''[[w:21 Jump Street|21 Jump Street]]'', ''[[w:Northwood (TV series)|Northwood]]'', and ''[[w:Bordertown (1989 TV series)|Bordertown]]''.<ref group="external" name="morningstar_rogers_television_credits_list">{{cite news|title=Rita Gets an Education|work=The Morning Star|location=Vernon, British Columbia|date=30 June 1996|page=28|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/326454339/#:~:text=Lonesome%20Dove|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_television_credits_list">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=Sliders%2C%20Neon%20Rider%2C%20The%20Commish|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> A March 1993 newspaper birthday notice identified him specifically as a Northwood actor.<ref group="external" name="theprovince_davis_birthdays_rogers_42" />

In 1995 Rogers appeared as defense attorney Daniel Charez in the ''[[w:The_X-Files|The X-Files]]'' third-season episode "The List," representing a death-row inmate who returns from the grave to take revenge on those who wronged him.<ref group="external" name="imdb_xfiles_the_list_rogers_credit">{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0751230/fullcredits/#:~:text=Greg%20Rogers|title="The X-Files" The List (TV Episode 1995) - Full Cast & Crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> He later recalled an anecdote from the production: producer Joseph Patrick (J.P.) Finn interrupted a take to joke that Rogers himself was not welcome on set, a callback to Rogers having fired Finn from an acting job at the Citadel Theatre thirteen years earlier; Finn, who had since moved into producing, told Rogers that being let go had turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_citadel_theatre_anecdote" /> That same period he also appeared as Detective Sheridan in the ''Highlander: The Series'' episode "Leader of the Pack" (1995)<ref group="external" name="imdb_highlander_leader_of_the_pack_rogers_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Highlander|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> and as Reverend Samuel Garland in the ''[[w:The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Revival" (2000).<ref group="external" name="imdb_outerlimits_revival_rogers_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Outer%20Limits|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

By the late 1990s Rogers had also taken supporting film roles, appearing opposite [[w:Sam Elliott|Sam Elliott]] in ''Final Cut'', a release he said barely played in theaters before moving to video; opposite [[w:Graham Greene (actor)|Graham Greene]] in ''[[w:Wounded (1997 film)|Wounded]]''; and opposite [[w:Danny Aiello|Danny Aiello]] in a courtroom drama whose title is rendered ambiguously in the surviving clipping.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_feature_films">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=Final%20Cut|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="footnotes" name="note_feature_film_title_aiello">The 1998 ''Saint John Times Globe'' profile names a film pairing Rogers with Danny Aiello, transcribed in the available clipping as "Peace of Attorney." This may be a scanning misread of a different release title (such as ''Power of Attorney'') and has not been independently verified against a second source.</ref>

In 2010, Rogers appeared as a Businessman in ''Caprica''{{'}}s mid-season premiere "[[Unvanquished]]," which aired October 5, 2010, on [[w:Syfy|Syfy]].<ref group="external" name="imdb_rogers_caprica_unvanquished_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Unvanquished|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="external" name="imdb_unvanquished_episode_airdate">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484574/#:~:text=October%205%2C%202010|title="Caprica" Unvanquished (TV Episode 2010)|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> 

Rogers continued working steadily in television through the 2010s and 2020s. He played Dr. Walterson in the horror film ''[[w:The Possession (film)|The Possession]]'' (2012), starring [[w:Jeffrey Dean Morgan|Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] and [[w:Kyra Sedgwick|Kyra Sedgwick]],<ref group="external" name="imdb_rogers_the_possession_dr_walterson_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=The%20Possession|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> and took on a recurring role as Councilman Kullens across five episodes of ''[[w:Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]'' between 2016 and 2019.<ref group="external" name="imdb_rogers_arrow_councilman_kullens_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Councilman%20Kullens|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> Speaking to the ''Richmond Sentinel'' in 2020, Rogers noted that he had played a villain on ''Arrow'' "over the course of a few seasons."<ref group="commentary" name="richmondsentinel_scott_rogers_arrow_villain_role">{{cite news|author=Scott, Hannah|title=Ex-Steveston Resident Shares Insights into His Theatre Career|work=Richmond Sentinel|date=24 February 2020|url=https://www.richmondsentinel.ca/article-detail/4995/ex-steveston-resident-shares-insights-into-his-theatre-career#:~:text=played%20a%20villain%20on%20the%20TV%20show%20Arrow|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> He has also voiced the character Kpp'Ar in the animated series ''[[w:The Dragon Prince|The Dragon Prince]]'' and performed [[w:Motion capture|motion-capture]] work for the video game ''[[w:Star Wars Outlaws|Star Wars Outlaws]]'' (2024),<ref group="external" name="imdb_rogers_dragon_prince_voice_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Dragon%20Prince|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="external" name="imdb_rogers_star_wars_outlaws_motion_capture_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736896/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%20Outlaws|title=Greg Rogers|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> and continued appearing in [[w:Hallmark Channel|Hallmark Channel]] television films shot in British Columbia, including as Jake Sr. in ''Christmas with the Singhs'' (2024).<ref group="external" name="imdb_christmaswiththesinghs_rogers_jakesr_credit">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32730893/fullcredits/#:~:text=Jake%20Sr|title=Christmas with the Singhs (2024) - Full Cast & Crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Rogers was born March 12, 1951, at the Evangeline Home, a maternity facility for unmarried mothers in Saint John, New Brunswick.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_birth_evangeline_home" /><ref group="external" name="theprovince_davis_birthdays_rogers_42" /> He has said he met his biological father only once.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_biological_father">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=a%20man%20Rogers%20only%20met%20once|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="footnotes" name="note_biological_father_name">The original profile names Rogers's biological father, but the surname is not clearly legible in the scanned clipping and is omitted here pending verification against a clearer copy of the source.</ref> His mother, Leona (Livingston) Rogers (1933–2011), later married Charles "Chuck" Rogers, whose surname Rogers took as his stepfather.<ref group="external" name="standard_rogers_leona_obituary_family">{{cite news|title=Rogers, Leona (Livingston)|work=The Standard|location=[[w:St. Catharines|St. Catharines]], [[w:Ontario|Ontario]]|date=21 November 2011|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1188052352/#:~:text=Dear%20mother%20of%20Greg%20Rogers|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> He has a half-sister, Cindy-Lee Rogers, and a half-brother, Shawn Rogers.<ref group="external" name="standard_rogers_leona_obituary_family" />

Rogers spent his childhood in Saint John, attending nine different schools in the city before his family relocated to [[w:Burlington, Ontario|Burlington, Ontario]], when his stepfather found work there and Rogers was fifteen.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_nine_schools">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=nine%20different%20Saint%20John%20schools|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_left_saint_john_age_15">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=left%20the%20Port%20City%20at%20age%2015|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> As a child around 1960 he sold newspapers on Saint John street corners and at a Charlotte Street tavern, where he was given an exception to the venue's usual policy against admitting children.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_newspaper_vendor">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=only%20street%20urchin%20allowed%20in|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

Rogers moved to British Columbia and settled in Steveston, a fishing village near Vancouver, around 1989, living for years off Chatham Street.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_steveston_residence" /> He later relocated to [[w:Coquitlam|Coquitlam, British Columbia]], after long-standing roots in the Steveston community.<ref group="commentary" name="richmondsentinel_scott_rogers_coquitlam_move">{{cite news|author=Scott, Hannah|title=Ex-Steveston Resident Shares Insights into His Theatre Career|work=Richmond Sentinel|date=24 February 2020|url=https://www.richmondsentinel.ca/article-detail/4995/ex-steveston-resident-shares-insights-into-his-theatre-career#:~:text=recently%20moved%20to%20Coquitlam|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> As of 1998, Rogers was a member of the Union of British Columbia Performers and the [[w:Canadian Actors' Equity Association|Canadian Actors' Equity Association]], represented by agent Lisa King.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_resume_details">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=UBCP%2FCAEA%2C%20Agent%3A%20Lisa%20King|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

In addition to acting, Rogers has worked as a writer; by 1998 he had co-written an original screenplay, ''The Vault'', based on his own theory about an unsolved 1977 robbery.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_the_vault_screenplay">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=The%20Vault|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref> Decades after leaving the Maritimes, he returned briefly to Saint John in January 1998 to visit his terminally ill grandmother.<ref group="commentary" name="sjtimesglobe_weisz_rogers_grandmother_visit">{{cite news|author=Weisz, Marni|title=Home Again|work=Saint John Times Globe|location=Saint John, New Brunswick|date=27 January 1998|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1115660111/#:~:text=visit%20his%20grandmother|accessdate=20 June 2026}}</ref>

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