Greg Rogers

Greg Rogers
PerformerCaprica
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Portrays:	Businessman
Date of Birth:	March 12,1951
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Age:	75
Nationality:	CAN
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Greg Rogers (born March 12, 1951, in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian actor who appeared as a Businessman in Caprica's "Unvanquished". A stage, radio, and television performer whose career began in the early 1970s, Rogers has appeared in numerous Canadian and American television series and films, including The X-Files, Highlander: The Series, The Commish, and a recurring role on Arrow.

Career

Theatre and radio (1970s–1980s)

Rogers began performing on Canadian stages in the early 1970s, playing the role of Rocky in a Buffalo, New York production of John Herbert's prison drama Fortune and Men's Eyes, roughly twenty years before he directed a Vancouver revival of the same play.

By the early 1980s Rogers was based in Calgary, Alberta, working as an actor and director and serving as associate director of the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. In May 1983, after two years as a freelance actor and director, he took over as drama producer for the CBC radio network's Calgary-based operations, overseeing productions including a radio adaptation of Sharon Pollock's Whiskey Six for Saturday Stereo Theatre and The Long Lance, a serialized dramatization of Donald B. Smith's biography of Sylvester Long broadcast in fifteen-minute segments on Peter Gzowski's CBC morning program. Rogers later said he spent several years in production work at the Citadel during the mid-1980s. A July–August 1983 Cinema Canada survey of the 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, and named him among the Alberta performers featured in Bush Pilots, a three-part pilot for pay television, alongside Frank C. Turner, Francis Damberger, Jan Miller, and Fred Keating.

Vancouver-area stage work (1990s)

By the late 1980s Rogers had relocated to British Columbia, settling in the Vancouver-area fishing village of Steveston around 1989. In October 1992 he directed a production of Fortune and Men's Eyes for the Actors Resource Group at a basement venue on Main Street in Vancouver — the same play in which he had appeared as Rocky two decades earlier. Four years later he starred opposite Julian Fargey in Willy Russell's Educating Rita for Jupiter Theatre's run at Vernon's Powerhouse Theatre from July 19 to August 2, 1996, playing the role of Frank. By that point Rogers had been acting on Canadian stages for roughly two decades, having appeared the previous year in The Long Weekend at Kelowna's Sunshine Theatre.

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 Danger Bay, Max Glick, Neon Rider, 21 Jump Street, Northwood, and Bordertown. A March 1993 newspaper birthday notice identified him specifically as a Northwood actor.

In 1995 Rogers appeared as defense attorney Daniel Charez in the 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. 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. That same period he also appeared as Detective Sheridan in the Highlander: The Series episode "Leader of the Pack" (1995) and as Reverend Samuel Garland in the The Outer Limits episode "Revival" (2000).

By the late 1990s Rogers had also taken supporting film roles, appearing opposite Sam Elliott in Final Cut, a release he said barely played in theaters before moving to video; opposite Graham Greene in Wounded; and opposite Danny Aiello in a courtroom drama whose title is rendered ambiguously in the surviving clipping.

In 2010, Rogers appeared as a Businessman in Caprica's mid-season premiere "Unvanquished," which aired October 5, 2010, on Syfy.

Rogers continued working steadily in television through the 2010s and 2020s. He played Dr. Walterson in the horror film The Possession (2012), starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick, and took on a recurring role as Councilman Kullens across five episodes of Arrow between 2016 and 2019. Speaking to the Richmond Sentinel in 2020, Rogers noted that he had played a villain on Arrow "over the course of a few seasons." He has also voiced the character Kpp'Ar in the animated series The Dragon Prince and performed motion-capture work for the video game Star Wars Outlaws (2024), and continued appearing in Hallmark Channel television films shot in British Columbia, including as Jake Sr. in Christmas with the Singhs (2024).

Personal life

Rogers was born March 12, 1951, at the Evangeline Home, a maternity facility for unmarried mothers in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has said he met his biological father only once. His mother, Leona (Livingston) Rogers (1933–2011), later married Charles "Chuck" Rogers, whose surname Rogers took as his stepfather. He has a half-sister, Cindy-Lee Rogers, and a half-brother, Shawn Rogers.

Rogers spent his childhood in Saint John, attending nine different schools in the city before his family relocated to Burlington, Ontario, when his stepfather found work there and Rogers was fifteen. 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.

Rogers moved to British Columbia and settled in Steveston, a fishing village near Vancouver, around 1989, living for years off Chatham Street. He later relocated to Coquitlam, British Columbia, after long-standing roots in the Steveston community. As of 1998, Rogers was a member of the Union of British Columbia Performers and the Canadian Actors' Equity Association, represented by agent Lisa King.

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. Decades after leaving the Maritimes, he returned briefly to Saint John in January 1998 to visit his terminally ill grandmother.

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