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- Died
- Birth nameJames Langcaster
- Toronto-born Heath Lamberts began his show-business career on stage in Canada in the early 1960s, performing regularly at the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival. He was a well regarded stage actor, receiving good notices for his roles in "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Beauty and the Beast." When he began making films, however, he gravitated towards more comedic roles, with appearances in such films as Nothing Personal (1980) and Utilities (1983). He kept quite busy on television, appearing in many comedy and drama series and several made-for-TV movies. He died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from cancer in 2005.
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- He was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on June 29, 1987 for his services to performing arts in Canada.
- Lamberts was cremated by the Pittsburgh Cremation Service. His ashes were sprinkled into the Allegheny River.
- Lamberts won the prestigious Dora Mavor Moore award three times, for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1981), Cyrano de Bergerac (1985), and One for the Pot (1996).
- Lamberts lived in Pittsburgh for the last decade of his life, performing at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and the Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre. He was together with Louise Silk, a fiber artist, teacher, and writer.
- In his 30s, he told an interviewer that he'd had an unhappy childhood, and in his teens had decided to re-christen himself by climbing into a trunk and basically being re-born from it with a new name, Heath Lamberts.
- We must have our grief and move on.
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