Tom Scholte
Tom Scholte is a Canadian actor and academic.[1] He is most noted for his performances in the film Last Wedding, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002[2] and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2001,[3] and The Dick Knost Show, for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2013.[4]
He has also appeared in the films Live Bait, Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure, No More Monkeys Jumpin' on the Bed, Lunch with Charles, Moving Malcolm, See Grace Fly, Fathers & Sons, Sisters & Brothers and Kingsway, and the television series The X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Cold Squad.
He was a cofounder of the Neworld Theatre Company in Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] is a two-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for his stage performances, and is a professor in the department of theatre and film at the University of British Columbia.[1]
Scholte's academic work is in the intersection of theatre studies and cybernetics. In 2021, Scholte became Vice-President of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)[6] Scholte is a presenter on the 'Systems and Cybernetics' podcast of the New Books Network.[7]
Contributions to cybernetics
Scholte's contributions to cybernetics have focused on the role of the creative arts with cybernetics[8] and developing cybernetics' critical possibilities.[9]
Scholte co-hosted the 2019 ASC conference 'Acting Cybernetically'.[10]
Personal life
He married actress Frida Betrani in 2004.[11]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | Live Bait | Trevor MacIntosh | |
1997 | Drive, She Said | Arnold The Gas Guy | |
1998 | Dirty | David | |
1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Reporter | |
2000 | No More Monkeys Jumpin' on the Bed | Peter | |
2001 | Lunch with Charles | Tom | |
2001 | Last Wedding | Peter | |
2003 | The Core | Acker | |
2003 | Moving Malcolm | Mover | |
2003 | See Grace Fly | James | |
2004 | The Thing Below | Edward Lynch | |
2004 | Walking Tall | Merle Crowe | |
2004 | Lies Like Truth | Danny Fitterson | |
2004 | Everyone | Roger | |
2005 | The Hamster Cage | Paul | Also producer |
2008 | Crime | Brent | |
2008 | Mothers & Daughters | Dinner Party Guest Thomas | |
2010 | Repeaters | Sgt. Gerald Tibbs | |
2010 | Fathers & Sons | Tom | |
2011 | Exley | Poker Player #1 | |
2011 | Sisters & Brothers | Henry Adams | Also co-creator |
2012 | Crimes of Mike Recket | Peter | |
2013 | The Dick Knost Show | Dick Knost | Also producer |
2014 | Bad City | The Chief | |
2018 | Kingsway | Bar Buddy |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | Dead Ahead | Deputy Hutchins | Television film |
1996 | Psi Factor | Howie Samek | Episode: "The Infestation/Human Apportation" |
1996, 1997 | The X-Files | Michael Sloan / Young Johansen | Episodes: "Detour"; "Piper Maru" |
1997 | Dead Man's Gun | Deputy Harold Cooper | Episode: "Fortune Teller" |
1998 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Monte Marks | Episode: "Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure" |
2001 | Da Vinci's Inquest | David | Episode: "Oppenheimer Park" |
2002 | The Dead Zone | Sports Nut | Episode: "Unreasonable Doubt" |
2002 | The Twilight Zone | Writer #1 | Episode: "Gabe's Story" |
2003 | Stargate SG-1 | Chazen | Episode: "Prophecy" |
2003 | Jinnah: On Crime - White Knight, Black Widow | Len Birmbaum | Television film |
2005 | Cold Squad | Lee Styles | Episode: "C'mon I Tip Waitresses" |
2021 | Trigger Me | Phillip | 2 episodes |
References
- Lynn Mitges, "Students acting like they should; Program at UBC gives them the tools to take into the real world". The Province, January 10, 2008.
- Michael Posner, "Atanarjuat, War Bride lead Genie list". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2001.
- Katherine Monk, "Much more to the year in film than Harry Potter and hobbits". Vancouver Sun, January 31, 2002.
- "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
- "Neworld Theatre". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, October 26, 2020.
- "ASC Executive Board - American Society for Cybernetics".
- "NBN Home".
- Scholte, T. (2020). A proposal for the role of the arts in a new phase of second-order cybernetics. Kybernetes, 49(8), 2153-2170. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-03-2019-0172
- Scholte, T., & Sweeting, B. (2022). Possibilities for a critical cybernetics. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2891
- Scholte, T. (2020). You’re a cybernetician. Act like one! A commentary upon the 2019 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 27(2), 9-15. https://www.chkjournal.com/node/360
- Malcolm Parry, "Ode to the Travelall, the original SUV". Vancouver Sun, July 31, 2004.