Earl Pastko

Earl Pastko

Born: December 10, 1965
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Earl Pastko (born December 10, 1965) is an American actor. He was born in Chicago and moved to Canada in 1985.

Pastko is a founding member of Chicago's Remains Theater Company. He worked extensively in theatre with noted directors Ken McDougall, Paul Bettis, Alexander Hausvater, Brian Quirt, Vikki Anderson and Morris Panych, among others. Pastko received a Dora nomination for his performance in La Ronde and a Jessie nomination for The Ends of The Earth. His most recent stage appearances were as Lars in The Company Theatre's production of Festen and as Alexander Stern in The Rant, presented by Chicago's Mary Arrcher Theatre Co.

His best known film roles are as Satan in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61; as Hartley Otis in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter; as the artist in Jeremy Podeswa's Eclipse; and the hotel detective in David Weaver's Century Hotel. Pastko worked with George A. Romero (Land of the Dead); Eugene Levy (Sodbusters); and Roger Christian (Masterminds and Battlefield Earth).

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Birdland
Title: Birdland
Character: Bob McIntyre, The Cowboy
Released: January 26, 2018
Type: Movie
An ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches her husbands transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life.
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Title: Frankie Drake Mysteries
Character: Armando Petrillo
Released: November 6, 2017
Type: TV
Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.
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Manhattan Undying
Title: Manhattan Undying
Character: Dr. Larry Wilkins
Released: May 31, 2016
Type: Movie
A vampire seeks out an artist to paint her a portrait so that she can see her image for the first time.
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Title: Slasher
Character: Mr. MacDonald
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: TV
Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.
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Title: Hemlock Grove
Character: Shandor Bibinkian
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: TV
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
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The Colony
Title: The Colony
Character: Scientist
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
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Title: Orphan Black
Character: Bulldog
Released: March 30, 2013
Type: TV
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
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Cottage Country
Title: Cottage Country
Character: Vagrant
Released: March 13, 2013
Type: Movie
When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.
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The Mountie
Title: The Mountie
Character: Olaf
Released: July 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man dead. As he sets up home, in town, he discovers endless amounts of illegal activity taking place behind closed doors. Once he uncovers the men behind the crimes he prepares to take them down one by one in the most vicious showdown this town has ever seen.
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Just Business
Title: Just Business
Character: Eli Perla
Released: May 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Elizar Perla is a recently retired cat burglar who has succumbed to the temptation of one final score. The target is David Gray, famous for his collection of art and other rarities. Soon after the job, Elizar disappears, leaving his daughter Marty (Gina Gershon) distraught. Desperate, Gray approaches Marty suggesting that her father will turn up as soon as the stolen artwork is recovered. She begrudgingly accepts the offer to help him locate the art, but all is not as it seems, as the rarest of stolen pieces has value beyond ordinary currency. Written by Peace Arch
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Title: The Dresden Files
Released: January 21, 2007
Type: TV
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
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Premonition
Title: Premonition
Character: Vargas
Released: August 16, 2005
Type: Movie
After a violent car wreck nearly takes his life, Detective Jack Barnes begins having inexplicable and terrifying premonitions of horrible disasters. At first his warning calls go unheeded, but as the premonitions begin to come true Jack is shocked to find himself wanted for questioning by the FBI. He goes on the run, narrowly avoiding both the FBI and a band of terrorists on the verge of unleashing a deadly attack. As he scrambles to unlock the meaning of the visions, he must race against the clock to stop the terrorists before they can strike again.
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Land of the Dead
Title: Land of the Dead
Character: Roach
Released: June 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
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Shelf Life
Title: Shelf Life
Character: Old Man
Released: October 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Martin Remaro, while in hot pursuit of evil, is hit by a car. Ben and Julie (the occupants of the car) are convinced to flee the scene of the accident and take him home. Instead they take him to their place. Through a turn of events, they come to discover that Martin is a very troubled man. Wanting him out of their home, they agree to collect the drugs needed to help heal his wounds. Through the people they come into contact with while purchasing the drugs, they come to understand that he is a very sick man that needs help and that they are in danger.
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Title: Mayday
Character: Captain Taha
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: TV
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
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Title: Puppets Who Kill
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: TV
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
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Title: I Love Mummy
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: TV
I Love Mummy was a sitcom that ran for one season in 2002 after filming 26 episodes. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher; and produced by Ellis Iddon, Phil Meagher, Mark Iddon, Ira Levy and Peter Williamson. The show's production company is Winklemania Productions, Breakthrough Entertainment. The music was composed by Ellis Iddon, Phil Meagher and Simon Turner. The show centred around the Barns family, who moved into their dead grandmother's house. In the attic they come across a sarcophagus that opens up to reveal a 5,000-year-old demi-god, Prince Nuffratuti of Abu Simbel, who is unable to ascend to the afterlife until he has completed his scroll of tasks.
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Title: MythQuest
Character: Tailor / Gorgos
Released: August 1, 2001
Type: TV
While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who wants to destroy the world by constantly changing the famous myths.
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Battlefield Earth
Title: Battlefield Earth
Character: Bartender
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
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Motel
Title: Motel
Character: Louie
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A cowardly thief tries to solve the murder of a prostitute as compensation for his own crimes.
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The Sweet Hereafter
Title: The Sweet Hereafter
Character: Hartley Otto
Released: September 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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Masterminds
Title: Masterminds
Character: Captain Jankel
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Colonel Zukhov
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Brizon
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Once a Thief
Released: September 29, 1996
Type: TV
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.
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Title: Poltergeist: The Legacy
Character: John Harper
Released: April 21, 1996
Type: TV
The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Count Nightwing
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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Eclipse
Title: Eclipse
Character: Michael
Released: October 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
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Heads
Title: Heads
Character: Lloyd Hubbs
Released: January 29, 1994
Type: Movie
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Ramsden
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Victor Paulus
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Title: Forever Knight
Released: May 5, 1992
Type: TV
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
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Highway 61
Title: Highway 61
Character: Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan)
Released: September 5, 1991
Type: Movie
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
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Roadkill
Title: Roadkill
Character: Children of Paradise drums
Released: September 16, 1989
Type: Movie
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.