Giles Panton

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Giles Panton
Born (1982-09-13) September 13, 1982 (age 41)
Occupation
  • Actor
Years active2005–present
Spouse
Jocelyn Panton
(m. 2015)
[1]
Websitegilespanton.ca

Giles Panton (born September 13, 1982)[2] is a Canadian actor. He has worked in television, film, stage, and web media, and is also known for his voiceover work.

Career[edit]

Giles Panton trained as an actor at the William Davis Centre of Vancouver's VanArts (Vancouver Institute of Media Arts),[3] graduating in 2005. He has also studied at acting studios in New York.[4]

Panton is the voice of Keith, a lead character in Voltron Force, the 2011 animated series from Nicktoons, based on the 1980s Voltron animated saga.

He has appeared in many television shows and is known for playing the role of Joe Wylee, the police detective in the Flash Gordon television series.[5] He also stars in the 2011 web series, Soldiers of the Apocalypse, playing the character of Twosev.[6]

His first film was the 2005 short production, Bedridden.[7] A later short film, On the Bus (2008) was presented at Oklahoma's Bare Bones International Film Festival in 2009.[8]

Panton has also been active in Vancouver's alternate theatre scene. He was a headliner for Spectral Theatre Studio's 2009-10 season trio of paranormal plays, Deadends 666.[9] And in 2006, he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role[10] for his work in the I'm a Little Pickled Theatre Company production of The Book of Liz, by David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris.

In 2018, Panton joined the cast of The Man in the High Castle as Nazi Reich American Advertising Executive Billy Turner to work with Nicole Dõrmer to work to 'erase' any memory of the former U.S. from the minds of the citizens of the Nazi Reich America.

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

  • Bedridden (short, 2005) — Jonathan
  • Enough for Two (short, 2005) — James
  • Shock to the System (2006) — Bartender
  • Angelica's Pirate (short, 2006) — Black Breath Wally
  • Balloon and the Beast (short, 2006) — Karl
  • Happy Valentine's Day (short, 2006) — Mr. Elias
  • Glimpse (short, 2007) — Man Full of Himself (voice)
  • Class Savage (short, 2008) — The Hiker
  • Nobody Special (short, 2008) — Giles
  • Nomansland (short, 2008) — The Driver
  • On the Bus (short, 2008) — Sean
  • Damage (2009) — Rich Guy #2
  • Voodoo[11] (short, 2010–11) — Harold
  • Sugar Babies (2015) — James
  • Bad Date Chronicles (2017) — Brad
  • Sleepwalking in Suburbia (2017) — Dan Miller
  • My Favorite Wedding (2017) — Dex Richmond
  • Christmas Pen Pals (2018) — Daniel Harrison
  • It Was Always You (2021) — George

Television[edit]

Videogames[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jocelyn Panton's Instagram". Archived from the original on December 25, 2021.
  2. ^ "Celebrity BioNet". Celebritybio.net. September 13, 1982. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  3. ^ "Vancouver Institute of Media Arts". Vanarts.com. December 12, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  4. ^ scifi.com
  5. ^ "SyFy". SyFy. Archived from the original on May 19, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  6. ^ "Soldiers of the Apocalypse". Sotaseries.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  7. ^ "Bio information". Celebritybio.net. September 13, 1982. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  8. ^ "On the Bus at Bare Bones, 2009". Barebones.bside.com. Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  9. ^ "Spectral Theatre Studio, 2009/10 Season". Spectraltheatre.com. January 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  10. ^ "Community Theatre Awards". Community-theatre.com. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  11. ^ "Voodoo review". Communities.canada.com. July 13, 1954. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  12. ^ @OddEyesDragoon (April 7, 2021). "RT @G_Panton: Ahhhhhh! I can finally announce it! Everybody...meet Prince Kalmaar. #Ninjago" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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