Jonathan Crombie

Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 – April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television’s 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels. He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his role in the Canadian Stage Company’s 1997 production of Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia. He has appeared on stage in The Dishwashers by Morris Panych (Tarragon Theatre, 2005) and The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte (Tarragon Theatre/Great Canadian Stage Company, 2006). He spent four seasons at Ontario’s Stratford Festival appearing in “A Comedy Of Errors’, “Hamlet”, “As You Like It”, “Taming Of The Shrew”, and as Romeo in Diana Leblanc’s “Romeo and Juliet”. He was also featured in the second season of Slings & Arrows (2005), as playwright Lionel Train. More recently, Crombie performed at Centerstage (theater) in Baltimore for the Rasin Cycle featured on PBS in Clybourne Park (2013) and Benetha’s Place (2013), as well at Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Theatre Company in the world premiere of “Benediction” (2015), based on Kent Haruf’s novel.