Earl Pastko
Date of birth: 1965-12-10
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Earl Pastko, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Battlefield Earth
2000-05-12
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest
Highway 61
1991-09-05
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne
Masterminds
1997-08-22
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the stu
Manhattan Undying
2016-05-31
A vampire seeks out an artist to paint her a portrait so that she can see her image for the first ti
Just Business
2008-05-06
Elizar Perla is a recently retired cat burglar who has succumbed to the temptation of one final scor
Premonition
2005-08-16
After a violent car wreck nearly takes his life, Detective Jack Barnes begins having inexplicable an
The Colony
2013-04-12
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve hum
Roadkill
1989-09-16
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up f
Eclipse
1995-10-13
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending tot
Shelf Life
2004-10-09
Martin Remaro, while in hot pursuit of evil, is hit by a car. Ben and Julie (the occupants of the c
The Mountie
2011-07-01
A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man d
Cottage Country
2013-03-13
When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last th
Land of the Dead
2005-06-18
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect
The Sweet Hereafter
1997-09-25
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a doz
Heads
1994-01-29
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, an
Birdland
2018-01-26
An ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches her husb
Motel
1998-10-26
A cowardly thief tries to solve the murder of a prostitute as compensation for his own crimes.
Dog Park
1998-09-14
A young man, whose girlfriend has just left him and taken their dog, falls for another woman who is
Sodbusters
1994-01-01
A group of homesteaders in 1875 are harassed by an evil, land-grabbing, gunslinging cattleman until