Biography
Vlasta Vrana is a Canadian actor of Czech descent. His surname means "crow" in Czech. Vrana was born to Czech parents in Norway but moved to Canada at the age of four. He has appeared on many television shows and films such as The New Avengers, The Littlest Hobo, Choices, Spearfield's Daughter, The Kiss, War of the Worlds, After Amy, All Souls, Friday the 13th: the Series, Windsor Protocol, Lobby, Highlander III: The Sorcerer, Sirens, All Souls, Mom P.I., The Hitchhiker, Press Run, Waking the De...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Old Guys in Bed
2025
A gay film historian enlists his tech-savvy teenage niece to help him pursue the 70-year-old man of his dreams.

Sweet as Maple Syrup
2021
as The Dean
Rachelle is in a race against time when her family's maple orchard starts to decline, just ahead of the upcoming Maple Syrup Festival. With the help o...

French Exit
2021
as Borius Maurus (Ship's Doctor)
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husb...

Swept Up by Christmas
2020
as Alan Hawthorne
An antique seller and a cleaner clash over how to downsize a magnificent estate right before Christmas. As the two uncover the house’s treasures, they...

Hall
2020
as Peter
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. Af...

Within These Walls
2020
as Carl
Finding her relationship at a standstill, single mother Mel breaks up with her boyfriend. After he moves out, strange things start happening in her ho...

Spookley and the Christmas Kittens
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Spookley and Mistletoe encounter three stray kittens for whom they must brave a raging winter storm to find a home.

The Zone
2017
as Stalker
Looking for a long lost friend, Madeleine talks to a Stalker so that he can take her to «the zone» and help her look into her memories to find him at ...

The Glass Castle
2017
as Mr. Lehocky
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingen...

Race
2016
as St. John
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage ...

Northpole: Open for Christmas
2015
as Salvation Army Santa
A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it righ...

The Informant
2013
as Controller Nichols
A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.

RED 2
2013
as General McKennon
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Upside Down
2012
as Mr. Hunt
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his que...

Secrets From Her Past
2011
as Mo Stefanokis
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real...

Territories
2010
as Sheriff White
Five friends return home from a marriage in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identi...

Arctic Blast
2010
as Narrator (voice)
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to ...

The Child Prodigy
2010
as Hutcheson
On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belo...

The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice
2010
as Maitre D'
After her partner's career-ending injury, a former figure skater shifts gears to become an instructor. Later, she finds the strength to return to comp...

Ring of Deceit
2009
as Oscar Brown
Madison Byrne is a beautiful young art expert who tries to help Jack Singer, a wealthy patron of her museum, unlock the mystery of an antique ring. Th...

Carny
2009
as Owen
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast e...

WarGames: The Dead Code
2008
as Ivan Prokosh
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know th...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
as Judge Shoehan
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally...

The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream
2008
as Official
A world class ice skater eager to take the top prize in the biggest competition around finds his dreams going up in flames after his partner suffers a...

Lava Storm
2008
as Mike Wilson
Lori and John Wilson, employees of an emergency response center, must find a way to survive the initial lava storms, to save John's father and their t...

I Me Wed
2007
as Roy
Successful thirtysomething Isabelle decides to marry herself, becoming a public sensation. But when opportunity comes knocking, will she cheat on hers...

A Life Interrupted
2007
as Committee Chairman
After Debbie Smith was raped, she didn't take the law into her own hands. She wrote the law... Based on a true story. In 1989, Debbie Smith was living...

Black Eyed Dog
2006
as Andreas
While a shocking series of crimes occur in a community along the Miramichi River, the life of Betty, a waitress in her thirties, takes an unexpected t...

A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005
as Jack Richards
Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his daughter by a sinister cult. Wallowing in self-pity...

Crimes of Passion
2005
as Malcolm McBradden
While in competition for a job promotion, the female competitor sues her male counterpart for sexual harassment. Blackmail and murder follow closely b...

When Angels Come to Town
2004
as Franz
Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. ...

Spookley the Square Pumpkin
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Dare to be square! In a world where "The only good pumpkins are round pumpkins!" SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN is often teased by the other pumpkins bec...

Manners of Dying
2004
as Doctor Lowe
Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility...

Wicker Park
2004
as Jeweller
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his lif...

Baby for Sale
2004
as Ron Grazer
A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation...

Secret Window
2004
as Fire Chief Wickersham
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be ...

Bad Apple
2004
as Fleisig
Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.

The Reagans
2003
as Ed Meese
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in...

Timeline
2003
as Monk
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

The Human Stain
2003
as Solly Tabak
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about ...

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003
as Ray Harding
Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spanning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1...

Levity
2003
as Man on Parole Board
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at h...
Memories of Earth
2002
as Self - Narrator
Set against the unforgettable beauty of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), Memories of Earth takes viewers on a journey guid...

Scent of Danger
2002
as Dr. York
FBI agent Carol Blue was unwilling to take local help in the case of the kidnapping of little Zoe Hendricks, but ex-cop Chris Milos' private investiga...

Gleason
2002
as Toots Shor
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childh...

The Book of Eve
2002
as Steve Lock
A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart.

Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
2002
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
A soldier who was long thought dead in World War 2, returns to modern day New York to combat monsters, who are now the power elite, running the city.

Redeemer
2002
as Edward Chase
When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch...

Protection
2001
as Shimanski
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways

No Ordinary Baby
2001
as Dr Dennis Griffiths
A reporter gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the resp...

Varian's War
2001
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.

Cause Of Death
2001
as Al Bailey
A deputy-district attorney, assigned to investigate the murder of the mayor's cousin, finds himself falling for the victim's wife.
Requiem for Fanny
2001
as Narrator
Requiem for Fanny recreates the world of Felix Mendelssohn, to the musical accompaniment of his beautiful String Quartet No. 2. In a period setting, a...

The List
2000
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to ke...

Heavy Metal 2000
2000
as Street Vendor
Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar, a miner named Tyler becomes possessed with an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for imm...

Where the Money Is
2000
as Jewelry Store Employee
Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for ...

The Audrey Hepburn Story
2000
as Uncle Willem
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and...

Believe
2000
as Mortimer Higgins
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives h...

Reaper
2000
as Sheriff Norris
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumsta...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Mr. Van Tassle
Ichabod Crane, a Yankee wanderer, arrives in Sleepy Hollow and becomes the new schoolmaster. He meets Katrina Van Tassel, and blissfully fantasizes ab...

Grey Owl
1999
as Harry Champlin
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the wo...

Eye of the Beholder
1999
as Mr. Hugo Sr.
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

Revenge
1999
as Dan McCartney
A serial killer, whose victims are men with similar pasts, is tracked by a policewoman.

The Girl Next Door
1999
as Howard Poolin
There's someone peeping through windows so Arthur has been asked to watch the neighbour's eighteen year old daughter while her parents are away. Soon ...

The Collectors
1999
as Sgt. Grander
The head of the Louisiana Mafia sends two mobsters (Casper Van Dien, Rick Fox) to New York on a dangerous assignment to collect money.

The Windsor Protocol
1998
as Hardy's Aide
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States. The...

Escape from Wildcat Canyon
1998
as Tully
Before Pete Flint moves to New York with his family, he goes on one last embark with his grandfather. When their plane crashes in Wildcat Canyon, they...

The Ultimate Weapon
1998
as 'Top' Drummond
When mercenary "Hardball" Cutter discovers that the team he is working with is actually a group of IRA gunrunners, he decides to put a stop to their p...

Glory & Honor
1998
as Morris Jesup
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.

Night of the Demons III
1997
as Dewhurst
When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in Hull House to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error upon meeting Angela.

The Assignment
1997
as KGB Head Officer
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over...

The Peacekeeper
1997
as General Douglas
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has...

Heritage Minutes: Jackie Robinson
1997
as Mr. Rickey
Montréal Royals players and fans welcome the first African American player, marking the beginning of the end of baseball's colour barrier.

While My Pretty One Sleeps
1997
as Bishop
Delves into the rivalries and undercurrents in the world of high fashion.

Stranger in the House
1997
as Alex Alexander
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.

Natural Enemy
1996
as Stanley
A businessman (Donald Sutherland) has a hotshot young new partner (William McNamara). What he doesn't realize is that his new partner is the son of hi...

Mother Night
1996
as August Krapptauer
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real...

Hollow Point
1996
as FBI Agent in Charge
Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA...

Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel ...

Hawk's Vengeance
1996
as Duquesne
Eric Hawke a British Marine, attends the funeral of his policeman brother who he discovers has been attempting to investigate the mysterious kidnappin...

Gotti
1996
as Romual Piecyk
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the mo...

For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story
1996
as Dr. Zimmerman
Follows the triumphs and tragedies of Katrinka Kovár, a young Czechoslovakian ski prodigy who discovers high-society splendor in the arms of a wealthy...

Relative Fear
1995
as Mr. Schulman
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and a...

Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994
as Vorisek
Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named...

Brainscan
1994
as Frank
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experienc...

The Lifeforce Experiment
1994
as Dr. Robbie Allman
A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.

Eye of the Wolf
1994
as Jacques
Set in 1912, Canada. A government zoologist fights to save the life of a wolf dog that attacked his master's killer.

Stalked
1994
as Sanders
Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after hav...

The Rise and Fall of English Montreal
1993
as Narrator (voice)
In the past 20 years, some 300,000 English-speaking people have left Montréal, convinced they had no future in a Québec that had become increasingly F...

A Cry in the Night
1992
as Captain Murphy
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely jealous new husband

Twin Sisters
1992
as Reeves
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.

The Final Heist
1991
as Larivière
David King is an art thief who has retired to devote his time to his daughter on whom he dotes. He hasn't counted, however, on a mysterious gang who d...

Deadly Surveillance
1991
as Palatzo
A detective investigates a series of murders that he begins to suspect are being committed by a woman involved in prostitution and narcotics trafficki...

Scanners II: The New Order
1991
as Lt. Gelson
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester,...

Money
1991
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial cente...

Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
1991
as Narrator (voice)
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Whispers
1990
as Sherrif Laurenski
A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of ...

Falling Over Backwards
1990
as Drunk
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women...

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
1990
as King (voice)
Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right time and his luck changed. When he overheard Glit...

The Real Story of Rain Rain Go Away
1990
as Boondoggle (voice)
Meet Prince Vince. He's hip! He's Hop! He's the man with the tan! When Mother Nature rains on his tanning parade, Prince Vince doesn't just pull out a...
The Phone Call
1989
as Ben
A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.

Dracula: Live from Transylvania
1989
as Announcer
A live-event TV special exploring the reality and legend surrounding the story of Dracula. Ancient European castles associated with vampire legends ar...

The Morning Man
1989
as Gates

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
1989
as Frank
In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead....

Day One
1989
as Hans Bethe
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to bui...
Snake Treaty
1989
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has ...

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988

Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988

The Kiss
1988
as Bishop
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to ...

Hitting Home
1988
as Phil Grande
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up ...

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1988
The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group th...

Dreams of a Land
1987
as Narrator
The story of Samuel de Champlain's futile search for a passage to China in North America and his later founding of Quebec.

Nowhere to Hide
1987
as Sonny Cambria
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashe...

Keeping Track
1987
as Chuck
The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that engages directly with brain cells.
The Man Who Stole Dreams
1987
as (voice)
A man steals the dreams of innocent villagers and tries to sell them back to the townsfolk.
A Safety Net
1987
as Narrator

Life on Ice
1986
as Narrator
This documentary film focuses on the animal life that survives in this harsh arctic climates at the edge of the ice - from the simple algae to narwhal...

Choices
1986
as Minister
A 19 year old girl suddenly finds herself pregnant. Not wanting to face motherhood or dealing with the consequences of a child, she contemplates an ab...

Edge of Ice
1986
as Narrator
This feature documentary highlights the nature of Arctic sea ice, and its crucial importance to life in the Far North. Underwater photography presents...

Breaking All the Rules
1985
as Detective
Three robbers hide a stolen jewel inside a stuffed animal at one of the midway games in an amusement park. When Jack—a teen with a part-time summer jo...

Secret Weapons
1985
as Ivan
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

Eternal Evil
1985
as Scott
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it agai...

The Surrogate
1984
as Bill
Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions ...

The Slavers
1984
A man searches for a missing woman who has been kidnapped by a deranged Professor with sinister intentions.

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
1983
as Murphy
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. P...

Les six saisons des attikameks
1983
as Self

Candy the Stripper
1983
The owner of a seedy, run-down strip club in New Orleans tries to save the building from being torn down by having it declared a historical landmark. ...

A Matter of Cunning
1983
as Ted Haskell
An ambitious businesswoman will do whatever it takes to climb the corporate ladder.

Hey Babe!
1983
as Roy
Theresa is an imaginative, rebellious orphan from Brooklyn, who has dreams of show business success. She tries outrageous schemes to launch herself in...

Hard Feelings
1982
as Mr. Holland
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run fro...

The Emperor of Peru
1982
Toby and his sister Liz live with their aunt and uncle, who take in Cambodian orphan Hoang while he awaits foster placement. The trio become fast frie...

End Game in Paris
1982
Based on the novel by Ian Adams, a film-noir treatment of a man's doppelganger obsession.

The Amateur
1981
as Guide
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...

Heavy Metal
1981
as Barbarian Leader (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Happy Birthday to Me
1981
as Bartender
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take pl...
Canada Vignettes: Under the Pole
1980
as Narrator
A team of divers to the Arctic Ocean places a Canadian flag at the North Pole.

Canada Vignettes: Arctic Seascape
1980
as Narrator
A vignette exploring the depths of the Arctic Ocean.

The Angry Man
1979
as Le gérant du club
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was ...

The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
1979
as Radio Operator
British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
Canada Vignettes: Indian Pipe
1979
as Narrator
This carved ritual pipe from the Plains First Nations culture depicts the act of creation, alive in stone, Mother Earth in the embrace of Father Sky. ...

Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat
1979
as Narrator
The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.

Blackout
1978
A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York's 1977 power blackout.

Canada Vignettes: The Horse
1978
as Narrator
The story of the impact that the introduction of the horse had on the North American West.

One Man
1977
as Gendron's colleague
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live i...

Rabid
1977
as Cop at Clinic
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a t...

Strangers at the Door
1977
This drama tells the harrowing story of an immigrant family in the New World. On arrival in Canada, their hopes for a better life were dashed when imm...

Shivers
1975
as Kresimer Sviben
When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites and transformed into violent, sex-crazed maniacs, it's ...
Gagne ton ciel
N/A
as Ben Novak