Biography
Maury Chaykin, born on July 27, 1949, was a Canadian actor known for his versatile and captivating performances. With his distinctive appearance, rich voice, and remarkable acting talent, Chaykin left a lasting impact on both the stage and screen throughout his career. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Chaykin moved to Toronto, Canada, at a young age. He developed a passion for acting and pursued his craft at the University of Toronto and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Chaykin began hi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Conduct Unbecoming
2011
as Col. Fox
United States Marine Nick Dodd is charged with callously killing several civilians in Afghanistan. A military trial ensues.

Barney's Version
2010
as Wedding Guest
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Casino Jack
2010
as Big Tony
Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murd...

Cooking With Stella
2010
as H.E. Mr. Durand
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.

Abroad
2010
as Lord Oldenberg
A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the ...

Adoration
2009
as Passenger & Professor On-Line
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Interne...

Hooked on Speedman
2008
as Dietrich Baum
Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blai...
Bull
2008
as Roland Gow
Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir set among the heatwave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie...

Static
2008
as Mr. Linkletter
A trio of brainboxes create a cell phone chip that allows telepathic communication. But when the experiment goes wrong and power falls into the wrong ...

Elijah
2008
as Howard Pawley
The story of Elijah Harper.....

Blindness
2008
as Accountant
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of ...

The Grift
2008
as Rusty
A 1940's period drama about about a woman who has been wronged by her husband, but must help him after he has fallen in with a family of grifters.

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Heavens Fall
2006
as Lyle Harris
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freig...

It's a Boy Girl Thing
2006
as Stan Deane
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a s...

The Hunt For the BTK Killer
2005
as Robert Beattie
After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.

Where the Truth Lies
2005
as Sally Sanmarco
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

Camp Hollywood
2004
as Himself
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legend...

Wilby Wonderful
2004
as Mayor Brent Fisher
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.

Being Julia
2004
as Walter Gibbs
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...

The Making of Nero Wolfe
2004
as self
Documentary material about the filming of the series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery".

Sugar
2004
as Stanley
Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This ...

White Coats
2004
as Dr. Roger 'Tony' Toussant
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
as Dan Weisman
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's “Tracey Takes On”. After an illustrious career, vetera...

Owning Mahowny
2003
as Frank Perlin
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Tor...
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003
as Max Perkins
'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923...

Hostage
2002
as The Kidnapper
The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042...

The Wet Season
2002
as Uncle Rick
Jocelyn works at her Uncle's 'Crying Booths' in the country, while crying is forbidden in the cities.

Crossed Over
2002
as Ethan Lowry
After her son dies in a hit-and-run accident, a woman forms an unusual friendship with a convicted killer awaiting execution.
On Their Knees
2001
as Norman
Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not...

Bleacher Bums
2001
as Scorekeeper
They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been...

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

Bartleby
2001
as Ernest
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.

Plan B
2001
as Donald Rossi
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.

The Art of War
2000
as Frank Capella
Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As...

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2000
as Nero Wolfe
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young i...

What's Cooking?
2000
as Herb 'Herbie' Seelig
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1999
as Mr. Cooper / Louie Loser
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard...

Mystery, Alaska
1999
as Bailey Pruitt
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpecte...
Touched
1999
as Burt
A young man runs from the voices in his head into the arms of an elderly cowgirl.

Entrapment
1999
as Conrad Greene
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Bruce
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Jerry and Tom
1998
as Billy
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, ...

The Mask of Zorro
1998
as Prison Warden
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped...

Love and Death on Long Island
1998
as Irving Buckmuller
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E....

Northern Lights
1998
as Ben Rubadue
A stranger's call informs Roberta that her estranged brother Frank has died in a small town under bizarre circumstances. Ben, his best friend from col...

MouseHunt
1997
as Alexander Falko
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is wort...

A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Tod Johnson
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a sp...

The Sweet Hereafter
1997
as Wendell Walker
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...

Gone Fishin'
1997
as Kirk, Waiter (uncredited)
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

Strip Search
1997
as Tomas
Robby Durrell is the prince of the vice squad. A man who's seen it all and done a little of it too. But when the enchanting Sela hires him to help tra...

Keeping the Promise
1997
as Hunter Ben Loomis
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to s...
Pale Saints
1997
as The Pirate
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mo...

Harriet the Spy
1996
as Holiday Pageant Director (uncredited)
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her ...

If Looks Could Kill
1996
as Dr. Richard Boggs
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.

Cutthroat Island
1995
as John Reed
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by ...

Sugartime
1995
as Tony Accardo
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...

Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
as Matthew Terell
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a my...

Unstrung Heroes
1995
as Arthur Lidz
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he...

Camilla
1994
as Harold Cara
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...

Whale Music
1994
as Desmond Howl
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-...

Exotica
1994
as Exotica Club Client (uncredited)
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...

Beethoven's 2nd
1993
as Cliff Klamath
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem i...

Josh and S.A.M.
1993
as Pizza Man
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in ...

Money for Nothing
1993
as Vincente Goldoni
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. ...

Sommersby
1993
as Lawyer Dawson
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al...

Hero
1992
as Winston
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then t...

Buried on Sunday
1992
as Dexter Lexcannon
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.

Leaving Normal
1992
as Leon
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...

My Cousin Vinny
1992
as Sam Tipton
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...

Split Images
1992
as Walter Kouza
A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe h...

The Adjuster
1991
as Bubba
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

Montreal Stories
1991
as Jurgen van Doom
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first ...

In Passing
1991
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by...

The Pianist
1991
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during ...

Mr. Destiny
1990
as Guzelman
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot ...

Dances with Wolves
1990
as Major Fambrough
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junct...

Where the Heart Is
1990
as Harry
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

Breaking In
1989
as Vincent Tucci
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as goo...

Cold Comfort
1989
as Floyd Lucas
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a pris...

Millennium
1989
as Roger Keane
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparab...

George's Island
1989
as Mr. Droonfield
After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island, George is placed in a foster home. George and anot...

Twins
1988
as Burt Klane
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...

Iron Eagle II
1988
as Sgt. Downs
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear miss...

Hot Paint
1988
as Wilensky
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, ...

Stars & Bars
1988
as Freeborn Gage
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Caribe
1987
as Captain Burdoch
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropi...

Hearts of Fire
1987
as Charlie Kelso
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her ...

Nowhere to Hide
1987
as Marchais
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...

Wild Thing
1987
as Jonathan Trask
A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of t...

The Bedroom Window
1987
as Pool Player
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...

Meatballs III: Summer Job
1986
as Huey, River Rat Leader
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Act of Vengeance
1986
as Claude Vealey
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

The Vindicator
1986
as Burt Arthus
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machin...

In Like Flynn
1985
as Williams
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate...

DEFCON-4
1985
as Vinny
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite ...

Turk 182!
1985
as Man in wheelchair
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...
The Suicide Murders
1985
as Sid
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and...

Mrs. Soffel
1984
as Guard Charlie Reynolds
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting executio...

Hockey Night
1984
as Bum Johnston
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star fo...

The Guardian
1984
as Rudy Simbro
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patro...

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
1984
as Gondol
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

Harry & Son
1984
as Lawrence
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive...

Of Unknown Origin
1983
as Dan Errol
A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

WarGames
1983
as Jim Sting
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwitt...

Curtains
1983
as Monty
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Highpoint
1982
as Falco
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets ca...

Soup for One
1982
as Dr. Wexler
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

Death Hunt
1981
as Clarence
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a ...

The Kidnapping of the President
1980
as Harvey Cannon
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic...

Double Negative
1980
as Rollins
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.

Nothing Personal
1980
as Kanook
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.

Jimmy B. & Andre
1980
as Bruno
Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.

Riel
1979
as Howard
A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.
Me
1975
Frustrated by his unfulfilled professional ambitions, a novelist is torn in different directions by three complicated relationships.