Biography
Victor Jay Garber, OC (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards, and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Garber is perhaps best known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic. Born in 1949 to Joseph and Hope Garber, Victor discovered his passion for acting early on. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Gettysburg Address
2025
as William Saunders (voice)
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous ...

Relay
2025
Tom, a world class “fixer”, specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He ke...

Heritage Minutes: Bora Laskin
2025
as Bora Laskin
One of Canada’s greatest legal scholars, Bora Laskin overcame antisemitism to become the first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Broadway’s Leading Men: A Musical Celebration
2024
Join the American Pops Orchestra and Music Director Luke Frazier to pay tribute to the unforgettable male characters and beloved songs that have defin...

Fly Me to the Moon
2024
as Senator Hedges (uncredited)
Sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones, brought in to fix NASA's public image, wreaks havoc on Apollo 11 launch director Cole Dav...
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
2023
as Self / Thomas Andrews (archive footage)
Director James Cameron, producer Jon Landau, and star Kate Winslet, share memories and favorite moments, and recount the challenges of making the grea...

Wish
2023
as Sabino (voice)
Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force – a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Togethe...

Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
as Self
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of ABC airing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” (1997), a revolutionary TV musical that embraced racial diversity i...

Beebo Saves Christmas
2021
as Narrator
When Sprinkles, an efficiency-obsessed elf, decides that Christmas would run better without Santa Claus, Beebo and his friends travel to the North Pol...

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his lif...

Funny Face
2021
as Developer's Father
In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
2020
as Narrator
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas o...

Happiest Season
2020
as Ted
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet co...

Dark Waters
2019
as Phil Donnelly
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the pr...

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
2018
as Alex Matthew (voice)
Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. Now, at 85 years old, Anne s...

They Shall Not Perish
2017
as Narrator
The Near East Foundation, known initially as Near East Relief, spearheaded this first great mobilization of international humanitarian assistance in t...

Rebel in the Rye
2017
as Sol Salinger
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Vixen: The Movie
2017
as Dr. Martin Stein / Firestorm (voice)
Originally from Africa, Mari McCabe grew up an orphan after her parents were killed by local greed, corruption and wanton violence. But Mari refuses t...

Bob's Broken Sleigh
2015
as Fluffy (voice)
This Christmas movie a young magic-less elf named Bob, who finds himself on a wild sleigh ride after being ambushed by the evil puffin Fishface. Stran...

Sicario
2015
as Dave Jennings
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexi...

Self/less
2015
as Martin
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy you...

Consumed
2015
as Dan Conway
When Sophie's son, Garrett, develops a mysterious illness, she embarks on a search for answers. This leads her into the controversial world of Genetic...

Big Game
2015
as Vice President
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a...

The Hunters
2013
as Mason Fuller
Imagine if all mythical artifacts, from Jason's Golden Fleece to Cinderella's glass slippers, were real. Well, they are -- and for centuries, a secret...

I'll Follow You Down
2013
as Sal
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one...

Argo
2012
as Ken Taylor
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter ...

Reflections on Titanic
2012
as Self
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp...

Moving Day
2012
as Wilf
Clyde was in a rut. Overworked and underpaid, he was struggling to make ends meet and starting to feel like a failure. But a new day has arrived for C...

William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
2012
as HRH Prince Charles
The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleto...

The Entitled
2011
as Bob Vincent
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the so...
Rebuilding Titanic
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.

Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
as Master Thundering Rhino (voice)
Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms wit...

Take Me Home
2011
as Arnold Colvin
In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambl...

Ice Quake
2010
as Colonel Bill Hughes
As the permafrost melts in Alaska, underground rivers of volatile liquid methane form which sets off a series of devastating earthquakes. Forced apart...

You Again
2010
as Mark
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Befo...

The Town
2010
as Assistant Bank Manager (uncredited)
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the grou...

Green Lantern: First Flight
2009
as Sinestro (voice)
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.

Waking the Baby Mammoth
2009
as Narrator
A unique story on the discovery of a 40-thousand-year-old, perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth. Cutting edge science and Arctic adventure come ali...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture
2009
as Narrator
The documentary traces Saint-Gaudens' life, both personally and professionally, from his birth in Dublin, Ireland to his work in New York City and Par...

Milk
2008
as Mayor Moscone
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an acti...

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

$200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video)
2005
as Self / Thomas Andrews (archive footage)
A light-hearted documentary dedicated to the cast and crew of Titanic, created by directors of photography, Ed W. Marsh, and Anders Falk.
Titanic: Behind The Scenes
2005
as Self / Thomas Andrews (archive footage)
Behind the scenes featurettes on the making of Titanic, included in the special features of the DVD and Blu-ray release.

The Music Man
2003
as Mayor Shinn
Con man "Professor" Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa, promising that he can teach the small town's children how to play in a magnificent marchi...

Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Robert Foster
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater ...

Home Room
2002
as Det. martin Van Zandt
A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
2002
as J.J. Robinette
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the tor...

Call Me Claus
2001
as Taylor
When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets ...

Legally Blonde
2001
as Professor Callahan
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading t...

The Wandering Soul Murders
2001
as Insp. Philip Millard
Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old...

A Colder Kind of Death
2001
as Insp. Philip Millard
A former detective is back at work after her husband's murder case is re-opened with a riveting new arrest. Can she grapple with new evidence - and ne...

Deadly Appearances
2000
as Inspector Philip Millard
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Love and Murder
2000
as Inspector Philip Millard
While keeping her family together in the wake of her husband's murder, Joanne gets drawn into another murder investigation when a friend, artist Sally...

Boys Briefs
1999
as Father Carson (segment "The Absolution of Anthony")
Reunion of six short films having homosexuality as theme: "The Absolution of Anthony", by Dean Slotar, depicting a 16-year-old boy living with a Catho...

Annie
1999
as Oliver Warbucks
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-dow...

Invisible Child
1999
as Tim Beeman
A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary daugh...

Beyond Titanic
1998
as Narrator
A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspired by) the disaster.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
as Isaac (uncredited)
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...

Titanic
1997
as Thomas Andrews
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...

Cinderella
1997
as King Maximillian
Cinderella chafes under the cruelty of her wicked stepmother and her evil stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother steps in to change her life for one u...

Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1997
as Geoff Dorso
A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier....

The Absolution of Anthony
1997
as Father Carson
A 16-year-old gay boy lives with his Catholic grandfather in the Bronx.

The First Wives Club
1996
as Bill Atchison
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
1996
as Jack Gilcrest
Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is ...

Jeffrey
1995
as Tim
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect ...

Kleptomania
1995
as Morgan Allen
Diana is a troubled, bulimic socialite who lives with her loving husband and shoplifts to get herself off. Julie is an unstable, homeless rape victim ...

Mixed Nuts
1994
as Irate Neighbor (voice)
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

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

Dieppe
1993
as Lord Louis Mountbatten
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.

Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Greg
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

Life with Mikey
1993
as Brian Spiro
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real pe...

Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
1993
as Frank Marrocco
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.

I'll Never Get to Heaven
1993
as Eric Hoskins
When a father leaves his family, his religious daughter faces a new school and added responsibilities.

Singles
1992
as Kid's Dad
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.

Light Sleeper
1992
as Tis Brooke
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from t...

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...

Liberace: Behind the Music
1988
as Liberace
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. ...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Ernest Hemingway
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...

Roanoak
1986
as John White
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North ...

Private Sessions
1985
as Jerry Sharma
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently ther...

The Tear Collector
1985
as Ambrose Cavender
A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.

Charley's Aunt
1983
as Jack Chesney
Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack a...

Tartuffe
1978
as Valere
Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both his...

Ah, Wilderness!
1976
as Arthur
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poeti...

Valley Forge
1975
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Monkeys in the Attic
1974
as Eric
Two artsy/hippie couples sharing a townhouse play head-games with each other and with a pizza-delivery driver.

Cyrano
1974
as Christian de Neuvillette (voice)
Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.

Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew
1973
as Jesus
In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance...

Let It Kill You
N/A
as Pastor John
LET IT KILL YOU is an elevated horror genre film, about a lonely small-town outcast whose relentless desire to prove that a monstrous creature is resp...
Kill the Poet
N/A
Set during WWII when artists were being blacklisted in Communist witch-hunts, follows the star-crossed love story of a young poet and a young female p...