Stuart Gillard is a Canadian actor, writer, director and producer who wrote Season 3's Gunfight at the Mork-Kay Corral, and worked as an executive story editor on the show during Season 3.
Biography[]
Stuart Gillard was born April 28, 1950 in Coronation, Alberta, Canada. After graduating from the University of Alberta, Gillard was one of twelve candidates selected to study acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada. He then was invited to Seattle, Washington where he was a founding member of the University of Washington Professional Acting Troupe. He returned to Canada where he won the country's top acting awards. [1]
Gillard married producer and columnist Marilyn Majerczyk on the 3rd of November 1990. He resides in Montecito, California with her and their children.
Career[]
His success in Canada led to job offers in Los Angeles where he kicked off his career in acting in the 1971 movie The Reincarnate,[2] appearing in a number of movies over the next decade and a half, winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor in 1975 for his performance as a journalist in the film Why Rock the Boat (1974), and appeared in episodes of ABC Classics Eight is Enough and Three's Company.
Filmography (Acting)[]
| Year | Movie | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Reincarnate | ||
| 1972 | The Rowdyman | Constable Bill | |
| 1973 | The Neptune Factor | Diver Phil Bradley | |
| 1974 | Why Rock the Boat? | Barnes | |
| 1978 | F.I.S.T. | Phil Talbot | |
| 1980 | Virus | Dr. Ed Meyer | |
| 1981 | Threshold | Dick Getts | |
| 1985 | Doin' Time | Sen. Hodgkins | |
| Year | TV Movie | Role | |
| 1973 | She Cried Murder | TV Director | |
| 1978 | Steel Cowboy | Marshall | |
| 1979 | Can You Hear the Laughter?
The Story of Freddie Prinze |
Lawyer #1 | |
| 1984 | Draw! | Doctor West | |
| 1988 | Shades of Love: Midnight Magic | Kevin Brockner | |
| Year | TV Series | Episode(s) | Role |
| 1974 | Excuse My French | Peter Hutchins | |
| 1978 | Eight Is Enough | Much Ado About Garbage | |
| 1978 | Three's Company | Home Movies | Neil |
| 1988 | A Year in the Life | The Politics of Being | Gene |
| 2014 | Beauty and the Beast | Déjà Vu | 1840 Rider |
As with many actors at the time, Stuart Gillard also took up writing, his first credits coming on the Sonny & Cher show (1976 - 1977), as well as Three's Company, which he appeared in the same year, his other series credits included episodes of Quark (1978), Donny and Marie (1979); Check It Out (1985 - 1987); and All Souls (2001) which he also created for Paramount and Spelling Television.. He also wrote the TV Special The Captain and Tennille in Hawaii (1978), and the TV Movies - Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn (1988) and Mega Piranha (2009) and the Films If You Could See What I Hear (1982) Paradise (1982); Spring Fever (1982); A Man Called Sarge (1990); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993).
Of these he also directed Paradise (1982); A Man Called Sarge (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) along with other Movies Rocketman (1997) and Kart Racer (2003)
He directed twelve TV movies for the Walt Disney Company, including Twitches (2005), the Number One Cable Movie of the Year. He has directed for all the major television networks starting with an episode of 1987's Check It Out other shows including the pilot and multiple episodes of Bordertown (1989-1991) and Avonlea (1990-1992); episodes of Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994) Charmed (1998) his own All Souls (2001); One Tree Hill (2003), 90210 (2008); Ringer (2011), multiple episodes of the popular series, Beauty and the Beast (2012), Emily Owens M.D. (2012); Jane the Virgin (2015-2019); No Tomorrow (2016-2017); Reign (2016-2017) Salvation (2017-2018) and Charmed (2018-2918), In addition he has directed many Television Dramatic Pilots, including Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), Legacy (1998), and the two-hour movie, Sandkings (The Outer Limits: Sandkings (1995)), the pilot of Outer Limits, which earned him an ACE award for Best Director and which ran for 150 episodes.
Stuart Gillard is a three time nominee for the prestigious DGA (Directors Guild of America) Award, winning for Going to the Mat (2004), a movie he directed for the Walt Disney Company.
As a producer he co-produced his own screenplay for If You Could See What I Hear (1982), and co-producer on the TV Movies Hatching Pete (2009) and Avalon High (2010). For TV Series, he was the producer/supervising Producer on Check It Out (1985 - 1987); Executive Producer for All Souls (2001), consulting, supervising and co-executive producer on 90210 (2009 - 2011); executive producer on Beauty and the Beast (2013-2016) and No Tomorrow (2016-2017); Salvation (2017-2018).
He is currently the executive producer for the reboot of Charmed (2019- 2021).
Mork & Mindy[]
Stuart Gillard worked on the show during the first half of it's 3rd Season (1980 - 1981) contributing 1 episode as a writer and working as an executive story editor on 13 episodes.
Writer[]
Executive Story Editor[]
- Putting the Ork Back in Mork, Part 1
- Putting the Ork Back in Mork, Part 2
- Mork in Never Never Land
- Dueling Skates
- Mork the Prankster
- Mork, the Monkey's Uncle
- Gunfight at the Mork-Kay Corral
- Mork's New Look
- Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well
- Mork and the Bum Rap
- Mindy Gets Her Job
- Twelve Angry Appliances
- There's a New Mork in Town
Note:[]
Gillard wrote an episode of Conrad Janis's pre-Mork & Mindy show, Quark. He also wrote the screenplay and co-produced If You Could See What I Hear, based on the autobiography of Tom Sullivan, who had played Tom Bickley, Franklin's son, the year before in Season 2's Mork Learns to See.