Heath Lamberts was born James Langcaster in Toronto Ontario Canada on December 15 1941 and is a Canadian actor He began his showbusiness career on stage in Canada in the early 1960s performing regularly at the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival He was a well regarded stage actor receiving good notices for his roles in Cyrano de Bergerac and Beauty and the Beast When he began making films however he gravitated towards more comedic roles with appearances in such films as Nothing Personal 1980 and Utilities 1983 He kept quite busy on television appearing in many comedy and drama series and several madeforTV movies He was awarded the CM Member of the Order of Canada on June 29 1987 for his services to performing arts in Canada He died in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania from cancer in 2005