{{short description|Canadian television actor (born 1962)}} {{Infobox person | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people. Non-free and "fair use" images, e.g. promo photos, CD/DVD covers, posters, screen captures, etc., will be deleted - see WP:NONFREE --> | image_size = 150px | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|9|27|mf=y}} | birth_place = Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | birth_name = Gregory Kean Williams | other_names = | website = }} '''Gregory Kean Williams''' (born September 27, 1962) is a Canadian television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Clancy Lass in the television series ''Dead Like Me''.<ref>"Veteran actor teaching kids how to break into film & TV industry" by Tracy Sherlock, ''Delta Optimist'' (16 Sept, 2006) [Final Edition] Retrieved from {{ProQuest|359084909}}</ref>
==Early life== Kean was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of Dorothy and Rex Williams.<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/Greg-Kean.html Greg Kean Biography (1962-)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He earned an M.F.A. degree from Cornell University.<ref>"Southpointe staging Comedy of Errors at arts centre" by Dave Willis, ''Delta Optimist'' (20 Nov, 2010) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|807716789}}</ref>
==Career== His first acting role was either a dancing rabbit named "Nibbles" in a grade 5 presentation of the operetta "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" or as another bunny in an Easter play, both at Adelaide McLaughlin Public School in Oshawa, Ontario in 1973.
As a stage actor, Kean has been a resident company member of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. He also has worked with the Los Angeles Theater Centre and the New Mexico Rep as well as the first Actors' Equity Association sanctioned production of ''Tony n' Tina's Wedding'' in Los Angeles. Kean is also an acting teacher and one of the owners of the William Davis Centre for Actors Study in Vancouver, British Columbia<ref>"980s MSU artists that helped open the Wharton Center back home for reunion" by Bridgette Redman, ''Lansing State Journal'' (16 June 2014) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|1537028090}}</ref> along with ''Dead Like Me'' colleague Christine Willes. He is currently teaching drama at Southpointe Academy,<ref>"Southpointe students get nostalgic with premiere of Gone Missing" by Dave Willis, ''Delta Optimist'' (11 May 2011) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|866379677}}</ref> a private school located in Tsawwassen, British Columbia.
==Filmography== ===Films=== * ''Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys'' (1990), Brian Wilson<ref>"Summer Dreams scratches surface of the nightmare" by Greg Quill, ''Toronto Star'' (29 April 1990) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|436167909}}</ref> * ''Baby of the Bride'' (1991), Nick * ''Mother of the Bride'' (1993), Nick<ref>[https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/mother-of-the-bride-1200431860/ ''Mother of the Bride'' review] by Rick Marin at variety.com</ref> * ''Logan's War: Bound by Honor'' (1998), Chicky Bruno
===Television===
* ''Saved by the Bell'' (1990), Adam Trask * ''Designing Women'' 7 May 1993 Season 7, Episode 720 "The Lying Game" Eric * ''Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story'' (1997), Ken Dudney (TV movie)<ref>[https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/get-to-the-heart-the-barbara-mandrell-story-1200450973/ ''Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story'' review] by Todd Everett at variety.com</ref> * ''The Chris Isaak Show'' (2001), Lou * ''Andromeda'' (2002) * ''Dead Like Me'' (2003–2004), Clancy Lass<ref>"A fan favourite resurrected; Four years after the demise of Dead Like Me, the dark drama of an undead teen lives again on DVD" by Alex Strachan, ''Edmonton Journal'' (26 April 2009) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|250663147}}</ref><ref>"'Dead Like Me' Does a Body Good" by Rob Owen, ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (25 July 2004) Retrieved from {{ProQuest|390964318}}</ref> * ''Smallville'' (2004) * ''The Dead Zone'' (2005) * ''Black Christmas'' (2006), Kelli's Father * ''The 12 Disasters of Christmas'' (2012), Sheriff * ''Legends of Tomorrow'' (2021), Bert Beeman
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0443799|name=Greg Kean}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kean, Greg}} Category:1962 births Category:Canadian male film actors Category:Canadian male television actors Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Living people Category:Male actors from Oshawa