1. Jonathan Crombie was a Canadian actor and voice-over artist, best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.
11 Facts About Jonathan Crombie
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Jonathan Crombie attended Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, where he was spotted by casting agent Diane Polley [mother of Sarah Polley] performing in a production of The Wizard of Oz.
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Jonathan Crombie had no previous acting experience and used a photo he took at a kiosk in Union Station when he auditioned for the role of Gilbert Blythe in the 1985 TV miniseries Anne of Green Gables.
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Jonathan Crombie reprised the role in the 1987 TV movie Anne of Avonlea, the 2000 TV movie Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story and an episode of Road to Avonlea in 1992.
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Jonathan Crombie's role was so popular that he answered to the nickname "Gil".
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Jonathan Crombie appeared on stage in The Dishwashers by Morris Panych and The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte.
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Jonathan Crombie spent four seasons at Ontario's Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing in A Comedy Of Errors, Hamlet, As You Like It, Taming Of The Shrew, and as Romeo in Diana Leblanc's Romeo and Juliet.
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Jonathan Crombie was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his role in the Canadian Stage Company's 1997 production of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia.
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Jonathan Crombie debuted on Broadway in the Canadian musical The Drowsy Chaperone as "Man in Chair", from March to April 2007.
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In 2013, Jonathan Crombie performed at Centerstage, Baltimore, in Clybourne Park and Benetha's Place for the Rasin Cycle featured on PBS.
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Jonathan Crombie's family announced on April 18,2015, that he had died suddenly three days earlier of a brain hemorrhage in New York City.