Ian Buchanan

Actor

For The New Phoenix Theatre-LA: Menelaus in Trojan Women; Teddy Brewster in Arsenic & Old Lace; Hector Hushabye in Heartbreak House; Dr. Dorn in The Seagull; The title role in Tartuffe; Arthur Birling in An Inspector Calls; David Bliss in Hay Fever; Lord Burleigh in Mary Stuart; Horace Giddens in The Little Foxes; Henry II in The Lion in Winter; Garry Essendine in Present Laughter; The Actor in The Guardsman; Jason in Medea; Pastor Manders in Ghosts; Theseus in Phaedre; Malvolio in Twelfth Night; Claudius in Hamlet; Father in Life with Father.

Other stage appearances include starring roles in The Actors Company’s critically acclaimed Entertaining Mr. Sloane and West Coast Ensemble’s Equus, The Maids at the Actor’s Playhouse/Studio and The Heiress at the Chichester Festival in England.

Buchanan is a member of The Ensemble of The Citizen’s Band, an avant-garde cabaret collective of international performance artists, reminiscent of the Weimar Era, whose acclaimed theatrical presentations deal with current and controversial political, religious, and social themes.

TV guest-starring roles include “Nip/Tuck;” “Alias;” “Hope and Faith;” “Charmed;” Yes, Dear;” “On the Air;” “Quantum Leap;” “It’s the Gary Shandling Show” and “Twin Peaks,” among many other television series. He is familiar to audiences worldwide for his starring roles on “General Hospital,” “Days of Our Lives,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “All My Children” and “Port Charles.”

Films include: “Mate;” “Panic Room;” “Lying in Wait;” “Double Exposure;” “The Cool Surface” and “The Seventh Sign.”

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