Jeff Wincott

Who is Jeff Wincott?

Actor Jeff Wincott began his career on the stages of Toronto, first playing Mark Smeaton in Anne of the Thousand Days. Next as Bogie in Play It Again, Sam, Wincott showed early on in his acting career that he was committed to any character he played. He started smoking non-filtered cigarettes that he ordered from New York, the same brand Humphrey Bogart smoked. S.E. Kure from the Bloor West Villager, a Toronto newspaper, wrote "A positive step by director Stephen Bragg was in the casting of Bogie. Jeff Wincott never failed a delighted audience with his impersonation. He had every gesture down pat; the slurred voice well-mimicked and the facial expressions twinning that of the famous actor. The dialogue however did not allow Wincott much interplay with the other actors. Isolated as a Humphrey Bogart impersonator, he was superb". He then portrayed the jolly northern Englishman Albert Godby in Still Life and the Irish conductor Bert Bentley in Red Peppers. Wincott spent a couple months doing summer stock at The Kawartha Summer Theatre. Also, touring with an acting company as the short-tempered Tybalt in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.