In a recent conversation with writer Greg Hernandez, actor Victor Garber -- who played Jennifer Garner's elusive father Jack Bristow on Alias, slain San Francisco mayor George Moscone in Milk, shipbuilder Thomas Andrews in Titanic, and now ambassador Ken Taylor in Argo, confirmed something he mentioned in a 2012 interview: that his committed companion of 13 years is a man named Rainer Andreesan. Magnificent! I know I loved this guy, and not just because he gave hilariously labyrinthine escape directions to Kate Winslet in Titanic.
For the hell of it, let's watch Garber killing it on the big and small screen. The 63-year-old actor has spent more than 40 years working, and you'll see he's damn versatile.
On Alias, he garnered three Emmy nominations for his role, but his finest moment is embedded below: After figuring out that a mole is lurking among the ranks, Garber totally busts Dr. Anspaugh from ER. Hell yes.
On Ugly Betty, he told a bunch of dumb kids that they should've been eaten by bears. I concur. A hilarious role and performance.
This is what I'm talking about: Garber starred in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as Whoopi Goldberg's throned beau. Surely he can out-belt costars Brandy and Whitney Houston.
Garber is a wonderful interview, and in this Q&A from his native Canada, he spills on how stunned he is by the the world's continuing obsession with the Titanic tragedy. Indeed, it's a little bizarre.
Hey, look! Here's Victor yukking it up with Meredith Vieira on a celebrity version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, scoring money for charity. He worried me when he almost got hung up on a relatively straightforward question about hamsters, but he pulled through to win a nice chunk of change.
And lastly, in a very cute role, Garber plays the impish butler Ferguson on Frasier. There's something about watching Frasier that makes me want to revisit every '90s multicamera gem. For me, this means The Single Guy and Working with Fred Savage. You think I'm joking.
And oh yeah: He starred in the early '70s Canadian production of Godspell that costarred Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, and Paul Shaffer. Could that 'fro be more precious?
