Don McLeod

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Don McLeod
Don McLeod as T.C. Quist
General information
Name	Don McLeod
Aliases	Donald Mcleod
Gender	Male
Place of birth	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date of birth	Unknown
Place of death	{{{place of death}}}
Date of death	Unknown
First appearance	Howling (1981)

Don McLeod is an American actor who played the role of T.C. Quist in The Howling. He also appeared in an episode of The New Addams Family.

Don McLeod has played gorillas and monsters in many famous movies including Total Recall, Witches of Eastwick, Trading Places, Hook and many more.

Don McLeod was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He grew up as an only child on a small rural farm near Mendocino, in Northern California. He studied movement and theatre at Pasadena Playhouse, School of Performing Arts San Diego, and the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada. McLeod's dynamic style of physical theatre and dance was developed by his training with a number of the world's leading artists including Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Jerzy Grotowski and Sankai Juku.

As a movement artist and actor, McLeod has appeared in many feature films, television shows and commercials. His film roles include the bizarre lead werewolf in The Howling, the over-sexed gorilla in Trading Places, and a physicist/gorilla in The Man With Two Brains. He doubled for Jack Nicholson in the Devil transformation scenes from Witches of Eastwick, played Peter Pan's Shadow in Hook, a gorilla in Born To Be Wild, Quasimodo in Naked Gun 2½ and a starring role (as a female gorilla) in Mom Can I Keep Her.

Don has toured numerous colleges, theatres and high schools in the U.S. and Canada. He frequently tours to Asia and South America, and he is also a part-time faculty member at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood, where he teaches an intensive butoh workshop. McLeod is also a widely published poet and fiction writer, and the co-editor of the literary journal Vol. No. Magazine.

Body of work

Film

Film	Year	Character
The Howling	1981	T.C. Quist

Television

Series	Episode	Airdate	Character
The New Addams Family	Morticia Joins the Ladies League	November 18th, 1998	Gorgo

Notes & Trivia

http://www.zenbutoh.com/bio.htm

His YT channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/GentlePirate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izBUPrRKRPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvxL9fbSs7I&lc=UgyNqHILcjRZeSwqs5F4AaABAg

References

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Addams Family Actor or Crew member This article relates to actors or production crew members pertaining to the Addams Family franchise. This template will categorize articles that include it into the Addams Family crew members category.

Howling Actor or Crew member This article relates to actors or production crew members pertaining to the Howling film franchise. This template will categorize articles that include it into the Howling crew members category.