A plane ride finds Eric McCormack flipping through Michael Caine’s acting book, hunting tips for his craft. He says his shows aim just to be funny, not to change the world, and he stays hopeful that even a bleak future can spark new ideas. He also recalls the big Townies cast that launched many careers.
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Eric McCormack was an actor from Canada, best known for The Paradise Motel.
Quick Facts About Eric McCormack
Born
April 18, 1963
Died
May 9, 2023
Nationality
Canada
Profession
Actor
Notable works
The Paradise Motel
About Eric McCormack
He was born in Toronto and began acting in high‑school plays. He left Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1985 to join the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he performed for five years in many stage productions.
![“[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/96c/eric-mccormack-2915_bits_townies-was-a-huge-cast-it-was-a-bit-ung_81655.jpg)
![“Andy Ackerman directed the episodes that I was doing, and he directed a lot of Seinfeld [episodes]. And that was great.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ec/eric-mccormack-2915_episodes_andy-ackerman-directed-the-episodes-that_3160284.jpg)
![“[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/40b/eric-mccormack-2915_dharma_townies-was-a-great-springboard-obviousl_26889.jpg)
![“I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/938/eric-mccormack-2915_bigs_i-have-a-big-long-episode-in-full-circle_1294521.jpg)
![“It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d99/eric-mccormack-2915_amazing-experience_it-was-a-film-the-lost-world-and-it-s-a_122858.jpg)
![“That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f00/eric-mccormack-2915_adults_that-was-my-big-break-lonesome-dove-my-f_259225.jpg)
![“They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0fa/eric-mccormack-2915_different_they-re-such-different-things-townies-an_1127165.jpg)
![“They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a5e/eric-mccormack-2915_character_they-the-travelers-know-everything-about_135474.jpg)
![“When we started the show [Lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - who had done the original miniseries and still owned the property and was turning it into this series - she brought in a lot of old friends - Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams and Dennis Weaver. And we had an interesting collection…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/149/eric-mccormack-2915_actors_when-we-started-the-show-lonesome-dove-s_2784142.jpg)
![“I think they [TV productions] were just kind of drying up. I'd done a couple of episodes, but nothing was happening. So I went to Vancouver to visit a buddy and see what was going on, and that year was crazy. Vancouver was on fire at that point. It was all these Stephen J. Cannell productions…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/247/eric-mccormack-2915_bartender_i-think-they-tv-productions-were-just-ki_2247802.jpg)
![“I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I'm trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill with water, and I start to drown, and the director has no idea why I'm flailing around. He's, "Come on, come on!" And I managed to rescue myself. I'm wet and sitting on the banks of the river, and John…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d26/eric-mccormack-2915_boat_i-jump-out-of-the-boat-in-the-lost-world_1796752.jpg)
![“There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would be the first to notice if a defendant did a certain thing that perhaps he was suffering from this. And so we got to do some really outspoken stuff for what was otherwise a…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87a/eric-mccormack-2915_certain_there-was-not-an-episode-on-perception-t_2594900.jpg)
![“[The Lost world] was a learning experience. I remember we were shooting a scene in which I dive out of a boat into a river to save the kid that's in the movie. And there's no mention of a stuntman, and I was like, "No, I'll go in." Nobody questioned. I never asked if maybe there was malaria in the…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d0e/eric-mccormack-2915_boat_the-lost-world-was-a-learning-experience_1212251.jpg)