Paul Gross
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"Paul Michael Gross" is a Canadians/Canadian actor, Television producer/producer, film director/director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Benton Fraser/Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele (film)/Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. During Due South's final season, Gross acted as executive producer in addition to starring, wrote the season three opener and finale, the two part series finale and wrote and sang songs for the show, some of which can be found on the two Due South soundtracks. He later found success with another Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows. He also produced one film with Akshay Kumar called Breakaway (2011 film)/Speedy Singhs starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani (actor)/Vinay Virmani.

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I was getting homesick so it's great to be back here again and great to have a chance to give back to the community I grew up in.

I'll be back with my old high school coach and I'm psyched about it.

It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now - beyond our means and capacity to photograph.

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

We go into markets because our equipment can make parts for that market.

Canada gave her all in this war and I think that our understanding of what it means to be Canadian was actually forged in the crucible of the western front, ... And yet, mysteriously, our cinematic record is all but silent on this subject.