Walter Borden

Most prominent as a stage actor, he joined Halifax's Neptune Theatre company in 1972. He has since appeared in stage productions across Canada, including William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Henry VIII, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies, James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Stratford Festival of Canada. He has also recorded and released an album, Walter Borden Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets to the Music of Fernando Sor, in collaboration with classical guitarist Paul Martell.

• Name — Walter Borden • Birth Name — Walter Marven Borden • Born — 20 July 1942 • Birthplace — New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada • Occupation — Actor, poet, playwright

Openly gay, he also wrote and performed his own autobiographical play Tightrope Time: Ain't Nuthin' More Than Some Itty Bitty Madness Between Twilight and Dawn, one of the first plays in the history of Black Canadian literature to directly present themes of male homosexuality. In 2023, the "tour de force" work The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time had a cross-provincial showing from Halifax, Toronto to Ottawa directed by virtuoso director Peter Hinton-Davis It was later published by Nimbus Publishing His later writing credits include Testifyin and Tellin' It Like It Is.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1996-1997 — Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories — His Divine Shadow — 2 episodes • 1997-2002 — Lexx — His Divine Shadow / Dr. Ernst Longbore / Dr. Ernst W. Longbore — 9 episodes, part of main cast • 2003 — Platinum — Alderman Ray — 1 episode, aired on UPN • 2004-2005 — Da Boom Crew — Additional voices — 13 episodes, Canadian/American children's television animated series • 2020 — Coroner — Harold Carruthers — 1 episode