David Marciano Movies

Introduced in the first-season episode "The Man Who Knew Too Little", compulsive liar Ian MacDonald (Rino Romano) returns to make the lives of Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) miserable. This time out, Ian claims that extraterrestrials kidnapped his girlfriend Audrey (Amanda Tapping) just as he was about to propose to her. This turns out not to be the case--but even so, the story somehow ends up at Hangar 57 in Roswell (Roswell, Illinois, that is!) First broadcast on Canadian television, this episode made its US debut on February 23, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Fraser (Paul Gross) dons female drag to go undercover as a teacher at an all-girl's school. Somehow this is tied in with the mysterious appearances of several Capone-era artifacts all over Chicago, and the disappearance of a young schoolgirl named Celine (Heather McComb). Along the way, Ray (David Marciano) is reunited with his junior-high sweetheart (Michele Scarabelli)--now a nun--and Celine's shy roommate Melissa (Marisol Nichols) comes out of her shell. And don't miss "Ms. Fraser"'s disco dance with a fellow teacher. First broadcast on American television, this episode made its US debut on March 29, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The normally docile Diefenbaker is impounded after biting an animal control officer. Can it be that the hard-of-healing wolf is reverting to the wild? Fraser (Paul Gross) hopes not, lest he be forced to destroy his pet. It turns out that the source of Diefenbaker's bad behavior is a pack of stray mutts known around the neighborhood as the Wild Bunch--not to mention a crooked dog catcher who is part of a sinister human conspiracy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Organizing a neighborhood watch group, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) teach a self-defense course to a group of senior citizens. One of their elderly pupils, a mugging victim named Herb Colling (Carl Gordon), uses what he has learned to become a dangerous one-man vigilante force, complete with baseball bat. Meanwhile, Fraser's pet wolf Diefenbaker has troubles of his own when he is "adopted" by a sweet old lady with a knitting fetish. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A homeless derelict named Garret (Jonathan Banks) may hold the key to locating a kidnapped woman. Unfortunately, Garret is nowhere to be found--and there's every possibility that he abducted the woman himself. As Fraser (Paul Gross) conducts a city-wide search for Garret with the bumbling assistance of FBI agents Ford (Alex Carter) and Deeter (Mark Melymick), Ray (David Marciano) wrestles with another dilemma--mainly, finding out if his sister Francesca (Ramona Milano) and Fraser have gone "all the way." First broadcast on Canadian television, this final episode of Due South's inaugural season made its US debut on June 16, 1995. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Shoemaker Joey Paducci (Rod Wilson) is arrested for stealing from a church collection box. It turns out that Paducci has been reduced to poverty by a gang of extortionists, headed by Frank Zuko (Jim Bracchita), childhood classmate and schoolyard tormentor of Detective Raymond Vecchio (David Marciano). In order to free Paducci and others from Zuko's iron grip, Ray must personally stand up to the bullying gang boss. Meanwhile, Fraser (Paul Gross) has quite a time avoided the amorous advance of Ray's sister Francesca (Ramona Milano). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Ray (David Marciano) falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman (Susan Gibney) whom he has seen but once--when she knocked him down with her car. All subsequent evidence indicates that Ray's "dream girl" is a pretty tough cookie, and an illegal arms dealer to boot. But Ray cannot get over her, even when she repeatedly tries to kill him. Can it be that he is loving neither wisely nor well, or is the girl truly the outlaw that she appears to be? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This Canadian made-for-television movie spawned the popular series about a crime-fighting Royal Canadian Mountie. Paul Gross stars as Constable Benton Fraser, an RCMP who sets out to track down his father's killer. His chase takes him all the way to Chicago where he hooks up with Ray Vecchio, (David Marciano) a macho, local Chicago detective. Together they hit the streets as a crime-fighting and justice-seeking duo. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide

In search of the scoundrel who murdered his mountie father, sweet-tempered, straight-arrow RCMP constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) shows up in the nail-tough 27th Police Precinct of Chicago as the tongue-in-cheek cop series Due South launches its first season. Teaming with sardonic, streetwise Chicago police detective Ray Vecchio (David Marciano), Benton manages to track down his quarry, but in so doing behaves in such an unorthodox manner that his Canadian superiors deem it wise to keep Fraser permanently in the Windy City, assigning him to the local Canadian Consulate. Season one proves to be quite a period of adjustment for the naïve Constable Fraser and his hearing-impaired pet wolfhound Diefenbaker, as they not only acclimate themselves to Chicago customs and procedures, but also attempt to create a cozy home out of their rundown apartment in one of the town's grungiest neighborhoods. Much to the dismay of rule-bound 27th Precinct Captain Welsh (Beau Starr), Benton continues to assist the brash, flashily-attired Det. Vecchio in his investigations, nearly always getting results despite his bizarre (to say the least methods). Meanwhile, the handsome young mountie becomes the object of attraction to two local females: Elaine Besbriss (Catherine Bruhier), the Precinct's pretty civilian aide, and Ray's loudmouthed younger sister Francesca (Ramona Milano). As for Ray, he welcomes Benton's input if only because it enables him to one-up a team of rival detectives, Jack Huey (Tony Craig) and Louie Gardino (Daniel Kash), otherwise known as "The Duck Boys" (Huey and Louie, get it?) Another of Benton's new friends is police medical examiner Dr. Esther Pearson (Deborah Rennard).
A number of recurring characters are introduced this season, including the Fraser family's longtime friend Buck Frobisher (Leslie Nielsen), and endearing pathological liar Ian McDonald (Rino Romano) -- not to mention the ghost of Benton's father (played by Gordon Pinsent), who occasionally materializes in the closet of Benton's office at the Canadian Consulate to offer advice and consul. Although the proceedings are generally lighthearted, things take a somber turn in a two-part episode wherein Benton is reunited with his "lost love," career criminal Victor Metcalf (Melina Kanakaredes), who enmeshes the impressionable mountie in an unsavory crime caper that threatens to forever drive a wedge between Benton and Ray. Also making trouble for the partners is relentless States Attorney Louise St. Laurent (Lee Purcell), who has persuaded herself that Fraser and Vecchio are "dirty" cops. Though canceled by CBS at the end of its first season, Due South was renewed for a second year on Canadian television, courtesy of the CTV network. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Juvenile-hall parolee Lenny (Fab Filippo) lands a job as a pizza delivery man--only to have his car stolen right in front of Benton Fraser's building. With Diefenbaker the wolf leading the way, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) trace the stolen vehicle to a disreputable used-car dealership. Ultimately, Ray ends up trapped in the hood of a car bound for the bottom of Lake Michigan--while robbery victim Lenny, acting on his own, makes the situation worse (if such a thing is possible). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this first episode of a two-part story, Fraser (Paul Gross) is assigned to act as bodyguard and baby-sitter to Christina Nichols (Lisa Jakub), the spoiled teenage daughter of a visiting Canadian diplomat. Slipping away from Fraser, the impulsive Christina runs into a tough customer named Janice De Luca (Stacey Haiduk). Before she quite knows what has happened, Christina is in possession of a dead mobster's contact list--something that criminal Eddie Beets (Stephen Shellen) would dearly like to get his hands on, and never mind whom he has to kill to do so. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Newly moved to Chicago to take on his duties as Deputy Liason Officer at the Canadian Consulate, RCMP constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) leaps right into his erstwhile partnership with Chi-town police detective Ray Vecchio (David Marciano) when the two of them appoint themselves protectors of 12-year-old purse snatcher Willie Lambert (Chris Babers). Having witnessed an armed robbery, Willie now knows too much to stay alive--or at least that's his story. By the time Fraser and Vecchio have confirmed to their satisfaction that the habitual-liar Willie is telling the truth this time out, the crooks are in hot pursuit, leading to a climactic chase through the streets of Chicago in a horse-drawn carriage. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide