Curtis Harrison.
“Veteran” is a useful word. In Curtis Harrison’s case, it means a working life built across decades of sets and stages, screen roles and productions, on camera and behind it. Now, in Andromeda Studios’ horror thriller Storm Warning, the Canadian actor steps into the role of Sergeant Gary Gibson: one of the people standing between a small Ontario town and an undead army.
Harrison has been working in entertainment since the late 1990s. His career is not a straight line from one credit to the next. It is a broader working knowledge of how stories get made, and a body of experience that places him at the centre of a genre ensemble ready to face a very bad night.
A route led by instinct
Harrison was born in Welland, Ontario, and is based in Toronto. Theatre and television were part of his world throughout his school years, but his route into the industry took a few turns.
After high school, he spent a semester at Niagara College studying science. It was not the right fit. He travelled for a year, including a stretch in the Cayman Islands, where he worked as a glazier installing glass and took on construction jobs. There, he discovered the Cayman Drama Society. With work keeping him busy, he joined a production backstage rather than stepping into a performing role.
That first theatre experience behind the scenes was one stop in a longer journey. He travelled through Cuba, Vermont and New York, then across Canada to British Columbia before settling in Toronto to pursue an acting career and further education.
He was accepted into acting programs at George Brown, Ryerson, York and Humber. Then an opportunity arrived: a role in a five-month touring show. Harrison trusted his instincts and took the job. He has been in Toronto ever since.
That decision captures something essential about a working actor’s career. The path is rarely a tidy ladder. It is a series of choices, opportunities and hard-earned experience, followed by the next call, the next stage and the next story.
Credits across genres and generations
Harrison’s screen work shows a performer comfortable moving between very different worlds. In the science-fiction series 2030 CE, he played Zeus across 13 episodes. In the 2004 CTV film Crazy Canucks, he portrayed Canadian downhill skier Steve Podborski in a drama based on the celebrated ski team of the 1970s.
The range continues with Owen Coffin in the docu-drama Moby Dick: The True Story and Guy in The Day Santa Didn’t Come, which Harrison also produced. His credits span sci-fi, sports drama, period docu-drama and comedy: different rhythms, different demands, and different kinds of characters.
More recent work includes Jimbo in two episodes of Börje and a role in the 2024 short When Olive Returned. Across a career that began in the late 1990s, Harrison has built a substantial mix of film, television and theatre experience. For a fuller overview, readers can visit his IMDb profile.
More than the work in front of the camera
Harrison is an actor, writer and producer, with experience that reaches well beyond performing. He has worked in art departments, production design, art direction, stunts, camera and electrical departments, and second unit and assistant directing.
That kind of range matters. A performer who has spent time across different parts of a production understands that the finished scene depends on many people making many precise choices. Harrison’s involvement with Chalmers Award- and Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning productions also gave him a close view of the elements that help a production work as a whole. He has worked with New York’s Michael Group theatre company, too.
He has also been writing for several years, with a focus on developing Canadian content for television. The through line is clear: Harrison’s career is not limited to one job title. It reflects the curiosity and adaptability that keep a creative career moving.
For audiences, that breadth makes his place in Storm Warning especially fitting. Genre filmmaking asks a cast and crew to build a convincing world, then push it toward the extraordinary. Harrison has worked across enough facets of production to know how much craft goes into making that leap feel real.
Sergeant Gary Gibson faces the storm
The official poster artwork for Andromeda Studios’ horror thriller, Storm Warning.
In Storm Warning, a hidden SS experiment unleashes undead Nazi stormtroopers on a small Ontario town. As the threat closes in, a local constable, a doctor, a sergeant and a priest rally residents for a desperate defence of their church.
Harrison plays Sergeant Gary Gibson, a member of the core group standing between the town and the attackers. It is a role built into the film’s central conflict: when the danger is no longer something people can call for help about, the people on the ground have to hold the line themselves.
The town’s fight for survival reaches beyond its streets.
The film was written by Bill Dever, produced by Sam Dever, directed by Drew Antzis and shot by cinematographer Jack Peresin. Filmed in Guelph, Ontario, principal production was completed and announced on June 2, 2026. The ensemble is led by Kate Mayhew and Marc Rico Ludwig, with Harrison alongside Eddie Curry as Josef Megele, Toronto staple Lambros Bryan Demos, rapidly rising actress Jemilla Mills-Smith, and acclaimed character actors Ross Mullan (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who) and Rick Bland (Star Wars, Doctor Who).
The production is designed to balance psychological tension with visceral horror, drawing on practical effects and the traditions of classic genre cinema while giving the story a contemporary setting. The result: historical intrigue, supernatural horror and a small-town church turned into the last line of defence.
The undead threat at the heart of Storm Warning.
Why experience matters when the walls close in
A siege story depends on more than the threat outside. It needs a believable group of people inside: characters with different responsibilities, instincts and limits, forced to make decisions under pressure.
Harrison’s years in theatre and film give him a deep well of production experience to bring to the role of Sergeant Gary Gibson. The character’s place in the town’s defence also puts him directly in the story’s engine: when the undead advance, Gibson and the others must decide how to protect their neighbours and how long they can hold their ground.
That is a strong match for Andromeda Studios’ approach to genre movies: clear stakes, a memorable premise and an ensemble facing danger together. Harrison’s career reflects the collaborative craft behind independent film production, where every department helps make the world, and the peril, convincing.
A veteran in a new fight
Andromeda Studios completed principal production on Storm Warning in Ontario and is finalizing distribution partnerships and festival strategies for a theatrical release. The film joins a slate built around distinctive, audience-facing genre stories. Explore the Storm Warning project page and the wider Andromeda Studios slate.
For an indie film production company, genre filmmaking is about making bold premises travel: from a Canadian set to audiences far beyond it. That ambition spans horror, thriller and sci fi film production, supported by the digital media production that helps bring new stories to viewers and partners.
Curtis Harrison’s path (from a backstage discovery in the Cayman Islands to a long career across stage, screen and production) makes him a fitting presence in Storm Warning. Now Sergeant Gary Gibson takes his place in the church’s defence.
The storm is coming. The town needs every veteran it can get.