Gregory Terlecki

Among his subjects were Italy's Emperor Victor Emmanuel and actor John Candy and family in the 1940s and 1950s. His love of documenting life through the camera was passed on to Gregory when twelve. Gregory was born on the Maine & New Brunswick border crossing of River de Chute that his grandfather opened up; his ancestors were United Empire Loyalists who walked from Connecticut to receive land grants. With a covered bridge, waterfalls and one room schoolhouse in the backyard, it was as perfect a childhood setting as could be. Gregory graduated fine arts, film & photography at Toronto's Ontario College of Art & Design University. Also doing modeling, he spent several years world traveling, including overland by bus from London to Kathmandu, South East Asia, Australia, and South America, documenting the beautiful and the unusual. Gregory is a music minister tenor in French, English & Latin.

A lifetime memorabilia collector, among his items are artwork by actor James Stewart, the very first issue of Life magazine, a Joan Crawford letter concerning the untimely death of Dorothy Kilgallen who investigated J.F.K, one of two known pieces of the Plexiglas skin from the burned Buckminster Fuller American Pavilion of Expo '67, and two pieces of front seat upholstery from the Buick in which Jayne Mansfield was riding in that fateful night in June 1967.

In 1974, witnessed with a sister, a daylight appearance of two parallel "U.F.O." lights that streaked south to north over Highway #27(then called) Etobicoke (Toronto) at extreme speed, abruptly stopped, hovered for about five seconds, and without start-up speed, streaked instantaneously as fast in an arc out of sight, all the time remaining parallel.

In 1999, he completed a hard cover photo history & bio book of his birthplace, "The Lost World of River de Chute," now part of the National Library of Canada.

In 2001, Gregory played Guillaume in Expiration (2003), originally a plate smashing brutal fight scene with frustrated man-hungry wife Nora. It was rewritten and re-shot two years later. Jeremiah Kipp, Film Festival Today's movie reviewer, described the scene of Gregory and Gavin Heffernan (Gavin's only one-on-one male to male scene) as 'a surprise encounter with a thief's melancholy, lost soul father (Gregory Terlecki) that feels like a poignant short story. . .

' 2003 also saw him in Guy Letourneau's "Good Dogs Go To Heaven" as young Michael's salesman father returning home for an idyllic meal that quickly became a life-altering one for his son.

In 2003, Gregory played McDonald Stuart; the ghost of philanthropist David McDonald Stuart, heir of McDonald Tobacco in "Creepy Canada" (2002)_, an hour-long show detailing true accounts of the paranormal throughout Canada's history. He was also "The Executioner" on that series,torturing two; a prisoner who ends his life by suicide, and a female slave and arsonist whom he hangs. That particular episode "The Ghost's of Rue St Paul" was named #3 on a "Creepy Canada" Top Ten Episodes List special.

In 2003, he played the dual dream roles of Hunk & Scarecrow in a Montreal area 500 seat theater production of "The Wizard of Oz". Gregory's father Bill was a W. W. II photographer.

Gregory was hand picked to be one of the haunting "Top Hatted Men" by Director Bill Paxton during headhunting while filming The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).

His role as 'The Tacky Tourist' in Scam (2005), was as the wildly dressed, frustrated and obnoxious driver looking for safe parking in the wrong part of town.

In 2006, he modeled for a series of print ads for the Videotron cable TV company as the very tallest of a trio of comedic cable guys.

2007 saw him as director of his true story screenplay "The Window" brought to the stage as a three hour reading. With a cast of twenty-five, "The River de Chute Kidnapping Case", as it was known almost a century ago, was headlines throughout the land.

The story was an official laurel selection of the 2014 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto. That festival was founded by Leslie Ann Coles.

Gregory Terlecki is of Ukrainian, Greek and Scottish heritage. Filming for his mystery-triangle script "The Devil's Tail" ended on Friday September 13th, 2019 with Claudelle Tremblay (Cannes Film Festival 2017: "Noah's Truck") as lead: "Alice Briggs," playing a failed artist with a ten year curse.

The latest 240 page edition became available in 2020. Gregory's great-uncle Percy W. Bishop, who wrote books on Nationalism, was one of Canada's first "Thinking Speculators" on the petroleum business. He became the original owner of 60,000 acres of Cold Lake Alberta oil & gas property before the tar sands were developed, which was greater than that owned by the Saudi Arabians at that time of 30,000 acres. P. W. also helped Cyrus Eaton during his Eaton's store empire building days and entertained future Prime Minister Jean Chretien at his Mississauga Ontario estate "Birnhamwood". P. W. and Gregory shared a deep love for their birthplace and historic preservation. Gregory's script "Going Beyond Violet" won a Finalist award of Larry Brody's "TVwriter. com".