Jonathan Crombie

Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 – April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.

Crombie was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his role in the Canadian Stage Company's 1997 production of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia. He has appeared on stage in The Dishwashers by Morris Panych (Tarragon Theatre, 2005) and The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte (Tarragon Theatre/Great Canadian Stage Company, 2006). He spent four seasons at Ontario's Stratford Festival appearing in "A Comedy Of Errors', "Hamlet", "As You Like It", "Taming Of The Shrew", and as Romeo in Diana Leblanc's "Romeo and Juliet". He was also featured in the second season of Slings & Arrows (2005), as playwright Lionel Train. More recently, Crombie performed at Centerstage (theater) in Baltimore for the Rasin Cycle featured on PBS in Clybourne Park (2013) and Benetha's Place (2013), as well at Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Theatre Company in the world premiere of "Benediction" (2015), based on the novel by Kent Haruf.

Crombie's father, David Crombie, is a former mayor of Toronto and former Canadian federal Cabinet Minister.

Crombie debuted on Broadway in the Canadian musical The Drowsy Chaperone as "Man in Chair," from March to April 2007. He returned to the production beginning August 21, and performed the role during the show's tour through the United States.

His last appearance on stage was playing two roles in the DCPA Theatre Company’s recent world premiere of Benediction]].

His family announced on April 18, 2015 that he died on April 15, 2015 of a brain hemorrhage in New York City. His organs were donated.