He wanted to be a gym teacher and competed nationally in a few different sports including curling, golf, hockey.

[1] In his early twenties he had done some commercials and TV roles in Halifax while attending university and shortly after moved to Vancouver.

[3] He appeared in many other television series like Smallville, The Twilight Zone, Cold Squad, The Outer Limits, and Fringe.

In 2010 Flemming played FBI agent Bruce Tanner in a season 3 episode of TV show Sanctuary.

Flemming provided the voice of Chuck Greene, the protagonist of the video game Dead Rising 2.