Stephen Lack (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian artist and actor and screenwriter best known for his leading role in David Cronenberg's Scanners and Allan Moyle's The Rubber Gun, for which he was nominated for two Genie Awards.
[2] Although he also produces drawings and sculpture, his primary medium is painting; he specializes in American scenes (urban, cultural, and landscapes) in a style that has been described as Neo-Expressionist.
[4] In 2018 Xeno-Optic with the assistance of the Research Services office at St. Thomas University in Canada published a 136-page text on the drawings of Stephen Lack titled There is a War, with an essay by Virgil Hammock, and a foreword by Ronald Edsforth.
The text reflects Stephen Lack's ability to see the world dominated by American conflicts as Goya saw his world in his work The Disasters of War, or Jacques Callot's Les Grandes Misères de la guerre (The Great Miseries of War).
Credits include Montreal Main (1974), The Rubber Gun (1978, which he also co-wrote with Allan Moyle, receiving nominations for Genie Awards for both Performance and Screenplay), Head On (aka Deadly Passion, 1980); Perfect Strangers (1984), and All the Vermeers in New York (1990).