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Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 – April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor and voice-over artist, best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story is a 2000 miniseries television film, and the third installment in a series of four films.The film was highly anticipated among fans of Anne of Green Gables, and was the most controversial and heavily criticized of the three film adaptations written and produced by Kevin Sullivan.
Follows, Crombie, and Grant returned for the final time as Anne, Gilbert, and Diana. In 2008, the fourth entry in the series, a prequel film entitled Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning was completed, starring Barbara Hershey , Shirley MacLaine , and Rachel Blanchard , with Hannah Endicott-Douglas playing the young Anne.
Barbara Hershey replaced Megan Follows as Anne, although Follows briefly appears in archive footage when Anne is reminiscing. Colleen Dewhurst , who had played Marilla Cuthbert in the first two miniseries and the spin-off series Road to Avonlea before her death in 1991, and Jonathan Crombie , who previously portrayed Gilbert Blythe, are also ...
The story follows Anne Shirley as she leaves Green Gables in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, to teach at a prestigious ladies' college in New Brunswick. The main cast from the original film reprised their roles, including Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Colleen Dewhurst, Patricia Hamilton, and Schuyler Grant.
Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (/ ˈ m iː ɡ ən / MEE-gən; born March 14, 1968) [1] is a Canadian-American actress and director. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels .
Grant is best known for her work in the Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series, [10] in which she played Diana Barry opposite Megan Follows as Anne Shirley.Grant reprised her role in the sequel Anne of Avonlea (1987), in which Diana married Fred Wright and had a child, as well as the trilogy's finale Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).
Gilbert Blythe: A handsome, smart, and witty classmate, two years older than Anne, who has a crush on her. Unaware of Anne's sensitivity about her red hair, he tries to get her attention by holding her braid and calling her "Carrots" in the classroom, and she breaks a slate over his head.