CAM BANCROFT as SCOTT RIVERS

Cam Bancroft has a long history with The Beachcombers, having played “Graham Blake” as a child in the original TV series. He makes a comeback in A Beachcombers’ Christmas as handsome, resourceful "Scott Rivers," a drifter who returned to Gibsons to confront his past and is now happily reunited with his high school sweetheart, Donna (played by Deanna Milligan).

Born in Winnipeg, Bancroft grew up in Vancouver. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California to attend the California Institute of the Arts where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Theatre. While attending Cal-Arts, Bancroft performed in such productions as The Cherry Orchard, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet. During summer breaks from college he would head back to Canada to play "Graham Blake" for six seasons on the long running television series The Beachcombers. Since earning his degree in 1990 he has worked on such television shows as Extreme, The Cape, Charmed, Special Unit II, Highlander, and Beverly Hills 90210. His television movies include To Walk Again – the Eddie Keating Story, To Brave Alaska, A Family Divided, Convictions, For the Love of Nancy, and She’s No Angel for the Lifetime Network. He can also be seen in the feature films Mystery Alaska, Love and Human Remains, Sleeping Together, Most Vertical Primate (MVP II), Undercover Christmas, and an adaptation of Mary Higgins Clark’s He Sees You When You’re Sleeping. Bancroft returned to his birth town of Winnipeg, Manitoba, to shoot The Crooked E, CBS’ MOW about the Enron debacle. Recently, he played the legendary role of Charles Ingalls in ABC’s updated Little House on the Prairie, a three-part mini series.

Bancroft is an avid hockey fan who has been playing the game since he was five years old. Recruited to play WHL hockey for the Kamloops Blazers, Bancroft was headed for a career in the NHL when a hiking accident cut short his plans. He’s been playing with the NHL's celebrity hockey team since 1994. Bancroft is married and has two young children. The family recently moved back to Vancouver from Los Angeles.

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