The season for Christmas movies is upon us and Erie County has its own actor who has starred in several.
Marc Blucas, a 1990 Girard High School graduate, has appeared in both Hallmark and Great American Family holiday movies. While he doesn’t have a new one coming out this year, some of his past movies will be shown on the two channels and are available on streaming services.
Here’s when and where to watch a Marc Blucas Christmas movie, according to schedules available at publication time:
Blucas and Candace Cameron Bure play professionals and parents of a busy family who travel to her widowed brother’s home for Christmas, where everyone in the family has different expectations for the holiday and she learns to embrace the reason for the season in this 2022 Great American Family movie.
Blucas and Melissa Claire Egan play a soldier and a woman who have exchanged letters for a year before their worlds collide during the holiday season in this 2019 Hallmark movie.
Blucas is a military member deployed right before Christmas and Tricia Helfer is his girlfriend, a single mother who works with her children to give back to struggling military families in this 2016 Hallmark movie.
Blucas and Alison Sweeney are squabbling TV hosts sent to a festive small town over Christmas in this 2020 Hallmark movie.
This 2019 Hallmark movie, about a woman, played by Brooke D’Orsay, looking for the perfect Christmas tree and the single father, Blucas, unwilling to part with his, didn’t have a specific air date as of publication time. However, it and Blucas’ other movies might be available on various additional streaming services.
What else can you see Marc Blucas in?
Blucas, who grew up in Girard, appeared on TV as the boyfriend of the title character in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” from 1999 to 2002. He is the son of Wally Blucas and Mary Blucas.
His other television credits include “My Life with the Walter Boys,” “Swagger,” “The Fix,” “Underground,” “Killer Women” and “Necessary Roughness.”
On the big screen, Marc Blucas has appeared in movies including “Brawl in Cell Block 99” with Vince Vaughn; “Knight and Day” with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz; “The Jane Austen Book Club” with Emily Blunt; “First Daughter” with Katie Holmes; “We Were Soldiers” with Mel Gibson,” and “Unearth,” a 2020 Erie-based production co-directed by John C. Lyons and Dorota Swies and filmed in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Dana Massing can be reached at dmassing@gannett.com.