He was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on October 30,
2004, for his services to Performing Arts in Canada.
Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1999.
He was awarded the 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for his performance in "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He starred in two unrelated productions as real-life people who became antagonists of US Pres. Richard Nixon: journalist James "Scotty" Reston in Kissinger and Nixon, and constitutional lawyer William Kunstler in Who Killed Atlanta's Children.