Television Crombie had no previous acting experience and used a photo he took at a kiosk in Union Station when he auditioned for the role of Gilbert Blythe in the 1985 TV miniseries
Anne of Green Gables. The documentary was financed by an
Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. It premiered at Cinecycle in Toronto on 14 December 2017. It was dedicated to the memory of Jonathan Crombie.
Theatre Crombie appeared on stage in
The Dishwashers by
Morris Panych (Tarragon Theatre, 2005) and
The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte (Tarragon Theatre/Great Canadian Stage Company, 2006). He spent four seasons at Ontario's
Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing in
A Comedy Of Errors,
Hamlet,
As You Like It,
Taming of the Shrew, and as Romeo in Diana Leblanc's
Romeo and Juliet. He was nominated for a
Dora Mavor Moore Award for his role in the
Canadian Stage Company's 1997 production of
Tom Stoppard's play
Arcadia. He returned to the production beginning 21 August, and performed the role during the show's tour through the United States. In 2013, Crombie performed at
Centerstage,
Baltimore, in
Clybourne Park and ''Benetha's Place'' for the Rasin Cycle featured on
PBS. His final appearance on stage was playing two roles in the
Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company's 2015 world premiere of
Benediction, based on the novel by
Kent Haruf. ==Death==