Michael McNamara

Directors

B: December 6, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois

Michael McNamara was born in Chicago and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He studied film and photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto. He is a writer/director and editor specializing in music, children`s and family television programs and specials. His first feature, which he also produced, was The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati. In 2014 Hot Docs announced that McNamara would be the year’s recipient of the coveted Don Haig Award. The Award is presented by the Hot Docs Board of Directors to an outstanding Canadian independent producer with a feature-length film in competition at the Festival, and selected by a jury of independent producers, including Merit Jensen Carr, Nick de Pencier and Michael McMahon. The Award recognizes creative vision and entrepreneurship, as reflected in the recipient’s body of work and Festival film, as well as a track record of mentoring emerging Canadian filmmakers. His 2016 documentary Once and Immigrant features award-winning actor writer Peter Keleghan, the son of immigrants from Ireland and Poland, who in mid-life is seeking to understand his parents’ complex and contradictory feelings about their adopted home, Canada.

Also see: Michael McNamara to receive Don Haig Award.

Features & TV Movies:
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Holly Cole Trio: My Foolish Heart (1992, documentary)
Candles, Snow and Mistletoe (1993)
The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati (1996)
In Through the Out Door (TV-1998)
John Scott: Art & Justice (1998, documentary, short)

Wrinkle (2001)
Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 (TV-2004, documentary)
Flatly Stacked (TV-2004, documentary)
Meet the Sumdees (TV-2004, documentary)
Penis Dementia: The Search for the Perfect Penis (TV-2005, documentary)
Stacked Like Me (TV-2006, documentary)
100 Films and a Funeral (2007)

Acquainted with the Night (2011, documentary)
The F-Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist? (TV-2011, documentary)
Ice, Sweat and Tears (2013, documentary)
Shatner’s World… We Just Live in It… (TV-2013)
Incident at Elysian Fields (2013, short)
The Trick with the Gun (2015, documentary)
Once an Immigrant (TV-2016)
ADHD: Not Just For Kids (TV-2017)
Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit (2018, documentary)
The Haunts of Murray McLauchlan (2018, documentary, short)
Pugly: A Pug’s Life (2019, documentary)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
The Elephant Show (1987, 1988)
Polka Dot Shorts (1995)

Elliot Moose (2000)
Driven by Vision (2009)
Fanboy Confessional (2011)
Lights Out (2012 for The Nature of Things with David Suzuki)

Credits as a Screenwriter:
Wrinkle (2001)
Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 (TV-2004, documentary)
Flatly Stacked (TV-2004, documentary)
Meet the Sumdees (TV-2004, documentary)
Penis Dementia: The Search for the Perfect Penis (TV-2005, documentary)
Stacked Like Me (TV-2006, documentary)
100 Films and a Funeral (2007)
The F-Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist? (TV-2011, documentary)
Ice, Sweat and Tears (2013, documentary)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
The Elephant Show (1987, 1988)

Polka Dot Shorts (1995)
The Life and Times of Robert Munsch (2000)
Driven by Vision (2009)

Fanboy Confessional (2011)
Lights Out (2012 for The Nature of Things with David Suzuki)
Ice, Sweat and Tears (2013, documentary)
The Cholesterol Question (2014,documentary)
Celtic Soul (2016, documentary)
ADHD: Not Just for Kids (TV-2017, documentary)
Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit (2018, documentary)
The Haunts of Murray McLauchlan (2018, documentary, short)
Pugly: A Pug’s Life (2019, documentary)

Credits as a Producer:
The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati (1996)

Wrinkle (2001)
Genuine Article: The First Trial (TV-2003, documentary)
Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 (TV-2004, documentary)
Flatly Stacked (TV-2004, documentary)
Meet the Sumdees (TV-2004, documentary)
Penis Dementia: The Search for the Perfect Penis (TV-2005, documentary)
Stacked Like Me (TV-2006, documentary)
100 Films and a Funeral (2007)
Victoria Day (2009)

Sounds Like a Revolution (2010, documentary)
I Want to be a Desi (2010, short)
Acquainted with the Night (2011, documentary)
The F-Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist? (TV-2011, documentary)
Ice, Sweat and Tears (2013, documentary)
Hold Fast (2013)
Incident at Elysian Fields (2013, short)
David & Me (2014, documentary)
Big News from Grand Rock (2014)
The Cholesterol Question (2014,documentary)
The Trick with the Gun (2015, documentary)
Celtic Soul (2016, documentary)
ADHD: Not Just for Kids (TV-2017, documentary)
Bird (2017, short)
Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit (2018, documentary)
Level 16 (2018)
Beholder (2018, documentary, short)
Pugly: A Pug’s Life (2019, documentary)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
Driven by Vision (2009)

Fanboy Confessional (2011)
Lights Out (2012 for The Nature of Things with David Suzuki)

Level 16, movie, poster,

Charles Officer

Cast Members

B: October 28, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario
D: December 1, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario

Charles Officer studied visual art at Cambridge and communication design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He worked as a graphic designer before attending the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Since those early beginnings, he moved on as an actor appearing on stage and in film and television productions. From acting he became a director and his debut short, When Morning Comes premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival to wide acclaim. In 2001, he completed the Directors Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and premiered his second film, Short Hymn_Silent War at TIFF 2002, where he received a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Short. The film screened at Sundance and was nominated for a Genie Award in 2004. Nurse.Fighter.Boy, shot over 23 days in Toronto, was Officer’s first feature length film. Charles Officer is pictured above in a publicity still on the set of Nurse.Fighter.Boy. Photo by Anna Keenan. He was 48 when he died in Toronto.

Learn more about Charles Officer.
Also see: CDN Films at TIFF 2020 – Take 2.
Also see: Porter Series Underway.

Features & TV Movies:
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When Morning Comes (2000)
Love Come Down (2000)
Picture Claire (2001)
On Their Knees (2001)
American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Trouser Accidents (2004)
The Limb Salesman (2004)
Riding the Bus with My Sister (TV-2005)
Your Beautiful Cul de Sac Home (2007)

Furstenau Mysteries (2011, short)
Overwatch (2012, short)
Born to be Blue (2015)
Black Tea in Bardo (2016, short)

The New Corporation (narrator, 2020, documentary)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
The Eleventh Hour (2002, 2004)
Kojak (2005)

Credits as a Director:
When Morning Comes (2000, short)
Short Hymn_Silent War (2003, short)
Pop Song (2003, short)
Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008)
Mighty Jerome: The Greatest Comeback in Track & Field History (2009)

Wingless Angels (2010)
Fuelled by Passion: The Return of the Jets (TV-2011)
The Stone Thrower (TV-2012)
100 Musicians (2012, short)
The Truth About Rainbows (2014, short)
Unarmed Verses (2016, documentary)
The Skin We’re In (TV-2017, documentary)
Invisible Essence: The Little Prince (2018, documentary)
Akilla’s Escape (2020)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
Engraved on a Nation (2012)
Rookie Blue (2015)
Saving Hope (2015)
Private Eyes (2016, 2018)
21 Thunder (2017)
Ranson (2019)

Coroner (2020-2021)
The Porter (2022, mini-series)

Invisible Essence: The Little Prince, movie, poster,

Keegan Connor Tracy

Cast Members

B: December 3, 1971 in Windsor, Ontario

Keegan Connor Tracy holds a BA in psychology and in addition to acting she has recently tried her hand at writing feature film scripts and a television pilot. She won the 2002 Leo and picked up a nomination for a Gemini Award for her role as an ex-junkie on an episode of DaVinci’s Inquest. She plays the roles of Blue Fairy (also known as Reul Glom), and Mother Superior on the series Once Upon a Time.

Official website

Features & TV Movies:
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Double Jeopardy (1999)

Duets (2000)
Strange Frequency (TV-2001)
Kill Me Later (2001)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Blackwoods (2002)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
A Problem With Fear (2003)
Jake 2.0: The Tech (TV-2003)
White Noise (2005)
Chaos (2006)
The Net 2.0 (VR-2006)
Her Fatal Flaw (TV-2006)
The Perfect Suspect (TV-2006)
The Building (TV-2009)

Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball (VR-2010)
The Company You Keep (2012)
Words and Pictures (2013)
Embrace of the Vampire (VR-2013)
Jinxed (TV-2013)
My Life as a Dead Girl (TV-2015)
Descendants (TV-2015)
Dead Rising: Endgame (2015)
Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder (TV-2016)
Descendants 2 (TV-2017)
Morning Show Mysteries: Death by Design (TV-2019)
Z (2019)
Descendants 3 (TV-2019)

Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace (TV-2021)

TV Series – Cast:
Beggars and Choosers (1999)
Jake 2.0 (2003)
Battlestar Galactica (2007-2009)

Once Upon a Time (2011-2018)
The Magicians (2016-2020)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Breaker High (1998)
Three (1998)
First Wave (1998)
The Net (1998)
The New Addams Family (1998)
Millennium (1998)
Cold Squad (1998, 2001)
Viper (1997, 1999)
Nightman (1999)
Seven Days (1999)

Hollywood Off-Ramp (2000)
Strange Frequency (2001)
Dark Angel (2002)
Da Vinci’s Inquest (2002, 2005)
The Days (2004)
The Collector (2005)
The 4400 (2005)
Killer Instinct (2005)
Stargate SG-1 (2005)
Three Moons Over Milford (2006)
Supernatural (2006, 2009, 2019)
Psych (2007)

Life Unexpected (2010)
Eureka (2010)
V (2011)
Superbook (2011, 2012, 2013, 2019)
Bates Motel (2013, 2014, 2015)
Heartland (2014, 2015)
Exchange Student Zero (2015)
Ready Jet Go! (voice, 2016, 2017)
The Magicians (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Motive (2016)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2019)
Valley of the Boom (2019)
The Twilight Zone (2020)
Blockbuster (2022)
Creepshow (2023)

Duets, movie, poster,

Charles Officer – Biography

Charles Officer – Biography

(December 3, 2023 – Toronto, ON) Growing up, Toronto-born Charles Officer wanted to be an architect. He focused on sculpting during his foundation year at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), but he had always been active in sports and left OCAD to play professional hockey in the UK. Upon being picked in the draft by the Calgary Flames, Officer moved from England to Salt Lake City to play for a Flames’ farm team. While there he developed tendinitis in his wrist, and after a brief stay with a minor league team in Canada he concluded that the NHL was not in his future and he quit the game altogether. He returned to OCAD to complete his studies and had a brief career as a designer and creative director for a major Toronto ad agency.

During his second stint at OCAD, Officer saw an ad for acting classes on a school bulletin board. Intrigued but lacking confidence, he waited two years before he went to study at New York City’s Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre. It was there he wrote his first dramatic short, When Morning Comes, about a drug-addicted father and his young son. He applied for a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, and with $5,000 he produced, directed and starred in the film, which premiered at TIFF 2000.

His film training continued at the Canadian Film Centre where he completed the Directors Lab in 2002. His second short, Short Hymn_Silent War, which he directed and co-wrote, received a special jury citation at TIFF 2002 and a Genie Award nomination for best live-action short in 2004. Critic Tom McSorley wrote in Take One: Film in Canada that Short Hymn_Silent War “is a work of considerable accomplishment and originality.”

The shorts Pop Song and Urda/Bone, a music video for K’naan and the pilot for the British series Hotel Babylon followed. He also directed episodes of ‘Da Kink In My Hair. As an actor, he appeared in Clement Virgo’s Love Come Down, Anais Granofsky’s On Their Knees and The Limb Salesman and he had a recurring role in the American crime drama The Eleventh Hour. Officer’s first feature, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, was inspired by his sister’s battle with sickle cell anemia. The film stars Clark Johnson as a disenchanted boxer and street brawler. He plays opposite Karen LeBlanc as the nurse, and 12-year-old Daniel J. Gordon as the boy, a minor hockey player. It was shot over 23 days with a hand-held camera in Toronto and released theatrically in 2009. It garnered 10 Genie nominations, including best director and best original screenplay by Officer and producer Ingrid Veninger, and won the best song award.

In 2009, Officer began production on a NFB feature documentary on Harry Jerome. Premiering at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2010, Mighty Jerome: The Greatest Comeback in Track & Field History explores the rise, fall and redemption of the Saskatchewan-born sprinter, the first North American to equal the 10-second mark in the 100-metre dash. Officer was given a honourary mention at the 2011 Hot Docs festival and Mighty Jerome won the 2012 Northwest Regional Emmy Award.

Officer directed two short films for the cross-platform project City Sonic. He, along with six other directors, including Peter Lynch and Bruce McDonald, shot 20 short films about Toronto musicians and the places where their musical lives were transformed. He completed Fuelled by Passion: The Return of the Jets, a 2011 one-hour documentary produced by the CBC about the Winnipeg Jets return to the NHL. Charles also directed the one-hour TSN documentary The Stone Thrower, commissioned by CTV to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the CFL. It tells the story of how Chuck Ealey went from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio, to becoming the first African-American quarterback to win the CFL Grey Cup for the Hamilton Ti-Cats.

Charles Officer was an award-winning director, producer, writer and performer and a creative force behind Canadian films and series including Akilla’s Escape, The Porter, Coroner, and many more. He was 48 when he died in Toronto on December 1, 2023.

Also see: Charles Officer’s filmography.

Alanis Obomsawin

Directors

B: August 31, 1932 in Abenaki territory in Lebanon, New Hampshire

When Alanis Obomsawin was six-months-old she returned to Canada with her parents to live in Odanak, their home reserve, on Québec’s lower south shore. It was in this close-knit community that she spent many a happy childhood moment singing songs and learning the stories of her people. In 1960 she made her professional debut as a singer in New York City. In 1967, NFB producers Joe Koenig and Bob Verrall invited the singer/storyteller to the Film Board to work as an advisor on a film about Aboriginal people. Obomsawin went on to direct films of her own, while continuing to perform and fight for justice for her people. Her first film was the 1971 short, Christmas at Moose Factory. She became one of Canada’s most distinguished filmmakers. Her film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance won 18 international awards. A lifetime member of the Board of Directors for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Ms Obomsawin has also served as a Member of the Board for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in Vermont and National Geographic International. The asterisk (*) below indicates the 6 films that were gathered together in 1979 to form the National Film Board series, Sounds of Our People. Her film, Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger was selected to screen in the Masters program at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). As part of a special retrospective titled Celebrating Alanis at the 2021 edition of TIFF, Ms. Obomsawin was honoured with its Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media.

Also see: Alanis Obomsawin: A Legacy.
Also see: Alanis Obomsawin: A Portrait of a First Nations Filmmaker By Adrian Harewood.
Also see: TIFF Honours Two.
Also see: Toronto Film Critics Selects Alanis Obomsawin
Also see: 2020 DOC Awards Announced

Features & TV Movies:
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Christmas at Moose Factory (1971, short)
Amisk* (1977, short)
Mother of Many Children* (1977, short)
Cree Way* (1979, short)
Cold Journey* (1979, short)
Gabriel Goes to the City* (1979, short)
Old Crow* (1979, short)
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest, Kenora (1979, short)

Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk (1980, short)
Incident at Restigouche (1984)
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986)
Poundmaker’s Lodge: A Healing Place (1987)
A Way of Learning (1988)
No Address (1988)

Le Patro Le Prévost: 80 Years Later (1991)
Walker (1991)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
My Name is Kahentiiosta (1995)
Spudwrench – Kahnawake Man (1997)

Rocks at Whiskey Trench (2000)
Is the Crown at War with Us? (2002)
For John (2003)
Our Nationhood (2003)
Sigwan (2005)
Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises (2006)
Gene Boy Came Home (2007)
Professor Norman Cornett (2009)

When All the Leaves Are Gone (2010)
The People of the Kattawapiskak River (2012)
Hi-Ho Mistahey! (2013)
Trick or Treaty? (2014)
We Can’t Make The Same Mistake Twice (2016)
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019)

Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021, short)
Bill Reid Remembers (2021, short)

Credits as a Screenwriter:

Mother of Many Children* (1977, short)
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest, Kenora (1979, short)

No Address (1988)

Le Patro Le Prévost: 80 Years Later (1991)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
My Name is Kahentiiosta (1995)
Spudwrench – Kahnawake Man (1997)

Rocks at Whiskey Trench (2000)
Is the Crown at War with Us? (2002)
Our Nationhood (2003)
Sigwan (2005)
Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises (2006)
Gene Boy Came Home (2007)
Professor Norman Cornett (2009)

When All the Leaves Are Gone (2010)
The People of the Kattawapiskak River (2012)
Trick or Treaty? (2014)
We Can’t Make The Same Mistake Twice (2016)
Our People Will Be Healed (2017)
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019)

Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker,

Peter Mettler

Directors

B: September 7, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario

Peter Mettler became interested in film at an early age, making his first films when he was 18-years-old. He went on to make Lancalot Freely (1980) and Gregory (1981), and the award-winning feature film Scissere (1982). In addition to his own work as a director, Mettler is an acclaimed cinematographer, working with Atom Egoyan on his first two films, as well as the early works of Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald, Jeremy Podeswa, Ron Mann and many other independent film makers in the 1980s. His film, The End of Time had its Canadian premiere in the Masters program at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It is the final film in a trilogy of works that explores the limits of what can be expressed in cinema, following Picture of Light (1994) and Gambling, Gods & LSD (2002). In November of 2023, Mettler’s While the Green Grass Grows, was given the Grand Prize in the National Feature Competition at RIDM, the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival. It had previously been honoured with the Grand Prix at the Visions du réel festival. It is his latest documentary, which runs more than two and a half hours, but that is just a small part of an unusual film with a total running time of eleven hours. While the Green Grass Grows consists of chapters one and five of a gigantic seven-part work. We list his credits as a Director.

Official website

Also see: Paradox and Wonder: The Cinema of Peter Mettler, by Tom McSorley.
Also see: Peter Mettler talks about the making of The End of Time.

Features & TV Movies:
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Super 8 (1976)
Reverie (1976)

Lancalot Freely (1980)
Gregory (1981)
Scissere (1982)
Eastern Avenue (1985)
The Top of His Head (1989)

Tectonic Plates (1992)
Picture of Light (1994)
Balifilm (1997)

Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)

The End of Time (2012)
Broken Land (2014)
Becoming Animal (2018)

While the Green Grass Grows (2023)

The End of Time, movie, documentary, poster, — Poster for the documentary The End of Time.

Frank Chiesurin

Cast Members

B: November 26, 1973 in Montréal, Québec

François “Frank” Chiesurin graduated with a BFA from Montreal’s Concordia University with a Specialization in Theatre Performance. After school he began to work in the French Québec film and television market appearing in such hit TV shows as Un Gars Une Fille and landing a recurring role on Tribu.Com. Since he was perfectly bilingual, it didn’t take long for him to begin to get work in English productions. He now works comfortably on various projects in both languages. He played the role of Martin Archambault in 33 episodes of the series Amélie et Compagnie between 2017 and 2020.

Features & TV Movies:
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Federal Protection (2002)
Threshold (TV-2003)
This Time Around (TV-2003)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
The Porcelain Pussy (2004)
A Very Married Christmas (TV-2004)
Lie With Me (2005)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Cake (2005)
The Dealership (TV-2009)
Twelve Men of Christmas (TV-2009)

Wandering Eye (TV-2011)
The Good Lie (2012)
Silent Garden (2013, short)
Annabelle (2013, short)
The Reconciler (2015)
Adam’s Testament (2016)
A Murder of Innocence (2018)

The Art of Christmas (TV-2022)

TV Series – Cast:
Tribu.com (2001)
Dice (2001, mini-series)
Météo+ (2008-2011)

Les Bleus de Ramville (2012-2013)
Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles (2015, mini-series)
Amélie et Compagnie (2017-2020)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Un gars, une fille (1999)

Doc (2001, 2002)
Big Wolf on Campus (2002)
Queer as Folk (2002)
Tracker (2002)
Witchblade (2002)
Largo Winch (2003)
Odyssey 5 (2003)
Playmakers (2003)
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2005)
Zoe Busiek: Wild Card (2006)
Angela’s Eyes (2006)
‘Til Death Do Us Part (2007)
Instant Star (2007)
The Latest Buzz (2008)
Da Kink in My Hair (2008)

Highland Gardens (2011)
The Listener (2011)
Mayday (2011)
Flashpoint (2011)
The L.A.Complex (2012)
King (2012)
Murdoch Mysteries (2012)
Hard Rock Medical (2013)
Beauty and the Beast (2013)
The Strain (2014)
Suits (2015)
The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
Impulse (2019)
Frankie Drake Mysteries (2021)

Cake, movie, poster,

Stefanie von Pfetten

Cast Members

B: November 25, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia

Stefanie Baroness Christina von Pfetten was born to German émigrés from Munich and was drawn to perform from an early age. She began modeling as a teen and got her first taste of the stage starring in her high school`s production of Grease. She continued her education in Europe, first in Munich (she is multi-lingual, and fluent in German), then at the University of Vienna, where she studied art history while interning at Sotheby’s before returning to Vancouver to formally train in theatre and pursue acting full-time. She attracted immediate attention for guest-starring roles on numerous Canadian television shows, and taking both comedic and dramatic leads in features in Canada and in Germany before heading to Los Angeles.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Y2K (TV-1999)
Little Boy Blues (1999)

My 5 Wives (2000)
Sole Survivor (TV-2000)
Point of View (VR-2001)
Death Train to the Pacific (TV-2001)
Trapped (TV-2001)
The Wedding Dress (TV-2001)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Cabin Pressure (2002)
Strange Frequency 2 (TV-2003)
The Invitation (2003)
Posers (2003)
A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (TV-2003)
Decoys (2004)
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve (TV-2004)
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (TV-2005)
Cool Money (TV-2005)
Murder at the Presido (YV-2005)
The Engagement Ring (TV-2005)
Meltdown: Days of Destruction (TV-2006)
One Way (2006)
Termination Point (TV-2007)
Dragon Boys (TV-2007)
Battlestar Galatica: Razor (TV-2007)
Christmas Caper (TV-2007)
Holiday Switch (TV-2007)
The Call (TV-2008)
Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Stoory (TV-2008)
Ba’al (TV-2008)
Flirting with Forty (TV-2008)
Too Late to Say Goodbye (TV-2009)

Icarus (2010)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Goodnight for Justice: The Measure of a Man (TV-2012)
Happy Face Killer (TV-2014)
Far from Home (TV-2014)
The Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die (TV-2015)
Numb (2015)
Heaven’s Floor (2016)
While You Were Dating (TV-2017)
Deadly Secrets by the Lake (TV-2017)
Welcome to Marwen (2018)

The Long Island Serial Killer: A MOther’s Hunt for Justice (TV-2021)
Mommy’s Cheating Scandal (TV-2021)

TV Series – Cast:
Cracked (2013)
Thornwood Heights (2017, mini-series)
When Calls the Heart (2023)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
First Wave (1998, 1999)
The Net (1999)
The Sentinel (1999)
Hollywood Off-Ramp (2000)
These Arms of Mine (2001)
Seven Days (2001)
Strange Frequency (2001)
Special Unit 2 (2001)
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (2002)
The Twilight Zone (2002)
Jeremiah (2003)
CSI: Miami (2004)
Andromeda (2004)
The L Word (2005)
Battlestar Galactica (2006)
Eureka (2007)
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2009)
Better Off Ted (2010)
The Man in the High Castle (2015, 2016)
Shooter (2016)
The Last Tycoon (2017)
L.A.’s Finest (2019)
Day of the Dead (2021)
Legends of Tomorrow (2022)

Enrico Colantoni

Cast Members

B: February 14, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario

Enrico Colantoni starred as Sgt. Gregory Parker on the CTV series, Flashpoint. It was the first Canadian series since Due South to be picked up for broadcast by a major Network in the United States. It went on to be syndicated around the world before ending its long, highly succesful run in 2012.

Learn more about Enrico Colantoni.

Features & TV Movies:
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Money Train (1995)
Albino Alligator (1996)
The Wrong Guy (1997)
Cloned (TV-1997)
The Member of the Wedding (TV-1997)
Screwed: A Hollywood Bedtime Story (1998)
Stigmata (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
James Dean (TV-2001)
Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002)
The First $20 Million (2002)
Full Frontal (2002)
The Vest (2002)
Criminal (2004)
Sherman’s Way (2006)
The Happiest Day of His Life (2006)
My Mom’s New Boyfriend (2008)
Céline (TV-2008)
Weather Girl (2008)
My Beautiful Mistake (2008)

The Fighter and the Clown (2010, short)
The Chaperone (2011)
Servitude (2011)
Contagion (2011)
House of Versace (TV-2013)
Veronica Mars (2014)
Lines (2014, short)
The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship (2015)
The Dark Stranger (2015)
Justice League Dark (voice, VR-2017)
Kill Chain (2019)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

Feel the Beat (2020)
Under the Christmas Tree (2021)
Vandits (2022)

TV Series – Cast:
Hope & Gloria (1995)
Just Shoot Me (1997-2003)
Veronica Mars (2004-2007)
ZOS: Zone of Separation (2008, mini-series)
Flashpoint (2008-2012)
The Kennedys (2011, mini-series)
Person of Interest (2011-2016)
Remedy (2014-2015)

Station Eleven (2021, mini-series)
Allegiance (2024-)

TV Series – Guest Appearances:
Night Heat (1987)
Friday the 13th (1987)

Law & Order (1994)
New York Undercover (1994)
NYPD Blue (1994, 1995)
Life’s Work (1997)

3rd Rock from the Sun (2000)
The Outer Limits (2001)
Kim Possible (2002, 2004)
Whoopi (2003)
Justice League (voice, 2003)
1-800-MISSING (2003)
StarGate SG-1 (2003)
Century City (2004)
Monk (2004)
CSI: Las Vegas (2007)
Numb3rs (2007)
Brothers & Sisters (2008)
Party Down (2009)
Glenn Martin DDS (2009)

Cra$h & Burn (2010)
Bones (2010)
Cracked (2013)
Warehouse 13 (2013)
Hot in Cleveland (2013)
Republic of Doyle (2014)
The Mysteries of Laura (2014, 2015, 2016)
iZombie (2016)
Powers (2016)
American Gothic (2016)
Carmilla (2016)
Death’s Door (2017)
Ransom (2017)
Bad Blood (2017)
Travelers (2017)
The Good Fight (2018)
West World (2020)
Ghosts (2021)

Credits as a Director:
The Bike (2011, short)
Issues (co-director, 2012, short)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, movie, poster, — Poster courtesy of TriStar Pictures.

Robin Dunne

Cast Members

B: November 19, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario

Robin Dunne began his career when he was still a teenager. He had attended the Etobicoke Shool of the Arts. He plays the role of Dr. Will Zimmerman in the TV series, Sanctuary.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Against Their Will: Women in Prison (TV-1994)
Love and Betrayel: the Mia Farrow Story (TV-1995)
Jungleground (1995)
Brothers’ Destiny (TV-1995)
Ready or Not (1996)
A Strange Affair (TV-1996)
The Big Hit (1998)
Strike (1998)
Teenage Space Vampires (1998)
The Fence (1998)

Trapped in a Purple Haze (TV-2000)
Cruel Intentions 2 (TV-2000)
Borderline Normal (2000)
Jewel (TV-2001)
Au Pair II (TV-2001)
Class Warfare (TV-2001)
The Wandering Souls Murders (TV-2001)
A Colder Kind of Death (TV-2001)
The Circle (2001)

The Skulls II (VR-2002)
American Psycho 2: All American Girl (VR-2002)
The Snow Walker (2003)
Hemingway vs Callaghan (TV-2003)
Species III (VR-2004)
Just Friends (2005)
Code Breakers (TV-2006)
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2007)
The Dark Room (TV-2008)
Robin Hood: Beyond Sherwood (TV-2009)

Space Milkshake (2012)
The Good Witch’s Destiny (TV-2013)
3 Days in Havana (2013)
Torment (2013)
Scarecrow (TV-2013)
Torment (2013)
Supercollider (2013)
The Twelve Trees of Christmas (TV-2013)
Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (TV-2015)
Asteroid: Final Impact (TV-2015)
Deadfall (2015, short)
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (TV-2015)
A.R.C.H.I.E. (2016)
Sound of Christmas (TV-2016)
The Adventure Club (2017)
Devil in the Dark (2017)
John Lives Again (2017)
Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (TV-2018)
Welcome to Nowhere (2018)
A.R.C.H.I.E. 2 (2018)
Altered Skin (2018)
New Year’s Kiss (TV-2019)
A Christmas Crush (TV-2019)
The Christmas Chalet (TV-2019)
The Christmas Temp (TV-2019)

His Fatal Fixation (TV-2020)
Love’s Match (TV-2021)
The Enchanted Christmas Cake (TV-2021)
Christmas Movie Magic (TV-2021)
Scentsational Christmas (TV-2022)
Making Scents of Love (TV-2023)
My Christmas Hero (TV-2023)

TV Series – Cast:
My Life as a Dog (1996)
Little Men (1998)
Dawson’s Creek (1999-2000)

Mark Twain’s Roughing It (2002, mini-series)
As If (2002)
Sanctuary (2007-2011)
Inhuman Condition (2016)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Side Effecets (1994)
Road to Avonlea (1995)
Ready or Not (1996)
The Adventures of Sinbad (1996)
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1997)
Dawson’s Creek (1999, 2000)

Dead Like Me (2004)
CSI: Miami (2006)
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2007)

Defiance (2013)
Relationsh*t (2014)
Murdoch Mysteries (2017)
Hudson & Rex (2019)
October Faction (2020)
Private Eyes (2021)

Jon Cor

Cast Members

B: November 17, 1984 in Timmins, Ontario

Jon Daniel Cor studied Theatre Arts and Performance at Fanshaw College. He is pictured in the role of Hodge Sharkweather in the 2016 series Shadowhunters. He has played the dual roles of Mark Blaine and Chillblaine since joining the cast of The Flash in 2021. Born in Ontario, he now makes his home in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (VR-2006)
Matters of Life and Dating (TV-2007)
The Rocker (2008)
The Tenth Circkle (TV-2008)
Nothing Really Matters (2008)
Growing Op (2008)
Stripped Naked (TV-2009)

The Boy She Met Online (2010)
Saw 3D (2010)
Forbidden Fruit (2010)
Patch Town (2013)
Teen Lust (2014)
10 Speed (2015, short)
The Imposter He Met Online (TV-2015)
The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (2015)
Renaissane (2016)
Adorn (2016, short)
Deadly Secrets by the Lake (TV-2017)
Sea Change (TV-2017)
The Sweetheart (TV-2018)
Love on Safari (TV-2018)
Trouble in the Garden (2018)
Beast Within (2019)
Goliath (2019)
Picture a Perfect Christmas (TV-2019)

The Babysitter (2020)
Christmas on the Vine (TV-2020)
Cross Country Christmas (TV-2020)
My Valentine (TV-2021)
Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (TV-2021)
Lobve at Cedar Creek (TV-2021)
The Way to the Heart (TV-2022)

The Babysitter (TV-2020)
Christmas on the Vine (TV-2020)
Cross Country Christmas (TV-2020)
Love at Cedar Creek (TV-2021)
Crossword Mysteries (TV-2021)

TV Series – Cast:
Being Erica (2009-2011)

Beaver Falls (2011-2012)
Total Drama Island (2011-2012)
Shadowhunters (2016-2017)
The Flash (2021-)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Life with Derek (2005)
Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2008)
Being Human (2012)
Defiance (2013)
Spun Out (2014)
Played (2014)
The Listener (2014)
Dark Matter (2015)
Supernatural (2017)
Ghost BFF (2018)
Lost in Space (2018, 2019)
Picture Perfect Mysteries (2019)

Trouble in the Garden, movie, poster,

Ona Grauer

Cast Members

B: November 16, 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico

Ona Grauer began life as Ana-Margarita Grauer in Mexico City, Mexico and moved to Canada as a child. She grew up in Nelson, British Columbia. She is best known for her portrayal of the Ancient Ayiana and later Emily Young in the science fiction television program Stargate Universe, part of the Stargate franchise.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Beautiful Joe (2000)
My 5 Wives (2000)
First Target (TV-2000)
The Christmas Secret (TV-2000)
Romantic Comedy 101 (TV-2001)
We’ll Meet Again (TV-2002)
House of the Dead (2003)
1st to Die (TV-2003)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
Perfect Romance (TV-2004)
Deep Evil (TV-2004)
Catwoman (2004)
Alone in the Dark (2005)
Ladies Night (TV-2005)
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Mork & Mindy’ (TV-2005)
Murder at the Presidio (TV-2005)
Intelligence (TV-2005)
Lost Behind Bars (TV-2006)
Firewall (2006)
Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (TV-2008)
Encounter with Danger (TV-2008)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Smoke Screen (TV-2010)
Seattle Superstorm (TV-2011)
Elysium (2013)
Fade Out (2013, short)
Mom’s Day Away (TV-2014)
Truth & Lies (TV-2015)
Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Murder Mystery (TV-2015)
Love in Paradise (TV-2016)
I Didn’t Kill My Sister (TV-2016)
A Time to Dance (TV-2016)
Rescue Me (TV-2016)
A Christmas to Remember (TV-2016)
Christmas Princess (TV-2017)
No One Would Tell (TV-2018)
Come to Daddy (2019)

Mommy’s Cheating Scandal (TV-2021)

TV Series – Cast:
Out of Order (2003, mini-series)
The Collector (2004-2005)
Intelligence (2006-2007)
Flashpoint (2008)
The Bridge (2010)

TV Series – Guest Appearances:
Sliders (1996)
Breaker High (1997)
The Net (1998)
First Wave (1999, 2001)
Seven Days (2000)
Harsh Realm (2000)
Freedom (2001)
Stargate SG-1 (2002)
John Doe (2002, 2003)
Black Sash (2003)
Tarzan (2003)
Andromeda (2003)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004)
Smallville (2004)
The L Word (2005)
Godiva`s (2006)
Three Moons Over Milford (2006)
Supernatural (2007)
Flash Gordon (2007)
Archer (2009)
SGU Stargate Universe (2009)
V (2011)
Archer (voice, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
Fringe (2012)
Arrow (2013)
Cult (2013)
Arctic Air (2014)
Motive (2014)
The Whispers (2015)
iZombie (2015)
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce (2016)
Van Helsing (2017)
You Me Her (2017, 2018)
Morning Show Mysteries (2019)
Lucky Hank (2023)

Elysium, movie poster

Johanna Black

Cast Members

B: November 20, 1971 in Brampton, Ontario

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Murder Blues (1990)
Sugartime (TV-1995)
The Wrong Guy (1997)
Melanie Darrow (TV-1997)
The Contract (1998)

Cord (2000)
The Deviants (2004)
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Hush Little Baby (TV-2007)

TV Series – Cast:
Flying Rhino Junior High (voice, 1998)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Power Play (1998)
Total Recall 2070 (1999)
The Famous Jett Jackson (2000)
Two and a Half Men (2004)
Kevin Hill (2004)
JAG (2005)
Entourage (2005)
Reality Hell (2009)

Arthur Hiller

Directors

B: November 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta
D: August 17, 2016, in Los Angeles, California

Arthur Hiller, perhaps best known for helming the enormously popular Love Story, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors’ Guild of Canada in October of 2004. The Santa Clarita International Film Festival also gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2001.

Learn more about Arthur Hiller.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Massacre at Sand Creek (TV-1956)
Homeward Borne (TV-1957)

This Rugged Land (1962)
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Promise Her Anything (1966)
Penelope (1966)
Tobruk (1967)
The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
Popi (1969)

The-Out-Of-Towners (1970)
Love Story (1970)
Plaza Suite (1970)
The Hospital (1971)
Man of La Mancha (1972)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
W.C.Fields and Me (1976)
Silver Streak (1976)
Nightwing (1979)
The In-laws (1979)

Making Love (1982)
Author! Author! (1982)
Romantic Comedy (1983)
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Teachers (1984)
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

Taking Care of Business (1991)
The Babe (1992)
Married To It (1993)
Carpool (1996)
Burn Hollywood Burn: An Alan Smithee Film (1997)

National Lampoon’s The Trouble With Frank (2005)

TV Series:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Naked City (1958)
Gunsmoke (1959-1960)

Thriller (1960)
The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
The Dick Powell Show (1961)
The Addams Family (1964)

Frank “Budge” Crawley

Directors

B: November 14, 1911 in Ottawa, Ontario
D: May 13, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario

Frank Randford “Budge” Crawley was a Producer, Director, and filmmaking pioneer. What many people don’t know is that his company, Crawley Films, began as a hobby. Crawley was the son of an Ottawa accountant, Arthur A. Crawley and grew up to be an accountant himself. After he joined his father`s firm, he continued to experiment with filmmaking during the early 1930s. He made a number of short black-and-white industrial films, some amateur films on canoeing, and in 1938 he shot a travelogue on Ile d’Orleans while he and his first wife, Judith, were on their honeymoon. In 1939 they formed Crawley Films and by the late 1940s the Ottawa-based company was one of a number of small Canadian companies making newsreels and sponsored films for business. The they didn’t stay small for long. By 1949 Crawley Films had 33 employees and also that year, at the very first Canadian Film Awards, they won the “Film of the Year Award” for The Loon’s Necklace. Crawley Films would grow to become one of North America’s biggest studios outside of Hollywood. The company would make some 5,000 films if you include hundreds of TV commercials in the final tally. It would also win more than 270 international awards including the first Canadian feature-film “Oscar” for The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Budge Crawley’s acceptance speech was memorable: “Thank you very much for this American award for a Canadian film about a Japanese adventurer who skied down a mountain in Nepal.” In 1980, Budge Crawley was given the Order of Canada. There was little left to do and in his 71st year, he sold Crawley Films to Atkinson Film Arts in 1982. Two years later the National Archives purchased the Crawley film collection. Although Frank Crawley lived until 1987 – his wife had died the previous year – Crawley Films survived until 1989. But there was little to celebrate when, in its 50th year, Crawley Films went into bankruptcy. The following is a very small sampling of titles:

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Ile d’Orléans (1938)

The Loon’s Necklace (1948)

Newfoundland Scene (1950)
The Power Within (1953)
The Legend of the Raven (1958)

The Entertainers (1967)
Amanita Pestilens (1963)
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Return to Oz (TV-1964)

Hamlet (TV-1971)
The Hamlet (TV-1971)
The Rowdyman (1972)
August and July (1973)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
Janis (1975)

Heartland Reggae (1982)

Poster for the Gordon Pinsent film, Rowdyman

Kristian Bruun

Cast Members

B: in Toronto, Ontario

A stage and film actor, Kristian Bruun is best known for this roles as Donnie Hendrix on the hit series, Orphan Black and Constable “Slugger” Jackson on Murdoch Mysteries. He plays the role of Janus Ferber on the series The Recruit. Production of its 2nd season was delayed by the actors’ strike in the United States. The series is shot in Vancouver and production is set to restart on January 2, 2024.

Official website

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Good Morning, Tomorrow (TV-2003)
Air Hockey (VR-2005)
A Grimsville Orphanage Christmas (2009, short)

Build or Bust (2012, short)
Blood Pressure (2012)
Hail Satan (2012, short)
Play The Film (2013)
The Doctor’s Case (2013, short)
Boycott (2013, short)
Dirty Singles (2014)
Bang Bang Baby (2014)
Agape (2014, short)
True Man (2014, short)
Life (2014)
Night Cries (2015)
This is Not What You Had Planned (2015, short)
Regression (2015)
Let’s Rap (2015)
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (2015)
Treatment (2015, short)
Static (2016, short)
The Floaters (2016, short)
Day Players (2016, short)
3-Way (Not Calling) (2016, short)
First Round Down (2016)
Country Crush (2016)
The Definites (2017)
The Space Between (2017)
Ashes (2017)
Fox Trouble (2017, short)
D+S (2017, short)
A Better Tomorrow, Today (2017, short)
The Go-Getters (2018)
Bed Rest (2018)
Red Rover (2018)
Tammy’s Always Dying (2019)

TV Series – Cast:
Murdoch Mysteries (2012-2017)
Orphan Black (2013-2017)
That’s My DJ (2016-2017, mini-series)
The Recruit (2023-)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Dark Rising: The Savage Tales of Summer Vale (2011)
Dan for Mayor (2011)
Nikitia (2012)
Schitt’s Creek (2015)
Odd Squad (2016)
The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
Tactical Girls (2016)
Con Man (2016)
The Beaverton (2017)
Annedroids (2017)
The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)
Deep Six (2017)
Carter (2018)

The Go-Getters, movie, poster,

Red Rover, movie, poster,

Adam Beach

Cast Members

B: November 11, 1972 in Ashern, Manitoba

Adam Beach lost both of his parents when he was eight-years-old. Within the span of three months, his mother, who was eight-months pregnant, was killed by a drunk driver, and his father drowned in a boating accident. Adam and his two younger brothers were forced to move to Winnipeg to live with an aunt and uncle. Six years later, they were sent to live with another aunt and uncle. Beach played the role of Detective Chester Lake on the TV series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Pictured above in a CBC publicity still as Bobby Martin in the television series Arctic Air, Adam Beach costars in the shot in New Zealand, set in 1925 Montana Netflix movie The Power of the Dog. Written and directed by Jane Campion, Canadian-born Roger Frappier is one of the producers. Opens in select theatres November 17 and on Netflix December 1.

Learn more about Adam Beach.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Lost in the Barrens (TV-1990)
Spirit Rider (TV-1993)
Cadillac Girls (1993)
Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994)
Dance Me Outside (1995)
Prey (1995)
A Boy Called Hate (1995)
Coyote Summer (1996)
Song of Hiawatha (1997)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Little Boy Blues (1999)
The Last Stop (1999)
Mystery, Alaska, (1999)

Harvey’s Case (TV-2000)
Joe Dirt (2001)
The Art of Woo (2001)
Now & Forever (2001)
Windtalkers (2002)
Posers (2002)
Skinwalkers (TV-2002)
Posers (2002)
Cowboys and Indians: The J.J.Harper Story (TV-2003)
The Big Empty (2003)
Coyote Waits (TV-2003)
A Thief in Time (TV-2004)
Sawtooth (2004)
Johnny Tootall (TV-2005)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Bottom`s Up (2006)
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (2006)
Luna: Spirit of the Whale (TV-2007)
Older Than America (2008)
Turok: Son of Stone (voice, VR-2008)
Help (2008)
Reel Injun (2009)

Donkey (2010)
the Stranger (VR-2010)
The Stepson (TV-2010)
Warrior (2010)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Paths of Souls (2012)
September Runs Red (2012)
Crook (2013)
Ice Soldiers (2014)
Grizzly (2014)
A Fighting Man (2014)
So We May Grow (2014, short)
The Road to Tophet (2014)
Into the Grizzly Maze (2014)
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (VR-2015)
Diablo (2015)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Hostiles (2017)
The Watchman’s Canoe (2017)
Juliana & the Medicine Fish (2017)
Monsters of God (TV-2017)
Juanita (2018)

The Unhealer (2020)
Percy (2020)
Monkey Beach (2020)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Swan Song (2021)
Exile (2022)
American/Indian (2022)
Hey, Viktor! (2023)

TV Series – Cast:
The Rez (1996)
Madison (1997)
First Wave (1999-)
Bliss (2002)
Moose TV (2006, mini-series)
Law & Order SVU (2007-2008)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007, mini-series)
Commanche Moon (2008, mini-series)

Big Love (2010)
Arctic Air (2012-2014)
Nancy Drew (2019-2020)
A Cut Above (Host, 2022-)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994)
North of 60 (1993, 1995)
Walker, Texas Ranger (1995)
CBS Schoolbreak Special (1995)
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1996)
Touched by an Angel (1996)
The Rez (1996)
Dead Man’s Gun (1997)
The Journey of Allen Strange (1997)
Madison (1997)
First Wave (1999)
Higher Ground (2000)
Bliss (2002)
The Dead Zone (2002)
Skinwalkers the Navajo Mysteries (200)
Everwood (2003)
Third Watch (2003, 2004)
JAG (2004)
Wapos Bay: The Series (2008)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Combat Hospital (2011)
Caution: May Contain Nuts (2012)
Hell on Wheels (2013)
Revolution (2013)
Backstrom (2015)
Drunk History (2019)
Supernatural (2019)
Nancy Drew (2019)
The Good Doctor (2020)

Monkey Beach, movie, poster,

The Power of the Dog, poster, movie,

Hubert Davis

Directors

Hubert Davis received a BA in Film and Communications from McGill University, and studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia with screenwriter Peggy Thompson. After years working as an editor he made his directorial debut with the short Hardwood in 2005 which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Learn more about Hubert Davis.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Hardwood (2005, short)
Aruba (2006, short)
Stronger Than Love (2007, short)
Invisible City (2009)

Move Your Mind (2010, short)
The National Parks Project (Wapusk National Park segemt, 2011)
Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sports and Me (TV-2012)
The Portrait (2012, short)
Play (2014, short)
Investors Group: Memories (VR-2015, short)
Giants of Africa (2016)
Rivolta (2017, short)
June’s – An HIV+Eatery (2018, short)
White Ribbon: Day After Day (2021)
Black Ice (2022)
The Well (2023)

Credits as a Screenwriter:
Hardwood (2005, short)

Move Your Mind (2010, short)
Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sports and Me (TV-2012)
The Portrait (2012, short)
Play (2014, short)

David Paetkau

Cast Members

B: November 10, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia

D>avid Paetkau’s big break came when he landed a co-starring role as Chuck Wheeler, the most popular and feared guy in school in the 2000 comedy Snow Day. He is best known for playing Constable Sam Braddock in 75 episodes of Flashpoint between 2008 and 2012.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Perfect Little Angels (TV-1998)

Snow Day (2000)
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (VR-2002)
Candy from Strangers (2002)
Bang, Bang, You’re Dead (TV-2002)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Thanksgiving Family Reunion (TV-2003)
For Heaven’s Sake (2006)
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem (2007)

Manslaughter (2010)
Goon (2011)
Man of Steel (2013)
The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship (2015)
A Mother Betrayed (2015)
The Space Between (2015)
Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017)
Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder (TV-2017)
Eat, Drink & Be Buried: A Gourmet Detective Mystery (TV-2017)
Darrow & Darrow 2 (TV-2018)/>

A Slice of Romance (TV-2021)
Come Fly with Me (TV-2023)

TV Series – Cast:
Snow Day (2000)
Taken (2003, mini-series)
LAX (2004)
Whistler (2006)
Flashpoint (2008-2012)

Dexter (2010)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998)
First Wave (1999)
So Weird (2000)
Smallville (2001, 2009)
Stargate SG-1 (2003)
Cold Squad (2004)
CSI: Miami (2005)
Eureka (2006)
Justice (2006)
Supernatural (2010)
Criminal Minds (2015)
Garage Sale Mysteries (2017)
The Gourmet detective (2017)
Darrow & Darrow (2018)
Colony (2018)
Morning Show Mysteries (2018, 2019)
The InBetween (2019)
Blood & Treasure (2019, 2020, 2022)
Nancy Drew (2020)
Sacred Lies (2020)

Goon: Last of the Enforcers, movie, poster, — Poster for Goon: Last of the Enforcers courtesy of Entertainment One.

Connor Price

Cast Members

Conner Price, actor, — Connor Price as Harry James in a still from the CBC series, X Company.

B: November 11, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario

Connor Price’s big break came when he played the role of Jay Braddock, the eldest son of Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger in the Ron Howard feature film Cinderella Man. Most recently, he appeared as a series regular for two seasons of Being Human. A role in the series Dead Zone brought a Young Artists Award. He is pictured in the role of Harry James on the CBC series X Company.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Sins of the Father (TV-2002)
Crossed Over (TV-2002)
Men With Brooms (2002)
A Promise (2002)
Fancy Dancing (2002)
The Republic of Love (2003)
Evel Knievel (TV-2004)
The Cinderella Man (2005)
A History of Violence (2005)
The Fool (2005)
The Stone Angel (2007)
Good Luck Chuck (2007)
The Rocket Man (2007)
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween (TV-2008)
Ollie & the Baked Halibut (2009)
Booky’s Crush (TV-2009)

Summer Camp (TV-2010)
Almost Kings (2010)
Cancel Christmas (TV-2010)
Frenemies (TV-2012)
Carrie (2013)
The Good Witch’s Wonder (TV-2014)
Bookends (2015, short)
The Riot Act (2018)
Honey Bee (2018)
Hammer (2020)
Night Shift (2023)

TV Series – Cast:
Alice, I Think (2006)
The Dead Zone (2007)
Guns (2008, mini-series)

What’s Up Warthogs! (2011)
Being Human (2013-2014)
X Company (2015-2016)
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
In a Heartbeat (2000)
72 Hours: True Crime (2003)
Doc (2003)
The Save-Ums! (2003
Kevin Hill (2005)
‘Til Death Do Us Part (2007)
Will & Dewitt (2007, 2008)
The Middleman (2008)

R.L. Stein’s The Haunting Hour (2010, 2012)
Murdoch Mysteries (2011)
Dan for Mayor (2011)
Haven (2011)
Alphas (2012)
Flashpoint (2012)
Saving Hope (2013)
Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures (2013)
Annedroids (2014)
Supernatural (2015)
Carter (2018)
FBI: International (2022)
Chicago Med (2022)
CSI: Vegas (2023)

The Stone Angel was directed by Kari Skogland

Ralph Lucas

Michael McNamara

Charles Officer

Keegan Connor Tracy

Charles Officer – Biography

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