Russell Hodgkinson
Birthday: Born in 1959-08-14 in Homestead AFB, Florida, USA
Deathday: Alive
Russell was born on Homestead Air Force Base and grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. His first acting experience came in 7th grade, playing the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He continued acting throughout high school, passing up a theatre arts scholarship to join the Army after becoming a father his senior year. Peace time provided a unique opportunity as he soon began performing regularly at the esteemed Fort Bragg Playhouse. By the end of his enlistment he had earned his Actor's Equity card and moved to New York City. In 1986 he reenlisted in the Coast Guard, joining the crew of the USCG Cutter Sassafras in Hawaii. During off duty hours he studied at the Honolulu Film Actor's Workshop before being transferred to Long Beach, California where he met his wife actress Shelley Poncy. In 1992 the couple moved to Louisiana, where they became fixtures on the New Orleans stage. They moved to Seattle in 2003, Russell resumed his theatre career and became active in the Independent film scene. In 2014 he was cast to play 'Doc' on the SyFy original series 'Z Nation'.
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Z Nation
Character: Doc
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood....
Three Busy Debras
Character: Bathing Man
Debra, Debra, and Debra are three very busy women who are all named Debra. They live in the affluent suburb of Lemoncurd and do lots of interesting activities, which keep them very busy....
Grimm
Character: Ephram Geiger
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm....
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The Gamers: The Shadow Menace
Character: The Professor
Fifteen years after stumbling into our world from the fantasy land of Fartherall, Newmoon, Nimble, Magellan, and Rogar have struggled to adapt to modern life. Guided by the mysterious Professor, a new group of gamers takes control of their destiny and leads them on a new quest to find a portal to return home and defeat their nemesis, The Shadow, once and for all....
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Character: Joe Miller
An idyllic peninsula town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a ragtag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hordes of undead back!...
Maysville
Character: Clarence Wells
In 1929 Appalachia, where people play by their own rules, 13-year-old Teddy Rogers is forced to pay a penance for a terrible accident. He is soon hunted and haunted by his past....
Fat Kid Rules The World
Character: Marcus' Stepfather
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band....
Ghostlight
Character: Bob
Andrew wins a radio contest to spend one night alone in a haunted theater on the 80th anniversary of the bloody murder/suicide that occurred within its walls. His prize: $50,000. His task: To spend 12 hours alone inside. The catch: The theater has been reportedly haunted ever since the tragedy 80 years ago, and has been plagued by a series of mysterious deaths in the years since. As Andrew is locked inside the theater for the night, the ghosts and secrets of its past begin to reveal themselves t...
The Off Hours
Character: Alonzo
A waitress working the night shift at a roadside diner in a small, industrial town becomes intrigued by a charming truck driver, while the diner's owner struggles to keep his dwindling business afloat....
Grassroots
Character: Pernell Alden
Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general election. Based on a true story....
The Device
Character: Dr. Mora
Abby and Rebecca reunite to spread their mother's ashes at the family lake house, and uncover the nefarious object that divided them years earlier....
Star Leaf
Character: Seth Guardrail Slaughter
Hikers find a secret grove of extra-terrestrial marijuana and must fight for their lives when they anger the other-worldly forces protecting the plants....
7 Minutes
Character: Lawrence
When three young criminals lose a stash of drugs, they end up owing money to a ruthless drug lord. With time running out, they plan a daring robbery to raise the cash to settle the debt....
Big Fish
Character: Some Farmer
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures....
Junk
Character: Gauge
Kaveh and Raul are two b-movie co-writers who have suffered a bitter falling out. Kaveh's lost his girlfriend, and spends his days getting high in his apartment, while Raul is off studying at Columbia University. But when one of their films ("Islama-rama 2") is accepted by a film festival, the two ex-friends are forced to tentatively re-connect in order to pitch their script to the mysterious producer, Yukio Tai (James Hong). Along the way, they will have to brave brutish bodyguards, cutthroat c...
Eden
Character: Dave
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave....
The Hollow One
Character: John Eaton
Rachel and Anna return home two years after their mother’s death, and find the town abandoned with their house left in disgusting disarray. When Rachel begins hallucinating about their dead mother and some ancient artifact, terrifying clues begin falling into place surrounding their family’s past....
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
Character: Steven Beck
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado....
We Take the Low Road
Character: George
A Wiki-Leaks release illuminates the collusion amongst politicians and the medical industry that drives the cost of medical care to an unattainable price for the middle class. With the guilty parties' names and addresses being released, a vigilante movement springs up around the Untied States. After his father loses the battle with cancer, Mason, along with Thompson and Bobbi, seek violent justice and hope for riches along the way. A shotgun blast sparks a string of unintended consequences that ...
The Stairs
Character: Gabriel Mason
In 1997, 11-year-old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers sets off into the very same woods. Unfortunately for them, they come face-to-face with the very same set of stairs......
GODFART
Character: God
In the beginning... God embarked on a quest... for breakfast. An apparently very true story of how the universe was created....
The Gamers: The Series
Character: The Professor
Fifteen years after stumbling into our world from the fantasy land of Fartherall, Newmoon, Nimble, Magellan, and Rogar have struggled to adapt to modern life. Guided by the mysterious Professor, a new group of gamers takes control of their destiny and leads them on a new quest to find a portal to return home and defeat their nemesis, The Shadow, once and for all....