Don McKellar
Birthday: Born in 1963-08-17 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Odd Job Jack
Character: Jack Ryder (voice)
Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in Latin America, the show has currently finished its production run as of its fourth season. The second season has been released to DVD, and seasons two through four can currently be seen on the on demand streaming video service Hulu....
Degrassi
Character: Keith
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School....
Once a Thief
Character:
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name....
Twitch City
Character: Curtis
Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent....
Sensitive Skin
Character: Al
Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age....
Hey Lady!
Character: Dr. Wolfe
Nothing is safe when fearlessly off-the-charts senior citizen Lady and her chain-smoking best friend embark on a rampage of urban vengeance, upturning everything in their path....
Slings & Arrows
Character: Darren Nichols
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes....
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
Character: Clarence Fines
In 1930s Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, a small town parish pastor, sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address from the pulpit. Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation where his idealism runs into powerful opposition from the wealthy and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader that would transform Canada....
Republic of Doyle
Character: J.J. Murphy
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law....
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eXistenZ
Character: Yevgeny Nourish
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged....
Exotica
Character: Thomas
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives....
I Was a Rat
Character: Oliver Tapscrew
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball....
Blindness
Character: Thief
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine....
When Night Is Falling
Character: Timothy
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college who is engaged to Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray....
Highway 61
Character: Pokey Jones
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way....
Where the Truth Lies
Character: Publishing Executive
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team....
The Event
Character: Matt Shapiro
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members — mother Lila and sister Dana — she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick....
Waydowntown
Character: Brad
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel....
Childstar
Character: Rick Shille
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother....
The Red Violin
Character: Evan Williams (Montréal)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history....
Roadkill
Character: Russel, the Serial Killer
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs....
Last Night
Character: Patrick Wheeler
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day....
Clean
Character: Vernon
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son....
Cooking With Stella
Character: Michael Laffont
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff....
Trigger
Character: Brian
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night....
Rub & Tug
Character: Conrad
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients....
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Character: Mike
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?...
Monkey Warfare
Character: Dan
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs....
Vinyl
Character: Himself
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting....
Treading Water
Character: Richard
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura....
This Might Be Good
Character:
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly. And proud, desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest self-projection. All squeezing together for a few days, in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time. Of ...
Giant Steps
Character: Real Estate Hucker
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician....
Camilla
Character: Security Guard
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and makes peace with herself and her son, while Freda discovers inner resources she never knew she had....
Public Domain
Character: Host
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment....
Through Black Spruce
Character: Journalist
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her....
Redacted
Character: Criminal Investigator (voice)
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis....
Waiting for Ishtar
Character: Self
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987)....
Green Door
Character: Ron
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Character: Concert Promoter
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist....
Sarabande
Character: Max
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites....
Crimes of the Future
Character: Wippet
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution....
Trudeau
Character: Greenbaum
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians....
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Character: Paul Heller
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption....
Three Days in Havana
Character: Pepe
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba....
American Woman
Character: Newscaster 1 (voice)
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress....
Subconscious Password
Character: The Host (voice)
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament....
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Character: Prosecutor
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder....
Arrowhead
Character: Ray Bud
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building....
The Adjuster
Character: Tyler, the young censor
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....
My Niagara
Character: Cabel
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions....
Elimination Dance
Character: Male Dance Partner
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event....
Window Horses
Character: Dietmar
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational...
Zoom
Character: Horowitz
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others....
Lolz-ita
Character: Eric
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity....
Your Mother and I
Character: Father
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits....
Meditation Park
Character: Gabriel
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry....
Blood Honey
Character: Dr. Bert Morrison
Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare....
Never Met Picasso
Character: Jerry
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry....
I'm Yours
Character: Phil
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy....
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Character: Bernard Buckley
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession....
The Middle Man
Character: Doctor
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news....
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Character: Alfred
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her....
Target Number One
Character: Norm
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel....
Sea People
Character: Mr. Whittaker
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live without the sea, although in another sense....
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Character: Director
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors....