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Brian Downey is a Actor Canadien born on 31 october 1944 at St. John's (Canada)
Brian Downey (born 31 October 1944 in the Dominion of Newfoundland) is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Stanley Tweedle in the science-fiction television series Lexx.
Downey is a character actor who has appeared in various films and guest starring roles on TV, including a recurring role on Millennium. His first film role was in a 1986 Andy Jones film called The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, which features the entire cast of CODCO. Downey has enjoyed a long professional relationship with Lexx creator Paul Donovan, dating back at least to 1988, when Donovan cast Downey in the time travel adventure film Norman's Awesome Experience. Downey also appeared as Cardinal Juan de Mella in Donovan's medieval TV thriller The Conclave. Downey has worked with Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Sam Rockwell, and directors such as Joe Sargent. He won the 2010 only acting award at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival for his role in Whirligig, directed by Chaz Thorne, with whom he has worked on two previous features. He played the evil gang leader "The Drake", who runs the town in the feature film Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener.
Downey is also a musician and writer. Before being recruited as an actor, he spent many years as a bass player, guitarist, and blues harmonica player. He has been a writer for many stage plays and has led many script writing workshops. His first full length stage play, Peter's Other War, was produced during the summer of 2009.
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Brian Downey
Downey is a character actor who has appeared in various films and guest starring roles on TV, including a recurring role on Millennium. His first film role was in a 1986 Andy Jones film called The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, which features the entire cast of CODCO. Downey has enjoyed a long professional relationship with Lexx creator Paul Donovan, dating back at least to 1988, when Donovan cast Downey in the time travel adventure film Norman's Awesome Experience. Downey also appeared as Cardinal Juan de Mella in Donovan's medieval TV thriller The Conclave. Downey has worked with Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Sam Rockwell, and directors such as Joe Sargent. He won the 2010 only acting award at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival for his role in Whirligig, directed by Chaz Thorne, with whom he has worked on two previous features. He played the evil gang leader "The Drake", who runs the town in the feature film Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener.
Downey is also a musician and writer. Before being recruited as an actor, he spent many years as a bass player, guitarist, and blues harmonica player. He has been a writer for many stage plays and has led many script writing workshops. His first full length stage play, Peter's Other War, was produced during the summer of 2009.
Biography
Brian Downey est né et a grandi à Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve, dans la province de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador au Canada. Il exercera des métiers divers et variés (tels que gestionnaire de magasin ou mineur) avant de se consacrer plus particulièrement à un groupe de musique blues dans lequel il joue de la Basse. Il est alors repéré par un producteur de théâtre qui lui demande d'écrire une pièce sur l'impact de la découverte d'un puits de pétrole au large de Terre-Neuve. Porté par le succès, il sera amené à écrire des dizaines d'autres pièces et à participer à d'autres projets, ce qui va véritablement lancer sa carrière d'acteur.Usually with
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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
, 1h27Directed by Nicholas Sean Gomez(Nick Gomez)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime, Slasher
Actors Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Sara Botsford, Gregg Henry
Roles Jury Foreman
Rating58%
Based on the true story of Lizzie Borden, a Sunday School teacher who lived with her father Andrew, her stepmother Abby, and her older sister Emma in a small house in Fall River, Massachusetts, the film depicts a hot summer day in August 1892 in the Borden home where Lizzie comes across the grisly murder scene of her father who was brutally killed with a hatchet. After local law enforcement responds to the scene, the body of Abby Borden is discovered upstairs, also killed with an ax. As the case progresses, the evidence gathered by the authorities seems to point to Lizzie as their prime suspect. Lizzie's lawyer Andrew Jennings, however, maintains that a woman could not commit such a cruel act; arguing it is far too gruesome a crime for any woman to commit. Regardless, Lizzie is put on trial for the murders and the courtroom case makes headlines in newspapers throughout the country. Newspaper accounts state the crime to be the most infamous of the century. Eventually, the jury finds Lizzie innocent of all charges. The film ends with a fight between Emma and Lizzie, in which Lizzie asks Emma if she wanted know the truth. Lizzie then whispers inaudibly into Emma's ear while a series of flashbacks are shown in which Lizzie murders their stepmother and father. It is heavily implied that Lizzie Borden was in fact their murderer, and a visibly upset Emma leaves the room. Lizzie walks outside and hears three children jump roping to the famous nursery rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an ax/ And gave her mother forty wacks/ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one." Emma is then shown leaving the house, never to return.
Beethoven's Treasure Tail (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Ron Oliver
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Jonathan Silverman, Kristy Swanson, Jeffrey Combs, Alec Mapa, Jayne Eastwood, David DeLuise
Roles Norman the Magician
Rating46%
Vous hurlerez de rire avec cette toute nouvelle comédie pour toute la famille mettant en vedette le saint-bernard préféré de tous, le seul et unique Beethoven ! Retournant chez eux après une expérience désastreuse sur un plateau de tournage, le toutou au grand cœur et son entraîneur, Eddie, se retrouvent coincés dans un petit village côtier. Beethoven en profite pour se lier d'amitié avec un garçon du coin et l'aide à déchiffrer une carte de pirate vers un trésor caché, une aventure qui unira tous les villageois.
Copperhead (2013)
, 2hDirected by Ronald F. Maxwell
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Peter Fonda, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, François Arnaud
Roles Preacher Taggart
Rating56%
In a rural community upstate New York in 1862, farmer Abner Beech is a Northern antiwar Democrat. While his neighbors take up the Union cause in the ongoing American Civil War, Beech believes that coercion in resisting the secession of the southern states is unconstitutional, and gradually becomes more and more harassed for his views, derisively called a "Copperhead". His son, Thomas Jefferson Beech, enlists in the Union Army. Beech also arouses the ire of militant abolitionist Jee Hagadorn, whose daughter Esther (Lucy Boynton) loves Jeff.
The Disappeared (2012)
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey, Ryan Doucette
Roles Captain Gerald
Rating60%
After their fishing boat sinks, six men in two small dories find themselves stranded in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. They have little food and fresh water. The film follows their physical and mental fatigue as the days pass and they try to get home again.
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
, 1h26Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about alcoholism, La précarité, Comedy horror films
Actors Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, Robb Wells, Nick Bateman
Roles The Drake
Rating60%
A hobo (Rutger Hauer) arrives by boxcar in Hope Town, its welcome sign repainted to read "Scum Town". Scum Town is ruled by a man known as "The Drake" (Brian Downey) and his sadistic, murderous sons Ivan (Nick Bateman) and Slick (Gregory Smith). Just as he arrives, the Hobo witnesses an amateur film maker (Pasha Ebrahimi) shooting a "Bumfight" movie. While pushing his shopping cart of recyclables through the streets, he sees a distressed, bloodied man wearing a manhole cover stockade screaming for assistance. Two cars approach the man revealing Ivan, Slick and The Drake. An argument ensues and it is revealed the man in the stockade is The Drake's younger and disliked brother, Logan (Robb Wells). The Drake explains to the townspeople that his brother will serve as an example of his control and carries out the public decapitation of Logan with a barbed-wire noose attached to The Drake's truck.
Just Buried (2007)
, 1h34Directed by Chaz Thorne
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror
Actors Jay Baruchel, Rose Byrne, Graham Greene, Nigel Bennett, Sergio Di Zio, Reagan Pasternak
Roles Pickles
Rating59%
When Oliver Whynacht (Jay Baruchel) inherits his estranged father's funeral home, he discovers it is almost bankrupt. After a night of drinking with Roberta Knickel (Rose Byrne), he kills a local man with his truck. Roberta, who is both the local coroner and funeral home embalmer, helps Oliver stage the body so that it appears like an accident. However, when suspicion is raised that the death may not be accidental, Oliver and Roberta realize that they have to kill again. This need to hide their first crime and to keep the funeral home in business, Oliver and Roberta falling in love and participating in a series of "accidental" deaths. After Roberta gets pregnant the truth comes out that she had been using Oliver to get back the funeral home which originally belonged to her mother. Roberta killed Oliver's dad in order to use him to regain ownership of the funeral home, a process that cost Oliver his life.
Snow Angels (2007)
, 1h47Directed by David Gordon Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Brian Downey, Olivia Thirlby, Nicky Katt
Roles Frank Marchand
Rating67%
On a cold afternoon, with snow on the ground, a high school band is practicing for the last football game, when they hear gunshots. The film abruptly flashes back to a few weeks before, to a Chinese restaurant where a high school boy named Arthur (Michael Angarano) buses tables, and his ex-babysitter, Annie (Kate Beckinsale), and her best friend, Barb (Amy Sedaris), are waitresses. Arthur, who's a bit of a misfit, has a troubled home life caused by his constantly clashing parents, both of whom often forget about him. Annie's life isn't faring much better: she's now a single mother with an ill mother, separated from her husband, Glenn (Sam Rockwell), who's on the wagon and becoming a born-again Christian in order to prove that he is responsible enough to spend time with their young daughter, Tara. Depressed and lonely, Annie is having an affair with Barb's husband, Nate (Nicky Katt), which eventually serves to only make her unhappier, as she feels great guilt over betraying her best friend. Desperate to prove himself and still harboring feelings for his estranged wife (whom he suspects is seeing someone), Glenn gets a new job and spends as much time as possible with Tara. Meanwhile, Arthur finds himself growing close to Lila (Olivia Thirlby), a new student at the high school who has a knack for photography.
Sybil (2007)
, 3h18Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about child abuse
Actors Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Ron White, Fab Filippo, Brian Downey
Roles Willard
Rating68%
Le film est basé sur le livre Sybil de Flora Rheta Schreiber paru en 1973. Sybil Dorsett est une jeune femme diplômée qui souffre d'étranges absences et demande de l'aide à une psychiatre : le Dr Cornelia Wilbur. On suit la longue psychothérapie de Sybil, au cours de laquelle la thérapeute va mettre en évidence un trouble de la personnalité multiple, en l'occurrence, chez Sybil, ce sont dix-sept personnalités différentes qui prennent le contrôle d'elle-même. Certaines sont psychotiques et veulent la tuer. Ces troubles sont liés à des abus sexuels durant l'enfance. La thérapie va mener à la réintégration progressive de ces personnalités en une seule.
The Conclave (2006)
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Brian Blessed, James Faulkner, Rolf Kanies, Richard Donat, Peter Guinness, Brian Downey
Roles Juan de Mella
Rating64%
The plot centers around the conclave of 1458. The young Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI) is going through his first papal election.
Candles on Bay Street (2006)
, 2hDirected by John Erman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Alicia Silverstone, Eion Bailey, Annabeth Gish, Matthew Knight, Polly Bergen, James Rebhorn
Rating64%
A single mother, Dee-Dee (Alicia Silverstone), returns to her hometown after a lengthy absence, posing a potential threat to the marriage of her old high school flame and his wife.
Loyal Opposition (1998)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Politique, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Joan Van Ark, Nick Mancuso, Rick Springfield, Lloyd Bochner, Corbin Bernsen, Don Diamont
Roles Ben Harrison
Rating33%
When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Metzger (Nick Mancuso) urges President Mark Hayden (Lloyd Bochner) for a military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President hostage and launches an offensive of his own. The first female Vice President Elizabeth Lane (Joan Van Ark) is the only one who can do something about it and must fight mutineers in the White House to rescue him.
Norman's Awesome Experience (1989)
, 1h27Directed by Paul Donovan
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Tom McCamus, David Hemblen, Jacques Lussier, Brian Downey, Bill Carr
Roles Dr. Nobbelmeyer
Rating53%
The movie opens in modern day Switzerland where Norman (Tom McCamus) is a nebbish Canadian junior scientist working at a local nuclear power plant which his life takes a whole turn when an attractive Canadian model named Erica (Lori Paton) and her Italian photographer boyfriend Umberto (Jacques Lussier) persuade him to allow them access to the plant for a photo shoot. The next day, the three central characters are literally zapped back in time by a freak accident at the nuclear power plant in which none of them was an active participant. The three of them find themselves in an open field in the distant past at the exact spot where the nuclear power plant from the 20th century was. Their presence was not known to the scientists nearby, and time-travel was not the intent of the experiment at the nuclear facility. Therefore, Norman and his two friends are completely unable to return to their own time and they do not even bother seeking an attempt to get back, nor do they concern themselves with the possibility of changing history.
George's Island (1989)
, 1h29Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Ian Bannen, Sheila McCarthy, Maury Chaykin, Brian Downey, Gary Reineke
Roles Mr. Beane
Rating52%
Ten-year-old George (Nathaniel Moreau) lives in a dilapidated home near the Halifax Harbour with his grandfather Captain Waters (Ian Bannen). Captain Waters is a wheelchair-bound former sailor. He is fond of telling George ghost stories. He volunteers an old story about the time he saw Captain Kidd's ghost out in Halifax Harbour. When George learns in school about Kidd's supposed buried treasure out on nearby George's Island, he volunteers the story, and is punished by nosy school teacher Miss Birdwood (Sheila McCarthy). Miss Birdwood believes that the root of George's outburst is "trouble at home." She launches her own sneaky investigation to find out the truth. When she discovers that Captain Waters has a fondness for grog, she reports the family to Mr. Droonfield (Maury Chaykin) at Child Services. While Mr. Droonfield determines a course of action, George is temporarily placed with a foster family, the Beanes (portrayed by Brian Downey and Irene Hogan) who keep him locked up in a basement cell. On Halloween night, George and the Beanes' other adoptee, Bonnie (Vickie Ridler), escape with Captain Waters and head for safety on George's Island. Miss Birdwood and Mr. Droonfield give chase, but they accidentally awaken the ghosts of Captain Kidd (Gary Reineke) and his men, who think that the intruders are after their chest of gold.
, 1h50Directed by Andy Jones
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Andy Jones, Greg Malone, Robert Joy, Brian Downey, Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones
Roles Fred Bonia-Coombs
Rating71%