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Ron Canada is a Actor American born on 3 may 1949 at New York City (USA)

Ron Canada

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Birth name Ronald Ellis Canada
Nationality USA
Birth 3 may 1949 (74 years) at New York City (USA)

Ronald Ellis "Ron" Canada (born May 3, 1949) is an American actor.

Best films

Lone Star (1996)
(Actor)

Usually with

Matt Ruskin
Matt Ruskin
(2 films)
John Sayles
John Sayles
(1 films)
Alec Sulkin
Alec Sulkin
(1 films)
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Filmography of Ron Canada (36 films)

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Actor

Crown Heights
Directed by Matt Ruskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lakeith Stanfield, Nestor Carbonell, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Bill Camp, Sarah Goldberg, Josh Pais
Roles Judge Marcy
Rating66% 3.3470853.3470853.3470853.3470853.347085
Brooklyn teenager, Colin Warner, is wrongfully convicted of murder and he leaves his best friend, Carl King, to devote his life to proving his innocence.
The Discovery, 1h50
Directed by Charlie McDowell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Actors Rooney Mara, Riley Keough, Jesse Plemons, Robert Redford, Jason Segel, Ron Canada
Roles Cooper
Rating62% 3.101483.101483.101483.101483.10148
Thomas Harbor est un scientifique qui travaille d'une façon indépendante sur la connaissance du cerveau et de la conscience. Il fait une découverte cruciale qu'il rend publique : il a trouvé d'une façon indubitable que la conscience humaine existait en dehors du corps et survivait dans un autre monde à la mort du sujet. Convaincues qu'une autre vie plus heureuse les attendait après leur mort, de plus en plus de personnes optent pour le suicide. Le professeur Harbor est déstabilisé par cette situation et décide de continuer ses recherches en secret dans un château sur une île isolée en compagnie d'un certain nombre de patients qui le soutiennent.
Crown Heights, 1h34
Directed by Matt Ruskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Lakeith Stanfield, Nestor Carbonell, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Bill Camp, Yul Vazquez, Sarah Goldberg
Roles Judge Marcy
Rating66% 3.3470853.3470853.3470853.3470853.347085
Le 10 avril 1980, une fusillade éclate dans une rue de Crown Heights. Colin Warner est arrêté et accusé de crimes qu'il n'a pas commis. Alors que Colin a perdu tout espoir de sortir un jour de prison, son meilleur ami Carl King va tout tenter pour prouver son innocence et le faire libérer.
Ted 2
Ted 2 (2015)
, 1h55
Directed by Seth MacFarlane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Mise en scène d'un ours, Films about toys, Buddy films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Seth MacFarlane, Patrick Warburton, Tara Strong, Jessica Barth
Roles Judge
Rating62% 3.1499453.1499453.1499453.1499453.149945
John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) has been divorced from Lori Collins for six months due to her not accepting Ted (Seth MacFarlane) again despite her wish in bringing Ted back to life. Meanwhile, Ted marries his girlfriend, Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). One year later, their marriage is beginning to break down so they decide to have a child. As Ted cannot have children, John agrees to help Ted find a sperm donor. They ask Sam J. Jones, but he refuses due to a low sperm count. Then they try unsuccessfully to break into Tom Brady's house and steal his sperm. Ultimately, John offers to donate his sperm (something that Ted wanted to ask him but hesitated due to John's divorce).
Ocean of Pearls, 1h37
Genres Drama
Actors Navi Rawat, Heather McComb, Brenda Strong, Rena Owen, Dennis Haskins, Ron Canada
Roles Dr. Wiiliam Ballard
Rating69% 3.4757153.4757153.4757153.4757153.475715
Dr. Amrit Singh, A young Sikh surgeon, moves from Toronto to Detroit to take a position at a new transplant facility, leaving behind his family and Indian girlfriend. The film follows Amrit's struggles against the pressures to assimilate, including considering removing his turban and cutting his hair, racial discrimination, an unfair medical system in which uninsured patients cannot receive transplants, and romantic temptation in the shape of an attractive colleague. The film is semi-autobiographical, and reflects the experience of Sikhs in America post-9/11.
The Haunting of Molly Hartley, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about religion
Actors Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, AnnaLynne McCord, Marin Hinkle, Jake Weber, Josh Stewart
Roles Mr. Bennett
Rating39% 1.955291.955291.955291.955291.95529
The film begins with a teenage girl, Laurel Miller (Jessica Lowndes), going into the woods to meet her boyfriend Michael (Randy Wayne). He gives her an early birthday present, but her father (Jamie McShane) shows up and demands that she leave with him. As they drive home, Laurel tells him that she will be marrying Michael as soon as she turns eighteen. He breaks down and apologizes to her, telling her he can't let her turn 18, then purposely crashes their car. Seeing that she is not dead, he kills her with a broken piece of mirror, saying he couldn't let the darkness take her.
Snowglobe
Snowglobe (2007)
, 1h30
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Christina Milian, Josh Cooke, Matt Keeslar, Luciana Carro, Lorraine Bracco, Ron Canada
Roles Antonio
Rating58% 2.9042952.9042952.9042952.9042952.904295
Angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does not share her love for the holiday at all. When she is about to break down because of her family, she receives a snowglobe in the mail. When she opens up the snowglobe, she is transported into the world inside, where Christmas is the heart and soul for everyone who lives there. She discovers she can return to her world by going down a small path in the small forest at the edge of the village, and can return whenever she winds up the snowglobe. After a long set of visits to the globe, she accidentally gets trapped inside.
Cinderella Man, 2h24
Directed by Ron Howard, Ang Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Bruce McGill, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine
Roles Joe Jeanette
Rating79% 3.9973153.9973153.9973153.9973153.997315
James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae; she cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, yet she knows they will have no good income without his boxing.
Wedding Crashers, 1h59
Directed by David Dobkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Buddy films, Films about marriage
Actors Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper
Roles Randolph
Rating69% 3.49713.49713.49713.49713.4971
John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are divorce mediators in Washington D.C. The two friends frequently "crash" wedding parties to meet and bed women, working from a set of rules taught to them by a retired crasher, Chazz Reinhold.
Just Like Heaven, 1h35
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Jon Heder, Dina Spybey, Ivana Miličević
Roles Dr. Walsh
Rating67% 3.35223.35223.35223.35223.3522
Elizabeth Masterson (Witherspoon), a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott (Ruffalo), a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth's, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a 'fateful' happenstance.
National Treasure, 2h11
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, L'Or, White House in fiction
Actors Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Sean Bean
Roles Guard Woodruff
Rating68% 3.447713.447713.447713.447713.44771
Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is an American historian, amateur cryptologist, and the youngest descendant of a long line of treasure hunters. While his father Patrick Henry Gates (Jon Voight) discourages him from following in the family line, Ben is driven on by a story told by his grandfather, John Adams Gates (Christopher Plummer). According to John, a clue - the phrase "The secret lies with Charlotte" - was entrusted to the family by Charles Carroll of Carrollton in 1832, and would lead to the fabled "national treasure", a wealth of artifacts dating from Ancient Egypt and secretly hidden by the Founding Fathers and the Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War.
Reversible Errors, 2h55
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors William H. Macy, Tom Selleck, Monica Potter, Felicity Huffman, James Rebhorn, Glenn Plummer
Rating61% 3.098633.098633.098633.098633.09863
A young woman and two other people are killed in a Kindle County local bar. Experienced detective sergeant Larry Starczek (Tom Selleck) begins investigation on the murders. Soon everything points to the small time thief Squirell. Larry arrests him and makes the thief confess. After a short trial Squirrel goes to the prison where he'll be executed.
The United States of Leland, 1h48
Directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Prison films
Actors Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Ryan Malgarini, Jena Malone, Lena Olin
Roles Elden
Rating69% 3.496683.496683.496683.496683.49668
The film begins with a flashback narrated by Leland P. Fitzgerald, describing how he couldn't remember the details of the day that he killed an intellectually disabled boy named Ryan Pollard. Leland is arrested. Ryan's parents, Harry and Karen, sisters Becky and Julie, as well as Julie's live-in boyfriend Allen grieve the loss of their loved one. Leland's divorced mother, Marybeth, is desperate to see her son, while his father, famous writer Albert Fitzgerald, discovers his son's fate in a newspaper and returns home to be there for the trial.
The Human Stain, 1h46
Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Jacinda Barrett, Wentworth Miller
Roles Herb Keble
Rating61% 3.0988153.0988153.0988153.0988153.098815
In the late 1990s, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) has settled in a lakeside New England cabin following his second divorce and a battle with prostate cancer. His quiet life is interrupted by Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a former dean and professor of classics at local Athena College, who was forced to resign after being accused of making a racist remark in class. Coleman's wife died suddenly following the scandal, and he wants to avenge his loss of career and companion by writing a book about the events with Nathan's assistance.
The Hunted
The Hunted (2003)
, 1h34
Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Ron Canada
Roles Harry Van Zandt
Rating61% 3.0507053.0507053.0507053.0507053.050705
U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), a former United States clandestine operator, is introduced initially as the focus of the story. He is shown to have performed extraordinarily courageous and savage tasks in the course of government service. These actions leave the sensitive and intelligent Hallam conflicted and it is portrayed that he was either set up, or that the government was at some point later dissatisfied with the results of his further assignments.