Biography
Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor and producer.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Man / Meteorite
2025
as Bob
The short story of a man and a meteorite.
Girl From the North Country
2024
as Dr. Walker
Set in 1934 Duluth, Minnesota, during the Great Depression, Girl from the North Country centres on Nick Laine, who struggles to keep his guesthouse af...
The Story of Faustus Bidgood
2023
as archive footage
This is the story of The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, a surreal comedy about a lowly bureaucrat and his fantasies of becoming president of an indepen...
Don't Look Up
2021
as Congressman Tenant
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
The Goldfinch
2019
as Welton 'Welty' Blackwell
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he st...
Crown and Anchor
2018
as Doug
When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left behind...
The Sparrows Are Flying Again! - The Making of the Dark Half
2014
as Himself
Documentary covering the making of The Dark Half.
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
2012
as Self
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, ...
Archetype
2011
as Jones
Archetype tells the story about a robot RL7. After a defect in a chip; he begins to memorize and realises he could have been human once...
In for a Penny
2009
as Self
Prominent people from Newfoundland and Labrador discuss the province's history and their expectations for the future.
Down to the Dirt
2008
as Robert Kavanagh
Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection...
Bedroom
2008
as Dan
In the sanctuary of the bedroom, a husband and wife are able to honestly discuss their desires and disappointments and if they should continue their l...
Superhero Movie
2008
as Dr. Hawking
Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the vill...
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007
as Col. Stevens
After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Pr...
Dinner for One
2006
as Man
An operatic comedy about two neighbors with three things in common: they share a bathroom wall, a love of opera and a habit of taking their meals in t...
It's a Boy Girl Thing
2006
as Ted Bedworth
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a s...
The Hills Have Eyes
2006
as Lizard
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the trave...
Whole New Thing
2005
as Rog
Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
Land of the Dead
2005
as Charlie
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in...
Pretty Persuasion
2005
as Larry Horowitz
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Helter Skelter
2004
as Detective Morrisy
The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious m...
The Lazarus Child
2004
as Senator Willis
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
2003
as Dr. Rene Sutter
The extraordinary true story of Candice DeLong, the FBIs first female profiler who rose above the bureau's sexism to take on the most terrifying and p...
Between Strangers
2002
as Ralph
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Joe Somebody
2001
as Pat Chilcutt
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest ...
Just Ask My Children
2001
as Sam Bennis
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
61*
2001
as Bob Fitschel
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...
Perfume
2001
as Andrew
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...
Sweet November
2001
as Raeford Dunne
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very differ...
Haven
2001
as Lawrence Dickson
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to l...
Cheaters
2000
as Larry Minkoff
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic compet...
The 70s
2000
as Hal Shales
Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter, Eileen, Byron...
Resurrection
1999
as Demus
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembe...
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999
as Cafe Man
When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is...
The Divine Ryans
1999
as Donald Ryan
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously hav...
Fallen
1998
as Charles
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...
Moonlight Becomes You
1998
as Earl Bateman
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmoth...
Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
1996
as Dr. Steve Gibson
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she h...
A Modern Affair
1996
as Ernest Pohlsab
A Modern Affair is an independent feature directed by Vern Oakley and produced by Tribe Pictures. Starring Stanley Tucci and Lisa Eichhorn, the film's...
Harriet the Spy
1996
as Ben Welsch
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her ...
Waterworld
1995
as Ledger Guy
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...
Pharaoh's Army
1995
as Chicago
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While th...
I'll Do Anything
1994
as U.S. Marshal
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter h...
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
1994
as Freddie Flakes
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Henry & Verlin
1994
as Ferris
Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verl...
Dieppe
1993
as Hughes-Hallett
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
1993
as Sheldon Zenner
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
The Dark Half
1993
as Fred Clawson
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides...
Gregory K
1993
as Ralph Kingsley
TV movie based on the the story of the kid who divorced his parents. Gregory has lived a rough life. His father abuses him and his two brothers. The b...
Shadows and Fog
1991
as Spiro's Assistant
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Hyde in Hollywood
1991
as Julian Hyde
A closeted gay movie director/actor in 1939 finds himself the target of the vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip columnist reporter who goes b...
Judgment
1990
as Mr. Hummel
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty ...
Longtime Companion
1989
as Ron
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterio...
Millennium
1989
as Sherman
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparab...
She's Back
1989
as Paul
A henpecked electrician is nagged by his recently deceased wife into taking revenge on the gang responsible for her death.
The Suicide Club
1988
as Michael Collins
A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
Candy Mountain
1988
as Couple
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Big Shots
1987
as Dickie
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...
Radio Days
1987
as Fred
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
Sword of Gideon
1986
as Hans
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
1986
as Eddie Peddle
Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In...
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
1986
Music, Associate Producer, Assistant Script
Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In...
Miracle at Moreaux
1986
Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic sch...
Joshua Then and Now
1985
as Colin
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to ...
Terminal Choice
1985
as Dr. Harvey Rimmer
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his la...
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Jim
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...
Amityville 3-D
1983
as Elliot West
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place...
Ragtime
1981
as Henry Thaw
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
Ticket to Heaven
1981
as Patrick
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of ...
Threshold
1981
as David Art
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Et...
Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981
as Mark Lijek
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Sisters of the Silver Scalpel
1981
A nature documentary about the wild Nuns of Newfoundland-- Originated as a "filmeo" to be performed live by Codco, but eventually overdubbed with audi...
Sisters of the Silver Scalpel
1981
Writer
A nature documentary about the wild Nuns of Newfoundland-- Originated as a "filmeo" to be performed live by Codco, but eventually overdubbed with audi...
Atlantic City
1980
as Dave
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a...
Dolly Cake
1976
A Codco documentary turned improvised drama about a woman named Dolly who, fed up with taking care of a group of ungrateful layabouts, runs away. The ...
Dolly Cake
1976
Music, Writer
A Codco documentary turned improvised drama about a woman named Dolly who, fed up with taking care of a group of ungrateful layabouts, runs away. The ...
Dracula
1973
as Porter
This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoke...