Robert Joy

Robert Joy

1951-08-17 St. Johns - Newfoundland - Canada 77 Credits

Biography

Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor and producer.

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Man / Meteorite

Man / Meteorite

2025

as Bob

Acting

The short story of a man and a meteorite.

Girl From the North Country

Girl From the North Country

2024

as Dr. Walker

6.0
Acting

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

The Story of Faustus Bidgood

2023

as archive footage

Acting

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

Don't Look Up

2021

as Congressman Tenant

7.1
Acting

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

The Goldfinch

2019

as Welton 'Welty' Blackwell

7.1
Acting

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

Crown and Anchor

2018

as Doug

6.9
Acting

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

2.0
Acting

Documentary covering the making of The Dark Half.

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing

2012

as Self

6.4
Acting

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

Archetype

2011

as Jones

6.3
Acting

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

Acting

Prominent people from Newfoundland and Labrador discuss the province's history and their expectations for the future.

Down to the Dirt

Down to the Dirt

2008

as Robert Kavanagh

5.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Superhero Movie

2008

as Dr. Hawking

5.3
Acting

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

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

2007

as Col. Stevens

5.2
Acting

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

Acting

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

It's a Boy Girl Thing

2006

as Ted Bedworth

6.5
Acting

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

The Hills Have Eyes

2006

as Lizard

6.4
Acting

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

Whole New Thing

2005

as Rog

5.8
Acting

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.

Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead

2005

as Charlie

6.2
Acting

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

Pretty Persuasion

2005

as Larry Horowitz

5.8
Acting

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

Helter Skelter

2004

as Detective Morrisy

5.8
Acting

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

The Lazarus Child

2004

as Senator Willis

5.5
Acting

A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong

2003

as Dr. Rene Sutter

6.7
Acting

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

Between Strangers

2002

as Ralph

5.9
Acting

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Joe Somebody

Joe Somebody

2001

as Pat Chilcutt

5.7
Acting

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

Just Ask My Children

2001

as Sam Bennis

6.5
Acting

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*

61*

2001

as Bob Fitschel

7.0
Acting

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

Perfume

2001

as Andrew

4.8
Acting

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

Sweet November

2001

as Raeford Dunne

6.9
Acting

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

Haven

2001

as Lawrence Dickson

6.8
Acting

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

Cheaters

2000

as Larry Minkoff

6.2
Acting

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

The 70s

2000

as Hal Shales

5.3
Acting

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

Resurrection

1999

as Demus

6.2
Acting

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

Advice From a Caterpillar

1999

as Cafe Man

4.0
Acting

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

The Divine Ryans

1999

as Donald Ryan

Acting

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

Fallen

1998

as Charles

6.8
Acting

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

Moonlight Becomes You

1998

as Earl Bateman

7.0
Acting

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

3.5
Acting

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

A Modern Affair

1996

as Ernest Pohlsab

5.0
Acting

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

Harriet the Spy

1996

as Ben Welsch

6.1
Acting

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

Waterworld

1995

as Ledger Guy

6.2
Acting

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

Pharaoh's Army

1995

as Chicago

6.5
Acting

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

I'll Do Anything

1994

as U.S. Marshal

5.5
Acting

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

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

1994

as Freddie Flakes

5.5
Acting

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

Henry & Verlin

1994

as Ferris

4.0
Acting

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

Dieppe

1993

as Hughes-Hallett

Acting

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

Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

1993

as Sheldon Zenner

3.5
Acting

The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.

The Dark Half

The Dark Half

1993

as Fred Clawson

6.0
Acting

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

Gregory K

1993

as Ralph Kingsley

6.8
Acting

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

Shadows and Fog

1991

as Spiro's Assistant

6.7
Acting

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

Hyde in Hollywood

1991

as Julian Hyde

1.0
Acting

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

Judgment

1990

as Mr. Hummel

5.7
Acting

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

Longtime Companion

1989

as Ron

6.8
Acting

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

Millennium

1989

as Sherman

5.3
Acting

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

She's Back

1989

as Paul

3.3
Acting

A henpecked electrician is nagged by his recently deceased wife into taking revenge on the gang responsible for her death.

The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club

1988

as Michael Collins

Acting

A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.

Candy Mountain

Candy Mountain

1988

as Couple

5.7
Acting

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Big Shots

Big Shots

1987

as Dickie

6.3
Acting

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

Radio Days

1987

as Fred

7.1
Acting

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

Sword of Gideon

1986

as Hans

6.8
Acting

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

The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

1986

as Eddie Peddle

8.5
Acting

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

The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

1986

Music, Associate Producer, Assistant Script

8.5
Producing Directing

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

Miracle at Moreaux

1986

6.0
Acting

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

Joshua Then and Now

1985

as Colin

5.3
Acting

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

Terminal Choice

1985

as Dr. Harvey Rimmer

3.7
Acting

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

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

as Jim

6.1
Acting

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

Amityville 3-D

1983

as Elliot West

4.6
Acting

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

Ragtime

1981

as Henry Thaw

7.0
Acting

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

Ticket to Heaven

1981

as Patrick

6.6
Acting

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

Threshold

1981

as David Art

5.2
Acting

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

Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper

1981

as Mark Lijek

Acting

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

Acting

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

Writing

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

Atlantic City

1980

as Dave

6.8
Acting

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

Dolly Cake

1976

Acting

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

Dolly Cake

1976

Music, Writer

Writing

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

5.0
Acting

This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoke...