Biography
Shawn Doyle (born 1968) is a Canadian actor. Doyle was born and raised in Wabush, Newfoundland, the son of actor Jerry Doyle. He moved to Toronto to study theatre at York University. He has won three awards for his critically acclaimed performance as Dennis Langley in The Eleventh Hour. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has also starred in the American shows 24 as Ronnie Lobell, Desperate Housewives as Mr. Hartley and as Joey Henrickson in Big Love. He has also made several film appearances; as ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Ashgrove Experiment
2024
as Self
An indie film crew throw caution to the wind when they attempt to shoot a completely improvised drama where the film's big twist is being kept secret ...

Ashgrove
2022
as Elliot
Set during a pandemic that affects the world's water supply, one of the world's top scientists is battling to find a cure.

Eco-Hack!
2022
Sound
Conservation biologist Tim Shields sees urgency in the field and finds that traditional conservation practices are lacking when it comes to saving des...

The Last Mark
2022
as Keele
After a young woman witnesses a mob hit, a seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner must track her down before she turns them in, but she proves to...

American Woman
2019
as Cowboy
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.

Some Saturdays
2018
as Hank
Hank and his wife, Jules, both in their 40s, set out for a leisurely summer boat ride. As they drift out into the harbor, we quickly realize that thin...

Away from Everywhere
2017
as Owen
A struggling writer emerges from rehab and reunites with his estranged brother, but soon descends into a tragic love triangle and is forced to confron...

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
2014
as Marshall Hilliard
Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. ...

The Returned
2013
as Jacob
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

Hunting Season
2013
as Charlie
Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
Method
2013
as Daniel O'Shea
Officer Daniel O'Shea must go to extraordinary lengths to get a confession.

The Disappeared
2012
as Pete
Six men. Two dories. The fight of their lives. Starring Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey. Directed by Shandi Mitchell. Filmed in Nova Scoti...
John A.: Birth of a Country
2011
as John A. Macdonald
A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and...

Grown Up Movie Star
2009
as Ray
The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Grown Up Movie Star
2009
Producer
The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Whiteout
2009
as Sam Murphy
The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set an...

The Robber Bride
2007
as John Grismer
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they'v...

Mount Pleasant
2006
as Stephan Burrows
Three couples find their destinies irrevocably intertwined in a fusion of obsession and fragile love when a six-year-old girl finds a junkie's discard...

Just Visiting
2006
as Karl
A Canadian family visiting the United States finds themselves in a situation that threatens to ruin them. Attitudes about race, class, and country are...

Eight Days to Live
2006
as Tim Spring
A mother searches for her lost son, who after four days still has not returned from a party at a friend's house a day's drive away.

Sabah
2005
as Stephen Montpellier
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind...

Do or Die
2003
as Alan Yann
A virus causes people to age rapidly. There is an antidote, but it has to be taken daily and is under control of a single company. A woman who is not ...

Verdict in Blood
2002
as Alex Emanuel
When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide inv...

A Killing Spring
2002
as Detective Alex Emanuel
When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an apparent attempt at autoerotic suffocation, Joanne Ki...

The Majestic
2001
as Federal Agent Saunders
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a lon...

Knockaround Guys
2001
as Deputy Ward
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.

Don't Say a Word
2001
as Russel Maddox
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, su...

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Crow Gollotti
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds t...

Stiletto Dance
2001
as Anton Seaberg
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.

Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
2000
as Royal McCullough
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city unti...

Frequency
2000
as Jack Shepard
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent...

Papertrail
1998
as Chuck Switzer
Jason Enola is an obsessive FBI agent who is almost losing his mind after ten years on the tail of an elusive serial killer whose hallmark is the "pap...

Babyface
1998
A 13 year old with an over-sexed mother starts an affair with her mother's live-in boy friend.

Sleeping Dogs Lie
1998
as Hammond
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?
The Hangman's Bride
1997
as Jean Corolere
Jean Corolère and Françoise Laurent were prisoners in New France. They escaped the death penalty as Corolère accepted the executioner's job and marrie...
The Hangman's Bride
1997
Story
Jean Corolère and Françoise Laurent were prisoners in New France. They escaped the death penalty as Corolère accepted the executioner's job and marrie...

Peacekeepers
1997
as Pte. Cobourne
A Canadian Army unit with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia is tasked with keeping the peace in a dangerous Croatian town...

Giant Mine
1996
as Al Shearing
CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Donlevy Bum Cop
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
1996
as Adam
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...
The Voices of Our Mother
N/A
as Father Roslovic
When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.
Falsehood
N/A
as President David
In a dystopian future where all of humanity's memories have become government-regulated transactional products, mankind's crown-jewel memory is stolen...