Biography
Born in Czechoslovakia. After graduating in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague, Jan Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member o...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Our Fathers
2005
as Pope John Paul
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of ...

Daniel and the Superdogs
2004
as The Colonel
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog ...

The Burial Society
2002
as Marvin Telekunsky
In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates the mysterious world of the Chevrah Kadisha ...

Anthrax
2001
as Arthur Kowalski
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the bla...

The Christmas Secret
2000
as Andree
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas...

Believe
2000
as Jason Stiles
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives h...

Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Ole Jurgensen
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...

What Katy Did
1999
as Dr. Reinhart
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on l...

Nightmare Man
1999
as Evan Hannibal
After recovering from a near-fatal wound, a cop develops the ability to see crime scenes through psychic flashes.

The White Raven
1998
as Markus Strand
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second l...

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1998
as Hendrick de Vries
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.

Music from Another Room
1998
as Louis Klammer
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl h...

Flood: A River's Rampage
1997
as Jacob Gunderson
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit li...

Sarabande
1997
as Dr. Kassovitz
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels...

Never Too Late
1996
as Joseph
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

Roommates
1995
as Bolek Krupa
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
as Far
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen h...

Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
1994
as Phantom
Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.

Mesmer
1994
as Professor Stoerk
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal mag...

D2: The Mighty Ducks
1994
as Jan
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Duck...

The Birds II: Land's End
1994
as Karl
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more...

On My Own
1993
as The Colonel
Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in th...

Devlin
1992
as Vittorio Di Fabrizi
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.

The Witches of Eastwick
1992
as Fidel
An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes ...

Deceived
1991
as Tomasz
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a c...

Class Action
1991
as Pavel
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...

Descending Angel
1990
as Bishop Dancu
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murder...

The Amityville Curse
1990
as The Priest
After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of their closest friends to help renovate. Immediately uneasy...

Courage Mountain
1990
as Grandfather
At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.

Divided Loyalties
1990
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, w...

Cold Front
1989
as Zoubov
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.

The Experts
1989
as Illyich
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don'...

Blind Fear
1989
as Lasky
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
No Blame
1988
Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant an...
Something About Love
1988
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he...

The Kiss
1988
as Gordon Tobin
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to ...

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
1988
as Augustus Glick
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing fami...

Blood Relations
1988
as Andreas
A trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife... Dying for ...

Dead of Winter
1987
as Dr. Joseph Lewis
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

The Marriage Bed
1986
as Max Ehrlich
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at h...

One Magic Christmas
1985
as Santa Claus
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gid...

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Giorgi Denerenko (uncredited)
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...

Murder in Space
1985
as Gregory Denarenko
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...

Witness
1985
as Eli Lapp
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their communi...

Charlie Grant's War
1985
as Jacob
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.

The Amateur
1981
as Kaplan
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
as Psychiatrist
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to finan...

Mr. Patman
1981
as Vrakettas
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

Deadly Harvest
1977
as Swenson
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
Lions for Breakfast
1975
as Ivan
A man, a dog, and two boys travel together by bus, including a tour through a safari park.

The Incredible Journey
1963
as Carl Nurmi
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?