Biography
David Ian Hewlett (born April 18, 1968) is an English-born Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay on the science fiction television shows Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Levels
2024
as Oliver
After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.

Gatekeepers
2024
as Bruce
After signing up for a literal elevator pitch, a screenwriter grapples with the conflicting advice from three very different producers.

A Thousand Cuts
2024
as Cornelius
Tonight, on a live TV special, Roberta and her co-host Frasier will attempt to solve the notorious murder of famous horror novelist Bernard Balance, w...

The Swearing Jar
2022
as Bill
Carey and Simon, an otherwise perfect couple, are trying to kick their swearing habit before their baby arrives. Tumultuous times ensue as Carey meets...

Nightmare Alley
2021
as Dr. Elrood
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dang...

Lie Exposed
2020
as Brian
Melanie (Leslie Hope) has a good, solid life, but when she’s diagnosed with cancer, her world spirals out of control. Instead of confronting her disea...

Turkey Drop
2019
as Mr. Jacobs
Lucy Jacobs, a freshman university student, returns home to her small town for Thanksgiving break and suspects she's about to get turkey dropped— aka ...

Midway
2019
as Husband Kimmel
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

All About Who You Know
2019
as Michael
An aspiring screenwriter writes his most ambitious script to date by plotting out a rom-com relationship with the daughter of his screenwriting idol, ...

Lucky Day
2019
as Derrek Blarney
Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, ...

The Shape of Water
2017
as Fleming
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphi...

Debug
2014
Director, Writer
Six young computer hackers sent to work on a derelict space freighter, are forced to match wits with a vengeful artificial intelligence that would kil...

Haunter
2013
as Olivia's Father
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and ...

FANomenon
2013
as Self
Fanomenon follows rural retail worker Suzie as she goes on a quest to meet her hero, a fictional space explorer. She journeys through the world of sci...

Rage of the Yeti
2011
as Mills
A team of treasure hunters in the Arctic are attacked by ferocious snow beasts. Before long, the adventure is no longer about finding riches - it’s ab...

Rage of the Yeti
2011
Director
A team of treasure hunters in the Arctic are attacked by ferocious snow beasts. Before long, the adventure is no longer about finding riches - it’s ab...

Morlocks
2011
as Radnor
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as Douglas Hunsiker
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primat...

The Whistleblower
2010
as Fred Murray
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to ...

Splice
2010
as Barlow
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together huma...

Helen
2009
as Frank
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles aro...

Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
2009
as Rodney McKay
The exhilarating, feature-length pilot episode, "Rising", sends a brilliant team of scientists through a Stargate to the legendary city of Atlantis. B...

A Dog's Breakfast
2007
as Patrick
If you've never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different? Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with h...

A Dog's Breakfast
2007
Director, Writer, Story
If you've never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different? Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with h...

Boa vs. Python
2004
as Dr. Emmett
After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human...

Darklight
2004
as Anders Raeborne
Captured by a secret society known as the Faith and mentally controlled with a powerful spell, ancient demoness Lilith now lives as a young woman with...

Ice Men
2004
as Bryan
For the first time since taking possession of the family cabin, Vaughn has invited his best friends up for a winter weekend of hunting and drinking. B...

Foolproof
2003
as Lawrence Yeager
Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually perform them. The game goes wrong when their latest...

Nothing
2003
as Dave
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who wor...

Nothing
2003
Story
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who wor...

Cypher
2002
as Virgil C. Dunn
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-...

Treed Murray
2001
as Murray
An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.

Century Hotel
2001
as Michael
David Weaver makes his feature debut with this omnibus film in which each tale is told during different points during the 20th century, but in the sam...

The Triangle
2001
as Gus Gruber
This made-for-TV movie follows a group of friends as they try to find a boat lost for 50 years in the Bermuda Triangle.

The Life Before This
1999
as Nick
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.

Survivor
1999
as Doc
An Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that...

Cube
1998
as Worth
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to...

On the 2nd Day of Christmas
1997
as Mel
Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallet...

Bad Day on the Block
1997
as Andrew
The heat is at record highs, the air conditioner is broken, the milk has gone bad, the repairman can't find the house... and then there's the neighbor...
Joe's Wedding
1996
as Rob Fitzgerald
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his weddin...

Elevated
1996
as Hank
Ben and Ellen use the elevator in their building when all of a sudden, Hank, the blood covered security man of the building rushes into the elevator, ...

Dead Meat
1993
An encounter between a drug addict and a hit man on the Toronto streets.

The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later
1992
as Steven Lunney (age 25)
Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now fi...

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1992
as Deadpan
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to ...

Quiet Killer
1992
as Nyles Chapman
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still o...

The First Circle
1992
as 'Ruska' Rostislav
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a spec...

A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
1992
as Walter Jenkins
The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to hel...

Split Images
1992
as Gary Hammond
A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe h...

Scanners II: The New Order
1991
as David Kellum
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester,...

Deep Sleep
1990
as Terry
An emotionally disturbed young woman who is obsessed with the death of her father delves into the mystery.

Where the Heart Is
1990
as Jimmy
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

The Penthouse
1989
as Joe Dobson
A rich young woman fights to save her life when she is held captive by an obsessed former friend in her own penthouse.

Pin
1988
as Leon
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with h...

The Darkside
1987
as Chuckie
A cab driver gets mixed up with a fare he picks up who turns out to be a porno star, and she claims she has proof that the people she is working for a...