Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force. Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His...
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Complete Filmography

Love, of Course
2018
as Edward Seton
A helicopter mom follows her daughter to college and lands a job on campus. When she meets a charismatic professor, she learns more about herself and ...

RoboCop
2014
as Dr. Alan
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by t...

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
2010
as Det. Lewis Cook
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impers...

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love
2009
as Jules Grandfield
Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to acce...

P2
2007
as Karl
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.

Shake Hands with the Devil
2007
as Kofi Annan
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for...

Bottom Feeder
2007
as Sarge
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feed...

A Dad for Christmas
2006
as Richard
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his c...

Absolution
2006
as Dr. Mitch Powell
For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent t...

Knights of the South Bronx
2005
as Assistant Principal Allen Hill
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to p...

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
as Reverend
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Burnt Toast
2005
as Lou
An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television o...

The Man
2005
as Second I.A. Agent
A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a ...

The Perfect Man
2005
as English Teacher
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly ...

Love Rules!
2004
as The Minister
When Kelly and Michael decide to get married, they want to have an off-beat wedding without all the traditional glitz. But when their friends and Kell...

The Skulls III
2004
as Captain Harlan
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by s...

How to Deal
2003
Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger wo...

Mafia Doctor
2003
as Dr. Lawrence
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. But "fate" has a ...

Everybody's Doing It
2002
as Principal Kerr
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a ...

The Sum of All Fears
2002
as General Wilkes
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...

Cube 2: Hypercube
2002
as The General
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

The Red Sneakers
2002
as Mr. Seabrooke

Pretend You Don't See Her
2002
as Witness Protection Agent
An estate agent is forced into witness protection soon after selling the apartment of a girl who died in suspicious circumstances. However, when the d...

Blackout
2001
as First Official
A mother and her two children are stuck in a mall during a power outage while police hunt for a killer.

Range of Motion
2000
as Flozell
A woman intensely believes her husband will recover from a coma during the holiday season.

Left Behind
2000
as Alan Tompkins
After learning that millions have completely vanished, an airline pilot, a journalist, and others work together to unravel the mystery of those left b...

Custody of the Heart
2000
as Police Officer
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis...

One Kill
2000
as Gunnery Sgt. Finch
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.

Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
2000
as Police Spokesman
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...

P.T. Barnum
1999
as Jeremiah
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman ...

To Love, Honor, & Betray
1999
as Det. Gonda
A young woman (Crystal Bernard) aware of her father's (James Brolin) affair with another woman becomes convinced of his guilt after her mother (Dee Wa...

Pushing Tin
1999
as Paul
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

Deep in My Heart
1999
as OB-Gyn doctor
A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
1999
as Desk Sargeant
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son is in...

The Wrong Girl
1999
as Police Detective Jacobs
A boy brings home his new girlfriend. However, Mom is sure that something isn't right about her, which starts a fight with her son. And then everythin...

Down in the Delta
1998
as Manager
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live ...

Giving Up the Ghost
1998
as Judge Gleason
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide ...

Airborne
1998
A gang of thieves break into a top secret government research centre and steal a deadly virus. Mach 1, a top secret special operations team, is called...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998
as ESU lieutenant
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Color of Justice
1997
as New York Assistant D.A
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the f...

The Don's Analyst
1997
as Dr. Lustig
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business"...

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Cabbie
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

...First Do No Harm
1997
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under c...

Mistrial
1996
as Foreman
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...

Talk to Me
1996
as Public Defender
An idealistic talk show producer clashes with her ratings obsessed boss on a story involving a young prostitute.

Fly Away Home
1996
as Air Force Reporter
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is mi...

The Haunting of Lisa
1996
as Sgt. Hill
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
1996
as Det. Arthur Brown
Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in ...

The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
as Patterson
The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychop...

Highlander: Unholy Alliance
1994
as Charlie DeSalvo
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and so...

Liar, Liar
1993
as Dr. Kerr
The true story of an eleven year old girl who has a reputation for telling tall tales. So when she accuses her father of molesting her, will anybody b...

Terror on Track 9
1992
as Reporter #2
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.

Married to It
1991
as Limo Driver
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect...

F/X2
1991
as Detective McQuay
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goe...

Millennium
1989
as Briley
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparab...

Switching Channels
1988
as Guard
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Blue Monkey
1987
as Anthony Rivers
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency ro...

Nightstick
1987
as Price
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.

Nowhere to Hide
1987
as Harvey
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashe...

Pretty Kill
1987
as Joey
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental proble...

Christmas Eve
1986
as Mays
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wan...
The High Price of Passion
1986
as Locksmith
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.

Easy Prey
1986
as Blair
Based on a true story, a serial killer abducts his latest victim from a mall and assaults her. Confused by her atypical reaction, he doesn't kill her,...

Iceman
1984
as Dr. Vermeil
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...

Covergirl
1984
as Cairo
Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."

Shock-Trauma
1982
as Sam Hooker
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his ...
A Far Cry From Home
1981
A woman struggles with her husband.

Improper Channels
1981
as Motorcycle Cop
A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child...

Deadline
1980
as Student #1
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As...

Running
1979
as Chuck Stone
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.

Search and Destroy
1979
as Rosie Washington
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murd...