Biography
Ron Canada is an American actor and producer who began his acting career in 1978. Canada has had a long career in both television and film, known predominantly for his work in Cinderella Man, Wedding Crashers, and his recurring role as Under Secretary of State Ted Barrow on The West Wing. In 1996, Ron received the Dallas Film Critics Award and significant national attention for his performance as "Otis Payne" in John Sayles's film Lone Star.
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Complete Filmography

This Will Never Work
2025
as Uncle Pete
THIS WILL NEVER WORK is about a Black family coming together to have an intervention for Amanda's drinking problem. They've hired a therapist named Tr...

The Empty Man
2020
as Detective Villiers
Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominou...

Bully
2018
as 'Action' Jackson
A coming-of-age comedy about Jimmy, a quiet, heavy-set high school kid who is constantly tormented by the resident school bully Miles and his cronies....

Crown Heights
2017
as Judge Marcy
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

The Discovery
2017
as Cooper
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless pe...

After Words
2015
as Nelson
Jane Taylor, a librarian, has lost her job. Depressed and suicidal, she decides to take a final wonderful trip to Costa Rica before swallowing a bottl...

Ted 2
2015
as Judge
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

Lake Effects
2012
as Winchester
After the loss of their father, two estranged sisters reunite with their mother at their enchanting family lake house and find that the secret to over...

Noble Things
2009
as Moses
Jimmy Wayne Collins finds himself adrift in Memphis, Tennessee. Forced to return home to the piney woods of Southeast Texas, Jimmy will face his impri...

Bob Funk
2009
as Smiley
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who...

Ocean of Pearls
2008
as Dr. Wiiliam Ballard
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surg...
The Beneficiary
2008
as Detective Jensen

The Haunting of Molly Hartley
2008
as Mr. Bennett
When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evi...

Snowglobe
2007
as Antonio
A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe. Angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does ...

Little Wings
2007
as John
The dramatic short, Little Wings, explores the trauma of child abuse through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy named Thomas. In this emotional tale, Thom...

Paved with Good Intentions
2006
as Garrett Balden
No Plot Given.

Islander
2006
as T. Hardy
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast b...

Just Like Heaven
2005
as Dr. Walsh
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts t...

Wedding Crashers
2005
as Randolph
John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: cra...

Cinderella Man
2005
as Joe Jeanette
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

National Treasure
2004
as Guard Woodruff
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J...

The Human Stain
2003
as Herb Keble
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about ...

The United States of Leland
2003
as Elden
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfrien...

The Hunted
2003
as Harry Van Zandt
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is appro...

Black River
2001
as Chief Salks
Burned-out Hollywood screenwriter Bo Aikens (Jay Mohr) is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city and a...

Thank Heaven
2001
as Joseph Johnson
The life of Jack Lander (Matt Keeslar) a television news producer, was a disaster ... until the day when a misdirected golf ball changed everything. D...

The Apartment Complex
1999
as Detective Culver
A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.

In Too Deep
1999
as Dr. Bratton
Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold o...

Before He Wakes
1998
as Detective Cochran
Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband als...

Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1998
as Gabriel Jones
Marvel's hard-boiled hero is brought back to fight the menace of Hydra after exiling himself in the Yukon since the end of the Cold War. The children ...

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
1998
Wife of an upscale business executive becomes pregnant and at the same time discovers she has cancer in her uterus. Treatment means terminating the pr...

Othello
1997
as Iago
Spurred by the devious Iago and believing that his beloved Desdemona has betrayed him, Othello destroys his own happy world. Accomplished film, televi...

Clover
1997
as Gaten's brother-in-law
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, C...

Pinocchio's Revenge
1996
as Barry
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a bir...

Lone Star
1996
as Otis
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

The American President
1995
as Reporter Lloyd
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa...

Man of the House
1995
as Bob Younger
Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben trie...

Without Warning
1994
as Terrance Freeman
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems nat...

Getting Even with Dad
1994
as Zinn
Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with hi...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992
as Cop in Times Square
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems f...

Play Nice
1992
as Coroner
A serial killer is on the loose, and a cop must track him (or her) down.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
1992
as Marshall Brooks
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machin...

The Last of the Finest
1990
as Cregan
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of the...

Downtown
1990
as Lowell Harris
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get ...

Unholy Matrimony
1988
as Lt. Jack Tolliver
He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988
as Bartender
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way t...

Heart
1987
as Talk Show Guest
Eddie Brennan is a down-and out fighter with nowhere to go but up... and with just the right combination of guts and spirit to become a winner. Once a...

Adventures in Babysitting
1987
as Greydon
When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a qui...
Good to Go
1986
After being misled by the police about a rape and murder near a popular Washington, D.C. Go-Go club, a jaded journalist begins digging into the establ...

D.C. Cab
1983
as Policeman #4
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company bu...

The Man Who Wasn't There
1983
as Barker
When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himsel...