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Brian Downey

Brian Downey

Brian Downey (born 31 October 1944 in Newfoundland, Canada) is a Canadian actor perhaps best-known for his portrayal of Stanley Tweedle, in the science-fiction television series Lexx.

Downey is a character actor who has appeared in various films and guest starring roles on TV, including a recurring role on Millennium. His first film role was in a 1986 Andy Jones film called The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, which features the entire cast of CODCO. Downey has enjoyed a long professional relationship with Lexx creator Paul Donovan, dating back at least to 1988, when Donovan cast Downey in the time travel adventure film, Norman's Awesome Experience. Downey appeared as Cardinal Juan de Mella in Donovan's upcoming medieval TV thriller, The Conclave. Downey has also worked with Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Sam Rockwell, and directors such as Joe Sargent. He won the 2010 only acting award at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival for his role in "Whirligig", directed by Chaz Thorne, with whom he has worked on 2 previous features. He played the evil gang leader "The Drake", who runs the town in the feature film, Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener.

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Movies Starring Brian Downey (22)

The Story of Faustus Bidgood (2023)

This is the story of The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, a surreal comedy about a lowly bureaucrat and his fantasies of becoming president of an independent Newfoundland, that was released in 1986. A cult classic in Canadian cinema, the film is well known fo ...

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The Healer (2017)

The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself. ...

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Beethoven's Treasure Tail (2014)

After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they become stranded in a small coastal town where the beloved canine befriends a young boy who is searching for bu ...

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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)

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. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and hea ...

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Copperhead (2013)

A family is torn apart during the American Civil War. Abner Beech (Billy Campbell), a righteous farmer from upstate New York, exercises his right to free speech in a time when families are divided by the Civil War. ...

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The Disappeared (2012)

Six men. Two dories. The fight of their lives. Starring Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey. Directed by Shandi Mitchell. Filmed in Nova Scotia. ...

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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedop ...

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Whirligig (2011)

Floundering twenty-something Nicolas Sinclair attempts to win the heart of a married woman by befriending her 12-year-old son in this independent comedy. His life in ruins, Nicolas arrives to live with his parents at a seaside retirement home, disrupting t ...

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Just Buried (2007)

A young man inherits a nearly bankrupt funeral home from his estranged father. He falls in love with the alluring young mortician, only to find out she's offing people to keep the place in business! ...

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Sybil (2007)

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder. ...

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Snow Angels (2007)

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing ...

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The Conclave (2007)

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game. ...

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Gary Moore & Friends: One Night in Dublin (2006)

On August 19th, 2005, on what would have been the eve of his 56th birthday, a statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled in Dublin's Grafton Street by his mother. There to witness the event were members of Thin Lizzy from throughout the band's career. The followin ...

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Little Dickie (2002)

A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues. ...

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Giga Shadow (1997)

To resupply the protoblood that sustains Kai's life, the crew of the Lexx travel back to the Cluster but find the planet deserted. The population was killed in "The Cleansing", in preparation of the birth of the Giga Shadow, the last survivor of the insect ...

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Eating Pattern (1997)

Out of energy, the Lexx is forced to land on a planet to replenish its energy supply. Zev and Stan bury the apparently dead Kai, before they discover an outpost occupied by lunatics led by the manic Bog. ...

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Super Nova (1997)

As things settle down on the Lexx, the crew realizes Kai needs a constant supply of proto-blood to continue to function in the real world. Stanley and the others undertake a desperate mission to Kai's wrecked home world in search of a way to extend Kai's e ...

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I Worship His Shadow (1996)

Fugitive security guard Stanley Tweedle, love slave Zev Bellringer, and love slave robot head 790 are thrown together by fate and on the run from His Divine Shadow after stealing The Lexx: the most powerful destructive force in two universes. ...

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Secret Nation (1992)

A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada. ...

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Norman's Awesome Experience (1989)

Through the experiment of a crazy scientist, his colleague Norman, model Erica and her photographer are sent back in time to the Romans. They arrive in a small village, controlled by the Roman Septimus Fabius and a fat village mayor. They teach the people ...

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George's Island (1989)

After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George's Island, George is placed in a foster home. George and another foster child, Bonnie, flee to the island on Halloween but when they're followed by adults Captain Kidd ...

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The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (1986)

Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cul ...

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Movies Made By Brian Downey (1)

Little Dickie (2002)

A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues. ...

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