Known for Acting
Colin Fox was an esteemed Canadian character actor and voice artist with a career spanning over six decades.
Born
November 20, 1938
Died
April 5, 2025 (age 86)
Birthplace
Aldershot, Ontario, Canada
Filmography
76 films, 37 shows


Return to Wickensburg
2024 · CA
Mr. Hexenmeister has escaped from prison, and once again threatens Wickensburg. It's a race against time to find an ancient orb, capable of destroying the entire town, before it falls into the wrong hands.


Wild Life
2011 · 14m · CA
This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909.


One Week
2008 · 1h 34m · CA
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.


The Legend of Zelda: The Power of the Triforce
2008 · 1h 25m · US
Follow the nonstop adventures as Link and Princess Zelda fight monsters ghosts icky creatures and even each other as they try to save Hyrule and the last piece of the Triforce from the evils of Ganon. Re-released version of "The Legend of Zelda" TV series.


Drive Time Murders
2006 · 1h 40m · CA
A Chicago attorney and his gossip columnist host a popular morning radio show. Their search to locate a mysterious woman leads them to the Chicago Art Museum, a network of thieves and a rich family.


Our Fathers
2005 · 2h 10m · US
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 the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide to seek redress.


Perfect Strangers
2004 · 2h · UK
When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance.


A Separate Peace
2004 · 1h 32m · CA
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.


Webs
2003 · 1h 24m · US
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, man-eating, spider-like monsters. The bloodthirsty arachnid-human hybrids stalk and kill their victims one by one, leaving the dwindling group of survivors to fight back with just their wits and a handful of primitive weapons.


Deathlands
2003 · 1h 28m · US
Following the destruction caused on Earth by nuclear weapons, Ryan Cawdor returns after twenty years to a ravaged part of Virginia he used to call home, where his brother and stepmother plotted to kill his father, the baron. With his companions in tow, he has come to take on the empire of tyranny that has been built all around this wasteland in his absence.


Heritage Minutes: J.S. Woodsworth
2003 · 1m · CA
Author, lecturer and social activist J.S. Woodsworth convinces Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to introduce old age pensions.


Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002 · 3h 20m · CA
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole


Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
2002 · CA
Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story is the true story of a teenage gang's attack on high school student Jonathan Wamback in Ontario, Canada. Following the attack, Jonathan falls into a coma. The movie shows the events leading up to the attack on Jonathan in June 1999, and follows through his slow recuperation during the months that follow.


Chasing Holden
2001 · 1h 42m · CA
Neil Lawrence is sent to a boarding school by his father. During the first days he meets T.J. who he falls in love with. After being assigned a paper on Holden Caulfield - the main character in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" - Neil decides to go on a journey to meet Salinger, who he feels has played a huge role in his life. Neil & T.J. take off on a journey to New York City. A journey that leads to more then they both ever could have imagined - and changes both their lives forever.


Prince Charming
2001 · 1h 31m · CA
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.


Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2001 · 1h 42m · US
A group of television writers struggles to keep their demanding comedian’s live comedy show on the air as network interference, personal conflicts, and the pressures of 1950s television threaten its future.


Down to Earth
2001 · 1h 27m · DE
Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure there's been a mistake. Miraculously, he's right! An angel tells Lance he was taken prematurely but assures him he can be returned to Earth - in the aged body of a ruthless white billionaire. In this improbable reincarnation, Lance begins a hilarious quest to realize his showbiz dream...and, along the way, discovers the person he never imagined he could be.


Phantom of the Megaplex
2000 · 1h 29m · CA
Pete Riley is a 17-year-old who lands a part-time job at a multiplex in his neighbourhood. He and his friends are excited when it's announced that the theatre will play host to the premier of a major motion picture, with a number of Hollywood celebrities in attendance. However, when the big night comes, Pete has to contend with disappearing staff, malfunctioning equipment, and a broken popcorn machine.


The Last Debate
2000 · 1h 30m · US
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, the two candidates square off in a final debate. The televised event takes a dramatic turn when the moderator and three panelists confront one of the candidates with unconfirmed rumors and allegations. The debate quickly turns into a witch hunt and destroys one politician's career. They also give Tom Chapman, the up-and-coming reporter investigating the panel's ambush, the story of a lifetime: What went on behind the last debate.


Left Behind
2000 · 1h 40m · CA
After learning that millions have completely vanished, an airline pilot, a journalist, and others work together to unravel the mystery of those left behind.


A House Divided
2000 · 1h 41m · CA
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.


Dirty Pictures
2000 · 1h 44m · US
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.


Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
2000 · 1h 55m · US
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.


Angels in the Infield
2000 · 1h 29m · US
Bob "Bungler" Bugler is the celestial coach called in to assist struggling pitcher Eddie Everett. Laurel finds her prayers answered when a flock of outrageous angelic teammates crash her father's roster for what may be their best season yet.


The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2000 · 1h 34m · US
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.


The Origin of the Silver Surfer
1999 · 55m · US
The animated feature debut of the Silver Surfer! Norrin Radd catches the wave of his life when an interplanetary being named Galactus begins draining the energy from Zenn-La, his paradise-like home planet. In order to save Zenn-La, Radd volunteers to search for other planets that can provide Galactus with the energy he needs to survive. In retur, Galactus rewards him with the powers of the Silver Surfer, but he also erases his memory and code of ethics.


The Windsor Protocol
1998 · 1h 40m · CA
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States. The Windsor Protocol is a list created by Adolf Hitler that will help revive the Nazi party; Dillon must find it before it falls into the wrong hands.


Seeds of Doubt
1998 · 1h 30m
Jennifer Kingsley, a newspaper journalist, believes a man has been falsely convicted of murder, and becomes set on proving his innocence.


Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1997 · 1h 32m · CA
A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier. An investigation into the plastic surgeon grows more bizarre by the minute, as the prosecutor unravels a ten year old mystery involving betrayal and murder.


End of Summer
1997 · 1h 35m
An unmarried aristocrat resists the advances of the adventurous man whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward and a young maid.


Elvis Meets Nixon
1997 · 1h 35m · US
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA


Daylight
1996 · 1h 55m · US
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.


Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask II
1996 · 44m · CA
Steve wants a Halloween mask just as scary as Carly Beth's, however he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's mask might be after him.


L5: First City in Space
1996 · 35m · CA
Ready for the countdown to tomorrow? Raring to swoop over the rippled red terrain of Mars or touch down on an icy comet? Or do you simply prefer to tune to Channel 29 of your virtual-reality set and join friends for fun and games? L5: First City in Space is your port of departure for all this and more.


Mrs. Winterbourne
1996 · 1h 45m · US
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.


The Haunting of Lisa
1996 · 1h 39m · CA
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.


Sins of Silence
1996 · 1h 32m · US
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.


The Haunted Mask
1995 · 44m · CA
A teenage girl, Carly Beth, wishes for a scarier mask to wear on Halloween and finds one at an old store. What she doesn't realize is that the mask itself is evil and has the power to take control of the wearer.


Voices
1995 · 1h 33m · CA
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.


Tommy Boy
1995 · 1h 38m · US
To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
Butterbox Babies
Butterbox Babies
1995 · 1h 34m · CA
A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.


PCU
1994 · 1h 21m · US
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.


On My Own
1993 · 1h 37m · AU
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 the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.


Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
1993 · 3h 20m · CA
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.


Partners 'n Love
1993 · 1h 36m · CA
David Grodin has an obsessive-compulsive personality. But he is also just plain obsessed with Maxine Smith, his ex-wife of five years and his business partner. Their small business is Mr & Mrs, a small swimwear company he founded but that only became successful when she became its creative director. They work well together and are best friends, but Max feels that they just could not live together and be married to each other. They learn that because of a legal technicality, their divorce was never executed and thus they are still legally married.


Bonds of Love
1993 · 1h 33m · US
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.


Deadbolt
1992 · 1h 32m · CA
When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his


Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail
1992 · 1m · CA
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.


In the Eyes of a Stranger
1992 · 1h 32m · US
An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently as he divulges the location of some stashed money to her- police place her in protective custody, only she is uncertain what the man told her prior to being shot as she was wearing a pair of headphone as the time. She meets up with a disgruntled cop (Richard Dean Anderson) who decides to join her in searching for the money. A strange twist makes their hunt possible.


Scanners III: The Takeover
1992 · 1h 35m · CA
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.


A Little Piece of Heaven
1991 · 1h 50m · US
Will Loomis is living with his mentally handicapped sister Violet, who wants a younger child to play with, so Will 'kidnaps' one (and then another) child from the local children's home. The child is told it is dead and gone to heaven. Will and Violet try to make their farm a little piece of heaven for the kids, while the authorities wonder what has happened to the kidnapped children.


Mark Twain and Me
1991 · 1h 33m · CA
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.


A Star for Two
1991 · 1h 35m · CA
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.


Money
1991 · 1h 45m · CA
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.


In Defense of a Married Man
1990 · 1h 34m · US
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?


Beautiful Dreamers
1990 · 1h 45m · CA
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.


Food of the Gods II
1989 · 1h 31m · CA
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.


Passion and Paradise
1989 · 3h 5m · CA
Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before World War II.


Biographies: The Enigma of Bobby Bittman
1988 · 30m · US
A look back on the career of Bobby Bittman. Includes footage from his early days to his millionth show.


Hello Again
1987 · 1h 36m · US
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.


The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
1987 · 1h 15m · CA
The cuddly Care Bears and their cousins star in this charming third feature-length film incorporating characters from Alice in Wonderland. A young girl named Alice and the Care Bears travel together into the whimsical land of the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. In this magical story about friendship and self-esteem, they try to thwart an evil wizard's attempt to become the King of Wonderland.


My Pet Monster
1986 · 48m · CA
Synder, the historian who has spent many years trying to unlock the powers of the statue, wishes to capture Max for validation of his life's work.


Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
1985 · 1h 55m · CA
A biographical drama that profiles the life of Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union leader, who came to Canada in 1949 to lead a violent fight against the rival communist shipping union. He once ruled the Canadian shipping industry, but his brutal tactics would bring his downfall.


Real Inside
1984 · 12m · CA
Hopeful job candidate Buck Boom is dynamic, forceful, confident and creative. But can he convince Mr. Mudgin, the personnel manager, to hire him? You see, Boom is an animated character in a live-action world and Mudgin is not used to dealing with someone who is different.


The Tempest
1983 · 2h 25m
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.


Murder by Phone
1982 · 1h 30m · US
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.


The Taming of the Shrew
1982 · 2h 33m · CA
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.


Silence of the North
1981 · 1h 34m · CA
Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.


A Whale for the Killing
1981 · 2h 25m · US
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.


Virus
1980 · 2h 36m · JP
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.


Chocolate Eclair
1979 · 1h 47m · CA
After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.
The Prophet from Pugwash
The Prophet from Pugwash
1977 · 1h
Canadian documentary about Cyrus Eaton, the Canadian financier who convened the annual Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 29th Canadian Film Awards.


The War Between the Tates
1977 · 1h 30m
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.
The First Night of 'Pygmalion'
The First Night of 'Pygmalion'
1975 · 1h 10m · CA
A new play by George Bernard Shaw is always an event - but will the egotism of the leading actress lead to disaster?


My Pleasure Is My Business
1975 · 1h 34m · CA
This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."


The Reincarnate
1971 · 2h 2m · CA
A dying lawyer belonging to a cult, seeks to be reincarnated through a young artist with the ritual involving the sacrifice of a virgin. With limited time, he searches for someone to pass on his accumulated memories. His path crosses with a struggling artist, raising questions of destiny and a mystic ritual that may alter their fates.