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Robert Wisden

Highest Rated: 65% Watchmen (2009)

Lowest Rated: 32% Excess Baggage (1997)

Birthday: Jun 2, 1958

Birthplace: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Robert Wisden is an English-born, Canadian character actor with a long list of credits,but more fame in his home country than abroad. His career began encouragingly enough, making his film debut in the 1981 action sci-fi movie "Firebird 2015 AD," landing a key supporting part along with successful character actor leads Darren McGavin and Doug McClure. In 1985, he made his television debut as the star of celebrated Canadian director Atom Egoyan's hour-long CBC drama "In This Corner," and then in 1988, he starred in the five-episode mini-series "9B," earning a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by a Lead Actor. In 1994, he landed a supporting role in the epic turn-of-the-20th-century war drama "Legends of the Fall" (with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins), but the other handful of Wisden's '90s film projects--among them the Alicia Silverstone-starring action-comedy "Excess Baggage"--were far less profitable. On TV, Wisden had several recurring roles throughout the decade, mainly on Canadian shows, climaxing in 1999 with a Gemini-winning supporting performance in the hockey biopic "The Sheldon Kennedy Story." In the early '00s, Wisden found a recurring part on the Vancouver-shot sci-fi drama "Jeremiah" and another on the CW's comic book "Smallville" (also shot in Canada), but his TV roles gradually dissipated over the decade. On the big screen, after a nine-year hiatus, Wisden was cast as Richard Nixon in the sci-fi action behemoth "Watchmen." Wisden has also shared his talent as a drama teacher at St. George's School in Vancouver.

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Highest rated movies

65% 71% Watchmen Watchlist 60% 87% Legends of the Fall Watchlist
32% 41% Excess Baggage
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9-B
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Circle of Deceit
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76% Secret Cutting
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64% A Picture of Her
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88% Five Star Christmas
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71% The Holiday Sitter
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A Royal Runaway Romance
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 64% A Picture of Her Captain Mark (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Field Day Jerry Davis (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 71% The Holiday Sitter Frank Dalton (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Royal Runaway Romance Pat (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Forget I Love You Richard Jones (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Is Trending Elliot Sullivan (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gingerbread Miracle Eddie (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 88% Five Star Christmas Ted Ralston (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 26% Driven to Kill Terry Goldstein (Character) - 2009
65% 71% Watchmen Richard Nixon (Character) $107.5M 2009
No Score Yet 11% Lost Behind Bars Tom Redler (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Saving Milly Fred Barnes (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 69% Supervolcano Unknown (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 Pilot (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess William (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 45% The Elizabeth Smart Story Jim Smart (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 75% A Date With Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster Sam (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 57% Damaged Care Andrew McCullough (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Criss Cross Zach (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 76% Secret Cutting Russell Cottrell (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 43% First Target Brinkman (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sheldon Kennedy Story Graham James (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 33% Harvey Dr. Sanderson (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 53% Outrage Manny Baylis (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Circle of Deceit Coopersmith (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Floating Away Armand (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 50% Every Mother's Worst Fear Jeff Hoagland (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 81% Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods Major Bert Samuels (Character) - 1997
32% 41% Excess Baggage Detective Sims (Character) $14.3M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gone in a Heartbeat Police Chief Ben Alpert (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 62% Captains Courageous Arthur Wayne (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diana Kilmury Story Ken Paff (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diana Kilmury: Teamster Ken Paff (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The War Between Us Ed Parnum (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 59% The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky Canada (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal Unknown (Character) - 1995
60% 87% Legends of the Fall John T. O'Banion (Character) $63.2M 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Disappearance of Vonnie Det. Randy Winkler (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Impolite Jack Yeats (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Upstairs Mayor (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blood Clan Stuart Roos (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Glory Enough for All Charles Best (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet 9-B Bob Dawson (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 44% Firebird 2015 AD Cam (Character) - 1981

TV

Credit
50% 35% Blade: The Series Unknown (Character) 2006
56% 77% Kyle XY Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
95% 94% Battlestar Galactica Wallace Gray (Guest Star) 2005
78% 70% Smallville Gabe Sullivan (Guest Star) 2001-2002 2004
39% 82% Tru Calling Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet 72% The Dead Zone Fisher's Campaign Manager (Character) 2003
50% 77% The Twilight Zone Unknown (Character) 2002
20% 88% Wolf Lake Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poltergeist: The Legacy Unknown (Guest Star) 1997 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sentinel Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Outer Limits Sam Winter (Character) 1995 1999
No Score Yet 86% Millennium Unknown (Guest Star) 1997-1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Welcome to Paradox Unknown (Character) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Viper Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead Man's Gun Leslie Kratzert (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sleepwalkers Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
74% 86% The X-Files Robert Patrick Modell (Guest Star) 1996 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents Unknown (Character) 1987-1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Danger Bay Unknown (Guest Star) 1987