Andy Jones
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Andrew Jordan Jones (born January 15th, 1948) is a Canadian actor and comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 15, 1948
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Rare Birds
Overview: A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing the presence of a rare duck.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-09
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Congratulations
Overview: Mike Jones and his siblings Andy and Cathy travel by helicopter from rural Newfoundland to a gala to make speeches congratulating TIFF on its anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rain, Drizzle, and Fog
Overview: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, is North America's most easterly landfall. For half a millennium, its perfect harbour has provided a safe refuge in the middle of the treacherous North Atlantic. For 300 years of its history it was an actual crime to try and settle--Newfoundland was the private preserve of British fishing merchants. But people stayed, despite the colonial masters, despite the lack of law and order, despite hellish weather and raging seas. And the city grew--lurching through centuries of crisis, disaster, privation. For filmmaker Rosemary House, "This is still a hard rock land, a dirty old town at the back of beyond. And yet the St. John's townie is so proud, you'd swear we lived in Paris." In this documentary, she explores her city with the help of six locals, Mary Walsh, Andy Jones, Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Ed Riche, Des Walsh, writers and performers all. (Source: National Film Board)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Tommy... A Family Portrait
Overview: A tribute to Canadian comedy icon Tommy Sexton (1957-1993). A founding member of the Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO Tommy died of complications from AIDS on December 13, 1993.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Dolly Cake
Overview: A Codco documentary turned improvised drama about a woman named Dolly who, fed up with taking care of a group of ungrateful layabouts, runs away. The story is intercut with footage from another Codco project called "Borkin the Spineless Servant."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-20
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The Bingo Robbers
Overview: A woman (Lois Brown) who thinks money will solve her problems enlists the help of a homeless friend (Barry Newhook) to rob a bingo hall.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Overview: 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 cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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Extraordinary Visitor
Overview: As the new millennium approaches, God considers pulling the plug on the planet unless St. John the Baptist finds a reason to spare humanity. John travels to the Newfoundland city that bears his name where he becomes entangled in the lives of talk-show host Marietta, her husband Rick. (Toronto International Film Festival)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-02
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Grown Up Movie Star
Overview: The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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Giga Shadow
Overview: 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 wars and sworn enemy of humanity. The crew try to destroy the Giga Shadow with the help of Yottskry (played by guest star Malcolm McDowell), a defecting priest of the Divine Order.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-11
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Crown and Anchor
Overview: When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left behind. He channeled his own inner demons from an abusive father into being a police officer but his cousin Danny’s childhood trauma has exploded into a cycle of drugs, crime and violence. James must confront his tortured past, decide who he really is, and deal with his cousin before it’s too late.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Behind the Wall
Overview: In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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How To Be Deadly
Overview: In Newfoundland, an unemployed minibike rider enters a minibike competition to win back his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Preludes
Overview: Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-15
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When Ponds Freeze Over
Overview: Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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Going the Distance
Overview: Nick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lecherous music producer Lenny Swackhammer, Nick impulsively decides to travel to Toronto to intervene. Nick's buddies Tyler and Dime opt to turn the quest into a cross-country road trip that's complete with wacky antics and encounters with beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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Random Passage
Overview: This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Beat Down
Overview: Beat Down is an irreverent comedy about wrestling, family and following your dreams no matter how painful that can sometimes be. Fran Whiteway (Marthe Bernard, Republic of Doyle) is eighteen and a real firecracker. More than anything, Fran dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. Her single-father Whitey (Robb Wells, Trailer Park Boys) is a former-pro, aka White Lightning, with broken dreams of his own and is dead set against Fran wrestling. Fran is determined though and when Whitey's old rival Dark Thunder (Tony Nappo, Saw II) comes to town, she runs away to join his tour. Whitey is devastated and while he tries to get his daughter back, Fran learns the ropes of the wrestling game and of life itself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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Behind the Red Door
Overview: Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arranges an assignment in Boston for a considerable sum of money. Unable to turn it down in her dire straits, Natalie takes the job -- only to find that her estranged gay brother, Roy, is the employer. Roy wants to mend their broken past, but must convince her to stay long enough to do so.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-12
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Hold Fast
Overview: Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-01
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Young Triffie's Been Made Away With
Overview: In 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O'Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O'Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer's Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer's Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Sweetland
Overview: The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-19
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Grown in Darkness
Overview: Henry lives alone growing rhubarb in the dark when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest. Together, they tentatively explore the boundaries of their relationship community spaces in a tender and touching film about loneliness and longing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-12
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It Could Be You
Overview: A depressed man learns that fortune comes in many forms, and at any moment it can slam into you like a speeding car. Or in this case, an SUV.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-16
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Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Overview: When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Paint Cans
Overview: A Canadian take on The Player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Overview: A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-02
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The Story of Faustus Bidgood
Overview: 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 for the marathon it took to even get made. Principal photography on the film began eight years earlier, in 1978. Written and directed by comedy legend Andy Jones and his brother, Mike Jones, the movie was made on a shoestring budget, is packed with familiar faces and helped pave the way for Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant film industry. And it was the first film ever both filmed and produced, from start to finish, in Newfoundland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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Secret Nation
Overview: A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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The Elf
Overview: In this Christmas drama, a boy and his family discover he is an elf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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In for a Penny
Overview: Prominent people from Newfoundland and Labrador discuss the province's history and their expectations for the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-19
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Fool Proof
Overview: Fool Proof takes us on an international roller coaster ride as we explore the history and art of clowning. With professional clown Beni Malone as ringmaster, this one hour documentary is a visual feast which celebrates the rich history and recent renaissance of the most animated of performing arts. This journey comes full circle when Malone is joined on stage by his aerialist daughter, Anahareo. Fool Proof combines rare archival footage with fascinating real life stories, to create a springboard into the world phenomena of circus arts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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Keeping Up with Cathy Jones
Overview: "Keeping Up with Cathy Jones" is a biographical romp through the life and times of this outrageously funny lady of stage, screen and television. From the first celluloid glimpses of "CATHY AT 16", "THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES", her one woman shows and stand-up routines to interview clips with Cathy, her family and friends, this is a highly charged bio-pic; a salute to Newfoundland's comic genius."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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Sisters of the Silver Scalpel
Overview: A nature documentary about the wild Nuns of Newfoundland-- Originated as a "filmeo" to be performed live by Codco, but eventually overdubbed with audio and released as a short film.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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R-Rated
Overview: A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Dead Wife Club
Overview: Luke has been veering between panic and numbness ever since losing his wife to Thyroid cancer. In a last-ditch effort to feel something, anything, he attends a bereavement counseling meeting at a nearby outreach center. There, he sparks a debate and a series of flashbacks that examine relationships, love, and anger.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-22
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The Untold Story
Overview: The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win the right to vote.
Genres: History Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-20
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Multiple Choice
Overview: A short drama that takes a humourous look at the consumer society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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