Robert Higden
Also Known As: Robert Hidgen
Biography: Robert Higden is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of the absent-minded vice-principal, Mr. Noseworthy, on the popular YTV series Radio Active. He has appeared in over 30 feature films including: The Reagans opposite Judy Davis, Battlefield Earth opposite John Travolta, Gleason opposite Brad Garrett, The Human Stain opposite Gary Sinise, and Taking Lives, opposite Angelina Jolie. As a founding member of Montreal’s On the Spot, Robert has been performing improv for well over a decade. He was even chosen to compete on the Montreal team in the Just For Laughs Improv Tournament for several years running. As a director, he has received a Gemini nomination for his work on the CBC series Edible Incredible, as well as a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for his work on Radio Active. (He often stage directed episodes he wasn’t in.) As for writing, much of Robert’s work has been for sketch comedy shows and for his own stand up routines, but he has also written for TV, and has 4 feature length screenplays under his belt, which he is currently shopping around. And of course, he continues to make his own films which have won him best short in the Actra shorts festival two years in a row, and best film in ASM’s 48 Hour Film Festival, 3 out of the 6 times he has entered.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: April 13, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Black Swarm
Overview: A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly; an entomologist, Katherine is summoned to help with the investigation, along with Devin, Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends Eli, a scientist who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and who is now trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Love & Human Remains
Overview: In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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Salt on Our Skin
Overview: A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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Bad Apple
Overview: Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-16
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Swamp Devil
Overview: SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (Bruce Dern). After a long estrangement from her father for reasons not entirely clear, Melanie returns to her childhood home of Gibbington, Vermont to confront the realization that her father is wanted for murder. As Melanie digs a little more deeply into the stories of the past, she uncovers a tale wound about the town like Spanish moss, composed of secrets and lies, murder and revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-04
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The High Cost of Living
Overview: The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Lick
Overview: How many licks? The world will know. Obscure Canuck comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-12
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Jack & Ella
Overview: A black man and a Jewish woman crash into each other and win a dream house in the suburbs. Love-starved neighbours invade their brand-new home, and an all-night party pushes every one of them to a climax of truth, hope and liberation.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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Fatal Trust
Overview: Following the death of her husband, Kate moves back home with her young child to live with her sister. As she begins to rebuild her life, she quickly realizes that the Doctor for whom she works is really a psychotic serial killer, his victims murdered with snake venom. As she begins to unfold his dark secrets, she finds she is in as much danger as his victims.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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Vanished
Overview: Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost unthinkable tragedy.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-02
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Monsieur Pug
Overview: Who is Monsieur Pug? Why, a dog with bad cholesterol and high blood pressure! And a dog who loves his pie and ice cream. Who relaxes by making origami. In other words, definitely not your ordinary pooch! For he’s also a paranoiac, convinced he’s the target in a vast conspiracy, and pretending to be a pet, the better to hide from his pursuers. Schizoid, perhaps? Hmm… but is Monsieur Pug even a real dog to begin with?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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WarGames: The Dead Code
Overview: Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-29
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Hysteria
Overview: Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Upside Down
Overview: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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Student Seduction
Overview: Christie Dawson always wanted to be the "cool" teacher. But her world is shaken up after a pupil's crush spirals out of control and he sexually assaults her. Suddenly, her colleagues, neighbors and even her hubby are wondering whether she crossed the line and tempted her student. But school isn't out for Christine just yet she's gonna fight back, and big time!
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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EVERGREEN$
Overview: 21 year-old Rémi leaves his small town in Quebec for the first time to go sell Christmas trees in New York City in order to pay off a debt that threatens his future. Dumped in the heart of the Bronx, he meets Laura, a deadpan French activist, who will be his colleague for the next month. Together they will meet the vibrant community around their street corner and learn to survive the absurd trials of Christmas tree sales.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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The Human Stain
Overview: 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 events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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mother!
Overview: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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The Secret
Overview: Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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It Must Be Heaven
Overview: Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-04
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Dead Awake
Overview: An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-06
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Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Overview: When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-17
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French Exit
Overview: “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Wilder
Overview: The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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My Salinger Year
Overview: A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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The Legend of Sarila
Overview: Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Savage Messiah
Overview: As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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The Long Winter
Overview: In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-13
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Shadow of the Bear
Overview: Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain
Overview: Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain, a group of American university students moves into a beautiful cottage, surrounded by a lush forest and a majestic lake They are here to learn about the rituals of the ancient Druids and other Celtic legends. But in the remains of an abandoned copper mine, lives the ancestors of an incestuous clan of cannibals. Stalked by a hulking, disfigured mutant, the students and their chaperone are in for the most harrowing time of their young lives. And keeping their heads on their necks will become their main concern...
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-01
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