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Robert Higden

Born: 13th Apr 1958 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 40
Film: 35 (88%)
Television: 5 (13%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Animation, Family, History, War, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids

Filmography

EVERGREEN$ Comedy
Original title: Sapin$
2023
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 threa ... view
Character:
Baby boomer
French Exit Comedy, Drama
2021
“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. He ... view
Character:
Mr. Baker
2020
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger. ... view
Character:
Bookkeeper
It Must Be Heaven Comedy, Drama
Original title: إن شئت كما في السماء
2019
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. ... view
Character:
Policeman #2
mother! Horror, Drama
2017
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. ... view
Character:
Drunkard
Monsieur Pug Animation
2014
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 ... view
Character:
Monsieur Pug (voice)
The Legend of Sarila Family, Animation, Adventure
2013
Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation. ... view
Character:
Arlok (voice)
Upside Down Romance, Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
2012
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his que ... view
Character:
Amnesiac
On the Road Adventure, Drama
2012
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking ... view
Character:
Sam Pharmacy
2011
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 ... view
Character:
Urban Husband
Lick Comedy
2010
How many licks? The world will know. Obscure Canuck comedy ... view
Character:
Jan 2010 (first aired)
Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing. ... view
Character:
Rogers (1 ep.)
Dead Like Me: Life After Death Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
2009
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 ... view
Character:
Veterinarian
WarGames: The Dead Code Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
2008
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know th ... view
Character:
Mr. Baron
Swamp Devil Horror, Science Fiction, Action
2008
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 rea ... view
Character:
Jones
Black Swarm Horror, Action
2007
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 ... view
Character:
Father Francis
The Secret Drama, Romance
Original title: Si j'étais toi
2007
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 horr ... view
Character:
Waiter
Fatal Trust Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie, Crime, Romance
2006
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 ... view
Character:
Skip
Bad Apple Comedy, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
2004
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. ... view
Character:
Tuckman's Guard
The Human Stain Drama, Romance
2003
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 ... view
Character:
Jeff Silk
Student Seduction Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
2003
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 assaul ... view
Character:
Mr. Fiske
2003
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 ... view
Character:
Sawney Bean
Jack & Ella Romance, Drama
2002
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 ... view
Character:
Ted
Savage Messiah Drama, Thriller
2002
As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, ... view
Character:
Grocery Store Owner / Clerk
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Horror
2002
A soldier who was long thought dead in World War 2, returns to modern day New York to combat monsters, who are now the power elite, running the city. ... view
Character:
Dead Awake Thriller, Romance
2001
An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events. ... view
Character:
Polygraph Technician
Wilder Thriller
2000
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 ... view
Character:
NRC Official
The Long Winter Drama, History, War
Original title: Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore
1999
In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority. ... view
Character:
Foule (tribunal)
Radio Active Comedy, Drama
Sep 1998 (first aired)
Students at Upper Redwood High share in the sensational experience of hosting and collaborating together on a school radio show called Radio Active. ... view
Character:
Mr. Noseworthy (78 ep.)
More Tales of the City Drama, Mystery
Jun 1998 (first aired)
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco. ... view
Character:
Valued Costumer (1 ep.)
Hysteria Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
1997
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has co ... view
Character:
Man at piano bar
Shadow of the Bear Adventure, Drama, Family, TV Movie
1997
Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents. ... view
Character:
Joe
The Hunger Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
Jul 1997 (first aired)
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the C ... view
Character:
Motel Manager (1 ep.)
Strip Search Action, Crime
1997
Robby Durrell is the prince of the vice squad. A man who's seen it all and done a little of it too. But when the enchanting Sela hires him to help tra ... view
Character:
Customer
Vanished TV Movie, Romance, Drama
1995
Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost unthinkable tragedy. ... view
Character:
Unemployed Man (uncredited)
1994
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 w ... view
Character:
Writer #3
Love & Human Remains Comedy, Drama
1994
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 ... view
Character:
The Editor
Salt on Our Skin Drama, Romance
1992
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 ... view
Character:
Souvenir Salesman
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Mystery, Kids, Drama
Aug 1992 (first aired)
This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each ... view
Character:
Master Raymond (1 ep.)
The First Circle Thriller, TV Movie
1992
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a spec ... view
Character:
Kagan