Andy Jones

Andy Jones

Born: January 15, 1948
in St. John's
Andrew Jordan Jones (born January 15, 1948) is a Canadian comedian, and a former member of CODCO. Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the brother of comedienne Cathy Jones and filmmaker Michael Jones. Jones wrote for one season of The Kids in the Hall, and played a small role in their film Brain Candy. Jones also starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed the 1986 feature film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood. Jones played "Phonse" and starred with William Hurt in the 2001 film "Rare Birds". Since 1983 he has written, starred in and toured 5 one-man comedy shows. In July 2006 he opened an exhibit at "THE ROOMS" museum in St. John's called "The Spirit in the House". A part of the "Intangible Evidence" exhibit. Jones often writes children's books based on Newfoundland Folktales. His most recent, Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves, won the Winterset award in March 2013. [wikipedia]

Movies for Andy Jones...

Sweetland
Title: Sweetland
Character: Duke
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.
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Grown in Darkness
Title: Grown in Darkness
Character: Henry
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Hudson & Rex
Character: Gus Masters
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: TV
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
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Crown and Anchor
Title: Crown and Anchor
Character: John Woods
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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It Could Be You
Title: It Could Be You
Character: Panhandler
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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How To Be Deadly
Title: How To Be Deadly
Character: Jeffy Reid
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
In Newfoundland, an unemployed minibike rider enters a minibike competition to win back his girlfriend.
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Hold Fast
Title: Hold Fast
Character: Security Guard
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.
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Beat Down
Title: Beat Down
Character: Father Tyrone
Released: August 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Judge Tizzard
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
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Grown Up Movie Star
Title: Grown Up Movie Star
Character: Bill
Released: October 20, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Title: Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Character: Dad
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: Movie
When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.
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Behind the Wall
Title: Behind the Wall
Character: Ray Sanders
Released: August 30, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Young Triffie's Been Made Away With
Title: Young Triffie's Been Made Away With
Character: Pastor Wilfred Pottle
Released: April 6, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
Character: Mackenzie King
Released: March 12, 2006
Type: TV
In 1930s Saskatchewan, a small town parish has a new young new pastor, Tommy Douglas. However, for all his regular duties, which include boxing lessons, Tommy sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address with the pulpit. With that in mind, Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation and starts a career where his steadfast idealism runs headlong into the powerful opposition of the rich and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader that would transform Canada and have him hailed as the greatest Canadian of all.
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Going the Distance
Title: Going the Distance
Character: Portly Customer
Released: August 20, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Behind the Red Door
Title: Behind the Red Door
Character: Eddie
Released: January 12, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Random Passage
Title: Random Passage
Character: Mr. Armstrong
Released: January 27, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Rare Birds
Title: Rare Birds
Character: Phonse
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: Movie
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
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The Bingo Robbers
Title: The Bingo Robbers
Character: Old Bastard
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Tommy... A Family Portrait
Title: Tommy... A Family Portrait
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A tribute to Canadian comedy legend Tommy Sexton.
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Preludes
Title: Preludes
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Congratulations
Title: Congratulations
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Big Wolf on Campus
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: TV
Tommy is bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip a week before the start of his senior year. After becoming a werewolf, he fights against supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe.
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Title: Dooley Gardens
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: TV
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When Ponds Freeze Over
Title: When Ponds Freeze Over
Character: Napoli Grace Keeper
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
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Extraordinary Visitor
Title: Extraordinary Visitor
Character: Rick
Released: September 2, 1998
Type: Movie
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)
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Rain, Drizzle, and Fog
Title: Rain, Drizzle, and Fog
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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)
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Giga Shadow
Title: Giga Shadow
Character: Smoor
Released: September 11, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Smoor
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Once a Thief
Released: September 29, 1996
Type: TV
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.
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Paint Cans
Title: Paint Cans
Character: Neville Lewis
Released: September 13, 1994
Type: Movie
A Canadian take on The Player.
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The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Title: The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Character: Faustus Bidgood
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Faustus is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada. Back in the real world, Faustus' boss Robert Joy plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cultish geometric theory known as Total Education, but Joy may be foiled at any minute by the revelation of his earlier career as a flamenco dancer.
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Dolly Cake
Title: Dolly Cake
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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."