Robert Higden

Robert Higden

Born: April 13, 1958
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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.

Movies for Robert Higden...

French Exit
Title: French Exit
Character: Mr. Baker
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
“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.
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My Salinger Year
Title: My Salinger Year
Character: Bookkeeper
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: Movie
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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It Must Be Heaven
Title: It Must Be Heaven
Character: Policeman #2
Released: December 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
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mother!
Title: mother!
Character: Drunkard
Released: September 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
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Monsieur Pug
Title: Monsieur Pug
Character: Monsieur Pug (voice)
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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?
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The Legend of Sarila
Title: The Legend of Sarila
Character: Arlok (voice)
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.
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Upside Down
Title: Upside Down
Character: Amnesiac
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: Movie
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?
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The High Cost of Living
Title: The High Cost of Living
Character: Urban Husband
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
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...
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Fatal Trust
Title: Fatal Trust
Character: Skip
Released: January 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Lick
Title: Lick
Released: December 12, 2010
Type: Movie
How many licks? The world will know. Obscure Canuck comedy
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Title: Blue Mountain State
Character: Rogers
Released: January 11, 2010
Type: TV
Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.
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Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Title: Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Character: Veterinarian
Released: February 17, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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WarGames: The Dead Code
Title: WarGames: The Dead Code
Character: Mr. Baron
Released: July 29, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Swamp Devil
Title: Swamp Devil
Character: Jones
Released: July 4, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Black Swarm
Title: Black Swarm
Character: Father Francis
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Waiter
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Bad Apple
Title: Bad Apple
Character: Tuckman's Guard
Released: February 16, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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The Human Stain
Title: The Human Stain
Character: Jeff Silk
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Student Seduction
Title: Student Seduction
Character: Mr. Fiske
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: Movie
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!
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Jack & Ella
Title: Jack & Ella
Character: Ted
Released: June 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Savage Messiah
Title: Savage Messiah
Character: Grocery Store Owner / Clerk
Released: April 26, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Dead Awake
Title: Dead Awake
Character: Polygraph Technician
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: Movie
An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
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Wilder
Title: Wilder
Character: NRC Official
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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The Long Winter
Title: The Long Winter
Character: Foule (tribunal)
Released: March 13, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.
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Title: More Tales of the City
Character: Valued Costumer
Released: June 7, 1998
Type: TV
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.
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Hysteria
Title: Hysteria
Character: Man at piano bar
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Shadow of the Bear
Title: Shadow of the Bear
Character: Joe
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.
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Title: The Hunger
Character: Motel Manager
Released: July 20, 1997
Type: TV
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
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Vanished
Title: Vanished
Character: Unemployed Man (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost unthinkable tragedy.
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Title: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Character: Writer #3
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Love & Human Remains
Title: Love & Human Remains
Character: The Editor
Released: July 22, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Salt on Our Skin
Title: Salt on Our Skin
Character: Souvenir Salesman
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: Movie
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.