Robert Joy
Date of Birth: 17 Aug 1951
Country: Canada
Biography: Robert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Sid Hammerback in CSI: NY, Charlie Houx in Land of the Dead, Lizard in The Hills Have Eyes, Dave in Atlantic City, and Jim in Desperately Seeking Susan.
Total Credits at Criticker: 35 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (35)
- When We Go (2024) - S3 E2
- Mouse Trap (2024) - S3 E3
- The Light of Day (2024) - S3 E5
- Scar Tissue (2024) - S3 E6
What's left of mankind is cordoned off behind the walls of a fortified city while zombies roam the vast wasteland beyond. The few wealthy and powerful try to maintain an illusion of life as it was, dwelling high above the city in the exclusive towers of Fiddler's Green.
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The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon. (imdb)
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A new take on Wes Craven's 1977 film of the same name, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carters soon realize the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirst mutant family -- and they are the prey. (Fox Searchlight)
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A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan. (imdb)
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Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style. (imdb)
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Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl... (imdb)
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After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson (Webber) is enrolled at his local high school. The intelligent and androgynous youth confounds his classmates and captures the attention of his English teacher (MacIvor). The teacher-student relationship leads to problems for everyone involved. (imdb)
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When Thad Beaumont was a child, he had an operation to remove a tumour from his brain. during the operation, it was discovered that far from being a tumor, the growth was a twin brother of Thad's that never developed... (imdb)
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New York's garment district has turns into Dodge City when mobster Tommy O'Shea muscles in on the fashion trade of his ex-wife Olivia Regent. Olivia is engaged to Paul Kersey, who provides a sense of security for herself and her daughter Chelsea. Olivia isn't impressed when Tommy tortures her manager, Big Al, so Tommy hires an enforcer named Freddie Flakes, who is a master of disguise... (imdb)
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The Ryans of St John's, Newfoundland, are an old family steeped in tradition. Donald Ryan edits the local newspaper while his brothers and sisters run the funeral parlour. Early one morning, Donald's son Draper Doyle goes to the newspaper office to surprise his father with a birthday cake, only to witness something traumatic. Two days later, Donald Ryan is dead... (imdb)
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An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley. (imdb)
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'It's a Boy Girl Thing' uses the high school comedy structure as a basis to explore teenage insecurities, hopes and fears. Nell (the smart, cute girl) and Woody (the big dumb jock) are two teenage rivals who find themselves in each others bodies after arguing in front of an Aztec statue in a museum, which then transfers their souls as they sleep, causing them to awake in each other bodies... (imdb)
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Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival. (imdb)
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy buisness? (imdb)
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A reporter moves into the ominous Long Island house to debunk it of the recent supernatural events and becomes besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a hell-spawn demon lurking in the basement. (imdb)
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30 Even Scarier Movie Moments (2006) - TV Mini-Series
Bravo channel presents 30 even scarier movie moments.
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Haven (2001) - TV Movie
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. (imdb)
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Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down South adventure involving gangsters, the police, and a search for Scam's father. (imdb)
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David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him. (imdb)
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The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee. (imdb)
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Just Ask My Children (2001) - TV Movie
When Brenda and Scott Kniffen are accused of child molestation and physical abuse, the couple's impressionable children are coerced into testifying against their parents. The Kniffens are sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes they didn't commit, and 12 years pass before the truth of the case is finally revealed and the original verdict is reversed. But has irreparable damage already been caused by a justice system out of control?
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During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to steal enemy (Confederate) livestock... (imdb)
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Sword of Gideon (1986) - TV Movie
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes. (imdb)
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Faustus Bidgood chronicles the final days in the office of the obsequious little bureaucrat of the title who, after a decidedly lachrymose revolution, becomes the first ruler of the People's Republic of Newfoundland. Possessed of a profound guilt and a pornographic imagination, Faustus walks through life like a shell-shocked Milquetoast, his febrile imagination constantly slipping between then and now, here and there, reason and nuttiness.
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Patients are dying mysteriously in Dr. Frank Holt's hospital, and the computer records lay the blame at his feet. As his colleagues and friends, too, begin to fall victim, Dr. Holt must race to uncover the conspiracy at work. Is a computer system gone haywire to blame, or a secret gambling ring? Or is there something more?
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Archetype (2011) - Short Film
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past. (youtube.com)
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Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in between. Now you'll know who they are. (imdb)
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A woman abused by her family grows up to carry out a series of minor offences and self-destructive acts. Her multiple crimes lead to her being convicted under a law to prevent repeat offences that allows for an indefinite prison sentence - the first time this had ever been used on a female defendant. Fact-based drama.
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Switching Parents (1993) - TV Movie
The story of the kid who divorced his parents. Gregory has lived a rough life. His father abuses him and his two brothers. The boys are placed with the mother. Gregory is placed in a boys ranch after his mother can't take care of them. While at the ranch a lawyer visiting the facility meets him. He and his wife decide to adopt him and make him a part of the family. But Gregory can't be adopted until his biological parents lose custody. He divorces his parents from their rights to him.
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The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. (imdb)
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CSI: NY (2004) - TV Series
CSI Head Detective Mac Taylor and his team solve crimes in New York City. (imdb)
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A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (imdb)
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Director Bruce Alcock takes his inspiration from Chopin's eponymous composition in this wonderful 3D animation, which pays tribute to the moments of beautiful chaos that can spring suddenly from the mundane. (TMDb)
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Julia (2022) - TV Series
Follows TV cook Julia Child’s extraordinary life which pioneered the genre of cooking shows, including her loving marriage with a complicated power dynamic. (HBO Max)
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From (2022) - TV Series
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