Shaun Johnston

Acting

Shaun Johnston

Born

1958-09-09 (68)

Place of birth

Ponoka, Alberta, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Shaun Johnston is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Grandpa Jack Bartlett in the television series Heartland.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 20 titles

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee poster
6.5

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007

Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon poster
5.5

A woman who has psychic visions returns to her hometown to exorcise her demons. Once there she finds both danger and love.

Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon

2007

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed poster
6.5

Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

2004

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting poster
4.8

A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting

2003

The Dinosaur Hunter poster
6.1

A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.

The Dinosaur Hunter

2000

The Investigation poster
6.7

Tells the true story of a bungled and obstructed police manhunt for a serial killer who could and should have been imprisoned after his first crime. Two young RCMP officers, each separately investigating a rape and murder, captured the culprit, but because of legal red tape, jurisdictional chaos and incompetence, the suspect was allowed to continue his rampage until he was finally arrested and imprisoned - several murders later.

The Investigation

2002

September Dawn poster
5.3

A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.

September Dawn

2007

The Mermaid Chair poster
4.0

When her mentally ill, elderly mother begins mutilating herself, Jessie (Kim Basinger) returns to her hometown to care for her. Among familiar surroundings, she tends to her mother's deteriorating mental condition while learning of troubling revelations about her family history. Meanwhile, though married, Jessie reconnects with old passions -- including a turbulent affair with a monk named Hugh (Bruce Greenwood).

The Mermaid Chair

2006

The Christmas Blessing poster
6.1

Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast friendship with student Charlie Bennett teach Nathan to live life in the moment and embrace the time he has with friends and family.

The Christmas Blessing

2005

Supervolcano poster
6.2

Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world.

Supervolcano

2005

A Beachcombers Christmas poster
7.0

While Donna MacGonigal is tempted by a business offer by an old love, her father and friends decide to put on an old timers celebrity hockey game and auction for charity, only to find themselves cheated by con artists.

A Beachcombers Christmas

2004

100 Days in the Jungle poster
6.0

100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.

100 Days in the Jungle

2002

Chicks with Sticks poster
5.1

The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore – who almost once made the Olympic team – finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.

Chicks with Sticks

2005

No artwork available
5.2

A semi-fictional story about the shooting of four Canadian RCMP officers during a drug raid in Mayerthorpe, Alberta.

Mayerthorpe

2008

Due East poster
6.4

Mary Faith Rapple, a bright high school senior, has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a night class, cares for her widowed father and pretty much keeps to herself. When a fellow loner moves to Due East, she finds herself in a relationship for the first time, leading to a small town scandal that changes her life forever.

Due East

2002

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111 poster
4.2

A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

2000

Touch the Top of the World poster
6.2

The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest

Touch the Top of the World

2006

Agent of Influence poster
6.9

This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ambassador to Moscow and a close friend of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, is kidnapped and held in a hotel for questioning by the RCMP at the urging of the CIA. Several days into the interrogation he died. The official obituary claimed that he suffered a heart attack in the company of friends during a farewell supper celebrating his illustrious career.

Agent of Influence

2002

Death of a Skyline poster
NR

A group of citizens lobbied to save the landmark Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, one of the defining features of Mayerthorpe’s landscape, from being torn down in 2003 - as thousands of others had been. This film documents those efforts while exploring the broader history and significance of the grain elevator.

Death of a Skyline

2003

No artwork available
4.5

Filmed within the untamed wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, "Tribe of Joseph" is the engrossing story of a wayward preacher who believes he's been prophetically called to restore the Twelve Tribes of Jacob, and the eldest of his kidnapped 'children' who eventually questions his zeal.

Tribe of Joseph

2002

1990s · 12 titles

Mystery, Alaska poster
6.3

In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.

Mystery, Alaska

1999

Silver Wolf poster
6.4

A boy learns to deal with personal loss by making friends with a wild animal in this drama for the entire family. Jesse is a 16-year-old who is trying to put his life back together after the death of his father, who died while trying to rescue him in the wilderness. Jesse goes to live with his Uncle Roy, who lives in the rugged mountains of Washington State. While exploring, Jesse finds and rescues a wolf who has been seriously wounded; Jesse bonds with the animal, and while Roy understands the dangers of trying to tend to a wild animal, reluctantly allows Jesse to keep him. Jesse, who is fond of snowboarding, teaches the wolf to be his partner in skijoring, a sport in which a dog is used to haul a man on skis. John Rockwell the owner of a ranch, has different plans for the animal; he sees the wolf as a threat to his stock and is determined to see that the animal is put down.

Silver Wolf

1999

Convict Cowboy poster
6.5

New inmate Clay Treyton, doing time for fisticuffs, is sent to a Montana ranch where prisoners spend time working with horses. Encouraged by the warden, the men ride in prison rodeos, and murderer Ry Weston, an ex-pro horseman, is the team's top performer. Clay and Ry become friends, exchanging lessons about horses and life. But when prison black marketeers start leaning on Ry, the men have more than rodeos to worry about.

Convict Cowboy

1995

How the West Was Fun poster
5.5

Twin sisters help a woman save her dude ranch from developers who would like to turn the property into a theme park.

How the West Was Fun

1994

The Inspectors poster
5.9

U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion immediately falls on the couple's estranged and heavily in debt son, who also just happens to be a Navy munitions expert. But investigations reveal that he is on the run from a past event in his life that is associated with the bombings.

The Inspectors

1998

Heart of the Sun poster
7.0

Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a local priest and a subsequent operation forced on her in a cover-up by the church and her family which left her infertile

Heart of the Sun

1998

Ms. Bear poster
5.4

Four paws for this wonderful family film. Cute 7-year-old rescues a helpless and bumbling bear cub as the two set off on an adventure to reunite the cub with its mommy.

Ms. Bear

1997

Stranger in Town poster
5.4

A 13-year-old boy, whose single mother moved her family from the big city to a small town, begins to suspect that a stranger who befriends his family is not who he initially appears to be. Harry Hamlin, Graham Green, Rebecca Jenkins and Trevor Blumas star.

Stranger in Town

1998

Blood Clan poster
4.2

A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him to Canada, where she grows up with no knowledge of her family's past. Then, in the present, several deaths occur and people begin to think it's Katy Bane McKay.

Blood Clan

1990

Silent Cradle poster
6.8

A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?

Silent Cradle

1997

The Cold Heart of a Killer poster
7.0

Set around Alaska's punishing Iditarod race, a husky breeder and former musher is forced out of racing retirement to compete again and outrun an unknown killer.

The Cold Heart of a Killer

1996

Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun poster
4.8

In this independent comedy-drama from Canada, a pair of brothers -- Wes (Shaun Johnston), a reckless biker, and Cliff (David Everhart), a clean-living suburbanite -- are brought back together to patch up their differences after the death of their mother. With Wes' girlfriend (Kim Hogan) in tow, the boys begin confronting issues that have weighed them down since childhood, though their rivalries and jealousies begin to surface as well.

Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun

1993

Series credits

Smallville poster
8.2

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Smallville

2001

The X-Files poster
8.4

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

The X-Files

1993

Heartland poster
8.2

Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

Heartland

2007

The Dead Zone poster
7.3

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

The Dead Zone

2002

The Outer Limits poster
7.7

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

The Outer Limits

1995

The Outer Limits poster
7.7

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

The Outer Limits

1995

The Outer Limits poster
7.7

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

The Outer Limits

1995

Wynonna Earp poster
7.8

Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.

Wynonna Earp

2016

Da Vinci's Inquest poster
6.2

Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.

Da Vinci's Inquest

1998

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven poster
6.5

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel spun off from the The Crow film series starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow.

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

1998

The Collector poster
5.8

The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.

The Collector

2004

Blue Murder poster
6.1

Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.

Blue Murder

2001

Jake and The Kid poster
8.0

Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.

Jake and The Kid

1995

Crossroad Springs poster
8.8

The Hamilton family faces financial struggles and staffing shortages on Hamilton Ranch. Pastor James and Janet return to help the family, encountering a generational feud between the family owners. James starts a cowboy church on the farm, where faith, family, and ranch life are intertwined, despite the lack of worship spaces on the vast farmland.

Crossroad Springs

2025

MythQuest poster
7.2

While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who wants to destroy the world by constantly changing the famous myths.

MythQuest

2001

No artwork available
8.5

A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.

Mentors

1999

No artwork available
8.5

A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.

Mentors

1999

Delmer & Marta poster
NR

A woman becomes a TV personality after relocating with her husband.

Delmer & Marta

2016