Brian Dooley

Acting

Brian Dooley

Place of birth

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Brian Dooley was born in Sherbrooke Quebec. He graduated from Bishop's University with a B.A Honours in 1977, and trained in theatre at the National Theatre School of Canada. For over thirty years he has worked in diverse roles across the country and abroad. For L'UniThéâtre in April 2016, he acted in both French and English as an elderly plumber who pursues the recently widowed love of his life in The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux by Gratien Gélinas. Later in the same month, he convincingly played an irredeemably drunken father in Theatre Network's production of Gordon by Morris Panych. Dooley succeeded Daniel Cournoyer as Artistic Director of L'UniThéâtre in 2012. He is also the director of …

Known for

Are You Afraid of the Dark? poster
8.2

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 episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

1992

Plan B poster
5.9

Plan B offers clients the chance to travel back in time to change the past, but each alteration has unintended consequences, revealing the complexity and limitations of personal agency.

Plan B

2023

The Hitchhiker poster
6.2

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

The Hitchhiker

1983

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

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

In Cold Light poster
5.9

Fresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee into a nightmarish underworld where allies are scarce and enemies multiply by the minute.

In Cold Light

2026

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 9 titles

The Boys of St. Vincent poster
7.1

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

The Boys of St. Vincent

1994

The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later poster
6.0

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.

The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later

1992

The Wrong Woman poster
8.0

A temporary secretary is wrongly accused of killing her boss.

The Wrong Woman

1995

The Real Story of the Three Little Kittens poster
9.0

Tom, Dick and Harriet, a mischievous trio from Whiskers End, get more than they bargain for the day they skip school to play in the snow. Unfortunately, the kittens lose their way and wander into the Fearful Forest, domain of Freezelda the Ice Queen.

The Real Story of the Three Little Kittens

1990

Angel Square poster
8.0

A Canadian boy comes of age and investigates a mystery in 1945.

Angel Square

1991

Back Stab poster
4.8

An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.

Back Stab

1990

Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation poster
9.0

In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out. They would not see their ancestral lands for 30 years. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in the desolate settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where the sea was nearly always frozen and darkness reigned for months on end.

Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

1995

Bolt poster
5.2

A tough New Jersey biker named Bolt travels across the country heading west. He encounters old gang rival Billy Niles.

Bolt

1995

Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung poster
NR

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung

1991

1980s · 5 titles

State Park poster
4.1

A business man plans to dump toxic waste on a state park, but it doesn't go according to plan.

State Park

1988

Hitting Home poster
4.0

Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.

Hitting Home

1988

No artwork available
NR

A 15 year old kid named Fred Godwin wants to be tough. He gets tested by a local trouble maker kid named Bobby Cummings who sets up a robbery for Fred as an accomplice. He has to remain in juvenile hall until he can prove his innocence.

First Offender

1987

Malarek poster
7.0

Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing corruption in the social welfare system.

Malarek

1988

Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet poster
7.0

Elizabeth is a historian who believes that she is on to the find of her career, but has difficulty getting access to the document that will prove her theory. In desperation, she and a friend decide to break into the owner's house. She successfully gets in but is unexpectedly caught by the owner. She and the friend have to make up a story to get them out of trouble which eventually leads to string of events that lands Elizabeth in even more hot water.

Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet

1987

Series credits

Are You Afraid of the Dark? poster
8.2

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 episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

1992

Are You Afraid of the Dark? poster
8.2

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 episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

1992

Plan B poster
5.9

Plan B offers clients the chance to travel back in time to change the past, but each alteration has unintended consequences, revealing the complexity and limitations of personal agency.

Plan B

2023

The Hitchhiker poster
6.2

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

The Hitchhiker

1983

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

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