Bob Bainborough

Acting

Bob Bainborough

Born

1951-10-12 (75)

Place of birth

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Bob Bainborough is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is known for playing the role of Dalton Humphrey in the Canadian comedy series The Red Green Show, and appearances on History Bites. Bainborough was nominated for a Gemini Award in both series.

Known for

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

The Red Green Show poster
7.5

The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

The Red Green Show

1991

Counterstrike poster
7.0

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

Counterstrike

1990

My Secret Identity poster
7.0

My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.

My Secret Identity

1988

Little Mosque on the Prairie poster
6.6

The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).

Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

The Love Guru poster
4.0

Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.

The Love Guru

2008

Men with Brooms poster
5.2

A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.

Men with Brooms

2002

Duct Tape Forever poster
6.2

When an evil land baron's limo falls into a sinkhole outside Possum Lodge, lodge leader Red Green is ordered to pay the baron $10,000 or lose his beloved lodge forever. Red considers various money-making schemes concocted by his buddies, but it's his nerdy nephew Harold who hits on an idea that just might save their wood-smoked bacon: a duct-tape sculpture contest in Minneapolis that offers a $10,000 third-place prize.

Duct Tape Forever

2002

No artwork available
5.1

This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television's beloved "The Red Green Show," the wacky sketch series revolving around the wit and wisdom of outdoors-man, handyman and populist philosopher Red Green (Steve Smith). Backstage anecdotes, rare outtakes and cast commentary shed light on the smart writing and spot-on acting that helped make this unlikely show such a long-running success.

The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together

2008

1980s · 5 titles

Dead Ringers poster
7.1

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

Dead Ringers

1988

The Boy in Blue poster
5.0

Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.

The Boy in Blue

1986

Millennium poster
5.4

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.

Millennium

1989

Really Weird Tales poster
5.8

The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson.

Really Weird Tales

1986

110 Lombard poster
NR

Three single guys share their personal problems as well as a loft apartment.

110 Lombard

1988

Series credits

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

The Red Green Show poster
7.5

The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

The Red Green Show

1991

Counterstrike poster
7.0

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

Counterstrike

1990

My Secret Identity poster
7.0

My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.

My Secret Identity

1988

Little Mosque on the Prairie poster
6.6

The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).

Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007

No artwork available
5.0

Train 48 was a Canadian television soap opera, broadcast on Global Television Network or CH airing from 2003 until 2005. Train 48 was based on the format of an Australian television program called Going Home.

Train 48

2003

Wind at My Back poster
9.0

A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite

Wind at My Back

1996

Wind at My Back poster
9.0

A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite

Wind at My Back

1996

Slings & Arrows poster
7.4

This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.

Slings & Arrows

2003

Almost Heroes poster
5.2

When slick Harvard Business School graduate Terry returns home for his father's funeral, he expects a quick trip. Instead, he discovers the family's comic book store, The Silver Salmon, is on the brink of bankruptcy. He is forced to stick around and work alongside his head-in-the-clouds, pop-culture-obsessed brother Peter to save the business and mend their fractured relationship.

Almost Heroes

2011