Ted Friend

Acting

Ted Friend

Born

1949-01-01 (77)

Place of birth

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Ted Friend was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in July of 1949. He continued to reside on Vancouver Island, even after leaving the University of Victoria, choosing CFAX Radio as the starting point of his career in Broadcasting. Ted started his own freelance Film and Video Production company in 1976, working with clients from both Canada and the USA - respectable clients, such as the Government of Canada, Air Canada and Walt Disney. A 'Broadcast Entrereneur', Ted's career eventually moved from Radio to Television in 1985; the station was VU13 which later became Canwest Global. Ted has been a Writer, Producer and Director of of all forms of film and video programming, as well as …

Known for

The Dead Zone poster
7.3

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

The Dead Zone

2002

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction poster
7.3

Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

American Dreams poster
5.2

Set to the soundtrack of the 1960s, a Philadelphia family moves toward the cultural upheaval in the years ahead. The Pryors' teen daughter Meg tries to shed her 'good girl' image by hanging with her worldly friend Roxanne and pursuing a dream of being an American Bandstand dancer. Meg's emerging personality, and the changes her mother's going through, don't sit well with Father.

American Dreams

2002

The Twilight Zone poster
7.2

A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

The Twilight Zone

2002

Tru Calling poster
7.2

A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.

Tru Calling

2003

The Butterfly Effect poster
7.6

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

The Butterfly Effect

2004

Film credits

2000s · 17 titles

The Butterfly Effect poster
7.6

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

The Butterfly Effect

2004

Scary Movie 4 poster
5.5

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Scary Movie 4

2006

Watchmen poster
7.4

In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

Watchmen

2009

Elf poster
6.7

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.

Elf

2003

Hollow Man II poster
4.9

After the mysterious death of scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon... an undetectable soldier. The experiment failed – with disastrous side effects.

Hollow Man II

2006

Freddy Got Fingered poster
4.8

Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he retaliates by spreading rumors that Jim is sexually abusing Freddy.

Freddy Got Fingered

2001

Blonde and Blonder poster
3.8

Comic mayhem ensues when two lovely blondes, Dee and Dawn, are mistaken as international mob killers.

Blonde and Blonder

2008

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice poster
4.2

With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

2002

Do You Know Me? poster
4.8

After celebrating her graduation, Ellie Carter jokingly calls a missing-child hotline found on a milk carton, only to uncover a terrifying truth about her identity that puts her and everyone she loves in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy.

Do You Know Me?

2009

Good Boy! poster
5.6

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Good Boy!

2003

Miracle poster
7.1

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. After assembling a team of hot-headed college all-stars, who are humiliated in an early match, Brooks unites his squad against a common foe: the heavily-favored Soviet team.

Miracle

2004

Judicial Indiscretion poster
4.8

A federal judge’s life is disrupted by sexual assault, blackmail and murder after she’s put on the shortlist to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.

Judicial Indiscretion

2007

Under the Hood poster
6.3

Stars from the Watchmen movie team up in the amazing live-action/CGI Under the Hood, based on Nite Owl's powerful firsthand account of how the hooded adventurers came into existence.

Under the Hood

2009

Chilly Dogs poster
5.5

A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.

Chilly Dogs

2001

Live Feed poster
3.9

Five young adults are about to find themselves in a fight for their lives, pitted against evil itself! While on vacation in a foreign city, one of the five makes a seemingly innocent albeit ignorant mistake and soon all of them will realize the cost of such an inconsequential action. A stranger appears to help them, but is this too little, too late?

Live Feed

2006

The Damned Thing poster
5.1

Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between a mysterious, invisible force that made his father kill his mother back in 1981. He sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "dammed thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to kill each other and then finally... themselves.

The Damned Thing

2006

X2 poster
7.0

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

X2

2003

Series credits