Jackson Davies
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Jackson Davies is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. He is best known for his role as RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

 Constable John Constable in the television series The Beachcombers
The Beachcombers
The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...

, which he reprised in the TV movies The New Beachcombers (2002) and A Beachcombers Christmas (2004). Originally from Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Wetaskiwin is a small city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word wītaskīwin-ispatinaw , meaning "the hills where peace was made"....

 and now living in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, BC. he has acted in over 160 stage shows in most of the major theatres in Canada. He has appeared in over 300 TV shows and been in 30 TV movies and feature films.

He is an Honorary Sergeant of the RCMP, a rarely bestowed designation.

Television series

  • 1972-1991: The Beachcombers
    The Beachcombers
    The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...

    (CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    )
  • 2001: Hit the Spot (syndicated)

Television movies

  • 1980: The Plutonium Incident
  • 1983: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a book written by Barbara Robinson in 1972. It tells the story of six delinquent children surnamed Herdman. They go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks...

  • 1983: Jane Doe
  • 1984: Secrets of a Married Man
  • 1985: Love is Never Silent
  • 1985: Love, Mary
  • 1985: Picking up the Pieces
  • 1986: Nobody's Child
  • 1987: Deadly Deception
  • 1987: Hands of a Stranger
  • 1991: I Still Dream of Jeannie
  • 1992: Dead Ahead; the Exxon Valdez Disaster
  • 1992: Diagnosis Murder
  • 1995: The Man Who Wouldn't Die
    The Man Who Wouldn't Die
    The Man Who Wouldn't Die is the title of a 1995 action mystery film by director Bill Condon. The film, which aired as a movie of the week during the May Sweeps in 1995, stars Roger Moore, Nancy Allen and Malcolm McDowell...

  • 2002: The New Beachcombers (CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    )
  • 2004: A Beachcombers Christmas (CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    )

Movies

  • 1979: A Man, a Woman and a Bank
  • 1984: Runaway
  • 1986: High Stakes
  • 1987: Home is Where the Hart Is
  • 1987: Stakeout
  • 1987: The Stepfather
  • 1990: Bird on a Wire
  • 1991: Bingo
  • 1991: Icetime (video)
  • 1994: Trust in Me
  • 2001: Freddy Got Fingered
    Freddy Got Fingered
    Freddy Got Fingered is a 2001 American comedy film directed, co-written by and starring Tom Green. Some of the scenes feature similar antics to those seen in his own The Tom Green Show and scenes in Road Trip. It is largely built around gross-out and shock humor...

  • 2002: The Wild Guys

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