Ardon Bess
Acting
Biography
Ardon Bess is a Canadian actor best known for appearing in a Heritage Moment television commercial about the 1958 Springhill mining disaster portraying survivor Maurice Ruddick. He has also appeared in other films and television roles including Trailer Park Boys, How She Move, Take the Lead, The Ladies Man, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Prom Night, King of Kensington, and Jewel. He earned a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for his role in One Heart Broken Into Song. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ardon Bess, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
41 credits
Jewel
Movie • 2001
Nelson
Heritage Minutes: Maurice Ruddick
Movie • 1993
Maurice Ruddick
Double Wedding
Movie • 2010
The 4th Floor
Movie • 1999
Hardware Owner
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Movie • 2001
Cecil
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Movie • 1987
Mr. McLean
Moving Target
Movie • 1996
Jake
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
Movie • 2002
Blind Sid
Jack & Ella
Movie • 2002
Darrell
Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift
Movie • 1990
Tucker Cooper
The Shape of Things to Come
Movie • 1979
Merrick
On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
Movie • 1990
Jean of the Joneses
Movie • 2016
Gray
Sins of the Father
Movie • 2002
Minister at Church
Hot Paint
Movie • 1988
After Alice
Movie • 2000
Lenny
A Sunday Kind of Love
Movie • 2016
Server
Songs In Ordinary Time
Movie • 2000
Earlie's Grandfather
Hostage
Movie • 1988
Garage Attendant
Prom Night
Movie • 1980
Teacher
Prince for a Day
Movie • 1995
Nix
10,000 Black Men Named George
Movie • 2002
Daddy Moore
The Skulls II
Movie • 2002
Mr. Beckford
Saving God
Movie • 2008
Officer Earle
How She Move
Movie • 2008
Uncle Cecil
A New Diva's Christmas Carol
Movie • 2022
Old Michael
Fields of Endless Day
Movie • 1978
Free of Eden
Movie • 1999
Businessman
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Movie • 1985
Ordinary Magic
Movie • 1993
Barbershop #2
High-Ballin'
Movie • 1978
Policeman
King of Kensington
TV • 1975
Nestor Best
FX: The Series
TV • 1996
Security Guard Tony
Trailer Park Boys
TV • 2001
Levi
Remedy
TV • 2014
Henry Kozlow
MythQuest
TV • 2001
Baba
Twice in a Lifetime
TV • 1999
Dr. Harold Roth
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
TV • 1983
Jed Mason
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
TV • 2002
Oscar
Due South
TV • 1994
Rudy Porter
Kim's Convenience
TV • 2016
Arthur