A Beachcombers’ Christmas, like the last Beachcombers movie, is a project very close to the heart of actor and executive producer of the Beachcombers movies for TV, Jackson Davies. He played "Constable John Constable" for over 16 years on the original CBC series The Beachcombers and, with producer Nick Orchard, is principally responsible for creating a new lease on life for the long-running, much-beloved Canadian icon in this television movie.
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Originally from Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and now living in Tsawwassen, B.C., Davies started acting in 1968 and has appeared in over 160 stage shows in most of the major theatres in Canada. Prior to the last New Beachcombers movie (2002), he starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner With Friends at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver.
Davies has appeared in well over 300 TV shows. Past credits include Wise Guy, 21 Jump Street, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures, Hit the Spot, Vonnegut Theatre, and X-Files. He also had continuing roles in MacGyver and Street Justice. Davies has been in 30 made-for-television movies and feature films including I Still Dream Of Jeannie, Christmas Pageant, Hitchhiker, Runaway, Stakeout, Bird on a Wire, Bingo, The Exxon Valdez Story, Catch Me If You Can, and the critically skewered Tom Green movie Freddy Got Fingered.

Davies has appeared in, written, produced, and directed over 200 television commercials and industrial films in Canada and the U.S. for which he has won numerous national and international awards. For 16 years Davies starred as Constable John Constable in CBC's longest running TV series The Beachcombers, for which he won the TV Week Viewers' Choice Award for Best Actor in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. In 2002, Davies produced Welcome Back, a 30th anniversary documentary on the Beachcombers series and also starred in and was the Executive Producer on the first The New Beachcombers movie for TV in 2002. Davies co-wrote and stars in The Wild Guys, a feature film that opened in November in Vancouver. The Wild Guys won the “Best Feature Film” at the World of Comedy International Film Festival” in Toronto and just won “Best Picture” at the California Independent Film Festival. Jackson is currently in pre-production with the feature The Foursome (a comedy about golf). Davies is also in development with three series: More Great Ideas, a comedy-documentary series about Canadian inventions, the sitcom Honest Buck$, and Two Old Farts on Motorcycles, a motorcycle series.

Davies is one of only two Canadians made Honorary Sergeants in the RCMP. In 1995 he was inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame and Starwalk. He also plays right wing (very poorly) for the Vancouver Canucks Alumni Team.

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