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CAST
JACKSON DAVIES as STAFF SERGEANT JOHN CONSTABLE
The New Beachcombers is a project very close to actor, writer, and Executive Producer Jackson Davies’ heart. 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.Originally from Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and now living in West Vancouver, 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 start of production on The New Beachcombers, 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; X-Files and continuing roles in MacGyver, and Street Justice. He has also been in 30 made for television movies and feature films including: I Still Dream Of Jennie; 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 is currently producing and writing the film script for The Foursome, based on the hit stage show he starred in last year, and is in pre-production on Welcome Back - a 30th anniversary documentary on the Beachcombers series. He is also in development with three series, More Great Ideas, a comedy-documentary series on Canadian Inventions, the sitcom Honest Bob's, the comedy Sooke Point Bed and Breakfast and Rebels Without A Clue, a motorcycle travel series.
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. Davies is one of only two Canadians who were 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 Canuck Alumni team and makes various appearances for charity.
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