James McDougall Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
James McDougall
Acting
Biography
James McDougall is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He was raised in the small town of Cobourg Ontario, the son of Gail McDougall, a prison manager, and John McDougall, an English teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, acting and filmmaking were always a passion for James. Whether it was performing in local plays, school theater, or filming his own home movies with friends. This led him to major in drama at Canterbury Arts High School and he went on to York University to study theater for one year. James then moved back to Ottawa to begin performing on stage in musicals and dramatic productions with ASNY, Orleans Young Players, and GOYA. He ventured to Victoria B.C. and acted in shows with Atomic Vaudeville, Theatre Inconnu, and Langham Court Theater. After a few years in British Columbia James traveled back to his home province of Ontario and embraced the film and television scene in Toronto. He immersed himself in the world of on-camera acting and filmmaking. By creating his own projects, training and constantly honing his craft, and working at Armstrong Acting Studios where he filmed thousands of hours of classes as well as casting sessions with some the top casting directors in Canada, James got to know the industry from the inside out as he quickly built up his on-screen resume. A few breakout roles include getting cast as the lead actor in Vincenzo Natali's segment in the anthology horror film ABCs of Death 2 (2014), playing Santa Claus in Michael Dowse's heartwarming HBO Max film 8-Bit Christmas (2021) and landing a supporting role as the bumbling criminal Hammond in Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion's hit thriller Becky (2020) where he acted alongside Kevin James, Lulu Wilson, and Joel McHale. James has also spent over a decade working behind the scenes writing, directing, and producing content at Mountain Man Media. Walking Supply (2016), a short film he co-wrote with Derek Barnes, went on to debut at The Toronto International Short Film Festival. The concept was soon developed into the feature film Whiteout (2023), which James not only co-wrote but starred in as the role of Henry. The harrowing survival thriller was filmed in the dead of winter, sold at the Cannes Film Market, and landed distribution with Saban Films and Myriad Pictures. In 2021, James founded his own production company called Galebreak Studios, which focuses on telling captivating narrative stories of all genres, both short and feature length.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Be Still
Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be mistaken for madness, she's soon visited by mirror images of herself, as well as her daughter's ghost. Inspired by the life of photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918).
Whiteout
After escaping a Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.
Hotel Limbo
Diana thinks she's the next Paris Hilton. After all, she's just received an unexpected inheritance - a hotel in an upscale Canadian mountain resort. She's an heiress! But Diana's dreams of glitz and glamour are dashed when she arrives with her two rescue dogs to find the hotel is far from what she'd imagined...
An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman
William Bowman is a small town boy with small town dreams. And like any average teenager, when approached with the subject of his future, Bowman would often retreat into the safe recesses of his mind. When a concussion seemingly sends William to an uncertain future, what follows is a series of hilarious capers from William’s status as an average teenager to a nationwide media phenomenon. Is William a product of bad luck? Good luck? Or is his future subject to miracles and unlikely circumstances?
8-Bit Christmas
In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.
Heinous Acts
Some of the most heinous crimes Investigated... Inspired by old school anthology horror films like "Tales From The Crypt", "Creepshow", and "Tales From the Darkside The Movie", as well as creepy episodic television such as "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Heinous Acts is a modern twist on short subject horror stories combined into one non-stop nail-biting feature film. A small town police force has investigated some of the most unspeakable crimes imaginable. When the department's file clerk breaks into the evidence room to show the files to a new employee she is completely unprepared for the depravity that follows
ABCs of Death 2
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
SOS: Save Our Skins
Two hapless British geeks wake up in New York City only to find that the entire human race has vanished.
SOS: Save Our Skins
Two hapless British geeks wake up in New York City only to find that the entire human race has vanished.
The Perfect Kiss
Everyone is looking for happiness. And when you're almost 30, single, and still living at home with kooky parents who treat you like a ten-year-old, you're looking even harder. So there was the situation of Tanya, a brand new real estate agent, on her way on a cold winter day to make her first big sale and her first big step on her path to independence. She is late as usual and rushing on a slippery road, she doesn't know it yet but her life is about to change forever.
Production
Thanksgiving
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.
Red Love
Two serial killers meet serendipitously while attempting to murder each other. Once they realize they are one in the same they embark on a very disturbing first date.
Red Love
Two serial killers meet serendipitously while attempting to murder each other. Once they realize they are one in the same they embark on a very disturbing first date.
Whiteout
After escaping a Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.
Loose Ends
In a world where being a freelancer for a powerful crime syndicate is as easy as signing up for a mobile app, new hire Tim Givens, in a case of mistaken identity, finds himself held hostage by Jessica, an escaped kidnap victim, who's trust he must earn in order to avoid being executed.
Hunting Grounds
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.
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