Cast & creator
Ardon Bess
Best known for Due South, Remedy, Heritage Minutes
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.
32
film credits
12
television credits
44
1975–2022 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (44)
Showing 44 of 44 credits
Due South
Rudy Porter
1994
Remedy
Henry Kozlow
2014
Heritage Minutes
Maurice Ruddick
1991
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Oscar
2002
Trailer Park Boys
Levi
2001
FX: The Series
Security Guard Tony
1996
Kim's Convenience
Arthur
2016
Twice in a Lifetime
Dr. Harold Roth
1999
King of Kensington
Nestor Best
1975
MythQuest
Baba
2001
Prom Night
Teacher
1980
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Jed Mason
1983Teleplay
1976
The 4th Floor
Hardware Owner
1999
The Ladies Man
Stage Manager
2000
The Skulls II
Mr. Beckford
2002
Saving God
Officer Earle
2008
The Shape of Things to Come
Merrick
1979
Jean of the Joneses
Gray
2016
Ordinary Magic
Barbershop #2
1993
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Sins of the Father
Minister at Church
2002
High-Ballin'
Policeman
1978
Double Wedding
2010
Free of Eden
Businessman
1999
Prince for a Day
Nix
1995
How She Move
Uncle Cecil
2008
10,000 Black Men Named George
Daddy Moore
2002
Moving Target
Jake
1996
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Cecil
2001
On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990
After Alice
Lenny
2000
A Sunday Kind of Love
Server
2016
Songs In Ordinary Time
Earlie's Grandfather
2000The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Mr. McLean
1987
Hot Paint
1988
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
Blind Sid
2002
Jewel
Nelson
2001
A New Diva's Christmas Carol
Old Michael
2022Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift
Tucker Cooper
1990
Jack & Ella
Darrell
2002
Fields of Endless Day
1978
Hostage
Garage Attendant
1988
Heritage Minutes: Maurice Ruddick
Maurice Ruddick
1993