Robert Higden

Born: 1958-04-13

Robert Higden is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of the absent-minded vice-principal, Mr. Noseworthy, on the popular YTV series Radio Active. He has appeared in over 30 feature films including: The Reagans opposite Judy Davis, Battlefield Earth opposite John Travolta, Gleason opposite Brad Garrett, The Human Stain opposite Gary Sinise, and Taking Lives, opposite Angelina Jolie. As a founding member of Montreal’s On the Spot, Robert has been performing improv for well over a decade. He was even chosen to compete on the Montreal team in the Just For Laughs Improv Tournament for several years running. As a director, he has received a Gemini nomination for his work on the CBC series Edible Incredible, as well as a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for his work on Radio Active. (He often stage directed episodes he wasn’t in.) As for writing, much of Robert’s work has been for sketch comedy shows and for his own stand up routines, but he has also written for TV, and has 4 feature length screenplays under his belt, which he is currently shopping around. And of course, he continues to make his own films which have won him best short in the Actra shorts festival two years in a row, and best film in ASM’s 48 Hour Film Festival, 3 out of the 6 times he has entered.


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as Drunkard
Released: 2017-09-13

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their...

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The Human Stain

as Jeff Silk
Released: 2003-10-29

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a...

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Upside Down

as Amnesiac
Released: 2012-09-27

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles...

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It Must Be Heaven

as Policeman #2
Released: 2019-12-04

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his...

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WarGames: The Dead Code

as Mr. Baron
Released: 2008-07-29

Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online...

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My Salinger Year

as Bookkeeper
Released: 2020-02-20

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive...

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Dead Like Me: Life After Death

as Veterinarian
Released: 2009-02-17

When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and...

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French Exit

as Mr. Baker
Released: 2021-02-12

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite...

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The Secret

as Waiter
Released: 2007-10-10

Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her...

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

as Writer #3
Released: 1994-09-07

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose...

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Love & Human Remains

as The Editor
Released: 1994-07-22

In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he...

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Student Seduction

as Mr. Fiske
Released: 2003-05-05

Christie Dawson always wanted to be the "cool" teacher. But her world is shaken up after a...

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The Legend of Sarila

as Arlok (voice)
Released: 2013-02-21

Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.

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Salt on Our Skin

as Souvenir Salesman
Released: 1992-09-17

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the...

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Savage Messiah

as Grocery Store Owner / Clerk
Released: 2002-04-26

As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling...

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Hysteria

as Man at piano bar
Released: 1997-10-01

Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the...

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Dead Awake

as Polygraph Technician
Released: 2001-11-06

An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of...

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Fatal Trust

as Skip
Released: 2006-12-07

Following the death of her husband, Kate moves back home with her young child to live with her...

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Swamp Devil

as Jones
Released: 2008-07-04

SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (Bruce...

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The High Cost of Living

as Urban Husband
Released: 2011-05-13

The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit...

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Black Swarm

as Father Francis
Released: 2007-12-07

A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her...

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The Long Winter

as Foule (tribunal)
Released: 1999-03-13

In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the...

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Vanished

as Unemployed Man (uncredited)
Released: 1995-04-02

Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost...

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Shadow of the Bear

as Joe
Released: 1997-10-01

Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.

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Bad Apple

as Tuckman's Guard
Released: 2004-02-16

Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister...

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EVERGREEN$

as Baby boomer
Released: 2023-12-22

21 year-old Rémi leaves his small town in Quebec for the first time to go sell Christmas trees...

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Wilder

as NRC Official
Released: 2000-11-01

The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam...

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Jack & Ella

as Ted
Released: 2002-06-01

A black man and a Jewish woman crash into each other and win a dream house in the suburbs....

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Monsieur Pug

as Monsieur Pug (voice)
Released: 2014-09-19

Who is Monsieur Pug? Why, a dog with bad cholesterol and high blood pressure! And a dog who...

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The Hunger

as Motel Manager
First aired: 1997-07-20

The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free...

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Blue Mountain State

as Rogers
First aired: 2010-01-11

Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle...

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More Tales of the City

as Valued Costumer
First aired: 1998-06-07

Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the...

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