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Allan Hawco (Actor, Writer, Executive Producer) is one of the country's most recognizable stars, whose wide range of talents appeal to audiences of all ages. He has the unique ability to connect to the audience as an actor and from behind the scenes, as a writer and producer. He was born on Bell Island, and raised in The Goulds in Newfoundland.
Allan is well-known for his roles as co-creator, show-runner, writer, executive producer and star in the hit CBC television drama/comedy Republic of Doyle, under his own production company Take the Shot Productions. Allan played the lead, Jake Doyle, the roguish and irreverent private investigator. In addition to its six season run on CBC, Republic of Doyle was sold to markets around the world, including syndication across the US.
In addition to Republic of Doyle (2010-2014), Allan starred in some of the most acclaimed television productions in Canada including Murdoch Mysteries (2013), ZOS: Zone of Separation (The Movie Network, 2008), political thrillers H20 (CBC, 2004) and Trojan Horse (CBC, 2007), as well as World War II drama Above & Beyond (CBC, 2006). Allan also starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in the CBC miniseries, The Book of Negroes (2015).
Allan's feature film credits include major roles in Director Bruce McDonald's Award Winning film Weirdos; and Director/Actor Paul Gross' Hyena Road. Prior credits include a starring role in Love & Savagery (2009), directed by John Smith, and in Sir Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring (2007) with Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine. Recently Allan starred as Liam in Michael Melski's,The Child Remains (2017).
Allan's major accolades include such awards as the Gascon Thomas Award from the National Theatre School, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Television Hall of Fame, a Gemini nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series (Republic of Doyle) and an ACTRA nomination for Best Male Actor (Love & Savagery).
Beyond television and film, Allan has maintained his roots in theatre as the co-founder of the Toronto-based 'Company Theatre'. There, he garnered rave reviews as the star in its inaugural production of Tom Murphy's Whistle in the Dark, as well as critical acclaim for both his roles in Festen and Belleville. The Company Theatre has gone on to stage numerous productions, such as John, Domesticated, The Seagull, Speaking in Tongues, The Test, Marion Bridge, and the Dora Award winning Through the Leaves. Allan is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Take The Shot Productions, is in production for season 3 of the award winning Television show Frontier, starring Jason Momoa, a Netflix Worldwide and Discovery Channel Canada series filmed on location in St. John's, N.L., Northern England, Scotland, and Cornwall, U.K. Frontier was created and written by Rob and Peter Blackie. Acclaimed directors on the series include Brad Peyton and John Vatcher. In addition to producing the series, Allan also plays the leading character Douglas Brown in Season 1, 2, and 3 serves as Executive Producer to the show.
Allan's upcoming project Caught is another highly anticipated show by his production company. Allan's new series Caught, in which he stars alongside Paul Gross, Eric Johnson, Tori Anderson and Enuka Okuma will air on CBC Monday February 26th, 2018. Allan plays the lead David Slaney, as well as serving as the Showrunner and Executive Producer. Caught is adapted from Lisa Moore's acclaimed novel of the same name.Our main protagonist Jake Doyle works with his dad and retired RNC officer Malachy, pronounced Mal-ik-ky, and gets into all sorts of crazy adventures.
Leslie is the love of Jake's life and he treats her like a princess.
Does Leslie want Jake to treat her like a princess? Yes? I think she does. Jake's archnemisis is William Cadigan Clarke who starts to date Leslie despite a huge age gap between the two.
Jake discovers that William and a real-estate developer named Tania St Croix are building condos on crown land that neither of them technically owned.
Justin Slade discoverd that Jake and his family owned the deed to the land. Jake took his findings to Leslie who tried to run away from him but not before seeing the deed to the land.
This led Leslie to go to William's workplace and have her partner Danie hood arrest him.
Two years later out of a three year sentence for fraud William was released from jail and he imediately went to seek revenge on Jake and Leslie,
When William went to the Duke, Jake's bar, and was stealing alcohol. The mayhem that follows between William, Jake, and Leslie was alcohol fueled.
Jake warned Bill not to talk to Leslie directly or he'd end him.
Jake also gave William Cadigan Clarke a well-deserved punch in his face after he was talking to Leslie directly.- Actor
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Sean McGinley was born on 1 March 1956 in Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ireland. He is an actor and writer, known for On a Clear Day (2005), Braveheart (1995) and Michael Collins (1996). He has been married to Marie Mullen since 1990. They have two children.Malachy Doyle is the family patriarch and is especially protective of those within the Doyle clan. This includes Des, whom he loves like a grandson, Leslie, because of her close connection to his son Jake, Tinny, his granddaughter, and his three children, Kathleen, Christian, and Jake. He holds powerful family values which in tried to instill in his children and his granddaughter Tinny.
His archnemesis is Rose's ex-husband Martin Poole- Marthe Bernard was born on 14 June 1988 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She is an actress, known for Beat Down (2012), Republic of Doyle (2010) and Maudie (2016). She has been married to Jesse McKeown since 8 August 2015.Katrina "Tinny" Doyle is Malachy's granddaughter and Jake's niece. She's also the love child of Kathleen Doyle and Kevin Crocker. What she lacks in size she more than makes up for in spirit.
She follows in the footsteps of Jake and Malachy and becomes an officer in the RNC.
But when Tinny starts to date Grayson Mann Des starts noticing that Grayson is abusive towards Tinny and he just wants to have sex with her because of who her family is.
But then she starts trusting her instincts and dumps Grayson for Des. - Actor
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Mark O'Brien is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. He is an English major with a Bachelor of Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His mother was a nurse and his father a truck driver. Mark also has three older sisters. He married actress Georgina Reilly on January 6, 2013 after meeting on the set of the hit show Republic of Doyle.Mark plays Jake's plucky, yet very slow-witted, sidekick Desmond "Des" Courtney.
Des was a street hood who was tagging city property and managed to tag Jake's car. Des is taken by Jake's niece and Malachy's granddaughter Tinny. It isn't until Des finds himself in a precarious situation that Tinny and Rose find out more about Des including his living situation.
Rose and Tinny find out that he was living in an abandoned house and that his dad Jody Redmond is in jail for armed robbery. But Rose and Malachy decide to take Des under their wing to do all of their technical grunt work just to keep him out of trouble and off of the streets. They decide to leave the Doyle family nest and move in together and they eventually get married.- Actress
Krista Bridges was born on 4 November 1968 in Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Narc (2002) and Heroes Reborn (2015).Kathleen Doyle is Jake and Christian's sister and Malachy's only daughter. She is also Tinny's mother.
She is very protective of Tinny and tries to get Tinny's father transferred to Vancouver.- Christian Doyle is the middle child of Malachy and Emily Ann and Kathleen's younger brother and Jake's older brother.
Being brothers Christian can sometimes irrtate Jake. - Actress
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Krystin Pellerin was born on July 12, 1983 and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland.
She starred as Lady Macbeth in the Stratford Festival's critically acclaimed production of Stratford Festival: Macbeth (2017).
She is well known for playing the role of Sgt. Leslie Bennett in the CBC series Republic of Doyle (2010).She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her performance.
Krystin starred in the internationally award winning short film Touch (2016) directed by Noel Harris. The film garnered 21 awards worldwide and she was awarded best actress at the Henley Film Festival in the UK and the Visioni Corte International Short Film Festival in Italy.
Krystin is also a singer and musical theatre performer.Krystin plays Jake's love interest Leslie, who made Sergeant. and she takes no shit from anybody. Not even Jake.
However, when Leslie's ex-husband Callum Pardy shows up to lay claim, to Leslie, with some conditions one of which is that Callum doesn't lose his job. Leslie takes Callum back and after she had gone back to her now ex-husband he fully accepted that she wanted to be her husband but with a few conditions one of which was that he not lose his job. Leslie again, starts to realize that she loves Jake and that she made a mistake taking him back. She finally asks him for a divorce.
In the series finale episode of Republic of Doyle Mal reveals that Leslie is pregnant after Pickard tried to shoot and kill Leslie to hide his ties to corruption within the RNC brass. Jake always had baby rabies and a few episodes later Leslie seems taken with the possibility of having a baby with Jake.
Leslie also punches Clarke in the face when he calls her a slut.- Actress
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Lynda Boyd was born in Vancouver and is a versatile triple threat with an extensive stage, television, film and animation career.
Over the years, Lynda has played Diane Keaton's best friend, Leslie Nielsen's wife, Owen Wilson's confidante and Jennifer Lopez's boss. Lynda also starred in the CBC hit Republic of Doyle (2010) for six seasons as "Rose Doyle" and garnered her third Gemini/Screenie nomination.
Her recent projects include Danny Boyle's TV series, Trust (2018) and Amazon's Tin Star (2017) where she stars alongside Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks.Rose Martin is Malachy's wife, Christian, Kathleen, Jake's stepmother, Tinny's stepgrandmother, and Des's pseudo-mother figure. She is very protective of Malachy's children and she is especially protective of Jake because she knows that he had a hard time accepting that his mother is deceased.
But Jake trusts Rose and asks her to look after Leslie while she's in the hospital. He knew very well that Rose would not just look after her but she would also protect her from the Doyle family enemies that were closing ranks on them.
She often has horrible encounters with her ex-husband and Malachy's archnemesis Martin Poole who just can't seem to keep himself out of trouble.
When a rogue "insurance adjuster" shoots Malachy and leaves him to die Rose decides to take matters into her own hands and takes Rene's gun and points it at her.
This proves that you shouldn't mess with a Doyle.
But Rose has a chequered past in which she did time for armed robbery.
As the Doyle family's enemies were closing ranks Jake called Rose, Kathleen, and Des at the office and Jake first asked Rose to go to the hospital and look after Leslie in case anything happened to him.- Actor
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Nicholas Campbell was born on 24 March 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Da Vinci's Inquest (1998), Cinderella Man (2005) and The Dead Zone (1983).Martin Poole is Rose's nightmarish ex-husband and Malachy's archnemisis who's always getting himself into such serious situations that require him to ask Rose and Malachy for help.- Actor
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Gordon Edward Pinsent was born on July 12, 1930 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Florence (Cooper) and Stephen Arthur Pinsent. Gordon was known as "Porky" as a child, and dreamed of performing as early as he can remember. He served with the Royal Canadian Regiment from 1948-51. Gordon received an L.L.D. from the University P.E.I. in 1975, an Honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1988, as well as from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island.
Gordon left Newfoundland at the age of 17 and began his career on stage. His first theatrical experiences were in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While there, he was involved in the first live radio drama out of Winnipeg. He eventually moved east, working in Toronto and Stratford, Ontario. He has since won numerous credits and awards, and is one of Canada's most well-respected artists.
In addition to acting, he directs and produces, and has written a number of novels and screenplays, as well as plays for the stage, including 'Corner Green' for the Newfoundland amateur drama festival. The play was staged in St. John's, Newfoundland in April of 1997, and was was based upon life his hometown of Grand Falls, Newfoundland.
He is a member of the Honorary Advisory Board for the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and is very active in various charities. His humorous and poignant autobiography, "By the Way", was published.
His wife until her death was actress Charmion King, whom he met during his early theater days. He has a daughter, actress Leah Pinsent, from that union, as well as a son and daughter from an earlier marriage (Barry and Beverly Kennedy). He has two brothers, Harry and Haig, and three sisters: Nita, Hazel, and Lil, who passed away in 1998.Maurice Becker is an arms dealer and has been in and out of jail for most of his adult life.- Actor
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Paul Gross is the elder of two brothers. He was an Army brat; his father, Bob Gross, was a Tank Commander in the Canadian Army. As a consequence Paul and his family moved around a lot: he has lived in Canada, the U.S, England and Germany. Paul was introduced to acting in his early teens, while the Gross family was in Washington. He performed in stage plays such as Canterbury Tales and Faustus. From the age of 14, he appeared in television commercials, which enabled him to pay for his degree in Drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
In 2011, Paul Gross appeared at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto playing Elyot opposite Kim Cattrall's Amanda in the celebrated comedy by Noel Coward, Private Lives.Kevin Crocker is what some would refer to as a crooked cop who purportedly killed a woman. But Kevin and Jake team up to find out who did kill this woman and clear Kevin's name.
He unknowingly kidnapped his daughter Tinny and Des.
But Kevin wants to have a relationship with Tinny even if it's for a short time.- Actor
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Ryan Robbins was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Sanctuary (2008), Apollo 18 (2011) and Spectral (2016). He has been married to Karyn Michelle Baltzer since 2014. They have one child. He was previously married to Rebecca Reichert.Callum Pardy is Leslie's presumed MIA husband who reappears into her life.
When Leslie discovers that Callum had been lying to him about what he was doing back in St Johns she discovered a video of Jake breaking up a fight between Callum and three loan sharks that he owed money to.
Leslie decides to give her wedding band back and file for divorce.- Actor
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Victor Garber has been in some of the most memorable projects of the past four decades. Victor has recently appeared in The Slap (2015), The Flash (2014), Motive (2013) and Web Therapy (2011). He is currently staring in Greg Berlanti's new DC Comics Superhero series "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" for Warner Bros/CW. He has shared in two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® nominations for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast, the latest for Milk (2008), and previously as a member of the cast of Titanic (1997) as well as winning with the cast of Argo (2012). Garber received three Emmy® nods for his role on Alias (2001) and has also earned Emmy® nominations for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), and his guest roles on Frasier (1993) and Will & Grace (1998). He is also an accomplished stage actor, whose extensive credits encompass lead roles in both plays and musicals, and has earned four Tony Award® nominations, for his work in Damn Yankees (1994-1995), Lend Me a Tenor (1989-1990), Little Me (1982) and Deathtrap (1978-1982. Victor also starred in the 1998 Tony Award winning Best Play, Art.Victor plays an eccentric romance novel writer Garrison Streele who writes about Jake in a book called "The Special Detective."
But when Garrison's editor starts framing Jake for the murders of several people. She describes herself as being tired of cleaning up Garrison's mess and that Jake had turned him into a clown. Jake in turn says "oh, believe me, he was a clown before I ever met him."- Actor
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Jonathan Lippert Keltz was born in New York City, to Karin Lippert, who worked in public relations, and Martin Keltz, the co-founder and President of Scholastic Productions. He remained in the city through pre-school before moving upstate to Woodstock, New York, where he attended Poughkeepsie Day School through 8th grade. He moved with his family to Toronto, Canada to attend high school at Northern Secondary School and although he had done various theater productions prior to this, his professional career began shortly after his 16th birthday after signing with his agent.
Keltz was inspired to pursue acting by his first drama teacher, Victoria Silvestri, Kenneth Branagh's performance in Hamlet, and a Master Class Workshop with Alan Arkin. He got his start in films in Toronto appearing opposite Heather Graham in "Cake" and playing Chris Cooper's son in "Breach" for Universal. Jonathan co-starred in Disney's "Prom" and he reprised his role on the final season of "Entourage" as Ari Gold's loyal assistant, 'Jake Steinberg.' He had lead roles in two independent features: "Playback", with Christian Slater, and "Transgression", opposite Michael Ironside. In addition to "Entourage," Keltz's television credits include lead roles in the MOW's "Dadnapped" for The Disney Channel and "Acceptance" for Lifetime. Guest star roles include: "Leverage," "Breakout Kings," "CSI: Miami," "Cold Case," and a recurring role on "Degrassi: The Next Generation."
Keltz resides in Los Angeles. He is of German (mother) and Polish Jewish (father) heritage. His mother was born in Hamburg.Tinny's abusive ex-boyfriend Grayson Mann is quite a piece of work.
He gets jealous and possessive of Tinny. But when Tinny decides that she deserves better and she dumps him he doesn't take it very well when she decides that Des is the one she wants to be with.
A drunk Grayson Mann gives Tinny a very unwanted kiss. She wants to be honest with Des and tells him that she kissed Grayson but Des isn't worried about him because he trusts that Tinny wouldn't ever stray very far from him.- Writer
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Mark Critch was born in 1974 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He is a writer and actor, known for This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993), Son of a Critch (2022) and The Grand Seduction (2013).Ned Bishop is a nervous and divorced man who finds himself in trouble with a loan shark. He's divorced because of the enormous debt he owes.
After Jake is presumed dead Malachy hires Ned to run the bar.- Actor
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Kevin Serge Durand is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Vasiliy Fet in The Strain, Joshua in Dark Angel, Martin Keamy in Lost, Fred J. Dukes / The Blob in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Barry Burton in Resident Evil: Retribution, Gabriel in Legion, Little John in Robin Hood, Jeeves Tremor in Smokin' Aces, and Carlos in The Butterfly Effect. He received a 2012 Best Supporting Actor Genie nomination for his portrayal of Lenny Jackson in Citizen Gangster.Played Donnie Squires whose wife Anita was brutally murdered.- Music Department
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Alan Doyle was born on 17 May 1969 in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He is an actor and composer, known for Robin Hood (2010), Winter's Tale (2014) and State of Play (2009).Wolfe Redmond is an agent who gets into all kinds of trouble with Jake's misadventures.- Actor
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Scott Christopher Grimes is an American actor and singer from Lowell, Massachusetts who is known for playing as Steve Smith from American Dad, Kevin Swanson from Family Guy, Will McCorkle from Party of Five, Bradley Brown from Critters 1 and 2 and Lieutenant Gordon Malloy from The Orville. He has two children.Jimmy is a hot headed detective who ends up with two broken legs and a broken arm which he blames Jake for.- Actor
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Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham), English, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, and Maori (one of Crowe's maternal great-grandmothers, Erana Putiputi Hayes Heihi, was Maori).
Crowe's family moved to Australia when he was a small child, settling in Sydney, and Russell got the acting bug early in life. Beginning as a child star on a local Australian TV show, Russell's first big break came with two films ... the first, Romper Stomper (1992), gained him a name throughout the film community in Australia and the neighboring countries. The second, The Sum of Us (1994), helped put him on the American map, so to speak. Sharon Stone heard of him from Romper Stomper (1992) and wanted him for her film, The Quick and the Dead (1995). But filming on The Sum of Us (1994) had already begun. Sharon is reported to have held up shooting until she had her gunslinger-Crowe, for her film. With The Quick and the Dead (1995) under his belt as his first American film, the second was offered to him soon after. Virtuosity (1995), starring Denzel Washington, put Russell in the body of a Virtual Serial Killer, Sid6.7 ... a role unlike any he had played so far. Virtuosity (1995), a Sci-Fi extravaganza, was a fun film and, again, opened the door to even more American offers. L.A. Confidential (1997), Russell's third American film, brought him the US fame and attention that his fans have felt he deserved all along. Missing the Oscar nod this time around, he didn't seem deterred and signed to do his first film with The Walt Disney Company, Mystery, Alaska (1999). He achieved even more success and awards for his performances in Gladiator (2000), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and A Beautiful Mind (2001).Russell played Boyd Kelley who is Jimmy and Wolfe's boss. He threatened to make Jimmy sorry that he ever met him.- Actor
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Sean Panting is known for Republic of Doyle (2010), The Grand Seduction (2013) and Behind the Wall (2007).Walter McLean is Jake's lawyer who is always trying to keep Jake out of trouble.- Actress
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Rachel Wilson was born on 12 May 1977 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for In the Tall Grass (2019), The Glass House (2001) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).Nikki Reynolds, nee Doyle, is Jake's ex-wife. And she threw him out of the house after his antics became too much for her to handle.- Steve O'Connell is known for Republic of Doyle (2010), Departure (2019) and The Grand Seduction (2013).Daniel Hood is Leslie's partner and he helps Leslie and Jake escape from police custody. He and Jake clearly don't like each other but they come to an understanding that Jake is fighting to clear his name.
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John Kapelos was born on 8 March 1956 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Big Sky (2020), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and The Shape of Water (2017).Inspector Vince Pickard is an internal affairs officer who interrogates Leslie and the entire Doyle clan after a woman asks them to test her home security alarm which is triggered somehow.
But Pickard's final hill to stand on is when Leslie frees Jake from police custody after she unlocks his handcuffs.
But when Leslie reveals to Pickard that she and Jake have uncovered widespread corruption in the RNC ranks.
Pickard starts to chase Leslie up an embankment while shooting her in her shoulder. However, Leslie and Inspector Pickard both roll down the embankment and wrestle for the gun before the gun goes off.
Malachy and Jake go searching for Leslie and find her with a gaping hole in her shoulder.- Actress
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Lola Bridgette Tash is a Canadian actress.
Famous for her roles as Gisela Calicos and Sloan Daniels on the respective television series Connor Undercover and Republic of Doyle, Tash is also notable for her performances in the movies After the Ball (as Polly) and Molly Maxwell (as the title character).
Early in her acting career, she appeared in episodes of Rookie Blue and The Latest Buzz.Sloan Daniels is a street wise and somewhat mouthy 18-year-old girl who befriends the Doyle family long enough to steal their entire life's savings in order to pay back Vick Saul, a big time mob boss, with interest.
Sloan realizes that she's not as big and tough as she thinks she is and knows that Jake and his family were only trying to steer her on to a good path.
Sloan admits that she had one of her friends forge a paternity test document in order to get closer to Jake.- Actor
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As a Canadian actor with a consistent presence in television work, Rick Roberts began his career in 1992. His first screen role was with an episode of "Beyond Reality", followed by other varied film and television appearances. Rick achieved more lasting work on the series "Traders" from 1996-1998. After that 3-year stint, Rick joined the medical drama "L.A. Doctors", working from 1998-1999. Entering the 2000s, Rick found continuous work across several television series and television films, including television drama "Student Seduction" (2003), starring Elizabeth Berkley. Owning a career as of 2012, going 20 years strong, Rick continues to expand on a varied experience in television and film.William Cadigan Clarke was the St. John's mayor. He was sent to jail by Leslie for his involvement in fraudulent activities as detected by Leslie.
He was let go from Jail years ago and went to taunt Leslie and Jake in spite of Jake warning William not to speak directly to Leslie or he would "end him."
Leslie tells Jake to stop and she tends to his wounds. When William realizes that Leslie was with Jake he calls her slut. When this happens Leslie punches William in the same place that Jake did.
Jake was accused of killing William. He was tried and convicted. But after Alisha found the junk drive needed to prove Jake's innocence, he was acquitted in William Clarke's death.
Des, and Jake snuck into the courthouse and snuck into the Court Evidence Room to retrive Clarke's personal phone.
Des hacks into Clarke's personal phone and he discovers some hidden files.
Mal, Jake, and Des soon discover that that Clarke was a part of a dangerous alliance between him, Pickard, and Rhodes.