
Acting
Dec 31, 1960
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Ted Dykstra
Acting
Biography
Ted Dykstra is a Canadian stage and screen writer, director, actor and musician. He's a graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Feature Films (23)

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
Heritage Minutes: Basketball

Sergeant Major Osborn of Winnipeg protects his company by throwing himself on a live grenade during the Battle of Hong Kong.
Heritage Minutes: Osborn of Hong Kong

A true story about the tragic explosion at Halifax Harbour, Canada, in the early hours of December 6, 1917.
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Set against the majestic landscape of Canada’s Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in the world, Black Swan is a dark comedy that weaves the innocent world of childhood, against the adult world of love, betrayal and murder.
Black Swan

Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
The Kissing Place

A teenager growing up in a poor industrial town struggles to create a better life through music.
Happy FKN Sunshine

A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Amber Waves

Phil and Jay share more than a family bond - failed careers, failed relationships, bottomless drinks, and a debilitating memory of a shocking encounter in a ravine one childhood day. The pretext of being strangers, the darkly comic ritual that the broken, non-functioning brothers perform in an attempt to get at their pain, can't cover the palpable connection between them, nor their deeply felt desire to find redemption. An accomplished pianist, Jay is working as a piano player in a lounge. Mike, one of the bar's patrons, makes a request for Jay to play Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infant defunte", which Jay refuses. This act masks an underlying secret both men share about their childhood.
Pavane

An exploration of the mysteries surrounding the death of jazz legend Chet Baker who was found dead below an Amsterdam hotel window in 1988.
The Deaths of Chet Baker

Daniel is hopeful to meet a new friend as the Neighborhood welcomes the new family moving in next door to the Tiger family.
The Daniel Tiger Movie: Won't You Be Our Neighbor?

An attractive cop is assigned the task of tracing millions of dollars of stolen church funds. The thief, is locked up in prison, and the plan is to break him out, and follow him to the hidden money. When she falls for the convict, things get complicated. The ex-boyfriend cop is jealous and suspicious.
Soft Deceit
Television & Series (18)

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
The Expanse

The life of 4-year-old Daniel Tiger and his friends as they learn fun and practical strategies and skills necessary for growing and learning.
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.
Remedy

A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
The Mist

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Orphan Black

One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.







