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Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force.
Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra.
In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan.
Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008).
Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child.
Most Popular Philip Akin Trailers
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13 April 1984
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr.
18 July 2003
Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand.
07 September 1997
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot.
05 March 1988
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
23 March 2004
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
03 April 2007
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation.
29 October 1986
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
30 January 2014
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology.
09 November 2005
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
04 December 2000
A woman intensely believes her husband will recover from a coma during the holiday season.
16 February 1997
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control.
31 May 2002
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation.
25 December 1998
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
21 February 1994
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St.
23 July 1998
A gang of thieves break into a top secret government research centre and steal a deadly virus. Mach 1, a top secret special operations team, is called in to recover it.
20 October 2018
A helicopter mom follows her daughter to college and lands a job on campus. When she meets a charismatic professor, she learns more about herself and discovers a life of her own.
12 May 1999
A young woman (Crystal Bernard) aware of her father's (James Brolin) affair with another woman becomes convinced of his guilt after her mother (Dee Wallace Stone) is found murdered in this fact-based movie.
13 September 1996
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows.
28 August 2000
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch.
11 September 1991
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
05 July 1979
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murders of his former Army pals.
06 September 1997
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute.
20 October 1996
An idealistic talk show producer clashes with her ratings obsessed boss on a story involving a young prostitute.
30 October 2000
After learning that millions have completely vanished, an airline pilot, a journalist, and others work together to unravel the mystery of those left behind.
20 September 1992
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
10 April 1996
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.
15 April 2002
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.
14 February 1999
A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.
04 January 1999
A boy brings home his new girlfriend. However, Mom is sure that something isn't right about her, which starts a fight with her son.
17 June 2005
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.
09 November 2007
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
11 September 2006
For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.
22 December 1986
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.
06 December 2005
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx.
07 September 1998
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost.
13 January 1984
Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."
03 December 2006
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
12 August 1997
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under tA
01 October 2005
An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love.
16 March 2003
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor.
01 January 1996
The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychopath, and the CIA.
28 September 2007
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR).
08 September 2005
A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.
24 January 2001
A mother and her two children are stuck in a mall during a power outage while police hunt for a killer.
27 March 1987
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
25 September 1987
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature.
18 February 1996
Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher.
01 September 1987
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.
16 April 1991
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer.
21 December 2002
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program.
01 January 1980
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences.
27 October 1982
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.
06 August 2000
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.
01 February 1998
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
25 August 1989
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past.
22 June 1993
The true story of an eleven year old girl who has a reputation for telling tall tales. So when she accuses her father of molesting her, will anybody believe her story?
12 January 2002
An estate agent is forced into witness protection soon after selling the apartment of a girl who died in suspicious circumstances.
12 January 1999
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief.
12 December 1981
A woman struggles with her husband.
