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Bren-Karl Clackson was born, raised and educated in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. He graduated from Cowichan Secondary school in 1971. Clackson chooses to bring Canadian television to the US the same way American television is brought to Canada, without any of that Hollywood glammor.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Mike Smith was born and raised in Thorburn, Nova Scotia. He started playing hockey at the age of four but showed early signs of musical genius when he learned to play guitar at the age of seven. Continuing with both hobbies for the majority of his life, Mike eventually gave up hockey to concentrate on being a musician.
He attended St.F.X. University in Antigonish where he earned an Advanced Major in English. In 1992, Mike's career in music began to take off. He started playing guitar and was one of the principal songwriters in the band Sandbox. the group quickly signed a record deal with EMI in Canada and Nettwerk in the U.S. Nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards and a Casby Award, Sandbox released two albums with EMI and Nettwerk - Bionic and A Murder In The Glee Club.
When Sandbox broke up in 1998 Mike began working as a location sound mixer on film and TV. He was hired to mix the original Trailer Park Boys black and white movie in 1999 where director Mike Clattenburg discovered him doing the 'Bubbles' character on set for the crew. Clattenburg saw that the character had some very lovable qualities and decided to write him into the upcoming Trailer Park Boys TV series. Never having acted before Smith decided to accept the offer but also remained on as the series sound mixer until Season 3.
Since the rise of Trailer Park Boys, Mike has been in numerous music videos with the likes of Rush, The Tragically Hip, Snow and George Canyon and toured Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Japan (including a show at the legendary Budokan Arena in Tokyo) with rock legends Guns N Roses with front man and long-time friend Axl Rose.
In 2010, along with his Trailer Park Boys co-stars Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay, Mike is writing, producing and starring in the comedy series 'The Drunk And On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour', a half hour comedy set in the town of Port Cockerton where a kids show goes horribly wrong when a powerful hallucinogen is accidentally given to the cast and crew.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Robb Wells was born on October 28, 1971 in Moncton, New Brunswick and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia since the age of 8. His father was a Forensic Expert with The RCMP. Robb later went to high school with Mike Clattenberg and John Paul Tremblay. The three were always pulling practical jokes on people and getting into trouble. They had a bizarre sense of humor. While Tremblay and Wells were operating a successful chain of pizza restaurants called J.R. Capone's, they decided to pass the time making crude video skits of themselves. In 1998 they made a short film with acting veteran John Dunsworth called One last Shot. The film won a best actor and best cinematography award. A year later they made a mockumentary film called "Trailer Park boys" featuring newcomers Patrick Roach, Mike Jackson, Cory Bowles, Lucy Decoutere and Jeanne Harrison. During the filming, they met a sound mixer named Mike Smith, and after the filming was complete they made a deal with Showcase to make Trailer Park Boys into a TV Series with Mike Smith on board.
After the series was green-lit, the lovable Bubbles was born. Now there are 3 main characters in the Park. Besides their day jobs as restaurant managers in Nova Scotia and as sound mixers, Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith are Canadian TV icons to this day.- Additional Crew
Wally Floody was a Mining Tunnel Engineer in Ontario, Canada before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. Wally flew Spitfires in 401 Squadron until he was shot down and became a Prisoner of War on October 28th 1941. For four years, Wally had made many escape attempts and dug a number of tunnels before being sent to Stalag Luft III where his greatest escape took place. Wally designed and built three tunnels called "Tom", "Dick" and "Harry", both going 30ft below the ground, heading straight for the woods. Unfortunetly one of the tunnels was discovered and Wally got sent to a different POW Camp before the escape began. When the War was reaching the end, Wally was set free and and returned to Canada where he lived the rest of his life.
In 1963 Wally was hired as the Technical advisor for John Sturges's Motion Picture version of Paul Brickhill's Novel "The Great Escape". He returned to Germany where he worked full time for a whole year making sure the film was authentic to the actual escape. Wally Floody died of natural causes in 1998.- William George Barker was born on November 3rd 1894 in Dauphin, Manitoba Canada. In 1914 at the age of 20, Barker joined the Mounted Rifles when war broke out in Europe but Trench warfare proved to be to harsh an experience for him so he transferred to the Royal Flying Corpes in April 1916 to get off the ground and into the air. Barker became an air observer then a qualified pilot and served in Italy in 1917. By July 1918 Will Barker had won the DSO (Distinguished Service Order), the MC (Military Cross), the French Croix De Guerre and a total of 50 kills, then finally in October 1918 he had won the Victoria Cross after surviving the most brutal dogfight in the western front.
During peacetime Barker rejoined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1922 and became a flying instructor, in which he hated the most. After resigning from the RCAF he struggled with alcoholism and was still torn by the effects of war. in 1930 Barker took a test flight of a Fairchild RK-21 but the aircraft stalled and crashed then Barker was killed.
His funeral became the largest national event in Toronto's history, was attended by an Honor guard of 2,000 soldiers. The cortège stretched for more than a mile and a half, and included the Chief of the General Staff and his senior officers, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Mayor of Toronto, three federal government cabinet ministers, and six other Victoria Cross recipients. An Honor guard was also provided by the United States Army. Some 50,000 spectators lined the streets to pay homage to the fallen airman.