Greg Malone (actor)

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox person David Gregory Malone (born October 19, 1948 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian impressionist and actor.<ref name=canenc>Wyndham Wise, "Greg Malone". The Canadian Encyclopedia, November 21, 2012.</ref> He is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II.<ref name=canenc/>

Career

Prior to CODCO, Malone wrote and performed in a number of shows for CBC Television, including The Wonderful Grand Band, The Root Seller and The S and M Comic Book,<ref name="canenc" /> and appeared in the film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood.<ref name="canenc" />

After the death of his CODCO co-star Tommy Sexton in 1993, he devoted some years of his life to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS, including writing, directing and appearing in a training film for health care professionals.<ref name="canenc" /> He also directed a docudrama film, The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland,<ref name="canenc" /> in which he appeared as Sir Richard Squires, and acted in the films Rare Birds, Extraordinary Visitor, Messiah from Montreal and Heyday!. He also appeared in a one-man special for Comedy Now!, Pocket Queen, which won an award at the 1999 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.<ref name="canenc" /> More recently, he has had a recurring guest role in Republic of Doyle.<ref name="canenc" /> He appeared as orphanage headmaster Mr. Hill in the Irish-Canadian co-production Maudie, widely released in 2017.<ref name="Barnard">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Along with Sexton and their CODCO co-star Andy Jones, Malone was a recipient of the Earle Grey Award, the lifetime achievement award of Canadian television's Gemini Awards, in 2002.<ref name=canenc/>

His first memoir, You Better Watch Out, was published in 2009 by Knopf Canada.<ref name=canenc/> He released a book in 2012 entitled Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada, which is a look at how Newfoundland became a province of Canada in 1949.<ref name=canenc/> Malone is openly gay.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is also an amateur theologian.

Filmography

Films

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Dolly Cake	(Unnamed role)	(Short film)
1998	Extraordinary Visitor	Cardinal Vignetti
2001	Rare Birds	Buster Bartlett
2009	Grande Dame	Grande Dame	(Short)
2014	How to Be Deadly	Glenn
2016	Away from Everywhere	Clyde
	Maudie	Mr. Hill

TV

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Peep Show	Various roles	(TV Series), 1 episode: "Festering Forefathers and Running Sons"
1974	Cod on a Stick	Various roles	(TV Movie)
1978	The Root Seller	Various roles	(TV Series), 6 episodes
1980-1983	The Wonderful Grand Band	Various roles	(TV Series),
1983	Two Foolish to Talk About	Various roles	(TV Movie)
1985	The S and M Comic Book	Various roles	(TV Movie)
1986	The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood	Vasily Bogdanovitch Shagoff	(TV Movie)
1988-1993	Codco	Various roles	(TV Series), 35 episodes
1992	The National Doubt	Various roles	(TV Movie)
1998	Emily of New Moon	Mad Man Morrison	(TV Series), 1 episode: "The Curse of the Poppett"
2001	Messiah from Montreal	A.M.Klein (Minuet)	(TV Movie)
2006	Heyday!	Richard Maynard	(TV Movie)
2009	Diverted	Joe Vernon	(TV Movie)
2010-2014	Republic of Doyle	Finn	(TV Series), 6 episodes
2017	Frontier	Innkeeper	(TV Series), 1 episode: "Mutiny"
2022	Son of a Critch	Fr. Patrick Moore	(TV Series), 1 episode: "Father Critch"

Politics

Malone participated in the campaign that stopped the privatization of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, and has championed other environmental causes, including a campaign to ban shipping of garbage to Newfoundland. He ran as a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the St. John's West by-election in 2000, losing narrowly to Loyola Hearn.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Malone supported Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada in the 2008 election, and performed at the 2009 Green Party convention in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

In June 2019, Malone was announced as the Green party candidate for the riding of Avalon for the 2019 federal election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="GPC01">Template:Cite news</ref> Malone finished a distant fourth in the election.

Electoral record

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