Combining acting with a distinguished career as a singer songwriter, Hugh Dillon earned notoriety as the lead singer in the multi-platinum punk rock band, the Headstones. It was early on in the band's success when Hugh caught the attention of legendary filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Roadkill). Bruce cast Hugh in Dance Me Outside in 1994. ...
Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, Canadian Screen Award - Shaw Media Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Music Groups
The Kooks
Nominations
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Movies
Hard Core Logo, Down to the Bone, Dance Me Outside, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, Assault on Precinct 13, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Lone Hero, Down to the Dirt, The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, Curtis's Charm, The Wool Cap, Hope and a Little Sugar, Surveillance, Of Murder and Memory, Johnny...
TV Shows
The Killing, Flashpoint, Durham County, X Company
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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[on 'Love + Fury' a reunion recording of the 'Headstones'] It recalibrated everybody emotionally. We got together and the songs were rusty, but we worked hard and the gig exploded. You think nobody gives a shit, it's been so long. But all of a sudden, seeing all those people - they were fanatical. It was like the 'Headstones' 2.0. It's working, we get along. we laugh our asses off. We play better, we write better, it's like nothing changed. Except the revisionist history.
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I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I just don't take anything. I have a day job. Or a night job, I suppose. I'm that kind of actor. It's because I was a musician and still am. I go and play in my band, and I think that helps me. I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of. I find sometimes that if I just relax - and it's a great cast and great writing - it's like a symphony, you know? Every little nuance in every little part, when people are on their game, just comes alive.
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Fact
1
Fronting the "The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir". [2004]
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Lead Singer, Rock Band: Headstones URLMSC
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Auditioned for the role of Ray Nicolet in Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997), but lost it to Michael Keaton.
Howard the Cannibal / Guy in the Convenience Store
Johnny
1999
Dell and Alice's Dad
Hard Core Logo
1996
Joe Dick / Joseph Mulgrew
Prince for a Day
1995
TV Movie uncredited
Curtis's Charm
1995
Spitting White Trash Thug
Dance Me Outside
1994
Clarence Gaskill
Wind River
2017
post-production
Curtis
Twin Peaks
2017
TV Series post-production
Cosmology
2012/I
Short completed
X Company
2015-2017
TV Series
Duncan Sinclair
The Expanse
2017
TV Series
Lt. Sutton
Dark Harvest
2016
Vincent
The Offer
2015/I
Short
Richard
Continuum
2013-2014
TV Series
Stan Escher
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight
2014
TV Series
Gene
Clean Gene
The Killing
2013
TV Series
Francis Becker
Flashpoint
2008-2012
TV Series
Ed Lane
Issues
2011
Short
Bobby
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Flashpoint
TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2008 - 2009 writer - 1 episode, 2008
Surveillance
2008/I
writer: "Bottom of a Dream", "Perpetual State"
Durham County
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
2006
publisher: "Well on Your Way" / writer: "Well on Your Way"
The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
2004
TV Movie writer: "And the Radio Plays", "Well On Your Way"
Lone Hero
2002
writer: "Hero's Hero" - as Dillon
Due South
1997
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Hard Core Logo
1996
performer: "Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?", "Rock 'N Roll Is Fat And Ugly", "Somethings Gonna Die Tonight", "Blue Tattoo", "Sonic Reducer", "Edmonton Block Heater", "China White Ten Buck Fuck", "One Foot In The Gutter", "Tired Of Waking Up Tired"
Dance Me Outside
1994
writer: "When Something Stands for Nothing", "Cemetery"
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Decades: Part One - The Rowan Tree
2016
Documentary producer
The Offer
2015/I
Short producer
Issues
2011
Short executive producer
Trigger
2010/II
executive producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Issues
2011
Short co-director
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Issues
2011
Short
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Offer
2015/I
Short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hard Core Logo
1996
creative consultant
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Way Off Broadway
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator
The Marilyn Denis Show
2011
TV Series
Himself
Canada for Haiti
2010
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Hour
2009
TV Series
Himself
Modern Marvels
2008
TV Series documentary
Narrator
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie - Behind the Scenes
2006
TV Movie documentary
Sonny
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
TV Movie documentary
Joe Dick
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Canada First Award
Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival, CA
The Offer (2015)
2014
Canadian Screen Award
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Flashpoint (2008)
2014
Canadian Screen Award
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Flashpoint (2008)
2009
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series
Of Murder and Memory (2008)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2011
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Durham County (2007)
2011
Golden Nymph
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
Outstanding Actor - Drama Series
Durham County (2007)
2010
Golden Nymph
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
Outstanding Actor - Drama Series
Durham County (2007)
2010
Golden Nymph
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
Outstanding Actor - Drama Series
Flashpoint (2008)
2009
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Flashpoint (2008)
2008
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role