---
name: "Bruce McDonald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bruce-mcdonald"
fi1m_id: "bruce-mcdonald"
imdb_id: "nm0567680"
tmdb_id: 55189
wikidata_id: "Q1249881"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "28 May 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:19:51.781140+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bruce McDonald

## Identity

Bruce McDonald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bruce-mcdonald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bruce-mcdonald
- **IMDb ID:** nm0567680
- **TMDB ID:** 55189
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1249881
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McDonald_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1249881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567680/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55189

Director. Born 28 May 1959 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 28 May 1959, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McDonald_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1249881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567680/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55189

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*FROM*](https://film.one/tv/from.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bruce McDonald is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. Born on 28 May 1959 in Kingston, Ontario, he graduated from the film programme at Ryerson University and rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the Toronto New Wave of filmmakers.

His feature films include the cult road movie *Roadkill* (1989), the mockumentary *Hard Core Logo* (1996) and the horror film *Pontypool* (2008). He has directed episodes of numerous television series, including *FROM* (2022), *Reign* (2013), *Dark Matter* (2015), *Heartland* (2007) and *Lost Girl* (2010).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *FROM* (2022), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/from.md)

## Complete filmography (64)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sight Unseen* (2024), series, Director
- *Ride* (2023), series, Director
- *FROM* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/from.md)
- *Dreamland* (2019), Director
- *Creeped Out* (2017), series, Director
- *Ransom* (2017), series, Director
- *Weirdos* (2016), Director
- *The Hexecutioners* (2015), as Old Bugger (uncredited)
- *Hellions* (2015), Director
- *Dark Matter* (2015), series, Director
- *Hellmouth* (2014), as Paul Kemp
- *The Husband* (2014), Director
- *Reign* (2013), series, Director
- *Transporter: The Series* (2013), series, Director
- *My Babysitter's a Vampire* (2011), series, Director
- *XIII: The Series* (2011), series, Director
- *Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories* (2011), series, Director
- *Hard Core Logo 2* (2010), as Bruce the Filmmaker · Director, Writer
- *My Babysitter's a Vampire* (2010), Director
- *Music from the Big House* (2010), Director
- *Lost Girl* (2010), series, Director
- *Trigger* (2010), Director
- *This Movie Is Broken* (2010), Director, Idea
- *Pontypool* (2009), Director
- *Less Than Kind* (2008), series, Director
- *Heartland* (2007), series, Director
- *The Tracey Fragments* (2007), Director
- *Killer Wave* (2007), series, Director
- *Kevin Hill* (2004), series, Director
- *The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess* (2004), Director
- *The Collector* (2004), series, Director
- *This Is Wonderland* (2004), series, Director
- *Playmakers* (2003), series, Director
- *Radio Free Roscoe* (2003), series, Director
- *Degrassi* (2001), series, Director
- *Picture Claire* (2001), Director
- *Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson* (2001), Director
- *Queer as Folk* (2000), series, Director
- *Code Name: Eternity* (2000), series, Director
- *Stuff* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story* (1998), Director
- *Last Night* (1998), as Wild Guy #3
- *American Whiskey Bar* (1998), Director
- *Elimination Dance* (1998), Writer, Director
- *Welcome to Paradox* (1998), series, Director
- *Twitch City* (1998), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Emily of New Moon* (1998), series, Director
- *The Show: Stories Within a Film* (1998), as The Director · Additional Camera
- *Platinum* (1997), Director
- *Lexx* (1997), series, Director
- *Hard Core Logo* (1996), Director
- *Taking the Falls* (1995), series, Director
- *Dance Me Outside* (1995), Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Mysterious Moon-Men of Canada* (1993), Editor
- *Ready or Not* (1993), series, Director
- *Blue* (1992), Producer
- *Highway 61* (1991), Director, Producer, Story
- *The Hidden Room* (1991), series, Director
- *Speaking Parts* (1990), Editor
- *Roadkill* (1989), as Bruce Shack · the Director, Director, Producer, Story
- *Family Viewing* (1987), Editor
- *Next of Kin* (1984), Editorial Production Assistant
- *The Bill* (1984), series, Director
- *Pontypool Changes*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Bruce McDonald beim Photo Call zu Weirdos bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/1292571/gallery-ec623e9cbb7e.jpg) Bruce McDonald beim Photo Call zu Weirdos bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Bruce_McDonald_1_Photo_Call_Weirdos_Berlinale_2017.jpg/1280px-Bruce_McDonald_1_Photo_Call_Weirdos_Berlinale_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bruce McDonald](https://film.one/media/person/1292571/gallery-fb6b2da42e7c.jpg) Bruce McDonald — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Bruce_McDonald_2_Photo_Call_Weirdos_Berlinale_2017.jpg/1280px-Bruce_McDonald_2_Photo_Call_Weirdos_Berlinale_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![At the premiere of "Trigger", during the Toronto International Film Festival, 2010.](https://film.one/media/person/1292571/gallery-fc77ba0738a1.jpg) At the premiere of "Trigger", during the Toronto International Film Festival, 2010. — Josh Jensen from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Bruce_McDonald_%40_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![On September 24, CFC welcomed the resident composers and songwriters of the inaugural Slaight Music Residency. CFC Founder Norman Jewison and Bruce McDonald hos (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/1292571/gallery-c6d2300de567.jpg) On September 24, CFC welcomed the resident composers and songwriters of the inaugural Slaight Music Residency. CFC Founder Norman Jewison and Bruce McDonald hos (2012) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Slaight_Music_Residency_Launch_%288023966803%29.jpg/1280px-Slaight_Music_Residency_Launch_%288023966803%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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