Personal Info
Birth date
1958-09-09 (66 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ponoka, Alberta, Canada
Also known as
شان جانستون
Shaun Johnston
Biography
Shaun Johnston is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Grandpa Jack Bartlett in the television series Heartland.
Filmography
Shadow of God
5.804
Overview:
While performing an unauthorized exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being – perhaps even God.Smallville
8.2
Overview:
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.The X-Files
8.377
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Heartland
8.3
Overview:
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?The Outer Limits
7.703
Overview:
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.Wynonna Earp
7.889
Overview:
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.Da Vinci's Inquest
5.778
Overview:
Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
6.527
Overview:
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel spun off from the The Crow film series starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow.The Collector
5.7
Overview:
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.Crossroad Springs
NYR
Overview:
The Hamilton family faces financial struggles and staffing shortages on Hamilton Ranch. Pastor James and Janet return to help the family, encountering a generational feud between the family owners. James starts a cowboy church on the farm, where faith, family, and ranch life are intertwined, despite the lack of worship spaces on the vast farmland.Blue Murder
6
Overview:
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.Mentors
8.7
Overview:
A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.524
Overview:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon
5.7
Overview:
A woman who has psychic visions returns to her hometown to exorcise her demons. Once there she finds both danger and love.MythQuest
6.7
Overview:
While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who wants to destroy the world by constantly changing the famous myths.Mystery, Alaska
6.279
Overview:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
6.4
Overview:
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.The Cold Heart of a Killer
NYR
Overview:
Set around Alaska's punishing Iditarod race, a husky breeder and former musher is forced out of racing retirement to compete again and outrun an unknown killer.A Heartland Christmas
8
Overview:
Christmas comes to Heartland, along with an anonymous call about starving horses stranded by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains, which send Amy and Ty to their rescue.A Frosty Affair
5.8
Overview:
A rom-com about the adventures of a small town teacher, Kate Carter, going back to the city for her wedding. After a blizzard strikes, she is forced to travel with a stranger named Redford who leaves her questioning her future plans.Jake and The Kid
NYR
Overview:
Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.Heart of the Sun
NYR
Overview:
Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a local priest and a subsequent operation forced on her in a cover-up by the church and her family which left her infertileBlessed Stranger: After Flight 111
3.7
Overview:
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.September Dawn
5.33
Overview:
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.In Plainview
6
Overview:
An ex-dirty-cop hiding in witness protection is hunted by the partner he betrayed, an unhinged hired gun and a jilted ex-lover who want his ill-gotten fortune - and their own brand of revenge - all to themselves.Due East
4.2
Overview:
Mary Faith Rapple, a bright high school senior, has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a night class, cares for her widowed father and pretty much keeps to herself. When a fellow loner moves to Due East, she finds herself in a relationship for the first time, leading to a small town scandal that changes her life forever.Touch the Top of the World
5.8
Overview:
The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount EverestActing
TBATheft as Robert
TBAStrange and Rich as Jerome Rich
2025Crossroad Springs (6 Episodes) as Willis
2025Shadow of God as Angus Harper
2024A Bluegrass Christmas as Ben Pendleton
2023Christmas in Big Sky Country as Unknown
2023To My Dad as Dad
2018In Plainview as Reverend Rickman
2016Wynonna Earp (5 Episodes) as Juan Carlos
2016Delmer & Marta (8 Episodes) as Tom Bobadell
2015A Frosty Affair as Edward
2010A Heartland Christmas as Jack Bartlett
2008Mayerthorpe as Bruce Ranfield
2007Heartland (269 Episodes) as Jack Bartlett
2007Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon as Han Bodeen
2007Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as Col. Nelson Miles
2007September Dawn as Captain Fancher
2006Touch the Top of the World as PV
2005The Christmas Blessing as Tucker Bennett
2005Chicks with Sticks as Unknown
2005Supervolcano as Matt
2004A Beachcombers Christmas as Harry
2004The Collector (1 Episode) as Unknown
2004Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed as Jack
2003Death of a Skyline as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting as Sheriff Castillo
2002100 Days In The Jungle as Sean Scheelar
2002Agent of Influence as David Present
2002The Dead Zone (1 Episode) as Terry Collier
2002Due East as Mr. Yaeger
2002Tribe of Joseph as Jacob
2002The Investigation as Sgt. Sawyer
2001Smallville (1 Episode) as Matthew Cross
2001MythQuest (13 Episodes) as Detective Saybrook
2001Blue Murder (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111 as Wendell Gillis
2000The Dinosaur Hunter as Fred Creath
1999Mystery, Alaska as D.A. Dollof
1999Mentors (14, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Roy Cates
1999Silver Wolf as Frank McLean
1998Stranger in Town as Police Chief Waller
1998Da Vinci's Inquest (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1998The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1 Episode) as Unknown
1998The Inspectors as Sheriff Glover
1998Heart of the Sun as Harry
1997Ms. Bear as Barney Porter
1997Silent Cradle as Detective Thorpe
1996The Cold Heart of a Killer as Martinson
1995Jake and The Kid (26 Episodes) as Jake Trumper (Farmhand)
1995The Outer Limits (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Parker, O'Brien, Cop
1994How the West Was Fun as Phil
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Pete Calcagni
1993Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun as Wes
1990Blood Clan as Jerry