John Piper-Ferguson is a Canadian actor born in Australia. Little is known about him in Russia, since he is not very popular in the post-Soviet space.
short biography
John Piper-Ferguson was born 02/27/1964 in the suburbs of the Australian Melbourne in the small town of Mordialok.
Almost immediately after the birth of John, his parents (Olympic champion swimmer Caitlin McNemy and Richard Ferguson) together with the baby move from Australia to the Canadian city of Vancouver, where the future actor spent his entire childhood.
John Piper-Ferguson attended the Handsworth Secondary School in Vancouver. At the end of her young John entered the University of Alberta in Edmonton, in the province of Alberta. Upon completing his studies at the university, he received a bachelor's degree in fine art.
After university, John began to actively build his career in cinema, starting to try on various roles when he was not yet twenty years old. Success did not immediately come to him, but the young man did not lose heart, continuing to walk through the auditions.
John Piper-Ferguson. Films
To date, the fifty-three-year-old actor has almost one and a half hundred works in the piggy bank. He began his acting career in the early 80s. XX century There is no need to re-read all of his cinematic works within the framework of this article, so we only note the most outstanding:
- "Drive" (1997).
- "Pearl Harbor" (2001).
- Unforgiven (1992).
- "The Sentence" (2010).
- "People X: The Last Battle" (2006).
In addition to full-length films, John Piper-Ferguson is actively acting in various television series, such as:
- The Little Tramp (1979-1985).
- Force Majeure.
- "Secret materials".
- Ambulance (1994-2009).
- Lost (2004-2010).
This is a list of the actor’s most outstanding works, but among the films, series and other projects where he took part, you can still find many worthy ones.
Wolves
In addition to the above tapes and TV series, I would like to separately mention the French-Canadian film "Wolves" in 2013 (released in Russia in 2014), not because it is an outstanding or successful film, but, on the contrary, because of it failure.
This film tells the straightforward story of a young successful guy, Kayden, who is the leader of the school football team. Everything is fine with him: the most beautiful girl in school, the respect of peers, etc. But one day he wakes up and discovers that his parents are brutally murdered, and the cause of their death is he himself, who turned into a wolf.
In fact, the film is a typical teenage movie mixed with vampire mysticism, which is now so popular among young people. It would seem that neither the critics nor the audience themselves expect anything worthwhile from such a film, but this film managed to stand out negatively even in such a situation.
He didn’t just fail at the box office, collecting a little more than 12 thousand dollars in the United States, and in Russia about half a million with a budget of 18 million, but on top of that he was torn to pieces by professional film critics, and ordinary movie buffs took him extremely negatively.
The reason for this is a very weak plot, poor acting and directing. All this played a cruel joke with the filmmakers. This film became one of the worst works of John Piper-Ferguson in films in recent years.
Conclusion
Despite the fact that John is for the most part a Canadian actor, since he spent most of his life in this country, many people like him as an Australian actor, since he was born in Melbourne and played in several Australian projects.
Be that as it may, John is a worthy actor who has played in a large number of cinematographic projects, many of which are good, but there are also rather weak and frankly bad films.
His contribution to the cinema of Canada, Australia and the whole world is quite large. Although he has never been in such high demand in the film industry market as the top Hollywood actors, but, of course, his career has had a significant impact on contemporary cinema. What are only almost one hundred and fifty roles in various film projects!
Such a great productivity of the actor is adjacent to the fact that throughout his career in the cinema he never gained worldwide popularity. He is most famous in Canada and Australia, because the inhabitants of these two countries consider him their compatriot.