Callum Keith Rennie: A Statistical Analysis...
aka Fun With Charts...
Let's start with the fun statistics the internet movie database has to offer:
Filmography, sorted by type:
Well, that's not too much fun yet. Apart from the fact that Callum actually managed to make two movies that are so bad that they got a video release only. (Slapshot 2 and Shooting Gallery, of course.)
How about his filmography sorted by genre:
Hm, the only surprise here is the large number of comedies. But then, considering what counts as a comedy for IMDB (Wilby Wonderful, Curtis' Charm, Slapshot 2 (*CRIES*), Whole New Thing), maybe not.
Okay, what's next? Oh, rating. Just for fun, I sorted it by date:
As you can see, it varies wildly. Memento, with a rating of 8.6, is #25 of the best movies of all times. Whereas there are movies like, well, Slapshot 2. (That one doesn't make it into the bottom 100, btw, you need a rating of less than 2.9 for that.) You can also see that he does not tend to pick ever worse projects over the years. It just seems like he does. His choice in movies is pretty... balanced. The last real mistake was Slapshot 2. (Men With Brooms, by the way, is rated 5.8. Just in case anyone wonders.)
Not all his movies are listed here, because apparently for the rating to actually count you need a minimum number of votes and some *cough* of his movies are only known by a handful of people. All of which I know, I believe. *waves* The middle axis is actually chosen by me, considering the fact that the best movie of all times is rated 9.1 and the worst one is rated 1.8, the "middle" should be at 5.45.
The IMDB also tells us what keywords would give us a Callum Keith Rennie movie. Let's have a look, shall we?
1) independent film
2) murder
3) based on novel
Well, no surprises so far. Within the first fifty keywords are also violence, blood, death, suicide, betrayal, cult-favorite, police, alcoholic, canada, cult-tv, evil, full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity (must be the link to Molly Parker), gay-interest, gun, made-for-cable-tv. That's our boy.
Other fun-results: body-landing-on-car, decapitation, fall-from-height, infidelity, insanity, lasersight, nose-bleed, obscene-finger-gesture, spit-in-the-face, anger-management, bald (wtf? Oh. Smallville), cigarette-smoking (#290, weird), gay, gay-bar, gay-cop, gay-teenager, fertilizer (again, Smallville), humiliation (not Smallville weirdly, but HCL), liver-eating-mutant (I kid you not), mounted-police-officer (ahem), pretty-boy (Mutant X, not Smallville this time), sexual-obsession, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-eye, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-torso,
shot-to-death (all Blade Trinity, except for the torso one) and toaster (and no, it gets you a link to Life Before This).
And one last statistic taken from the IMDB, the number of projects per year:
I counted every ep of Due South or DaVinci's Inquest or Twitch City separately, that's one reason for the large numbers.
So far so good. But we don't really need the IMDB for interesting statistics, do we? Because... well, I was curious, there are a few things everybody believes are normal for a Callum movie. Like, "He dies after a few minutes, at the latest at the end of the movie". Let's see if that's true:
Huh, that can't be right, can it? How does it look without the ones where I just don't know?
Hm.
Okay, maybe we should include the ones where he ends up dead or in jail...
Hm. Still not as much as I would have thought...
Okay, what then about the ones where he probably ends up dead or in jail in the end, even if it is not explicitly shown...?
Hmmmm. That is kind of weird, isn't it?
Okay, let's talk about something else. Another thing we can trust in is that he really loves to do bad movies, right? Let's check that, how many crap movies has he been part of? (I am not without prejudice, of course. As far as I am concerned, BSG is excellent, The Outer Limits is good, H2O is okay, Murder Scene is bad and Smallville is utter crap. But that might just be me, right?)
Okay, I counted every episode of MLaaD, Due South and Twith City and DaVinci's Inquest separately. But that seems only fair, right? What about quality of the show per character he played then?
Ah. There it is. That looks more like it, right? Hm.
Okay, just a few more things:
We might not like the show, but do we like the character he plays?
And speaking of character...
No surprises here, at least.
Visual aids for this one: Christy (cute), Bobby Marlowe (hot), Tyler King (smoking hot), Asher Talos (spontaneous combustions).
And one last thing...
Again, I am not unbiased here (for instance, Laramie (from Picture Claire) falls into the "hard to tell" category; RayK is bent; Tommy (from X Files) is absolutely, totally gay; and Ed (Flower and Garnet) is not).
ETA: Damn, forgot one.
These are the shows I used for the stats (the ones I don't know and only used for the first charts are in Italics):
1993 - Purple Toast - Tom Struck
1993 - "Highlander" - An Eye for an Eye - Neal
1994 - Valentine's Day (as Callum Rennie) - Astronaut
1994 - "Lonesome Dove: The Series" - Long Shot (as Callum Rennie) - Harry Price
1994 - The Raffle - Floor Director
1994 - Still (as Callum Rennie) - Boyfriend
1994 - Paris or Somewhere - Christy Mahon
1994 - "The Commish" - Security - Michael Konichek
1994 - Frank's Cock - (as Callum Renney)
1994 - Double Happiness (as Callum Rennie) - Mark
1994 - "The X Files" Lazarus - Tommy
1994 - Timecop - Stranger
1995 - The Omen (TV) - Driver
1995 - Little Criminals - Kostash (I haven't seen this one, actually, but he looks pretty hot in the screencaps, I guess he's in it for a few minutes, he's a good guy and does not die.)
1995 - "Forever Knight" - Outside the Lines - Bruce Spencer
1995 - "The X Files" - Fresh Bones - The Groundskeeper
1995 - Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 - Pumper
1995 - "The Marshal" - Protection - Cal
1995 - "The Outer Limits" - Corner of the Eye - Carlito
1995 - When the Dark Man Calls - Bob Levesh
1995 - The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky - Big Hat
1995 - Curtis's Charm - Jim
1995 - "Side Effects" - Snap, Crackle, Pop! - Armando
1995 - "Highlander" - The Innocent - Tyler King
1996 - For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down - Jerry Bines
1996 - Unforgettable - Drug Dealer <- wrong credit on IMDB, his character was an "Irate Motorist"
1996 - Letters from Home (as Callum Rennie)
1996 - "My Life as a Dog" - 21 episodes (all except "Stranded") - Johnny Johansson
1996 - Hard Core Logo - Billy Tallent
1997 - "Viper" - Wheelman - William T. Lenox
1997 - "La Femme Nikita" - episodes Choice and Gray - Gray Wellman
1997 - Masterminds - Ollie
1997 - Excess Baggage (as Callum Rennie) - Motel Manager
1997 - Men with Guns - Mamet
1997 - Tricks - Adam
1998 - Last Night - Craig Zwiller
1998 - "Due South" - season Three (13 episodes) - Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski
1998 - "Twitch City" - season One (3 episodes) - Newbie
1999 - eXistenZ - Hugo Carlaw
1999 - "Strange World" - Lullaby - Vince
1999 - "Due South" - season Four (13 episodes) - Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski
1999 - "Foolish Heart" - Breathless - Ross
1999 - "Da Vinci's Inquest" - 3 episodes in 1999 (A Cinderella Story: Part 1 & Part 2, Blues in A-Minor) - Det. Bob Marlowe
1999 - The Life Before This - Martin Maclean
2000 - "Twitch City" - season Two (5 episodes) - Newbie
2000 - The Highwayman - Telemarketer
2000 - The Last Stop - Jake
2000 - Suspicious River - Gary Jensen
2000 - Memento - Dodd
2000 - Murder Seen - Detective Keegan
2000 - Nature Boy - Eden Abez
2001 - "Da Vinci's Inquest" - Fantasy, Do You Wanna Dance, Reality and Ugly Quick - Det. Bob Marlowe
2001 - Trapped - Anthony Bellio
2001 - Picture Claire - Laramie
2001 - "Dice" - Egon Schwimmer
2002 - Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story - Inspector Wood
2002 - "Bliss" - Six Days - Mike
2002 - "Dark Angel" - Exposure - Sheriff Lamar
2002 - Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice - Palmberg
2002 - "Mutant X" - Ex Marks the Spot - Zack Lockhart
2002 - Now & Forever - Carl Mackie
2002 - "The Dead Zone" - Dinner with Dana - Max Cassidy
2002 - Flower & Garnet - Ed
2002 - "The Eleventh Hour" - The Source - Mark Mitchum
2003 - Falling Angels - Jim Field
2003 - "Tru Calling" - Pilot - Elliott Winters
2003 - "Battlestar Galactica" (mini) - Leoben Conoy
2003 - Paycheck - Jude, Guard
2003 - The Butterfly Effect - Jason Treborn
2004 - "Touching Evil" - Memorial - Mike Espy
2004 - "Kingdom Hospital" - Butterfingers (not credited at IMDB) - Earl Candleton
2004 - Wilby Wonderful - Duck MacDonald
2004 - H2O - Don Pritchard/Lt. Daniel Holt
2004 - The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Eddie's Father
2004 - Blade: Trinity - Asher Talos
2004 - "Battlestar Galactica" - Flesh and Bone - Leoben Conoy
2005 - "Whiskey Echo" - Dr. Rollie Saunders
2005 - Lucid - Victor
2005 - Whole New Thing - Denny
2005 - "Supernatural" - Wendigo - Roy
2005 - Painkiller Jane - Mitchell
2005 - Shooting Gallery - Michael Mortensen
2005 - Snowcake - John Neil (I haven't seen this one yet, actually, but I am pretty sure he doesn't die. Ahem. Please DON'T correct me if I'm wrong.)
2006 - "Battlestar Galactica" - Lay Down Your Burdens - Leoben Conoy
2006 - "The L Word" - episodes Lifesize (not credited at IMDB), Losing the Light and Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way - Danny Wilson
2006 - "Smallville" - Fragile - Tyler McKnight
2006 - Unnatural & Accidental - Norman
2006 - Code Name: The Cleaner - Collins
2006 - The Invisible - Detective Brian Larson
2006 - "The Hunters" - Quin Hunter
2006 - Butterfly on a Wheel - Detective McGrath
2006 - Silk - Trader
2006 - "Battlestar Galactica" - Season Three - Leoben Conoy
(possibly in ten episodes (not confirmed), not yet credited at IMDB, but appears in season Three promo)
Unconfirmed projects (not yet listed at IMDB):
unnamed Quentin Tarantino movie
Paul Gross' Passchendaele
Sequel to Paul Gross' H2O