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Robert Joy

Robert Joy
Robert Joy
Born: Aug 17, 1951 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Atlantic City, Desperately Seeking Susan, Sword of Gideon
First Major Screen Credit: Atlantic City (1980)
30 Videos for Robert Joy
Superhero Movie (2008) Joe Somebody (2001) The Dark Half (1991)
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Perfume (2001) Longtime Companion (1990)
CSI: NY: Season 04 (2007) Sweet November (2001) Millennium (1989)
CSI: NY: Season 03 (2006) Cheaters (2000) Big Shots (1987)
It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006) Fallen (1998) Radio Days (1987)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) A Modern Affair (1995) Sword of Gideon (1986)
Land of the Dead (2005) Waterworld (1995) Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Pretty Persuasion (2005) Death Wish 5: The Face of Death (1994) Ragtime (1981)
Whole New Thing (2005) I'll Do Anything (1994) Ticket to Heaven (1981)
61* (2001) Shadows and Fog (1991) Atlantic City (1980)
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Biography:

Canadian actor Robert Joy has been appearing in films on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border since the 1970s. He has always been a welcome presence, even when the scripts took pains not to make him feel welcome. As Susan Sarandon's husband in Atlantic City (1981), Joy stuck around just long enough to be bumped off by drug dealers.

And as demented socialite Harry K. Thaw in Ragtime (1981), Joy existed principally to shoot Stanford White (Norman Mailer) full of holes and then get thrown in the looney bin. One of Robert Joy's largest, and most unorthodox, film assignments was as the would-be political demagogue (and one-time flamenco dancer) in the Newfoundland-based The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood (1986).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.