Ben Cotton

Acting

Born July 26, 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ben Cotton (born July 26, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor. His most notable roles are on the TV series Stargate Atlantis playing scientist Dr. Kavanagh, his portrayal of "Leon Bell" in the game Dead Rising 2, Shane Pierce, the local townie, on CBS's Harper's Island and Lt. Coker Fasjovik in Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome.

Filmography

• Surf Bay, West Coast — Tom
• Sheriff Country — Sean Abbott
• Smoke — Scotty Bucyk
• 2024Calamity Jane — Wade
• Murder in a Small Town — Benjamin Strachan
• Sight Unseen — Agent Mitchell
• 2023Come Fly with Me — 'Cobra' Smith
• The Irrational — Wes Banning
• The Night Agent — Gordon Wick
• 2022Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder — Reggie Harris
• 2022Disappearance in Yellowstone — Wally
• Fire Country — Sean Abbott
• Debris — Loeb
• Resident Alien — Jimmy
• 2020Fu*king Idiots — Mike
• 2020Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day — Ritchie Palmer
• 2020Welcome to the Circle — Grady
• 2019Cold Pursuit — Timothy 'Windex' Denois
• 2019Hammer — Adams
• 2018Crown and Anchor — Charlie
• 2018O.I. — Barry
• The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco — Detective Bill Bryce
• The Dragon Prince — Rex Igneous (voice)
• 2017Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery — Cliff Hogarth
• 2017Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder — Todd Winters
• 2017Gregoire — Steve
• 2017Pretty Little Dead Girl — Garrett Miller
• Riverdale — Michael Matthews
• The Good Doctor — Tom Cantrell
• Colony — Jim
• 2016Dead Rising: Endgame — Rogers
• 2016Hello Destroyer — Bill Davis
• Mars — Ben Sojer
• 2016On the Farm — The Farmer
• 2016Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Lost Without You — Paul
• 2016The Unseen — Crisby
• Travelers — Christopher Rockwell
• 2015I Wanna Date U — Jeff from work
• The Man in the High Castle — Earle
• Zoo — Analyst Knox
• iZombie
• 2014Christmas Icetastrophe — Mayor Gibbons
• 2014Kid Cannabis — Joe Loya
• 2014Mountain Men — Herschberger
• 2014Songs She Wrote About People She Knows — Jason
• The 100 — Red
• When Calls the Heart — Sonny Garrison
• 2014Zodiac — Marty Fitzgerald
• Bates Motel — Danny
• 2013Cinemanovels — Ben
• Defiance — Daigo
• 2013Lawrence & Holloman — Lawrence
• Motive — Dustin Hess
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland — Tweedle #2
• 2013The Marine 3: Homefront — Galen Jackson
• The Tomorrow People — Rapist
• Alcatraz — Yapper, William Gant
• Arrow — Crewman
• 2012Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome — Coker Fasjovik
• Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome — Coker Fasjovik
• Continuum — Jaden
• 2012Dawn Rider — Ben McClure
• 2012Doppelgänger Paul — Tony
• 2012In No Particular Order — Ryan
• 2012Late — He
• 2012Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade — Brian
• 2012Vengeance is Mine — Thomas
• Fairly Legal — Dave Tildon
• 2011Finding a Family — Brent Feldman
• 2011Seeds of Destruction — Datsun
• 2011Sunflower Hour — Shamus O'Reilly / Jerry
• The Killing — Pastor Mike
• 2011The Planting — The Man
• The Secret Circle — Wade Barnes
• 201030 Days of Night: Dark Days — Dane
• 2010A Trace of Danger — Eric
• Caprica — Atreus
• 2010Messages Deleted — Ken 'Sarge' Rivers
• 2010The Boy Who Cried Werewolf — Cab Driver
• 2009A Gun to the Head — Kurt
• 2009Christmas in Canaan — Jake Hammer
• Harper's Island — Shane Pierce
• 2009Playing for Keeps — Peter
• Riese: Kingdom Falling — Herrick
• 2009Stan Helsing — Fweddy
• 2008Edison & Leo — Faraday (voice)
• Fringe — Impound Clerk
• 2008Mayerthorpe — Constable Leo Johnston
• 2008Mothers & Daughters — Dice
• 2008That One Night — Craig
• 2008The Day the Earth Stood Still — Truck Driver
• jPod — Tim
• 2007Battlestar Galactica: Razor — Terrified Man
• Bionic Woman — Jamie
• Blood Ties — Kelly
• Dragon Boys — Corey Sternig
• Flash Gordon — Bounty Hunter
• 2007Scar — Bishop
• 2007The Bad Son — John David Finn
• 2007Time and Again — Charlie
• 2007To Be Fat Like Me — Warren
• 2006Family in Hiding — Travis
• 2006Fierce People — Boyfriend (uncredited)
• Kyle XY
• Psych — Barlow, Chance Cade
• 2006Slither — Charlie
• 2006The Tooth Fairy — Henry
• 2005A Simple Curve — Dave
• 2005Johnny Tootall — Henry
• Robson Arms
• Supernatural — Mr. Wheeler / Richard Beesom, Pride
• 2005The Cabin Movie — Jason
• 2004Riding the Bullet — Rally Student #2
• Stargate Atlantis — Dr. Kavanagh, Dr. Peter Kavanagh
• The 4400 — Dewey
• 2004The Chronicles of Riddick — Slam Guard
• The Collector
• 2004Walking Tall — Drug Dealer
• 2003First to Die — James
• Tru Calling — Carjacker
• 2002Deadly Little Secrets — FBI Agent
• John Doe — Activist
• Taken — Denny
• The Dead Zone — Hank
• 2001Silicon Follies — Barista
• Smallville — Paul Hendrix
• Special Unit 2 — Clay
• 2001Strange Frequency — Officer DJ (segment 'My Generation')
• Strange Frequency — Officer DJ
• Dark Angel — Biker at Gas Line-up
• 1999The Wonder Cabinet — Deputy Tucker
• First Wave — Gua Police
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Danny (segment "Hubert's Curse")
• The X-Files — Mr. Paulsen
• Black Sash — Curtis