West Van actor not

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Jackson Davies enjoys success in Arts Club play

Evelyn Jacob
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

FTER A decade promot-

ing Carter Cars and 16

years as the
Beachcombers’ goofy cop
Constable J. Constable,
Jackson Davies’ face may
well have clocked more air
time than any other
Vancouver actor.

But while you might expect
him to credit a benevolent produc-
er or a performance of a lifetirne
for his big break, Davies has a
more mundane fairy godmother. “
owe it all to a root beer popsicle,”
admits the eminently likable West
Vancouver actor, “They
(Beachcombers producers) needed
me to drive a police car away on a
shoot and ! decided to eat a root
beer popsicle. They found it amus-
ing,” says Davies. “It was a role
with no lines, but that 25-cent
popsicle got me back in.” ‘

That syrupy frozen stick of pop
got him back in for another 16
years to be exact. and helped

. launch a cereer that has become
the envy of many a Canadian
actor. Davies has appeared in
dozens of TV shows, made-for-TV
movies and feature films, includ-
ing the latest Bond thriller, The
Man Who Wouldn’t Die. But
what's got him fired up these days
isn’t a date with a big American

Photo Glen Erikson

IN THE Wild Guys, Jackson Davies (right) plays a guilefess IGA
produce menager who partakes of a guys’ sensitivity weekend.

studio: it’s an enormously success-
ful Canadian stage work written by
a Calgary husband-and-wife team.
The Wild Guys, in which
Davies plays a guileless IGA pro-
duce manager who gets lured
away on a guys’ sensitivity week-
end, reopened last month at the
Arts Club Mainstage Theatre after
selling out nightly for more than
four months last year. Davies has
appeared in over 150 stage shows,
but this has been his longest the-
atre run. He’s having a good time.
“Sometimes the theatre can be
spellbinding; at times it can
become heavy and thought pro-
voking. This is entertainment, and
1 won't apologize for a show that
makes people laugh. So much so
that in Kelowna (where it played

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disappearing into the bathroom
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The instant gratification is a
treat, he says; something you don’t
get when taping for TV. In the case
of The Wild Guys it is particularly
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one of the main reasons the show
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It was Davies who convinced
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