Charlie Gillespie: Gay Characters? Gay in Real Life? Beefcake? Or Not

I'm not going to let the 2nd Generation debacle dissuade me from researching Charlie Gillespie.  His Superman-cape photo was mega-hot, and I'm pretty sure his character was gay or gay-coded.

Any other beefcake photos?
Any other gay roles?
Gay in real life?

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any biography at all, not even a single line, and every time I search for a shirtless photo, Google Images tries to push a photo of someone else.  Like Austin Mahone.

Charles Melton of Riverdale

Or someone named Gronkowski who I've never heard of.

Social media has proven fruitless.  There are over 100 Charlie Gillespie profiles on Facebook, most elderly, some women,  over 20 Charlie Gillespie instagram pages, and over 15 Charlie Gillespie twitter accounts.  You'd think that the guy with 7,500 followers would be the right one,but no, that's an airplane pilot.

Do you think this might be him? It's a frame capture from a video uploaded to one of the Charlie Gillespie instagram pages.

How about this guy, sticking his tongue out at a girl? (Obviously his girlfriend: they appear arm-in-arm, hugging, or groping each other n 3,543 other photos on the page.)

Well, at least I can go through his film credits, to see if there are any gay roles.

1. Charlie played himself in the documentary Bienvenue chez nous - La gang à Richibouctou Village (2014), about a New Brunswick village (where they speak English) welcoming a film crew.

2. The film is La gang des hors-la-loi (The Outlaw League, 2014), a sort of French Canadian Bad News Bears, where the kids have names like Shogun, Charlemagne, and Pic-pic.

3. In 2015, Charlie appeared as a guest host on Galala, "un concours télévisé de jeunes talents qui s'adresse aux 5 à 15 ans."   They sought out local talent in a different city each week: Edmonton, Saskatoon, St. Boniface, Halifax.  Charlie's town was Dieppe, New Brunswick.

I don't understand why a French-language tv program is auditioning talent in English speaking towns.

4. Fast forward two years to July 2017.  Charlie has a two-episode story arc on Degrassi: Next Class, a teen soap about students in a fictional Toronto high school.   He plays Oliver, hospital roommate of gay kid Tristan (Lyle Lettau).  But Oliver is straight.

Only two years ago, and Charlie looks a little chunky.  That might explain the lack of beefcake photos.

5. Another guest shot, on a November 2017 episode of The Next Step, about a teen dance troup in Toronto.  Charlie plays Marcus, a member of the math team who becomes captain when Zara leaves.

6. Next comes the 6 horrible episodes of 2nd Generation (2018), which required long hair for the androgynous effect. I think his character is gay-coded,but I can't be sure; that would require watching the tv series.

7. Speed Kills (2018) starred John Travolta as an aging speedboat racer (based on real-life speedboat champion Don Aronoff).   Charlie played his son, Andrew.  Since Travolta is 65 years old, his son must be in his 30s.

8.  A two-episode story in October 2018 on the new Charmed: he plays a college student who is dating Maggie until she dumps him.  When he's possessed by a demon, she saves him, but they still don't get back together.  There's a lot of kissing going on.

9. In January 2019, he appeared in the 6-episode miniseries I Am the Night, something about the Black Dahlia murder case in modern L.A.  Charlie appears only in the pilot as "Surfer Hank."  You can probably figure out what he's doing.

I'm sorry I started this research.  Not many beefcake photos, not gay in real life (if the tongue-wagger is the right Charlie), only one gay-coded role.

And I had such high hopes. The 2nd Generation  bait-and-switch strikes again.


See also: 2nd Generation: the Worst TV Series I Have Ever Seen

2nd Generation: The Worst TV Series I Have Ever Seen

While looking up Charlie Gillespie, the current uber-hot it-boy, I found a reference to 2nd Generation (2018), a 6-episode Canadian tv series:'

A coming of age story set in today's harsh melting pot society, trying to draw the line between racism, morals, love, friendship, and secrets.   Shouldn't there be several lines?  Between, like love and friendship, or morals and love, or racism and secrets?

The episode guide on IMD was just as semi-literate and clichéd:

 Ticoon's new found popularity has him dealing with some unwanted attention from a new friend in sheep's clothing, something he could of never have imagined but is very accepting of.

• Ok, it's wolf in sheep's clothing; the cliché doesn't work with "friend."   
• Could of never have imagined?  Try "could never have imagined."
• The something he is "very accepting of" must be the "unwanted attention,"  but how can you be accepting of something unwanted?

As Ticoon's, Virginia's and Brody's relationship blossoms so does the money, catching the eyes of the authorities, as well as straining the already tender relationship with Everett

• Does money blossom?
• A tender relationship can't get strained. 

But it's on Amazon Prime for free, it stars Charlie Gillespie, and Ticoon looks hot, so I watched the first episode.

Holy bait and switch, Batman.  This guy isn't Ticoon, Brody, Virginia, or Everett.  He's an extra used to sell the show.

This is Ticoon Kim (pronounced as in tycoon), played by an actor named Ticoon Kim.  Nepotism much?

In Act 1, Ticoon's father thinks that he needs "more culture," so he signs him up for an inner-city basketball team.

Wait -- that's culture?  How about a class in Chinese calligraphy?  Or Korean poetry?  Or Shakespeare, depending on what culture you're going for.  Sports aren't culture.

Ticoonis the only non-Jamaic an,  the only person under 6'5", and the only person under 28 years old on the team, but his teammates are still completely accepting. One of the 28-year old 6'5" women even offers to have sex with him: "Me gonna break off yo' dick," she promises.

But all of those characters vanish forever in Act 2, when Ticoon goes to school.  There the 5-year old is bullied by his 28-year old, 6'5" classmates. David (Adam Murciano) makes lots of racist jokes, but the chief bully happens to be Asian: Will (Keanu Lee Nunes, left)

Then Brody (Charlie Gillespie), a long-haired androgynous type, intervenes.  So the outcasts are going to bond?

Even more oddly, Brody's sister appears to be dating the bully Will.  She must be a holdover from 1980s nerd movies, where the It-Girl is dating an obnoxious jock with no redeeming qualities, just so she can be won over by the sexual prowess of the nerd.

Ticoon has two friends his own age, Arnold (Matthew Edmonson) or Jacob (David Knoll), I'm not sure which, and  Sonny (Eshaan Buwadwal).  They get together later to discuss "pussy."  For instance, Ticoon's crush is "Justin pussy," meaning that she'll only date Justin Timberlake or Justin Bieber (rather a small number of options).

But they're also interested in why Brody intervened in the bullying.  No way anybody is actually nice.  And what if they become friends?  Ticoon will automatically become "pussy fam.," which sounds like a bad thing: calling someone a "pussy" means that they are weak and ineffective, like a woman's vagina, right?

No, it' a good thing; you aspire to become a "pussy fam." 

Apparently Brody isn't an outcast after all; he's the coolest guy in school.  When he says "What up," Sonny, overwhelmed by his coolness, exclaims, "Hey, yo, Big B, can I get a BJ?"

Arnold/Jacob points out that BJ means "Blow job," and he is embarrassed.

Brody's courtship of Ticoon is stunningly homoerotic, from confessions of "I like you" to hands on shoulders to request to meet in the bathroom. So obviously homoerotic that I'm sure it's canon: they're going to be a gay couple.

But it doesn't work out that way.  Fast-forwarding through the rest of the series, which seems to be about a basketball team and a marijuana selling business (but it's legal in Canada, yo),  I see a lot of scenes of Ticoon dating, and a lot of scenes of his two friends discussing pussy.  They get girlfriends, too, yo.  Brody and Ticoon are never alone in any scene ever again.

 Another bait and switch.

Dreadful.

Not to mention the extremely annoying pseudo-rap talk.  Nobody talks like that, yo.  And the profanity!  I don't mind an occasional "fuck," but every third word?  And every fourth word is "pussy."

Surely they meant cats.

My grade: F---.

The Mysterious Time Traveling Wrestler from Thunder Bay

Sometimes our ability to use the internet to find out almost everything about almost anybody leads down some curious rabbit holes. 

The person in the middle is striking, too tiny to be real.  He doesn't have the right proportions to be a dwarf or a child, yet he must be about 4 feet tall. I figure the photo must be a photoshop trick or some deliberately staged optical illusion.

It's from a 2013 newspaper article, "Thunder Bay Wrestlers Gold Medal Winners," which they received at the Canada Summer Games.  No evidence of photoshopping or deliberate staging: the middle person is just very tiny.  His name is Marco, and he volunteers as a coach and referee in youth wrestling tournaments.

Coaches and referees are always adults, so he's not a child or a high school student.  He must be over 18.

This is the beginning of a mysterious journey through conflicting, constantly shifting ages.

1.  Marco is 24-26.  The Canada Games, held every two years, are like a national Olympics, with 1700 amateurs representing their province in athletics, baseball, basketball, diving, wrestling, and so on.  You have to be ages 13-20, so Marco was 18-20 in 2013.

2. Marco is 17-20.  There aren't many Marcos from Thunder Bay, Ontario, so it was easy to find his Facebook page.  Lots of beefcake photos, but no specific age information.

A post from 2018 does state that he got a silver medal at the Junior Pan-American Championships in Fortaleza, Brazil.

The Junior Pan-American Championships, sponsored by United World Wrestling, are held every two years.  They are for athletes 16-19 years old.

So 17-20, or 24-26?  Which is it?

3. Marco is 20-21.  This post from May 2016 shows him at Prom with someone named Nikolas, who is now studying for his nursing degree.

Wait -- is Marco gay?

I don't know, but this isn't his prom date.  St. Patrick, a Catholic high school in Thunder Bay, would never allow same-sex dates at senior prom.  Nikolas must be just a bud.  But anybody who goes to senior prom in 2016 has to be 20-21 now.

20-21, 17-20, 24-26.  Curioser and curioser.

4. Marco is 22-24.  He must have graduated earlier, and went to someone else's senior prom.  Here is a photo of Marco from 2017, a year later, as a member of the wrestling team at Lakeland University, a public research university with 8,000 students.  He's in his third year, studying business commerce, hoping to become an entrepreneur.

A junior in college in 2017, but 16-19 in 2018?  Something does not add up.

5. Marco is 20-21.  In 2015, he initiates a  "Go Fund Me" that raises $3,777 to send Team Canada to a European competition.  He states that he's 16 years old and has been wrestling for the Lakehead Wrestling Club for 5 years.

So he coached youth wrestling as a child, played at the Canada Games in 2013 at age 13 (thus explaining why he's so tiny surrounded by adults), graduated from high school in 2016 at age 17, spend through college to be in his third year by 2017, and competed in the Junior Pan Am games in 2018 at age 19.

That's quite a career.  Still a few unexplained questions.  How did he rush through college so fast?  What was he doing as a coach at age 13?  And what's with the hat?

10 Things You Should Know about Dylan Koroll

1. At the age of 17, he won the grand prize for modeling at the World Championship of the Performing Arts, an annual competition for aspiring singers, actors, models, and so on.  It draws performers from 60 countries and gives out millions of dollars in scholarships as prizes.

2. He's currently rated #9 of the top 10 models, and #4 of the top male models, represented by the Sutherland Agency in Toronto.  I especially like their link "Click here for package."  It wasn't the package I was expecting, though.










3. In his day job, he runs a construction company in Calgary.  He has also studied motorcycle repair.

4. His biggest acting credit is a 5-episode run as Hardy Champ, the sister's boyfriend on Wynonna Earp, until she dumps him for a girl.  His tumblr states that he hates the character of Champ: "he wanted to do something with his life, but he failed, and now he's just given up."

5. He also had a guest spot as "Cool Guy" on Young Drunk Punk, a semi-autobiographical series about Bruce McCulloch (Kids in the Hall) growing up in Calgary in the 1980s.

6. In Gavin Crawford's Wild Wild West, a mockumentary in which Gavin Crawford plays six eccentric Calgary residents, one of his characters is a gay cattle rancher who wants to open a dude ranch with his husband.  Dylan plays someone named Damien.

7. He's gotten considerably inked of late, considerably reducing his attractiveness.  But his body, his rules.

8. Dylan's only other film credit is the short Heartland.  I found a copy on director Brian Paccione's website, but I don't know what it's about.  People dressed in circus sideshow costumes chase each other through woods.

9. Heartland is also the title of a short film about a gay man who returns from the City to the Heartland to help out his ailing dad and cruise the farmboys.

10. His facebook page has a photo of him posing with a woman and child with his last name, so he might not be gay. But another photo shows him in tandem with these two hunkoids, so you never know.

Should I Skip or Stream "Wynonna Earp"?

Wynonna Earp has been showing up on my Netflix feed with an 86% match.  Should I stream it or skip it?

Con: My first instinct: run far, far away.  I hate Westerns, and I certainly don't want to watch a female version of Wyatt Earp gun-slinging down some fake dusty Wild West backlot.

Pro:  Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) is a modern-day paranormal investigator, no connection to the Wild West (except she's Wyatt Earp's great-great-granddaughter)

Wow.  The title and central characters are so completely misleading that they must have been created on purpose, to draw in Western fans.  But doesn't it scare away all of the fans of paranormal investigation?

Con: Oh, this is still a Western.  Wynonna lives in the modern-Wild West town of Purgatory, where the bars have antler-heads and people still wear cowboy hats.  And she has a six-shooter, a special legacy from her ancestor that allows her to hunt down Revenants, escapees from Hell, and send them back where they came from.

Fortunately, the Revenants can't go farther than the area around Purgatory, called the Ghost River Triangle.

Unfortunately, they are adept at masquerading as humans, and highly organized, with a leader unfortunately named Bobo (Michael Eklund).  You can tell he's evil because of his unfortunate beard and androgynous mannerisms.  Yet another trans villain?

Con: The writers seem to be getting their character names from old John Wayne movies: Shorty, Carl, Red, Hetty, Tug, Skip, Drek

I also find Eve, Abel, and Jesus, but maybe they aren't the Biblical characters.

Speaking of names, what's with the extra "n" on Wynonna? I have to check the spelling every time.  It just doesn't look right.

Pro:  According to the plot summary on Wikipedia, the  mythology gets curioser and curioser.  Everybody has a tragic backstory, and no one is who they seem.

I like complex mythologies, as long as they don't get too ridiculous, like on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where each season had a much-worse-than-before, Apocalyptic Big Bad.

Wynonna joins a top-secret paranormal-hunting government agency, and gathers up a group of scoobies:

1. Doc Holiday (Tim Rozon), the partner of her great-great-great grandfather, who didn't die of tuberculosis in 1887; he's still alive and kicking and looks about 30.

2. Waverly, Wynonna's sister (name too long to copy).  Well, actually half-sister.  They share a mother, but Waverly's father was an angel named Julian (yes, angels can reproduce).

3. Xavier Dolls (Shamier Anderson), the head of her unit.

4. Purgatory Sheriff Nicole (Katherine Barrell), who starts dating Waverly.

Pro: Ok, a lesbian relationship among the major characters, and they don't even wait until season 8.  That's a plus for inclusivity, but I wish there were some gay guys, too.

Pro: Score!  Jeremy Chetri (Varun Saranga), the Black Badge Unit's Lab Technician, is gay (and dating Agent Dolls?).  He's introduced in the second season.  In Season 3 he gets a boyfriend, Robin Jett (Justin Kelly, below).

Con: The show seems a bit beefcake-deprived.  Of the first 10 actors listed on imdb, 4 are women, 2 have weird beards, and 1 is grizzled.  That leaves Agent Dolls, Jeremy Chetri, and Daniel Onerheim as Paramedic (can't find a photo).

Farther down the list, we find Justin Kelly (6 episodes) and Dylan Koroll (top photo) as Hardy Champ, the boyfriend of Wynonna's sister Waverly before she starts dating Nicole.

So we have 4 Pro, 4 Con.  I need a deal-maker or deal-breaker.

I fast-forwarded through Episode 6: "Agent Dolls' secret comes out when he joins forces with Wynonna to find the Blacksmith, and encounters a family with a voracious appetite."

The Canadian Rockies in winter.  Cowboy hats, fringed leather jackets.  This is a Western.  Doc Holiday has apparently not changed with the times, ma'ama.  Wynonna wishes she could be a girl, buy lip gloss and wear flirty skirts.  Apparently she hasn't changed with the times, either.

Con.  Skip it.

The Gay Tease of "Adulting: Year 1"

I was drawn into the Canadian webseries Adulting: Year I  by this clip of fitness guru Bolt Jackson,  And by a clip of two men hugging and touching faces.  So the main characters must be gay.

Wait -- only heterosexuals have "mid life crises" at age 25, when they find that life isn't as easy as they anticipated.  Gay people are busy yelling "It gets better!"

But there were only 11 episodes, each 6-12 minutes long, so it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

1.  It's Luc's birthday, and he and his boyfriend Landon (played by Luc Trottier and Landon Doak) get drunk, hug and touch faces but don't kiss, and decide to move to Toronto to pursue their dream of becoming actors  But the only apartments they can afford are horrible or frightfully expensive.

That's the experience of every gay person who abandons a homophobic small town for the City.  Living in Gay Heaven is expensive!

2. Luc looks for a job, but the only jobs he's qualified for require someone just out of school with four years of experience on a computer system that was just invented last week, and a bachelor's degree is required but makes him overqualified.

Aside from being frightfully expensive, Gay Heaven lacks jobs.  You'll probably work 2-3 part time and temp jobs to make ends meet.  But who cares?  You're in Gay Heaven!

3.  While watching a commercial for Bolt Jackson, Julie (Jessica Gallant) tells Olivia (Sarah O'Brecht) about a "perfect" date (maybe with Bolt -- I'm not sure) ruined by embarrassing noises from her lady parts during sex.

Ok, um...lots of gay men have female friends.  And tere are some nice beefcake shots, so I'm not complaining.

4. Luc apparently isn't gay after all!   He goes on a date with Julie from #3, but they argue when each has represented themselves online.  He's not rich or sophisticated, she doesn't go to the gym.  But they bond over their shared interest in kung fu movies.

Ok, I'm really disappointed at the teasing "gay" relationship of Episodes 1-2, but dating was a big thing in The City, so I guess I can relate.

5. Luc and Julie go for a walk, but their attempt at bonding is always interrupted by other friends. I think.  Things turn surreal, and I'm not sure I understand.

6. Landon (remember him?) goes on an audition, but freezes up.

Landon hasn't mentioned any dates or relationships yet.  Maybe he's still gay.

7. Luc hates his job doing grunt work at a chemical waste company (do they produce it or dispose of it?).  His boss is a big, incompetent, work-stealing bully.

Dude, when I was doing grunt work, I would have killed for my own office, with a window.  Who cared that my boss kept stealing the credit for my work.  I lived in Gay Heaven!  What's to complain about?

8. Julie's friend Olivia from #3 (remember her?) tells her boyfriend, medical student Mark (Scott Farley), that she has to get pregnant now, or she won't be able to.  So they put on their costumes -- a furry and a fairy princess -- and prepare for sex. Followed by a friend-celebrating montage.

Yeah, um...having a family was not a major concern, or even a minor concern, in Gay Heaven.  It was implicitly assumed that gay people would never have children.  No one would let us adopt, and if we had kids through surrogates, the state would take them away.  This episode falls flat.

9. Luc and Julie tear up their tax forms and challenge their friends to play-fights with swords and water guns.  Everyone is really into "acting like a kid." so they do both summer and winter things.

I don't understand.  But at least we get Landon with his shirt off.

10.  Luc clashes with his horrible boss, who also happens to hate his horrible job.  Apparently it's "my job's a joke" all the way up the channels of command.

That's nice to know, I guess.

11. It's Luc's birthday again, and all his friends are there, including some who haven't had centric episodes like Rod Jackson (left) and two cute guys who might be a gay couple.

Clutching at straws? 

Luc smashes the cake and punches Landon in the face because "You lied to me!  My dreams haven't come true!"

Dude, you have an apartment, a job, a relationship, friends, and you live in The City.  What else did you want?

There are some fantasy sequences (I assume) about Luc asking Julie to marry him, killing Landon, and encountering himself as a scary clown.

From hugging and face-touching to fantasy homicide?  In West Hollywood, we had lunch with our ex-boyfriends, we didn't kill them.

Bruno and Boots: A Gay Couple at MacDonald Hall

Bruno and Boots are the stars of a series of children's books by Gordon Korman, set at a down-and-out boarding school near Toronto:
This Can't be Happening at MacDonald Hall (1978)
Go Jump in the Pool (1979)
Beware the Fish (1980)
The Wizzle War (1982)
The Zucchini Wars (1988)
MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood (1991)
Something Fishy at MacDonald Hall (1995)

I haven't read any of the books -- I never heard of them before Netflix - but Bruno is the "let's fill the swimming pool with jello" trickster, Boots the "but we'll get in trouble" superego, and they're surrounded by the usual high school nerds, jocks, and martinet teachers.  The rival school is the snooty York Academy, and Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies provides a female Bruno-Boots pair to spar with and get crushes on.

A series of movie adaptions has appeared in Canada.  The first, Bruno and Boots: Go Jump in the Pool (2016), now streaming on Netflix, stars:

1. Jonny Gray, a Disney teen, star of the similarly-themed Max and Shred (2014-2015) as Bruno.











Jonny is the one on the far right.

2,  Callan Potter, a newcomer who would go on to star in The Other Kingdom on Nickelodon, as Boots. 

The plot:  In the book, a gay subtext:  Boots is forced to transfer to York Academy so he can compete on their swim team.  Bruno hatches some wild schemes to raise money to buy a pool for MacDonald Hall, so they can stay together.

In the movie:  They just want the pool.  Plus Boots goes out for swimming so he can impress The Girl.

That's right, the gay-subtext motive has been obliterated, and a hetero-horny motive introduced.

I guess because in 2016 you couldn't pretend that gay people do not exist anymore.

I fast forwarded through the other two movies, to see if there was anything good:

Bruno and Boots: This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall (2017): The headmaster tries to separate the duo.

Bruno and Boots: The Wizzle War (2017): They try to get even with a crazy teacher.

Gay characters: The girl-crush is de-emphasized.  You can still read them as a gay couple, if you want. .

Beefcake:  Bruno and Boots rush to class in their underwear, with some blatant bouncing around.  Otherwise nothing much.

My grade: C-

Christmas with Travis Milne

Canadian actor Travis Milne has one of the most strikingly beautiful faces in recent screen history.  Plus his real name is George Travis Darold Milne XI.  That's right, there have been 10 Travis Milnes before him, generation after generation of strikingly beautiful faces.














Unfortunately, drop-dead gorgeous guys are  often relegated to romantic comedies.  Travis has starred in several of those dreary "finding love at Christmastime" movies:

Holiday in Handcuffs (2007): Melissa Joan Hart kidnaps Mario Lopez, and passes him off as her boyfriend at a Christmas gathering, where her brother reveals that he is gay.  That's more surprising than committing a felony?  Travis plays the gay brother's boyfriend.

A Gift-Wrapped Christmas (2015): Workaholic single dad (Travis) finds love with a harried personal shopper.  At Christmas, natch.

Runaway Christmas Bride (2017): Kate leaves her fiancee at the altar and falls in love with an Olympic skiier (Travis).    At Christmas.

Apparently you just need to add the word "Christmas" to a movie to qualify for it to air on the Hallmark Channel in December.  Let's try it out:

Christmas in Casablanca.
A Jurassic Park Christmas
Home Alone at Christmas

He has also been some generic "finding love" romcoms:

Nearlyweds (2013): Three female friends find out that their weddings, to Ryan Kennedy, Steve Bacic, and Travis Milne, were performed illegally.  Complications ensue.

Couldn't they just do them over?  What is this, 1964?

Summer Love (2016).  How's that for a generic title?  They're not even trying.  A widowed mom has to choose between two hot guys (Travis, Lucas Bryant).

Same Time Next Week (2017): A widow and a widower (Travis) find love.

Other than finding love, Travis appeared in some shorts, some sleaze (Confessions of a Go-Go Girl), and some Canadian cop shows, including story arcs on Rogue and Saving Hope and 78 episodes of Rookie Blue (back before he buffed up).

Plus he hosted My Green House, a Canadian environmentally friendly DIY series.

Quite a lot of work for someone of  his age, but nothing most gay men would go out of their way to see.

No mention of a wife or girlfriend, but I still get the distinct impression that he's heterosexual.

In Search of Billy MacLellan

Ok, this is getting serious.  Billy MacLellan appears in The Silence for five minutes in a priest outfit, has two episodes as a minor character in Bomb Girls (which is on Amazon Prime but not Netflix), and that's it.  Where else can I find the most stunning face and physique of the last decade?

Nude, shirtless, or not, I don't care.










He's a Canadian actor, born on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1974, and a big Cape Breton booster although he now lives in Toronto.  He has 61 film credits. Some of the more interesting are:

Caught (2018), about a drug dealer (Alan Hawko) who escapes from a Nova Scotia prison.  Billy played Kyle O'Neill, far down in the credits list, but apparently he and Hawko are friends.  Both from Nova Scotia.  Not on Netflix, Vudu, Youtube, or Amazon Prime.

Ice Blue (2017):  Single Dad Billy told his daughter that her mother abandoned them.  Actually she met a far more sinister fate, and one day she shows up at the isolated family farm.  Ditto.

Bellevue (2017): An 8-episode series set in a small town, where a detective searches for a missing teen and unravels a mystery. Billy play Brady Holt, #3 on the cast list.  Ditto.

Maudie (2016):  An arthritic Newfoundland woman works as a housekeeper and dreams of becoming an artist and finds love. Billy plays "Frank," #7 on the cast list.  Not interested.

Catch a Christmas Star (2013).  One of those "finding love at Christmastime" movies. Chris (Steve Byers) finds love.   Don't get excited -- this isn't a gay couple.  Billy plays his brother..

Unlikely Heroes (2013): Some oddball teens on a hike in the woods discover a magical amulet.  Billy plays the forest ranger villain. On Youtube.

Between the Mountain and the Shore (2010), a documentary about his family on Cape Breton,  On Youtube.

ReGenesis (2009): He played Earl Jordan in two episodes of the long-running sci-fi series, and received a Gemini Award.  On Amazon Prime.

I also learned that Billy goes to Gay Pride Toronto every year.

And this instagram photo is captioned "Happy Valentine's Day."

Don't get excited.  The other guy is Shawn Doyle, his costar in Bellevue.

Although Billy did bring him home to meet his Mum.

And they went to Gay Pride together.

See also: The Men of "Bomb Girls"