John Buchan

Biography

John Buchan is a Canadian casting director.

Career Overview

John Buchan has 142 screen credits in a career dating back to 1986. Their work spans 12 cinematic universes — most prominently Flower Shop Mystery Collection with 2 titles. Signature works include Ready or Not: Here I Come, Tuner, Brilliant Minds. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Production

Gender

male

Known Credits

142

Known For

• 

  Ready or Not: Here I Come
• 

  Tuner
• 

  Brilliant Minds
• 

  The Witch
• 

  Below Her Mouth
• 

  Spotlight

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 12 universes

• Flower Shop Mystery Collection (2 titles)
• Living Dead (Romero) (2 titles)
• Survival of the Dead Collection (2 titles)
• Cube (2 titles)
• Ready or Not Collection (1 titles)
• Critters (1 titles)
• Code 8 Collection (1 titles)
• Crossword Mysteries Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Samara Weaving (1 collaborations)
• Kathryn Newton (1 collaborations)
• Sarah Michelle Gellar (1 collaborations)
• Shawn Hatosy (1 collaborations)
• David Cronenberg (1 collaborations)
• Elijah Wood (1 collaborations)
• Kevin Durand (1 collaborations)
• Olivia Cheng (1 collaborations)
• Antony Hall (1 collaborations)
• Varun Saranga (1 collaborations)

Credits

• production (139 credits)

  • Tuner

    casting

    production
    2026
  • Forbidden Fruits

    casting

    production
    2026
  • Ready or Not: Here I Come

    casting

    production
    2026
  • Queen of Bones

    casting

    production
    2025
  • Everything's Going to Be Great

    casting

    production
    2025
  • Fear Street: Prom Queen

    casting

    production
    2025
  • Seven Veils

    casting

    production
    2025
  • Brilliant Minds

    location casting

    production

    - The Way Home (2026) ... location casting production

    - The Hero's Journey (2026) ... location casting production

    - Through the Looking Glass (2026) ... location casting production

    - Doctor, Interrupted (2026) ... location casting production

    - Senses (2026) ... location casting production
    2024
  • Longing

    casting director

    production
    2024
  • Backspot

    casting

    production
    2024
  • The Invisibles

    casting

    production
    2024
  • Queen Tut

    casting director

    production
    2024
  • Fitting In

    casting director

    production
    2024
  • Sight Unseen

    casting

    production

    - Rekindling (2025) ... casting production

    - Strangers in a Game (2025) ... casting production

    - Don't Look Back (2025) ... casting production

    - Family Matters (2025) ... casting production

    - Lost in Translation (2025) ... casting production
    2024
  • Out of My Mind

    location casting

    production
    2024
  • Dream Scenario

    casting

    production
    2023
  • Priscilla

    casting

    production
    2023
  • Fingernails

    casting

    production
    2023
  • The Changeling

    local casting

    production

    - Battle of the Island (2023) ... local casting production

    - Stormy Weather (2023) ... local casting production

    - Aftermath (2023) ... local casting production

    - This Woman’s Work (2023) ... local casting production

    - The Wise Ones (2023) ... local casting production
    2023
  • The Way Home

    - Not All Who Wander Are Lost (2023) ... casting production

    - The Day the Music Died (2023) ... casting production

    - Lovefool (2023) ... casting production

    - The End of the World as We Know It (2023) ... casting production

    - Building a Mystery (2023) ... casting production
    2023
  • Women Talking

    casting director

    production
    2022
  • Rosie

    casting

    production
    2022
  • Delia's Gone

    casting director

    production
    2022
  • Single All the Way

    casting

    production
    2021
  • A Small Fortune

    casting

    production
    2021
  • Sugar Daddy

    casting

    production
    2021
  • Two for the Win

    casting

    production
    2021
  • Critters Attack!

    casting

    production
    2020
  • Guest of Honour

    casting

    production
    2020
  • Code 8

    casting

    production
    2019
  • The Knight Before Christmas

    casting

    production
    2019
  • Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

    casting

    production
    2019
  • In the Shadow of the Moon

    casting

    production
    2019
  • In the Tall Grass

    casting

    production
    2019
  • Black Conflux

    casting

    production
    2019
  • The Grizzlies

    casting director

    production
    2019
  • Stockholm

    casting

    production
    2019
  • Through Black Spruce

    casting

    production
    2019
  • Goalie

    casting

    production
    2019
  • The Prodigy

    casting

    production
    2019
  • Polaroid

    casting

    production
    2019
  • State Like Sleep

    casting

    production
    2019
  • See

    - Rock-a-Bye (2021) ... local casting production

    - The Queen's Speech (2021) ... local casting production

    - The Truth About Unicorns (2021) ... local casting production

    - The Dinner Party (2021) ... local casting production

    - The Witchfinder (2021) ... local casting production
    2019
  • Christmas in Love

    casting

    production
    2018
  • Return to Christmas Creek

    casting

    production
    2018
  • The Holiday Calendar

    casting

    production
    2018
  • Seven in Heaven

    casting

    production
    2018
  • The Lie

    casting

    production
    2018
  • The Parting Glass

    casting

    production
    2018
  • Octavio Is Dead!

    casting

    production
    2018
  • Anon

    casting

    production
    2018
  • Christmas Inheritance

    casting

    production
    2017
  • Flatliners

    local casting

    production
    2017
  • Alias Grace

    co-executive producer

    production

    - Part 6 (2017) ... co-executive producer production

    - Part 5 (2017) ... co-executive producer production

    - Part 4 (2017) ... co-executive producer production

    - Part 3 (2017) ... co-executive producer production

    - Part 2 (2017) ... co-executive producer production
    2017
  • Kodachrome

    casting

    production
    2017
  • Wish Upon

    local casting

    production
    2017
  • Below Her Mouth

    local casting

    production
    2017
  • Kiss and Cry

    casting

    production
    2017
  • Love on Ice

    casting

    production
    2017
  • A Family Man

    location casting

    production
    2016
  • You're Killing Me Susana

    casting

    production
    2016
  • Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted

    casting

    production
    2016
  • Maudie

    casting

    production
    2016
  • Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud

    casting

    production
    2016
  • River

    casting

    production
    2016
  • The Witch

    casting

    production
    2016
  • The Girlfriend Experience

    - Bria: Relapse (2017) ... casting production

    - Erica & Anna: Free Fall (2017) ... casting production

    - Bria: Making Amends (2017) ... casting production

    - Erica & Anna: Citizens First (2017) ... casting production

    - Bria: Living Like a Tornado (2017) ... casting production
    2016
  • Spotlight

    casting

    production
    2015
  • Remember

    casting

    production
    2015
  • Regression

    casting

    production
    2015
  • Lead with Your Heart

    casting

    production
    2015
  • Pay the Ghost

    casting

    production
    2015
  • A Christmas Horror Story

    casting

    production
    2015
  • No Stranger Than Love

    casting

    production
    2015
  • Killjoys

    - Reckoning Ball (2017) ... casting production
    2015
  • The Captive

    casting

    production
    2014
  • Wolves

    casting

    production
    2014
  • Haunter

    casting

    production
    2013
  • Bank$tas

    casting

    production
    2013
  • Kick-Ass 2

    casting

    production
    2013
  • Be My Valentine

    casting

    production
    2013
  • Foxfire

    casting

    production
    2013
  • Stories We Tell

    casting

    production
    2012
  • The Riverbank

    casting

    production
    2012
  • Take This Waltz

    casting

    production
    2011
  • Oliver Sherman

    casting

    production
    2011
  • The Con Artist

    casting

    production
    2010
  • Double Wedding

    casting

    production
    2010
  • Splice

    casting

    production
    2010
  • Survival of the Dead

    casting

    production
    2010
  • Cairo Time

    casting

    production
    2009
  • Adoration

    casting

    production
    2009
  • Accidental Friendship

    casting

    production
    2008
  • One Week

    casting

    production
    2008
  • True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

    casting

    production
    2008
  • Jumper

    casting

    production
    2008
  • Matters of Life & Dating

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Silk

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Closing the Ring

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Diary of the Dead

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Away from Her

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Poor Boy's Game

    casting

    production
    2007
  • Snow Cake

    casting

    production
    2006
  • Cake

    casting

    production
    2005
  • The Republic Of Love

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Geraldine's Fortune

    casting director

    production
    2004
  • Cube Zero

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Childstar

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Being Julia

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Clean

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Open Heart

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Going the Distance

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Sugar

    producer

    production
    2004
  • Luck

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Rhinoceros Eyes

    casting

    production
    2004
  • Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

    casting

    production
    2003
  • The Saddest Music in the World

    casting

    production
    2003
  • The Bay of Love and Sorrows

    casting director

    production
    2002
  • American Psycho II: All American Girl

    casting

    production
    2002
  • Cube 2: Hypercube

    casting

    production
    2002
  • I Shout Love

    casting

    production
    2002
  • Bleacher Bums

    casting

    production
    2001
  • Picture Claire

    casting

    production
    2001
  • The Art of Woo

    casting

    production
    2001
  • What Makes a Family

    casting

    production
    2001
  • The Wandering Soul Murders

    casting

    production
    2001
  • A Colder Kind of Death

    casting

    production
    2001
  • The Miracle Worker

    casting

    production
    2000
  • Deadly Appearances

    casting

    production
    2000
  • The Virgin Suicides

    casting

    production
    2000
  • The Life Before This

    casting

    production
    1999
  • The Boys Club

    casting

    production
    1996
  • Johnny Mnemonic

    casting director

    production
    1995
  • Paris, France

    casting

    production
    1994
  • Trial & Error

    casting

    production
    1993
  • Family of Strangers

    casting

    production
    1993
  • Buried on Sunday

    casting

    production
    1992
  • Gate II

    casting

    production
    1990
  • A Judgment in Stone

    casting assistant

    production
    1986

• actors (3 credits)

  • Stories We Tell

    Storyteller

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • The Virgin Suicides

    John (Lydia's Boss) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • The Best Day of My Life

    Tommy

    actor

    actors
    1999