Dave's career began at age four doing modelling and commercial shoots in Alberta, but he moved into professional theatre which then springboarded him into TV and film. Dave has been fortunate enough to work among such Canadian legends as Jackie Burroughs, Henry Czerny and Nancy Beatty, and such American stars as Mariel Hemingway, Louise Fletcher, Steve Guttenberg, Jamie Foxx, and Tom Green (in The Chicken Tree (1998)).