Career
He is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth World War II Prior to CODCO, Malone wrote and performed in a number of shows for Canadian Broadcasting Company Television, including The Wonderful Grand Band, The Root Seller and The South and M Comic Book, and appeared in the film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood. After the death of his CODCO co-star Tommy Sexton in 1993, he devoted some years of his life to raising awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, including writing, directing and appearing in a training film for health care professionals. He also directed a docudrama film, The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland, in which he appeared as Sir Richard Squires, and acted in the films Rare Birds, Extraordinary Visitor, Messiah from Montreal and Heyday!.
More recently, he has had a recurring guest role in Republic of Doyle.
His first memoir, You Better Watch Out, was published in 2009 by Knopf Canada. He released a book in 2012 entitled Don"t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland"s Confederation with Canada, which is a look at how Newfoundland became a province of Canada in 1949.
He participated in the campaign that stopped the privatization of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, and has championed other environmental causes, including a campaign to ban shipping of garbage to Newfoundland. He ran as a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the Saint John"s West by-election in 2000, losing narrowly to Loyola Hearn.
He supported Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada in the 2008 election, and performed at the 2009 Green Party convention in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
