Barry Fitzgerald

biography:
Brother of actor Arthur Shields, with whom he performed in several films, most notably John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). One of the very few character actors ever to achieve star status.

Fitzgerald was the only player ever nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year for the same role. The recognition was for Going My Way (1944). After he received this double nomination, the Academy immediately changed their rules to prevent this from happening again, rules which have remained unchanged to this day.

One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene  stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in  Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive  Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in  the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He  subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role that he recreated in his film debut for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. He was coaxed to the U.S. in 1935 by John Ford to appear in Ford's film adaptation of another O'Casey masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars (1936). Fitzgerald took up residence in Hollywood and went on to give outstanding performances in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), And Then There Were None (1945), Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and what is probably the role for which he is most fondly remembered, The Quiet Man (1952). He won the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gruff, aging Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way  (1944). He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the same  role and was the only actor to ever be so honored. Barry Fitzgerald died  in his beloved Dublin in 1961.

The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

character: Self

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

General Electric Theater

overview: General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

overview: A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

character: Harold 'Stretch' Sears

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

character: Barry Flynn

original_name: Lux Video Theatre

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

original_name: What's My Line?

Play of the Week

overview: This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadway.

original_name: Play of the Week

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biography: Barry Fitzgerald (Dublín, 10 de març de 1888 - Dublín, 14 de gener de 1961) va ser un actor irlandès. Nascut William Joseph Shields, és l'únic actor fins ara que ha estat nominat a la vegada per a l'Oscar al millor actor i pel del millor actor en un segon paper per al mateix paper, a la pel·lícula de 1944: Going My Way. Va guanyar el segon.

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Barry Fitzgerald

biography:
Barry Fitzgerald, Bruder des Schauspielers Arthur Shields, mit dem er in mehreren Filmen, insbesondere in John Fords „Der Sieger“ (1952), zusammenarbeitete, gehörte zu den wenigen Charakterdarstellern, die jemals Starstatus erreichten.

Fitzgerald war der einzige Schauspieler, der jemals im selben Jahr für dieselbe Rolle sowohl als Bester Hauptdarsteller als auch als Bester Nebendarsteller für den Oscar nominiert wurde. Diese Nominierung erhielt er für „Der Weg zum Glück“ (1944). Nach dieser Doppelnominierung änderte die Academy umgehend ihre Regeln, um dies künftig zu verhindern – Regeln, die bis heute Bestand haben.

Barry Fitzgerald, einer der besten Charakterdarsteller Hollywoods und ein Meister darin, Szenen zu stehlen, wurde 1888 als William Joseph Shields in Dublin, Irland, geboren. Der kleine Ire mit dem unwiderstehlichen Akzent, der ursprünglich eine Ausbildung zum Bankkaufmann absolviert hatte, entdeckte in den 1920er-Jahren seine Leidenschaft für die Schauspielerei und schloss sich den weltberühmten Abbey Players in Dublin an. Anschließend spielte er die Hauptrolle in der Abbey-Theatre-Produktion von Sean O’Caseys „Juno und der Pfau“, eine Rolle, die er 1930 in seinem Filmdebüt für Regisseur Alfred Hitchcock erneut verkörperte. 1935 überredete ihn John Ford in die USA, um in Fords Verfilmung eines weiteren Meisterwerks von O’Casey, „Der Pflug und die Sterne“ (1936), mitzuwirken. Fitzgerald ließ sich in Hollywood nieder und lieferte herausragende Leistungen in Filmen wie „Der lange Weg nach Hause“ (1940), „Schlagende Wetter“ (1941), „Nur einsames Herz“ (1944), „Und dann gab es keines mehr“ (1945), „Zwei Jahre vor dem Mast“ (1946) und der Rolle, für die er wohl am bekanntesten ist: „Der Sieger“ (1952). Für seine Darstellung des mürrischen, alternden Pater Fitzgibbon in „Der Weg zum Glück“ (1944) gewann er den Oscar als bester Nebendarsteller. Für dieselbe Rolle wurde er auch für den Oscar als Bester Hauptdarsteller nominiert und ist der einzige Schauspieler, dem diese Ehre jemals zuteilwurde. Barry Fitzgerald starb 1961 in seiner geliebten Heimatstadt Dublin.

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title: Cradle of Genius

overview: Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904. Oscar Nominee: Best Documentary Short

original_title: Cradle of Genius

title: Bringing Up Baby

overview: David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

character: Mr. Gogarty

original_title: Bringing Up Baby

title: The Quiet Man

overview: An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

character: Michaleen Oge Flynn

original_title: The Quiet Man

title: And Then There Were None

overview: Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

character: Francis Quinncannon

original_title: And Then There Were None

title: The Naked City

overview: After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

character: Lt. Dan Muldoon

original_title: The Naked City

title: The Sea Wolf

overview: Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

character: Cooky

original_title: The Sea Wolf

title: Tarzan's Secret Treasure

overview: A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.

character: Dennis O'Doul

original_title: Tarzan's Secret Treasure

title: How Green Was My Valley

overview: Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

character: Cyfartha

original_title: How Green Was My Valley

title: Union Station

overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

character: Inspector Donnelly

original_title: Union Station

title: The Story of Seabiscuit

overview: Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill. Written by Ray Hamel

character: Shawn O'Hara

original_title: The Story of Seabiscuit

title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

character: Timothy Blake

original_title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

title: The Dawn Patrol

overview: In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.

character: Bott

original_title: The Dawn Patrol

title: Going My Way

overview: Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

character: Father Fitzgibbon

original_title: Going My Way

title: Juno and the Paycock

overview: In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

character: The Orator

original_title: Juno and the Paycock

title: The Saint Strikes Back

overview: Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.

character: Zipper Dyson

original_title: The Saint Strikes Back

title: None But the Lonely Heart

overview: When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

character: Henry Twite

original_title: None But the Lonely Heart

title: The Long Voyage Home

overview: The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

character: Cocky

original_title: The Long Voyage Home

title: San Francisco Docks

overview: Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.

character: The Icky

original_title: San Francisco Docks

title: The Catered Affair

overview: An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

character: Jack Conlon

original_title: The Catered Affair

title: The Stork Club

overview: After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to her job checking hats at New York City's famed Stork Club. But Bates is actually a grateful millionaire who becomes Judy's anonymous benefactor, and before long the working girl is swathed in minks and diamonds, much to the dismay of her suspicious beau.

character: Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates

original_title: The Stork Club

title: California

overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.

character: Michael Fabian

original_title: California

title: Welcome Stranger

overview: Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?

character: Dr. Joseph McRory

original_title: Welcome Stranger

title: Variety Girl

overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

character: Barry Fitzgerald

original_title: Variety Girl

title: Incendiary Blonde

overview: Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

title: Top o' the Morning

overview: A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.

title: The Plough and the Stars

overview: A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

title: Rooney

overview: The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

title: Easy Come, Easy Go

overview: Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

title: Ebb Tide

overview: In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.

title: The Sainted Sisters

overview: Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.

title: I Love a Soldier

overview: During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.

title: Two Tickets to London

overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

title: Happy Ever After

overview: The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

title: Two Years Before the Mast

overview: In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

title: Full Confession

overview: A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

title: Four Men and a Prayer

overview: The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

title: Miss Tatlock's Millions

overview: After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.

title: Pacific Liner

overview: The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.

title: Silver City

overview: Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.

title: Corvette K-225

overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

title: Broth of a Boy

overview: An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.

title: Duffy's Tavern

overview: The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

title: Guests of The Nation

overview: During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives.

title: Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

overview: Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trachtenberg, this film explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a personality far more complex than the image the public had only thought they'd known.

title: Marie Antoinette

overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

title: Ha da venì... don Calogero!

overview: A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.

title: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

overview: While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

title: Cradle of Genius

title: Bringing Up Baby

title: The Quiet Man

title: And Then There Were None

title: The Naked City

title: The Sea Wolf

title: Tarzan's Secret Treasure

title: How Green Was My Valley

title: Union Station

title: The Story of Seabiscuit

title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

title: The Dawn Patrol

title: Going My Way

title: Juno and the Paycock

title: The Saint Strikes Back

title: None But the Lonely Heart

title: The Long Voyage Home

title: San Francisco Docks

title: The Catered Affair

title: The Stork Club

title: California

title: Variety Girl

title: Welcome Stranger

title: Incendiary Blonde

title: Top o' the Morning

title: The Plough and the Stars

title: Rooney

title: Easy Come, Easy Go

title: Ebb Tide

title: The Sainted Sisters

title: I Love a Soldier

title: Two Tickets to London

title: Happy Ever After

title: Two Years Before the Mast

title: Full Confession

title: Four Men and a Prayer

title: Miss Tatlock's Millions

title: Pacific Liner

title: Silver City

title: Corvette K-225

title: Broth of a Boy

title: Duffy's Tavern

title: Guests of The Nation

title: Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

title: Marie Antoinette

title: Ha da venì... don Calogero!

title: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid


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Law & Order

overview: In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

character: Roger Auclair

original_name: Law & Order

original_language: en

The F.B.I.

overview: The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

character: Darryl Sloan

original_name: The F.B.I.

The Bob Newhart Show

overview: The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.

character: Dr. Scranton

original_name: The Bob Newhart Show

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

original_name: Omnibus

origin_country: US IT

The Mod Squad

overview:
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.

The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

original_name: The Mod Squad

Gunsmoke

overview: Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

character: Tal

original_name: Gunsmoke

Studio One

overview: An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

character: Dr. Frank

original_name: Studio One

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

character: Actor

Goodyear Television Playhouse

overview:
The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks.

In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor.

Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful.

From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.

original_name: Goodyear Television Playhouse

The Defenders

overview: The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

character: Ed Caldwell

original_name: The Defenders

The Philco Television Playhouse

overview: The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

original_name: The Philco Television Playhouse

Navy Log

overview: Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.

original_name: Navy Log

Gibbsville

overview: Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired on NBC from November 11 to December 30, 1976. The series centered on the activities of two reporters for a newspaper in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1940s.

original_name: Gibbsville

The Andros Targets

overview: James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.

character: Gen. Claiborne

original_name: The Andros Targets

The Philco Television Playhouse

character: Chester

character: Chester Wilson

War and Remembrance

overview: Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.

character: Harold Stark

original_name: War and Remembrance

The Adams Chronicles

overview: Chronicles the story of the Adams political family over a 150-year span, including John Adams (drafter and signer of the Declaration, accomplished diplomat, and the 2nd President of the U.S.), his wife Abigail Adams, his son John Quincy Adams (acclaimed Secretary of State, the 6th President, and prominent abolitionist Congressman), grandson Charles Francis Adams, Congressman and Ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War, and much-heralded members of the fourth generation Henry Brooks Adams, the historian and author of the novel Democracy, and Charles Francis Adams II, the industrialist.

character: The Reverend Smith

original_name: The Adams Chronicles

title: The Thomas Crown Affair

overview: A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

character: Abe

original_title: The Thomas Crown Affair

title: Three Days of the Condor

overview: When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

character: Leonard Atwood

original_title: Three Days of the Condor

title: Tail Gunner Joe

overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

character: General George C. Marshall

original_title: Tail Gunner Joe

title: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

overview: When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.

character: Reeves

original_title: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

title: MacArthur

overview: The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, when he was removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

character: Admiral Nimitz

original_title: MacArthur

title: The Reformation: Age of Revolt

overview: This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of Martin Luther as a part and/of these conditions as indications of future trends.

character: Erasmus

original_title: The Reformation: Age of Revolt

title: In the French Style

overview: A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.

character: Mr. James

original_title: In the French Style

title: Threesome

overview: A New York stockbroker introduces a girlfriend to his buddy from out of town, then regrets it.

character: Mr. Jones

original_title: Threesome

title: After the Fall

overview: Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.

character: Quentin's Father

original_title: After the Fall

title: Doctor Franken

overview: This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors.

character: Dr. Eric Kerwin

original_title: Doctor Franken

title: The New Girl

overview: In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female employee to comply with government regulations concerning equal economic opportunity.

original_title: The New Girl

title: Pueblo

overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.

character: Commissioning Officer

original_title: Pueblo

title: The Rosary Murders

overview: A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

character: Father Edward Killeen

original_title: The Rosary Murders

title: The Mating Game

overview: Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.

character: David DeGroot

original_title: The Mating Game

title: Contract on Cherry Street

overview: A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

character: Bob Halloran

original_title: Contract on Cherry Street

title: The Haunting of Rosalind

overview: Rosalind's romantic attraction for her brother's handsome guest, Arthur, takes a weird turn when he announces that he's going to marry her sister, Perdita. Sensing a sinister presence in the house, Rosalind warns Perdita that it is the spirit of Arthur's first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances, and that the spirit will be coming for her next.

character: Dr. Soames

title: The Man Without a Country

overview: At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil, nor come within sight of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country.

title: The Atom and Eve

overview: Created during the Cold War expansion of nuclear energy, this promotional film uses the story of a woman named Eve to illustrate how atomic power could transform everyday household life through electricity and modern appliances.

title: The Thomas Crown Affair

title: Three Days of the Condor

title: Tail Gunner Joe

title: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

title: MacArthur

title: The Reformation: Age of Revolt

title: In the French Style

title: Threesome

title: After the Fall

title: Doctor Franken

title: The New Girl

title: Pueblo

title: The Rosary Murders

title: The Mating Game

title: Contract on Cherry Street

title: The Haunting of Rosalind

title: The Man Without a Country

title: The Atom and Eve


Gordon Pinsent

biography: Gordon Edward Pinsent CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 – February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He began his career in the 1940s, delving into radio dramas before serving in the Canadian Army. His extensive four-decade-long career spans stage, TV, and film, starring in notable works like "Quentin Durgens MP," "The Rowdyman," and "Power Play." He's received numerous awards, including ACTRA, GENIE, and GEMINI Awards, and earned honoraries from several universities. Pinsent's skills extend to writing; his novels inspired feature films, and he penned his memoirs, "By the Way." He shared a close friendship with Marlon Brando, often enjoying drive-in movies with Brando's family.

Angela's Eyes

overview: FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age 14, when she learned her "average" American parents were actually spies. Attempting to right her parents' wrong, Angela is now working with the same agency that brought her parents down.

original_name: Angela's Eyes

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

overview: Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.

character: Ken Collins

original_name: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Corner Gas

overview: Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.

character: Corky Dillems

original_name: Corner Gas

Babar

overview: Inspired by Jean de Brunhoff and Laurent de Brunhoff's beloved children's books, this animated series tells Babar's life story from the elephant king's point of view, reliving his early days as a young pachyderm with important lessons to learn.

character: King Babar (voice)

original_name: Babar

origin_country: FR CA

Due South

overview: Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

character: Fraser Sr. (voice)

original_name: Due South

Friday the 13th: The Series

overview: Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

character: Desmond Williams

original_name: Friday the 13th: The Series

origin_country: CA US

Blue Murder

overview: Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.

original_name: Blue Murder

Puppets Who Kill

overview:
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004.

In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.

original_name: Puppets Who Kill

Hogan's Heroes

overview:
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.

The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

character: S.S. Capt. Steiner

original_name: Hogan's Heroes

The Polar Sea

overview: The Polar Sea is a 10 part television series that follows an incredible amateur expedition through the fabled Northwest Passage during a summer of revolutionary change in the Arctic.

original_name: The Polar Sea

Cannon

overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones.

Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

original_name: Cannon

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Vicomte de Valvert

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Forest Rangers

overview:
The Forest Rangers was a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC Television and ITC Entertainment and was Canada's first television show produced in colour. Executive producer Maxine Samuels founded the show.

The series ran for three seasons, a total of 104 30-minute colour episodes. Early episodes of the series were broadcast in serialized form as part of a CBC children's series entitled Razzle Dazzle, hosted by Alan Hamel and Michelle Finney.

This was the first appearance in a major series by Gordon Pinsent. He left the series in 1965 to star in Quentin Durgens, M.P.

In June 2004, there was a reunion for ex-cast and fans just south of Kleinburg, where the show was originally filmed. Six of the ex-junior rangers appeared and Peter Tully flew in from his home in Ireland. Another reunion occurred June 15, 2013 at the actual studios where the show was filmed. This time nine junior rangers and Gordon Pinsent were in attendance.

The show's first season was released on DVD by Imavision in early 2007.

character: Sgt. Brian Scott

original_name: The Forest Rangers

original_language: fr

Power Play

overview:
Power Play was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario.

The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads.

One of the throughline plots of the series dealt with Parker's ongoing love–hate relationships with the sport, the team and his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed, played by Kari Matchett.

The cast also included Gordon Pinsent as team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin' Tom Connors classic, "The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty.

The show was briefly aired on the US network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after just two episodes. The second episode aired in the US has the distinction of being the lowest-rated episode of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any US network.

original_name: Power Play

The Listener

overview: Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

character: Accident Victim

original_name: The Listener

The Outer Limits

overview: Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

character: Dr. Steven Molstad

original_name: The Outer Limits

The Pillars of the Earth

overview: A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

character: Archbishop

original_name: The Pillars of the Earth

Babar and the Adventures of Badou

overview: An updated version of the classic series, following King Babar, and Badou, his 8-year-old grandson.

original_name: Babar and the Adventures of Badou

Pippi Longstocking

overview: With tons of optimism, and strength to match, fun-loving 9-year-old Pippi Longstocking resides at rustic Villa Villekulla with her pet monkey and horse, sailing into adventures with her friends Tommy and Annika. Based on the books by Astrid Lindgren.

character: Captain Longstocking

original_name: Pippi Longstocking

Relic Hunter

overview: Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

character: Jimmy Jonesboro

original_name: Relic Hunter

It Takes a Thief

overview: Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.

character: Gerald Lockridge

original_name: It Takes a Thief

Danger Bay

overview:
Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985. One hundred and twenty three installments were filmed, ending in 1989, but the series, perceived as wholesome and exciting fare for older children and adolescents, continued to be seen through the 1990s in numerous countries around the world.

The plots of the episodes followed the exploits of the Roberts family, led by marine veterinarian Grant "Doc" Roberts, and his two children, Nicole and Jonah. The 30-minute episodes featured the Vancouver Aquarium in nearly every installment.

Most episodes focused on environmental issues such as pollution, wildlife endangerment and forest preservation.

The series was also broadcast in Gibraltar Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iceland, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Finland

character: Pete Bartlett

original_name: Danger Bay

overview: H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope, with former politician Belinda Stronach making a cameo appearance. Written by Gross and John Krizanc and directed by Charles Binamé, it was nominated for five Gemini Awards and four DGC Craft Awards. It won one Golden Nymph Award for best actor.

character: Michael Cameron

The Red Green Show

overview: The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

character: Hap Shaughnessy

original_name: The Red Green Show

Republic of Doyle

overview: Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

character: Maurice Becker

original_name: Republic of Doyle

The Listener

character: Accident Victim / Frank Cardea

Sarge

character: Stone

original_name: Sarge

Dan August

overview:
Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds as the title character.

Reruns of Dan August aired in prime time on CBS from May to October 1973 and from April to June 1975.

character: Frank Fairley

original_name: Dan August

Seaway

overview:
A ship owners’ agent investigates cases along the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

SEAWAY is a Canadian drama series that aired on CBC Television from 1965 to 1966. The series was a Seaway Films production in collaboration with the UK's ATV, with production money provided by the CBC. It was presented by ASP and distributed internationally by ITC Entertainment.

character: Coffin

original_name: Seaway

Marcus Welby, M.D.

overview: Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

character: Dr. Joseph Xavier

original_name: Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Nature of Things

overview:
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging.

The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

character: Dr. Fred Urquhart

original_name: The Nature of Things

Seaway

character: Grainger

For the Record

overview:
For the Record, an anthology of 60-to-90-minute dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76.

A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most of the 'big name' Canadian actors and directors of the time.

original_name: For the Record

Due South

character: Fraser Sr.

Private Eyes

overview: Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

character: Nevin Ainslie

original_name: Private Eyes

Banacek

overview: Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.

Made in Canada

overview:
Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong.

In the United States, France, Australia and Latin America, the show was syndicated as The Industry. It was produced using a single camera setup.

The Hidden Room

overview: The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series. Geared mainly towards women, it aired on Lifetime for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in hardship, but with a dark Twilight Zone-esque twist. Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role.

American Playhouse

overview: American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Up at Ours

overview: This half-hour comedy/drama that centred on a St. John's boarding house. Verna Ball, played by Mary Walsh, owned the house, and Jack Howse, played by Ray Guy, was her long-standing lodger. Janis Spence played Mrs. O'Mara, who lived next door, and Kevin Noble was Dolph, the myopic driver of the Outport Taxi. Mrs. Ball's boarding house attracted a number of troubled and eccentric characters in a series that trod between humane relationships and comic treatment. A twelve week series, Up At Ours was a rare example of continuing drama produced in a regional CBC centre and that employed a distinctive local milieu.

Deutsch

biography: Gordon Edward Pinsent war ein kanadischer Schauspieler, Autor, Regisseur und Sänger. Er begann seine Karriere in den 1940er Jahren mit Hörspielen, bevor er seinen Wehrdienst in der kanadischen Armee antrat. Seine vier Jahrzehnte umspannende Karriere umfasste Bühne, Fernsehen und Film. Er spielte Hauptrollen in bekannten Werken wie „Quentin Durgens MP“, „The Rowdyman“ und „Power Play“. Er erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter ACTRA-, GENIE- und GEMINI-Awards, und wurde von mehreren Universitäten mit Ehrendoktorwürden ausgezeichnet. Pinsents Talent erstreckte sich auch auf das Schreiben; seine Romane dienten als Vorlage für Spielfilme, und er verfasste seine Memoiren „By the Way“. Er verband eine enge Freundschaft mit Marlon Brando, mit dem er oft Autokinos besuchte.

title: The Thomas Crown Affair

overview: A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

title: Away from Her

overview: Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

title: The Good Shepherd

overview: When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.

title: Nothing

overview: The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who works in an office where he is treated with contempt. Just when it seems things can't get any worse for the two, the entire world outside of their house disappears and is replaced with an endless white void.

title: Blacula

overview: An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.

title: Back Home Again

overview: An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.

title: Babar: The Movie

overview: Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.

title: Colossus: The Forbin Project

overview: The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

title: The Old Man and the Sea

overview: An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

original_title: Старик и море

title: The Devil at Your Heels

overview: Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death-defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ken Carter attempts a jump from Canada to the USA.  This feature-length documentary shines a light on the intense preparation that led to Carter’s first attempt to jump a car across a mile-wide stretch of the St. Lawrence River – a 5-year period during which the dare-devil raised a million dollars, erected a 10-storey take-off ramp and built a rocket-powered car. Winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983.

title: A Holiday for Love

overview: A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.

title: Fallen Angel

overview: When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.

title: An Unlikely Obsession

title: The Spine

overview: A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage, the Spine continues Landreth's pursuit of a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic, using digital imagery to create characters whose physical appearances are metaphors for their unique souls.

title: Chandler

overview: A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

title: Quarantined

overview: A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses to cooperate with her treatment.

title: A Passage from Burnt Islands

overview: In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke through the cycle of illiteracy in a small Newfoundland fishing village. He turned the struggling elementary school into a place where students were eager to learn and instilled in parents a sense of hope for their children's future.

title: Flight of the Butterflies

overview: It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

title: Life Doesn't Frighten Me

overview: Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning grandpa and his pet pug.

title: At Home by Myself... with You

overview: A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully organized existence disrupted by her hot new 'on-the-go' neighbor.

title: The Grand Seduction

overview: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

title: Sex After Kids

overview: A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction of having kids.

title: The Suicide's Wife

overview: An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.

title: Blackwood

overview: This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides viewers through a step-by-step explanation of the etching process. Scenes of his hometown, examples of his own work and vivid tales of an old mariner recall the tragic seal hunts and a way of life that has now vanished.

title: Still Rowdy After All These Years

overview: A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.

title: Due South

overview: The movie that the TV series was spun off from.  When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser follows the trail of his killers to Chicago, where he teams up with a local cop to bring them to justice. However, he soon finds that the trail leads closer to home than he ever imagined.

title: The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together

overview: This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television's beloved "The Red Green Show," the wacky sketch series revolving around the wit and wisdom of outdoors-man, handyman and populist philosopher Red Green (Steve Smith). Backstage anecdotes, rare outtakes and cast commentary shed light on the smart writing and spot-on acting that helped make this unlikely show such a long-running success.

original_title: The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together

title: Saint Ralph

overview: This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the minutes tick by.  It's the fictional tale of a wayward 9th grader, Ralph (Adam Butcher), who is secretly living on his own while his widowed, hospitalized mother remains immersed in a coma. Frequently in trouble with Father Fitzpatrick (Gordon Pinsent), the principal of his all-boys, Catholic school, Ralph is considered something of a joke among peers until he decides to pull off a miracle that could save his mother, i.e., winning the Boston Marathon.  Coached by a younger priest and former runner, Father Hibbert (Campbell Scott), whose cynicism has been lifted by the boy's pure hope, Ralph applies himself to his unlikely mission, fending off naysayers and getting help along a very challenging path from sundry allies and friends.

title: Klondike Fever

overview: This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.

title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

overview: Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.

title: The Shipping News

overview: An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

title: The Sparky Book

overview: In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish tells us the poignant story of his best friend, Sparky the dog, and Sparky's owner, a young girl suffering from a serious illness. The dog lords an unusual reign on a harbour city, but his bond to the girl is tested when her illness takes a dark turn.

title: Horse Latitudes

overview: Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost anything to be the first man to sail around the world in a single-handed boat--or at least hold the title.

title: Silence of the North

overview: Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.

title: The Time of the Tar Sands

overview: A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.

title: Ambulance Girl

overview: The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.

title: Newman's Law

overview: LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.

title: In the Eyes of a Stranger

overview: An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently as he divulges the location of some stashed money to her- police place her in protective custody, only she is uncertain what the man told her prior to being shot as she was wearing a pair of headphone as the time. She meets up with a disgruntled cop (Richard Dean Anderson) who decides to join her in searching for the money. A strange twist makes their hunt possible.

title: Pirate's Passage

overview: Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life.  The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.

title: Pale Saints

overview: Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.

title: Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

overview: A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.

title: A Case of Libel

overview: Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.

title: Hemingway vs. Callaghan

overview: 'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923 and 1929.

title: The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd

overview: Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang.

title: Who Has Seen the Wind

overview: The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.

title: Bonds of Love

overview: A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

title: Blood Clan

overview: A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him to Canada, where she grows up with no knowledge of her family's past. Then, in the present, several deaths occur and people begin to think it's Katy Bane McKay.

title: Heyday!

overview: During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.

title: Big News From Grand Rock

overview: A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.

title: Two Lovers and a Bear

overview: Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

title: The Rowdyman

overview: Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously. Surprisingly enough, despite his devil-may-care attitude, he has several important people in his life. He maintains a special relationship with Stan, an old mentor who lives in a nursing home, and Ruth, the only woman he truly cares about. Andrew is his best friend but grows tired of Will's antics, and he is soon to be married and moving on. Will constantly has something up his sleeve but his pranks inevitably bring pain and tragedy to those closest to him, forcing him to reevaluate his life and make some difficult decisions.

title: The River of My Dreams

overview: Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade career as one of the leading actors and most beloved figures in Canadian film and television.

title: Newfoundland Scene

overview: A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.

title: John and the Missus

overview: A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

title: Blind Terror

overview: After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.

title: Mysteries of the Great Lakes

overview: Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of the Great Lakes will take you on a journey through the greatest lake system in the world, and showcase the amazing geography, ecology, science, and history of the region.

title: Incident on a Dark Street

overview: A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

title: A Vow to Kill

overview: Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she meets Eric a photographer for New Woman magazine. They fall in love and quickly marry. On honeymoon in a remote cottage we discover that Eric's plan all along has been to get some of her father's money and sets in motion a faked kidnap of himself and Rachel. Rachel is unaware of his plan but begins to suspect something due to his suspicious behaviour. As her father hires a investigator to catch the kidnappers, Rachel begins to fear for her safety as Eric's plan becomes clearer.

title: Only God Knows

overview: The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned.

title: Age of Dysphoria

overview: A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his life.

title: A Diary Between Friends

overview: When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.

title: The Heatwave Lasted Four Days

overview: A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.

title: Playing the Machines

overview: Video lottery addiction is a serious problem in Canada, but does the government's need for revenue mean the enormous social costs are being ignored? This is a story about a society hooked on gambling and the people trying to force lottery corporations to come clean and take responsibility for what's happening to people whose lives are being devastated by Playing Machines. Also at the center of the story, a pugnacious Canadian Actor, John Dunsworth (Trailer Park Boys), who's gambling addictions nearly destroyed his career.

title: Where Once They Mattered

overview: Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling team attempts a cross-continent rescue. It's a huge endeavour. And on the road, anything can happen.

title: A Gift To Last

overview: A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. His family help him to overcome his need for being solitary

title: Cyrano De Bergerac

overview: The fiercely proud Cyrano may be the greatest swordsman in France - or the world - but he dares not reveal his love to the beautiful Roxanne.

title: Drága kisfiam!

title: Kids for Character

overview: Kids for Character was a program that was released on VHS in April 23, 1996. It was a charity special about moral character that featured many different children's characters. It was produced by The Character Counts! Coalition and was distributed by Lyrick Studios. The host of the show is Tom Selleck.

title: Back to Beulah

overview: The film is an adaptation of a play written by the celebrated Canadian author and playwright W.O. Mitchell. It follows the lives of three very different women who have recently been released from a mental institution named Beulah. They move into a psychiatric halfway house together and struggle to maintain their independence while managing their personal conflicts and keeping their authoritarian psychiatrist, Dr. Anders, at bay.

title: Win, Again!

overview: When accused of a major crime years ago, a man went on the run. Now that he has been exonerated of the deed, he has trouble reconnecting with the wife he abandoned and his embittered son.

title: Heyday!

title: Heyday!

title: Once

overview: In a twist on the typical May-October romance, a widow somewhere in her 60s meets a naive country boy who has found his way to the city. He moves into her house, where things take a rather unorthodox turn.

title: John and the Missus

title: John and the Missus

title: The Rowdyman

title: A Far Cry From Home

title: Win, Again!

title: Two Men

overview: Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an upstanding citizen and a loving husband, but Alex will not rest until justice is served.

place_of_birth: Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

title: The Thomas Crown Affair

title: Away from Her

title: The Good Shepherd

title: Nothing

title: Blacula

title: Back Home Again

title: Babar: The Movie

title: Colossus: The Forbin Project

title: The Old Man and the Sea

original_title: Старик и море

title: The Devil at Your Heels

title: A Holiday for Love

title: Fallen Angel

title: An Unlikely Obsession

title: The Spine

title: Chandler

title: Quarantined

title: A Passage from Burnt Islands

title: Flight of the Butterflies

title: Life Doesn't Frighten Me

title: At Home by Myself... with You

title: The Grand Seduction

title: Sex After Kids

title: The Suicide's Wife

title: Blackwood

title: Still Rowdy After All These Years

title: Due South

title: Saint Ralph

title: Klondike Fever

title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

title: The Shipping News

title: The Sparky Book

title: Horse Latitudes

title: Silence of the North

title: The Time of the Tar Sands

title: Ambulance Girl

title: Newman's Law

title: In the Eyes of a Stranger

title: Pirate's Passage

title: Pale Saints

title: Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

title: A Case of Libel

title: Hemingway vs. Callaghan

title: Who Has Seen the Wind

title: The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd

title: Bonds of Love

title: Blood Clan

title: Heyday!

title: Big News From Grand Rock

title: Two Lovers and a Bear

title: The Rowdyman

title: The River of My Dreams

title: Newfoundland Scene

title: John and the Missus

title: Blind Terror

title: Mysteries of the Great Lakes

title: Incident on a Dark Street

title: A Vow to Kill

title: Only God Knows

title: Age of Dysphoria

title: A Diary Between Friends

title: The Heatwave Lasted Four Days

title: Playing the Machines

title: Where Once They Mattered

title: A Gift To Last

title: Cyrano De Bergerac

title: Drága kisfiam!

title: Kids for Character

title: Back to Beulah

title: Win, Again!

title: Heyday!

title: Heyday!

title: Once

title: John and the Missus

title: John and the Missus

title: The Rowdyman

title: A Far Cry From Home

title: Win, Again!

title: Two Men