Harvey Atkin

Harvey Atkin

Born: December 18, 1942
Died: July 17, 2017
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Harvey Atkin was born on December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Meatballs (1979), Cagney & Lacey (1981) and Heavy Metal (1981). He was married to Celia Tessler. He died on July 17, 2017 in Toronto.

Movies for Harvey Atkin...

A Change of Heart
Title: A Change of Heart
Character: Cardiologist
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Discouraged with cards that life has felt him, Hank is a man whose circumstances have steered him to fear change, but his town is adhering less to traditional white man and wife partnerships of which he is comfortable. After suffering a heart attack, Hank's life is saved by a transplant from a Puerto Rican drag queen.
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Title: Suits
Character: Judge N. Palermo
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: TV
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.
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Title: Suits
Character: Judge Palermo
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: TV
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.
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Barney's Version
Title: Barney's Version
Character: 2nd Mrs. P's Father
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Title: 18 to Life
Released: January 4, 2010
Type: TV
18 to Life is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on January 4, 2010, on CBC Television. The series is shown in Quebec on Vrak.TV with the title Majeurs et mariés.
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Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Title: Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Character: Geralyn's Father
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.
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Maxwell Saves the Day
Title: Maxwell Saves the Day
Character: (voice)
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Maxwell, the silly rabbit, wants to deliver the this year's Easter eggs, and challenges the arrogant Star for the job. Subsequently, Maxwell becomes a hero when he uses his wits!
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Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales
Title: Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales
Released: February 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Join Hello Kitty and her friends in five exciting storybook adventures!
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Title: Jacob Two-Two
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated TV series based on a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler that first aired on Canadian children's channel YTV and aired on the French Canadian VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob, in Spanish on Telemundo as Jacobo Dos Dos and in Portuguese on Canal Panda from Portugal as Jacob Dois Dois It also aired on ZigZap in the Poland and on Canal Futura from Brazil as 'Jacó Dois Dois'. It was produced by Nelvana; before being put on hiatus in 2005, it has 61 episodes. In the United States, the show aired on qubo, a 24 hour children's television channel in 2006. It also aired on Jetix UK from April 14, 2007 and on CITV in the UK from Spring 2006. The series is set in the Canadian city of Montreal and follows Jacob Two-Two and his friends on their wild adventures, most of which are one-shots that are resolved in a single episode.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Alan Ridenour
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: The Ripping Friends
Released: September 15, 2001
Type: TV
The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! is a Canadian animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi. The show premiered September 22, 2001 on Fox Kids, but was cancelled in September 2002. Adult Swim later picked up the show. The series occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The series also aired briefly in the UK on the CNX channel. The show is rated TV-Y7 on Fox Kids and TV-PG on [adult swim] in the United States, and C8 to 14+ on Teletoon in Canada.
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Out of Sync
Title: Out of Sync
Character: Sidney Golden
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman's voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Alan Ridenour
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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One Tough Cop
Title: One Tough Cop
Character: Rudy
Released: October 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
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Title: Bad Dog
Released: August 15, 1998
Type: TV
Bad Dog is a cartoon series produced by Saban Entertainment and CineGroupe for the Teletoon and Fox Family networks. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog. This would happen in every episode. It is unknown whether or not the show was inspired by the popular After Dark screensaver "Bad Dog". The two dogs have a similar appearance, and the "Bad Dog" of the show is named Berkeley, a possible reference to Berkeley Systems, the creators of After Dark. The show was paired with another series called Monster Farm.
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Love and Death on Long Island
Title: Love and Death on Long Island
Character: Lou
Released: July 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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Critical Care
Title: Critical Care
Character: Judge Fatale
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
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Title: The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police
Character: Sam (voice)
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: TV
The adventures of Sam the Bogart-like dog and Max the hyper-kinetic bunny.
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Joe's Wedding
Title: Joe's Wedding
Character: Rankin
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his wedding day, a fiery female artist kidnaps him in order to blackmail his future father-in-law.
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Radiant City
Title: Radiant City
Character: Mr. Lewis
Released: March 31, 1996
Type: Movie
Driven to the brink by her overworked and insensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman seeks a meaning to life.
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Title: The NeverEnding Story
Character: Mr. Rockchewer (voice)
Released: December 2, 1995
Type: TV
The animated adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux in the enchanted storybook world of Fantasia.
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Family of Cops
Title: Family of Cops
Character: Avrum Weiss
Released: November 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna, and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie. Neither Paul nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and doesn't know about her husband's death.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Mr. Malik
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat
Title: Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat
Released: September 5, 1995
Type: Movie
A collection of Hello Kitty and Friends holiday specials. Includes Hello Kitty - Santa's Missing hat, Keroppi - the Christmas Eve GIft, and Santa and His Reindeer Kuppi. (1995) From the Family Home Entertainment Christmas classics series.
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Title: The Great Defender
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: TV
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Between Love and Honor
Title: Between Love and Honor
Character: Lerner
Released: February 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with Gambino's daughter Maria and must make a choice between his duties as a police officer, his love for Maria, and his allegiance to Carlo Gambino.
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Title: Due South
Character: Tex Markles
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Title: RoboCop: The Series
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: TV
RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2. RoboCop has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward.
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Guilty as Sin
Title: Guilty as Sin
Character: Judge Steinberg
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
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Tintin in America
Title: Tintin in America
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: September 28, 1992
Type: Movie
In order to assassinate the inquisitive Belgian reporter Tintin, the evil gangster Al Capone orders Smiles, an executive under his command, to lure him to a meeting to be held in Chicago…
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Terror on Track 9
Title: Terror on Track 9
Character: Verona
Released: September 20, 1992
Type: Movie
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Title: Super Mario World
Character: King Koopa (voice)
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: TV
Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Princess Toadstool are on Dinosaur Island foiling the plans of King Koopa and his Koopa kids.
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Title: Wish Kid
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: TV
Wish Kid starring Macaulay Culkin is an animated television series that originally aired on Saturday mornings from September 14, 1991, through July 1992 on NBC, although a few repeats aired from 1998, through 2002 on Toon Disney after that. Produced by DIC Entertainment, the series starred pre-teen movie star Macaulay Culkin.
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Title: Little Shop
Character: Mr. Mushnick (Voice)
Released: September 7, 1991
Type: TV
Little Shop was a 1991 animated television series that aired on Saturday morning about a teenager and a giant talking plant that eats everything in sight. Little Shop was based on the off-broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors, which was based on the 1960 Roger Corman film The Little Shop of Horrors. The concept of the adaptation is credited to Ellen Levy and Mark Edward Edens, and the series was produced by Tom Tataranowicz. The horror elements in previous versions of the story, in which characters are eaten by the plant, are toned down for children in this series.
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The Lump
Title: The Lump
Character: voice
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
An ugly man rises to power with the benefit of a handsome looking lump on his head.
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Title: Swamp Thing
Released: October 31, 1990
Type: TV
Scientist Alec Holland invents a growth substance that could end world hunger, but a plantation owner obsessed with immortality tries to steal it and causes an accident that turns Alec into a human-plant mutant, protector of the bayou.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Judge Ronald Mannheim
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Character: King Koopa (voice)
Released: September 8, 1990
Type: TV
The Mario Bros., Princess Toadstool, and Toad protect the Mushroom Kingdom against the evil forces of Bowser and his seven Koopa Kids.
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Mindfield
Title: Mindfield
Character: Bob Champlain
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Det. Kiley
Released: October 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.
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Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster
Title: Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster
Character: Sidney Glassberg
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.
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Title: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Character: King Koopa (voice)
Released: September 4, 1989
Type: TV
In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mushroom World.
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Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Title: Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Character: Lew Eisen
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.
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Speed Zone
Title: Speed Zone
Character: Gus Gold
Released: April 21, 1989
Type: Movie
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.
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Title: My Secret Identity
Released: October 9, 1988
Type: TV
My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.
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Mr. Nice Guy
Title: Mr. Nice Guy
Character: Jerry Reeman
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sam Wickes
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Joshua Then and Now
Title: Joshua Then and Now
Character: Dr. Jonathan Cole
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
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The Guardian
Title: The Guardian
Character: Mr. Wallace
Released: October 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
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All in Good Taste
Title: All in Good Taste
Character: Cochrane
Released: May 6, 1983
Type: Movie
A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about strippers.
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Visiting Hours
Title: Visiting Hours
Character: Vinnie Bradshaw
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Character: Sergent Ronald Coleman
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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Incubus
Title: Incubus
Character: Joe Prescott
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell.
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If You Could See What I Hear
Title: If You Could See What I Hear
Character: Bert
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
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Ticket to Heaven
Title: Ticket to Heaven
Character: Mr. Stone
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
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Heavy Metal
Title: Heavy Metal
Character: Alien / Henchman (voice)
Released: August 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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The Last Chase
Title: The Last Chase
Character: Jud
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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Cries in the Night
Title: Cries in the Night
Character: Harry Browning
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Bus Driver
Released: September 3, 1980
Type: Movie
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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The Wordsmith
Title: The Wordsmith
Released: September 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto who boards with a family on St. Urbain Street only to find his aspirations undermined by the colourful yet desperate characters that surround him. Rubinek delivers a very touching performance as the boyish idealistic writer, and he is backed by a strong supporting cast that includes Harvey Atkin, Janet Ward and Peter Boretski.
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Meatballs
Title: Meatballs
Character: Morty
Released: June 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
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Power Play
Title: Power Play
Character: Anwar
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
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High-Ballin'
Title: High-Ballin'
Character: Buzz
Released: May 26, 1978
Type: Movie
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke and his visiting friend Rane put the brakes on the bad guys by taking the law into their own hands. But their vigilante plan involves going toe-to-toe with powerful trucker boss King Carroll and his henchmen, who've been driving everyone out of the game.
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The Making of a President
Title: The Making of a President
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama featuring Melvyn Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Soles and a 15-year-old Mike Myers. Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by Order of Canada winner Morley Torgov. Collie-haired Myers, in one of his first TV roles, is more behaved than usual as a skateboard-riding young piano prodigy. Hollywood veteran Douglas does most of the heavy lifting as a Jewish elder trying the impossible — recruiting a new president who can, in Torgov’s words, handle himself “among the goyim” at an upcoming town war bond rally. The town’s new tailor (Soles) — thought of as a bit of a peacock — is seen as the perfect candidate. (CBC TV-Movie 1978)
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Silver Streak
Title: Silver Streak
Character: Conventioneer
Released: December 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.