Ruth Springford

Ruth Springford

Born: September 1, 1921
Died: November 20, 2010
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Movies for Ruth Springford...

Biographies: The Enigma of Bobby Bittman
Title: Biographies: The Enigma of Bobby Bittman
Character: Ida Slansky
Released: April 16, 1988
Type: Movie
A look back on the career of Bobby Bittman. Includes footage from his early days to his millionth show.
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Hot Paint
Title: Hot Paint
Released: March 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
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The July Group
Title: The July Group
Character: Elizabeth
Released: July 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their attempt at a non-violent solution actually makes things worse for themselves and their captors. Based on Stanley Ellin's novel STRONGHOLD.
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The Changeling
Title: The Changeling
Character: Minnie Huxley
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
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An American Christmas Carol
Title: An American Christmas Carol
Character: Mrs. Tidings
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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Title: Sidestreet
Released: September 14, 1975
Type: TV
Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes.
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Sunday in the Country
Title: Sunday in the Country
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.
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5 Card Stud
Title: 5 Card Stud
Character: Mama Malone
Released: July 28, 1968
Type: Movie
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
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Title: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Character: Giselle
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: TV
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Title: NBC Experiment in Television
Character: Liza # 2
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long anthology series showcased different actors, stories and creative talent each week.