Budd Knapp

Budd Knapp

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Kings and Desperate Men
Title: Kings and Desperate Men
Character: Judge Stephen McManus
Released: August 22, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their manifesto out to the world.
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The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Title: The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Character: Roblet
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: Movie
British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
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In Praise of Older Women
Title: In Praise of Older Women
Character: Father Confessor
Released: September 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
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The Point
Title: The Point
Released: June 10, 1978
Type: Movie
This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.
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Why Rock the Boat?
Title: Why Rock the Boat?
Character: Fred O'Neil
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
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A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story
Title: A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. Following one of Canada’s most colourful political figures during a two-and-a-half-month period that included a stormy Liberal leadership convention, the film reveals a man misunderstood even by his close associates.
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Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell
Title: Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.
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The Clouded Dawn
Title: The Clouded Dawn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 27, 1962
Type: Movie
August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the monumental task of rehabilitation begins.
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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Title: Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Character: Hammond
Released: March 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
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Wildlife in the Rockies
Title: Wildlife in the Rockies
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
After many years of careful conservation, Banff and Jasper National Parks have become vast zoological gardens. Deer, moose, bear, big-horn sheep, birds and small animals that live above the treeline are natural subjects for the close-up camera, with a backdrop of snowy peaks.
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The Great American Pastime
Title: The Great American Pastime
Character: Mr. Dawson
Released: November 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
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The Girl He Left Behind
Title: The Girl He Left Behind
Character: Congressman Hardison
Released: October 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
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Johnny Concho
Title: Johnny Concho
Character: Pearson (as Wilfred Knapp)
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!