Ken James

Ken James

Born: March 11, 1934
Died: September 21, 2016
in Canada
Ken James was a Canadian actor.

Movies for Ken James...

Fangoria: Blood Drive II
Title: Fangoria: Blood Drive II
Released: October 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Short film collection bringing together the winners of the Blood Drive film contest hosted by Fangoria.
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Cinderella Man
Title: Cinderella Man
Character: Ancil Hoffman
Released: June 2, 2005
Type: Movie
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
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Title: CSI: NY
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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The Fraternity
Title: The Fraternity
Character: Chief Lloyd Huxley
Released: July 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
Title: The Day Reagan Was Shot
Character: General Yates
Released: December 9, 2001
Type: Movie
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.
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Lethal Vows
Title: Lethal Vows
Character: Mark Lunger
Released: October 13, 1999
Type: Movie
A seemingly upstanding, caring husband and father is accused of foul play by his ex-wife regarding the mysterious death of his second wife.
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The Third Miracle
Title: The Third Miracle
Character: Father Paul Panak
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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Family Blessings
Title: Family Blessings
Character: Ed
Released: December 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Lee Reston is a widow whose police officer son Greg dies in a car accident. Greg's friend and fellow officer Chris Lallek tries to help the Reston family in Greg's absence. Soon, he and Lee grow close and fall in love. But Lee is fifteen years older than Chris, something that upsets most of her family, including her college-aged daughter. When Chris proposes marriage, Lee must decide whether to risk alienating her family in order to be with the man she loves.
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Dogboys
Title: Dogboys
Character: Warden Adam Wakefield
Released: April 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs.
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Ms. Scrooge
Title: Ms. Scrooge
Character: Sam Catherwood
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
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Title: The Wonderful World of Disney
Character: Warden
Released: September 28, 1997
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.
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Title: Riverdale
Character: Stan Wilkes
Released: September 22, 1997
Type: TV
CBC’s first prime time soap opera follows the intertwined lives of four families in Toronto’s Riverdale community.
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Promise the Moon
Title: Promise the Moon
Character: Charlie
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Ranch hand Roy Leckner tries to fulfill his employer’s dying wish to find his long lost son, bring him home and groom him to run the family’s failing cattle ranch.
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Title: Wind at My Back
Released: December 1, 1996
Type: TV
A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite
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Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Title: Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Character: District Commander
Released: November 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Jack Reed is investigating a mass murder that occurred in a cemetery in broad daylight. Most individuals at the cemetery and the victims are Russian immigrants and they either fear or don't trust the police, because they have complaining about other problems to the police but they don't care or think it warrants investigating. Reed still investigates and it leads to a devious Russian who has turned some young Russians into his private army. Reed's friend, Charles Silvera, also has a problem. The son of an old friend and mayoral candidate, Gordon Thomas, has been arrested for killing someone while driving under the influence. Some of the people on Thomas' staff are afraid that this might jeopardize Thomas' bid for mayor, so they are pressuring Silvera to make it go away but Silvera relents so they threaten him to.
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Title: Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.
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Fly Away Home
Title: Fly Away Home
Character: Developer
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
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Double Jeopardy
Title: Double Jeopardy
Character: Harold Brayken
Released: January 30, 1996
Type: Movie
A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
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Title: Taking the Falls
Released: September 12, 1995
Type: TV
Taking the Falls was a Canadian dramedy series The show starred Cynthia Dale as Terry Lane, a former police officer turned private investigator in Niagara Falls who solved crimes with the help of her lawyer friend Katherine MacVicar.
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Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Title: Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Character: Bailey Rogers
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine. This 1994 made-for-television movie brings many of the beloved characters from the 1980s drama series (based on the books by Robert B. Parker) back to the small screen.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Character: Matthew Balfour
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Deputy Sheriff Taggert
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.
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Title: Catwalk
Character: Gun Dealer
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: TV
Six twenty-something form a pop band named Catwalk.
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Title: Forever Knight
Released: May 5, 1992
Type: TV
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
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Psychic
Title: Psychic
Character: Markowitz
Released: February 3, 1992
Type: Movie
A serial killer is terrorizing a small college town. When a student begins to have psychic visions of the killer with clues as to who he is, he gives this information to the police - only to find that he himself is suspected of committing the murders.
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The Broken Cord
Title: The Broken Cord
Character: Dr. Wilson
Released: February 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and complicates his life with the woman who becomes his wife.
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Landslide
Title: Landslide
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An amnesiac finds his life in jeopardy as he gradually regains his memory.
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Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
Title: Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
Released: September 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
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Title: Counterstrike
Character: MacIntosh
Released: July 1, 1990
Type: TV
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
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Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
Title: Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
Character: Mr. Medford
Released: August 12, 1989
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a teenage boy struggles as his happy family is broken apart when the father he idolizes develops cancer.
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Title: Pugwall
Character: Frank 'Herohead' Wall
Released: June 13, 1989
Type: TV
Pugwall is an Australian children's television series. It revolves around the title character Peter Unwin George Wall, PUGWALL, and his friends as they form a band called the Orange Organics.
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Switching Channels
Title: Switching Channels
Character: Warden Terwilliger
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Title: T and T
Character: Detective Jones
Released: January 11, 1988
Type: TV
T. and T. is a Canadian-produced television series, in production from 1987 to 1990. The series premiered in first-run syndication in January 1988, later moving to new episodes on the Family Channel in 1990. It was a starring vehicle for Mr. T, after the cancellation of The A-Team in 1986. The series’ theme song was performed by Merry Clayton. The opening voice-over set-up the premise:
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Title: Friday the 13th: The Series
Character: Capt. Channing
Released: October 3, 1987
Type: TV
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.
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Street Justice
Title: Street Justice
Character: Green
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Character: Page
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: Movie
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
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Youngblood
Title: Youngblood
Character: Frazier
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
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One Night Only
Title: One Night Only
Character: Wesley
Released: January 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of female friends get together with some hired "ladies of the evening", and make some quick cash for throwing a raunchy party for the local hockey team.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Mr. Kelly
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Donovan
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
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Highpoint
Title: Highpoint
Character: Man #1 with Briefcase
Released: August 20, 1982
Type: Movie
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).
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A Whale for the Killing
Title: A Whale for the Killing
Character: Lorne
Released: February 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
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Double Negative
Title: Double Negative
Character: City Editor
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Summer's Children
Title: Summer's Children
Character: Tony
Released: September 7, 1979
Type: Movie
SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
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Title: Skyways
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: TV
Skyways is an Australian television series.
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City on Fire
Title: City on Fire
Character: Andrew
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
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A Man Called Intrepid
Title: A Man Called Intrepid
Character: J. Edgar Hoover
Released: May 7, 1979
Type: Movie
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
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Blood & Guts
Title: Blood & Guts
Character: Harry Brown
Released: September 15, 1978
Type: Movie
A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.
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Equus
Title: Equus
Character: Mr. Pierce
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
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Title: Glenview High
Released: September 27, 1977
Type: TV
Glenview High is an Australian television drama series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Seven Network between 1977 and 1978. The show's title is a reference to the high school Glenview Park Secondary School located in Cambridge, Ontario.
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Welcome to Blood City
Title: Welcome to Blood City
Character: Flint
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
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Rituals
Title: Rituals
Character: Abel
Released: July 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
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Breaking Point
Title: Breaking Point
Character: Hogerty
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
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The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Title: The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Character: Sid
Released: April 28, 1975
Type: Movie
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
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Why Rock the Boat?
Title: Why Rock the Boat?
Character: Ronny Waldron
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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To Kill the King
Title: To Kill the King
Character: MacGilvrey
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one rendezvous they overhear the husband and an Admiral discussing "the killing of the patient", and as the adulterous couple have been under surveillance this information reaches a top Federal Agent (Patrick O'Neal) who provides security for the President. His investigation begins to cast light on a conspiracy within government to assassinate the President - and now he must expose the conspiracy and stop it cold.
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Running Time
Title: Running Time
Character: Detective
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
This feature film is an exotic romp through the ’60s in song and dance. A fantasy that pokes fun not only at some hallowed institutions but at itself as well.
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The Crowd Inside
Title: The Crowd Inside
Character: Alex
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Barrier Reef
Character: Kip Young
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: TV
Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971. Barrier Reef centred around a group of marine biologists on board a ship called the New Endeavour, researching around the Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia. "It was the first series in the world to feature extensive colour underwater filming on location". It was also a unique location for a TV show. The Great Barrier Reef is "The only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit."
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Mark Hammond
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Himself / Mark Hammond
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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The Hired Gun
Title: The Hired Gun
Released: June 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Gunman Don Borisenko is hired by the townsfolk to mete out justice to a cruel land baron. Instead, Borisenko gets romantically involved with Tass Tory, the wife of a local farmer. When the smoke clears, the gunman has killed the rancher, and the farmer has killed the gunman.