William Osler

William Osler

Movies for William Osler...

Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Title: Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Character: Proprietor
Released: October 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo Marker, Irish Wolfhound owner, doing everything to get keep them together.
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The Starlost: The Beginning
Title: The Starlost: The Beginning
Character: Computer / Host
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Doctor Masters
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
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Romie-0 and Julie-8
Title: Romie-0 and Julie-8
Character: Junk Monster (voice)
Released: April 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Two rival robotics companies in the future release their latest creations at a robotics convention, claiming each to be the latest and greatest in technological advances. Mega Stellar Company's release is a robot boy named Romie-O, while Super Solar Cybernetics has released a girl robot named Julie-8. Unforeseen to each of the company's creators, is how each of the advanced robots soon falls in love with the other.
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Something's Rotten
Title: Something's Rotten
Released: February 21, 1979
Type: Movie
The queen of an unnamed European country is being pressured by her Prime Minister to abdicate the throne in favour of one of her sons. But she wrestles with the question which son, the older but emotionally unstable Prince Calvin or the younger but more mature Prince George, will be named as her successor. Meanwhile, a series of murders of the palace staff is being committed by an unidentified “Skulker”, whom the queen begins to suspect may in fact be one of the princes.
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The Clown Murders
Title: The Clown Murders
Character: Harrison
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.
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Title: The Starlost
Character: Mu Lambda 165 (aka: Host Computer)
Released: September 22, 1973
Type: TV
A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are aboard a ship.
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The Girl in Blue
Title: The Girl in Blue
Character: Prof. Bamberger
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
In this Canadian romance, Scott (David Selby) was so smitten by the looks of a pretty girl that he spends years looking for her. He keeps his searches a secret from his live-in lover, whom he stays with the entire while. When Scott actually meets the girl, he discovers that she has been similarly motivated, even though she is married and has had two children in the meantime. They share a romantic assignation and discover that the ideal figure they were each searching for is absent.
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When Michael Calls
Title: When Michael Calls
Character: Professor Swen (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
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The Cube
Title: The Cube
Character: Scientist
Released: February 23, 1969
Type: Movie
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave.
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Title: NBC Experiment in Television
Character: Scientist
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.