Wendel Meldrum

Wendel Meldrum

Born: July 21, 1954
Died: January 27, 2021
in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Movies for Wendel Meldrum...

The Phantoms
Title: The Phantoms
Character: Linda Jordan
Released: November 18, 2012
Type: Movie
The Phantoms is a television movie inspired by the heart-warming, real-life events surrounding the 2009 New Brunswick provincial championship victory by the Bathurst High School (BHS Phantoms) boys varsity basketball team, a year after a terrible road accident takes the lives of seven players and the coach’s wife. In the following school year, as tragedy hangs over the community, the BHS Phantoms are reconstituted. The ragtag bunch of players gels as a team, and manages to lift community spirit on the long road to the provincial basketball finals.
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Title: Less Than Kind
Character: Anne Blecher
Released: October 13, 2008
Type: TV
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010. The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards. The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction. The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
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Cruel But Necessary
Title: Cruel But Necessary
Character: Betty Munson
Released: July 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A suburban housewife uses a hidden camera to compulsively record everyone around her.
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Pee-Wee Goes to Prison
Title: Pee-Wee Goes to Prison
Character: Miss Yvonne / Chairy / Jury Spokesperson (voice)
Released: November 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Unbeknownst to Pee-Wee and crew, the Playhouse is surrounded by a SWAT team. And just as Conki delivers the day's secret word—Justice—all hell breaks loose.
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Bliss - Erotische Versuchungen
Title: Bliss - Erotische Versuchungen
Character: Andrea
Released: October 16, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Family Law
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
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Blast from the Past
Title: Blast from the Past
Character: Ruth
Released: February 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
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Murder at 75 Birch
Title: Murder at 75 Birch
Character: Pat Todson
Released: February 9, 1999
Type: Movie
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The Divine Ryans
Title: The Divine Ryans
Character: Linda Ryan
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously have vanished. With the help of Uncle Reg, he attempts to piece his memory back together.
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Title: First Wave
Character: Ann Berman
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: TV
First Wave is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The show was created by Chris Brancato, who co-wrote an early version of the script for the seminal X-Files episode "Eve". Francis Ford Coppola was executive producer on the show. In an unusual move, the Sci-Fi Channel picked up the series on a 66-episode contract. The show was subsequently canceled once the contract expired at the end of the third season due to disappointing ratings.
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Melanie Darrow
Title: Melanie Darrow
Character: Diane
Released: August 20, 1997
Type: Movie
A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering his older, wealthy wife.
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Dad's Week Off
Title: Dad's Week Off
Released: March 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Henry Winkler stars as Jack, a stressed-out computer salesman who can't sell his company's defective product and can't take any more noise from his hyperactive children. Jack looks forward to peace and quiet when his wife volunteers to take the kids camping - what he gets is a week that drives him even crazier! Jack's troubles begin when a party animal co-worker introduces him to a beautiful but wildly unpredictable manicurist named Cherice. When Cherice isn't handcuffing Jack to the bed, she's baking cakes in the middle of the night or eluding the police in high speed chases. Cherice turns Jack's dull, ordinary life into a wild non-stop adventure - and a delightfully zany comedy that will keep you laughing from start to finish.
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Dr. Lizabeth Drake
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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The Song Spinner
Title: The Song Spinner
Character: Mona
Released: November 19, 1995
Type: Movie
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" prohibits noise of any kind, including music. Enter the exiled gypsy Zantalalia (Patti LuPone), who returns determined to pass her singing secrets on to ten-year-old Aurora (Meredith Henderson), an action that will get the girl in trouble with Captain Nizzle of the dreaded Noise Police. John Neville completes the cast of this colorful family fantasy.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Renee Stuyvescent
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Sodbusters
Title: Sodbusters
Character: Lilac Gentry
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A group of homesteaders in 1875 are harassed by an evil, land-grabbing, gunslinging cattleman until a stranger with a mysterious past comes to their aid.
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Title: The Commish
Released: September 28, 1991
Type: TV
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
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Beautiful Dreamers
Title: Beautiful Dreamers
Character: Jessie Bucke
Released: June 5, 1990
Type: Movie
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
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Why Me?
Title: Why Me?
Character: Gatou Vardebedian
Released: February 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Leslie
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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K-9
Title: K-9
Character: Girl with Dog
Released: April 28, 1989
Type: Movie
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
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Title: Day by Day
Released: February 29, 1988
Type: TV
Day by Day is an American sitcom starring Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Thora Birch. Day by Day was telecast from February 29, 1988, through June 25, 1989, on NBC.
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Title: The Wonder Years
Character: Miss White
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: TV
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
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Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: TV
Pursuit of Happiness is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 30, 1987 to January 22, 1988.
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Stark
Title: Stark
Character: Laura Stark
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
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Title: Punky Brewster
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.
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Vamping
Title: Vamping
Character: Rita
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A down on his luck saxophonist agrees to help rob the home of a rich widow, then he unexpectedly falls for the woman.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Kathy Brady
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Title: Knots Landing
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.