Kate Nelligan

Kate Nelligan

Born: March 16, 1950
in London, Ontario, Canada
Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan (born March 16, 1951) is a Canadian stage, film and television actress.

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Title: Eleventh Hour
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: TV
Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.
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Premonition
Title: Premonition
Character: Joanne
Released: February 8, 2007
Type: Movie
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
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In from the Night
Title: In from the Night
Character: Vera Miller
Released: April 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in.
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Revisiting Brideshead
Title: Revisiting Brideshead
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
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A Wrinkle in Time
Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Character: Mrs. Which
Released: April 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.
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Walter and Henry
Title: Walter and Henry
Character: Elizabeth
Released: June 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a nervous breakdown, it's up to Henry to find his father's long-lost family, including the grandfather and aunt he's never met.
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Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
Title: Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
Character: Kate O'Rourke
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.
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The Cider House Rules
Title: The Cider House Rules
Character: Olive Worthington
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Sylvia Quinn
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Swing Vote
Title: Swing Vote
Character: Justice Sara Marie Brandwynne
Released: April 19, 1999
Type: Movie
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
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Love Is Strange
Title: Love Is Strange
Character: Kathryn McClain
Released: February 8, 1999
Type: Movie
As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she loves together in this family drama starring Kate Nelligan and Ron Silver.
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Boy Meets Girl
Title: Boy Meets Girl
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: September 17, 1998
Type: Movie
Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with. Angelina settles into a neighborhood in Toronto's Little Italy longing for true love. Mike is a jaded and cynical copywriter for romance novels but has lost his faith in romantic love. In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, an enigmatic and amorous couple named Il Magnifico and Mrs. Jones set the whole neighborhood ablaze with romantic passion. While everyone seems to be falling under the spell of Cupid's arrows, Angelina and Mike meet and just might find the true love that they've been searching for.
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Stolen Moments
Title: Stolen Moments
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary history of lesbianism in North American and Europe, with historic references, archival material, film clips, interviews with many women - famous and not-famous witnesses and players - who clearly remember a difficult, painful, and often downright dangerous past.
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U.S. Marshals
Title: U.S. Marshals
Character: Catherine Walsh
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
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Calm at Sunset
Title: Calm at Sunset
Character: Margaret Pfeiffer
Released: December 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Title: Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Character: Elizabeth Mink
Released: April 14, 1996
Type: Movie
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
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Up Close & Personal
Title: Up Close & Personal
Character: Joanna Kennelly
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
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How to Make an American Quilt
Title: How to Make an American Quilt
Character: Constance Saunders
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
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Margaret's Museum
Title: Margaret's Museum
Character: Catherine MacNeil
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
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A Mother's Prayer
Title: A Mother's Prayer
Character: Sheila Walker
Released: May 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
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Title: Million Dollar Babies
Character: Helena Reid
Released: November 20, 1994
Type: TV
When Oliva and Elzire Dionne have quintuplets in rural 1930s Canada, news of their uncommon family spreads like wildfire and steps up local tourism, thanks in part to an opportunistic town doctor who uses the children to enhance his own celebrity.
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Into the Deep
Title: Into the Deep
Character: Narrator
Released: November 2, 1994
Type: Movie
An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, squids mating, a lobster molting, a fish protecting its nest from an octopus and a sea urchin, and the sea bed covered with brittle stars.
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Wolf
Title: Wolf
Character: Charlotte Randall
Released: June 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
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Spoils of War
Title: Spoils of War
Character: Elise
Released: April 9, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.
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Fatal Instinct
Title: Fatal Instinct
Character: Lana Ravine
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.
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Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Title: Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Character: Stephanie Chadford
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: Movie
A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child. Instead of debilitating her, it only motivates the lawyer to fight harder to change California's inadequate child-molestation laws. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter
Title: Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter
Character: Susan Miori
Released: June 22, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of an eleven year old girl who has a reputation for telling tall tales. So when she accuses her father of molesting her, will anybody believe her story?
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The Diamond Fleece
Title: The Diamond Fleece
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to consult in constructing safety precautions. However, Inspector Outlaw suspects that Rick may be up to his old wiles.
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Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy
Title: Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy
Character: Emily Murphy
Released: June 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
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Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
Title: Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
Character: Kay
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
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The Prince of Tides
Title: The Prince of Tides
Character: Lila Wingo Newbury
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
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Shadows and Fog
Title: Shadows and Fog
Character: Eve
Released: December 5, 1991
Type: Movie
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Old Times
Title: Old Times
Released: October 26, 1991
Type: Movie
The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the wife's former roommate and friend whom they have not seen for twenty years. At first the husband and wife banter, then the friend joins them and a flood of intertwining memories ensues. The action shifts back and forth in time, as recollection of what did-or, perhaps, did not-happen are pondered and, as the tension builds, we are aware that the husband and the friend have become locked in a duel for the wife's very soul. Reveries and ambiguities abound, hinting at much more than is said, and forming together into a surprising entity which challenges the heart and mind and will linger on enticingly in the memory. Doollee.com
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Frankie and Johnny
Title: Frankie and Johnny
Character: Cora
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.
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Title: Golden Fiddles
Character: Anne Balfour
Released: August 18, 1991
Type: TV
Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was re-edited into a TV movie in 1994.
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Title: Performance
Character: Kate
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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White Room
Title: White Room
Character: Jane
Released: September 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Norm, an aimless writer, witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral, he meets a mysterious woman in black with unexplained connections to the deceased singer.
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Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
Title: Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
Character: JoAnn Thatcher
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of attempts on Jo-Ann's life follow, most of which don't succeed. Finally one does, and the arrogant Thatcher believes he is above the law and immune to prosecution. But his arrogance proves to be his undoing, as Crown Counsel Serge Kujawa builds a case against this psychopathic monster for 1st-degree murder - charging that Thatcher hired someone to kill his wife. The true story of one of the most disturbing stories of murder-for-hire in Canada. - IMDb
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Title: Kojak: The Price of Justice
Character: Kitty
Released: February 21, 1987
Type: Movie
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
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Control
Title: Control
Character: Sarah Howell
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: Movie
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
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Eleni
Title: Eleni
Character: Eleni
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Without a Trace
Title: Without a Trace
Character: Susan Selky
Released: February 4, 1983
Type: Movie
English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, a frantic Selky contacts the police. Detective Al Menetti, a father himself, takes an interest in the case that quickly turns into an obsession. As a devastated Selky struggles to come to terms with Alex's disappearance, Menetti steps out from behind the badge to continue investigating.
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Victims
Title: Victims
Character: Ruth Hession
Released: January 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
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Eye of the Needle
Title: Eye of the Needle
Character: Lucy
Released: July 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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Mr. Patman
Title: Mr. Patman
Character: Peabody
Released: April 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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Title: Thérèse Raquin
Character: Thérèse Raquin
Released: March 12, 1980
Type: TV
In order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but find themselves haunted by their deeds and Madame Raquin's silent judgment.
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Dreams of Leaving
Title: Dreams of Leaving
Character: Charlotte
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: Movie
William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very strange summer ... Caroline said the best of her life.
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Dracula
Title: Dracula
Character: Lucy Seward
Released: July 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
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Measure for Measure
Title: Measure for Measure
Character: Isabella
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: Movie
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Licking Hitler
Title: Licking Hitler
Character: Anna Seaton
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
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Do as I Say
Title: Do as I Say
Character: Hilary
Released: January 25, 1977
Type: Movie
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
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Bethune
Title: Bethune
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Biographical film about Norman Bethune (one of two starring Sutherland)
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The Lady of the Camellias
Title: The Lady of the Camellias
Character: Marguerite Gautier
Released: December 13, 1976
Type: Movie
The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte-Cristo
Character: Mercédès
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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The Romantic Englishwoman
Title: The Romantic Englishwoman
Character: Isabel
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
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The Arcata Promise
Title: The Arcata Promise
Character: Laura
Released: September 22, 1974
Type: Movie
A down on his luck actor is haunted by his failed career and the promise he made to a young girl he loved but couldn’t keep thanks to his abusive and destructive behaviour.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Margaret Pfeiffer
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Vera Miller
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Human Cargo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Human Cargo is a 2004 Canadian television miniseries. The series won seven Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. It premiered on CBC Television on January 4, 2004 and starred Kate Nelligan, Cara Pifko, and Nicholas Campbell. The series was written by Linda Svendsen and Brian McKeown.