Richard Donat

Richard Donat

Born: June 1, 1941
in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Movies for Richard Donat...

Title: Sullivan's Crossing
Character: Roy Gunderson
Released: March 19, 2023
Type: TV
After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.
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The Healer
Title: The Healer
Character: Larry
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: Movie
The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.
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Lure
Title: Lure
Character: Marshall Spencer
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Lure tells the story of unstable post-grad student Rebecca Markowitz who is writing her doctorate on a convicted internet stalker. When a game of revenge enters the picture, Lure deepens and broadens until the story becomes something else entirely, a tale of desperation, release and redemption in the modern-day internet age.
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Title: Hemlock Grove
Character: McDougal
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: TV
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
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Title: Haven
Character: Vince Teagues
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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Amelia
Title: Amelia
Character: Gallagher
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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Darwin's Darkest Hour
Title: Darwin's Darkest Hour
Character: Dr. Robert Darwin
Released: October 6, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.
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Mystery of the Megaflood
Title: Mystery of the Megaflood
Character: Narrator
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: Movie
The Channeled Scablands in Washington state defied conventional explanations for their formation for decades. Little by little evidence mounted for an old theory that was rejected by the scientific establishment. It involved glaciers, volcanoes, a relatively minor river and a prodigious amount of water. Originally aired as an episide of NOVA.
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Title: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Character: Earl
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
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Great Escape
Title: Great Escape
Character: Narrator
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.
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Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
Title: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
Character: Kmart Exec
Released: May 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart is a 2003 NBC TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart in which the life of Martha Stewart is outlined starting from her life in New Jersey to the scandal behind her arrest.
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The Event
Title: The Event
Character: Undertaker
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.
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Heart of a Stranger
Title: Heart of a Stranger
Character: Phillip
Released: December 9, 2002
Type: Movie
What happens when you receive someone else's heart and wind up with the transplant donor's personality traits and memories too? Jill Maddox, a middle-aged concert violinist, is about to find out! After her surgery, Maddox starts chugging beers, blasting modern music and donning barely-there miniskirts. She is acting like the 22-year-old guy whose ticker she inherited. Even weirder — this is a true story! (Based on the book “Change of Heart” by Claire Sylvia and William Novak.)
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Dragonwheel
Title: Dragonwheel
Character: Reverend Matherson
Released: October 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of Gloria, a worldly but crabby teen-boy-band manager and Sherman, a morose rural man as they escape from their lives, experience life-changing travel, and against their will, cling to one another. When they fall in love for the first time, it's an impossible situation, because you can't just change your life overnight. Can you?
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Phase IV
Title: Phase IV
Character: Karl Dean
Released: April 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
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Clearing the Waters
Title: Clearing the Waters
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary about the struggles of inshore fishermen against greedy corporations and the Canadian government.
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Title: Blackfly
Character: Colonel Boyle
Released: January 4, 2001
Type: TV
Who would have thought that Canadian history could be so much fun? Blackfly is set in the 18th century fur-trading post of Fort Simpson-Eaton and is a hysterical romp through the backwoods of Canada when the British ruled, the French explored, and beaver was king.
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The Weight of Water
Title: The Weight of Water
Character: Mr. Plaisted
Released: September 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
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Blue Moon
Title: Blue Moon
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: April 11, 1999
Type: Movie
A fishing family in Maine face domestic heartbreak and financial crisis.
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Pit Pony
Title: Pit Pony
Character: Rory MacLean
Released: December 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Megashadow Admiral
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Title: Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Character: Deej (voice)
Released: February 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
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Promise the Moon
Title: Promise the Moon
Character: Wilbur Bennett
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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I Worship His Shadow
Title: I Worship His Shadow
Character: Megashadow Admiral
Released: December 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Fugitive security guard Stanley Tweedle, love slave Zev Bellringer, and love slave robot head 790 are thrown together by fate and on the run from His Divine Shadow after stealing The Lexx: the most powerful destructive force in two universes.
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Calm at Sunset
Title: Calm at Sunset
Character: Peter McGuire
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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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Title: Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Character: Robert Harris
Released: October 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
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Eldorado
Title: Eldorado
Released: May 28, 1995
Type: Movie
This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink's office that she has no time to listen to the doctor's advice.
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Net Worth
Title: Net Worth
Character: Jimmy Norris
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Shane
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
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Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Title: Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Character: Jim Curtis
Released: February 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.
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The Little Kidnappers
Title: The Little Kidnappers
Character: Hans Hooft
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
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My American Cousin
Title: My American Cousin
Character: Major Wilcox
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s. Sandy's longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older American cousin Butch Walker (John Wildman) comes for a visit. The cast also includes Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, Babz Chula and Camille Henderson.
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Samuel Lount
Title: Samuel Lount
Character: Sheriff Jarvis
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.
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Title: Ewoks
Character: Deej (voice)
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: TV
The Ewok Wicket and his friends from the Bright Tree Village go on many magical adventures.
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The Suicide Murders
Title: The Suicide Murders
Character: Vern Harrington
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
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Draw!
Title: Draw!
Character: Sheriff Harmon
Released: June 15, 1984
Type: Movie
In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
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Cougar
Title: Cougar
Released: January 7, 1984
Type: Movie
A flash flood sweeps a boy and his sister onto an island in the Mississippi River, where they are trapped with a cougar and her new born cubs. In an effort to escape the island, they find themselves threatened by two ruthless river-men who will stop at nothing to kidnap and hold the children for ransom.
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City on Fire
Title: City on Fire
Character: Captain Harrison Risley
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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Tomorrow Never Comes
Title: Tomorrow Never Comes
Character: Ray
Released: March 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...
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The House by the Lake
Title: The House by the Lake
Character: Policeman
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
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Title: NOVA
Character: Narrator
Released: March 3, 1974
Type: TV
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.