Michael Rudder

Michael Rudder

Born: June 14, 1950

Movies for Michael Rudder...

Boundaries
Title: Boundaries
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
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Mommy
Title: Mommy
Character: Huissier
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
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The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa
Title: The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa
Character: Head Elf (voice)
Released: November 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The internet’s favorite musical candy bear brings his sense of fun and creativity to an exciting search for Santa. Will he find him in time?
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Alex and the Ghosts
Title: Alex and the Ghosts
Character: Dad (voice)
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Alex and the Ghosts is a story of childhood magic and wonderment around a legendary hockey team, uniting past and present, reaching out to the youthful hearts of sport fans of all ages.
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Steel Toes
Title: Steel Toes
Character: Sam
Released: June 29, 2007
Type: Movie
Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny Dunkleman, a Jewish liberal humanist, and the court-appointed lawyer representing Mike Downey, a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant. Steel Toes takes us into the intense and fiery relationship that develops between these two men as they explore their emotional and intellectual differences. Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
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The Girl Who Hated Books
Title: The Girl Who Hated Books
Character: Narrator / Piggy (voice)
Released: November 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Books are everywhere in Meena's house - in cupboards, drawers, and even piled up the stairs! Her parents love to read, but Meena never even opens a book! When her cat Max accidentally knocks down a huge stack of books, heroes, heroines, and animals with attitude come to life and pandemonium reigns. Meena finds a unique solution to get the characters back in the books, and nothing, as they say, is the same after that. Based on the story by Manjusha Pawagi. The Girl Who Hated Books is part of the NFB's Talespinners 2 collection.
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Deadly Isolation
Title: Deadly Isolation
Character: Dr. Cartwright
Released: March 15, 2005
Type: Movie
In a quaint and quiet island community off the coast of Maine, Susan is a young widow suffering from deep grief for the loss of her husband, Ron. Two escaped convicts suffer from their own kind of deep grief at the loss of their diamonds stolen in a heist they participated in the year before, spear-headed by Susan's now late husband. One of the convicts, poses as an old college friend of Ron's enabling him to get close to a still vulnerable Susan and even closer to the diamonds.
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Battle of the Brave
Title: Battle of the Brave
Character: President of the Court
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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Title: Postcards from Buster
Released: October 11, 2004
Type: TV
Postcards from Buster is a children's television series for children aged 6–12, containing both animation and live-action that originally aired on Public Broadcasting Service. It is a spin-off of the Arthur cartoon series. The show stars Arthur's best friend, 8-year-old rabbit Buster Baxter. Inspired by a 2003 episode of Arthur entitled "Postcards from Buster", the television series was produced by Cinar and Marc Brown Studios. It first aired October 11, 2004, on PBS Kids Go!. Buster's interests include eating anything, reading comic books, and playing video games. Buster's personality is that of a fairly intelligent and curious child. He also believes that extraterrestrials are real. Buster's parents are divorced; in this series, Buster is seen with his father, Bo Baxter. Arthur Read and many other characters from the PBS Kids Go! animated television series Arthur make cameo appearances in this series, and most episodes have an Arthur character playing a minor role. The series went through a hiatus between November 2008 and February 2012.
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Robinson Crusoe
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Character: Le Capitaine de l'Esperanza
Released: December 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Title: The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Character: Croupier
Released: August 16, 2002
Type: Movie
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
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Cause Of Death
Title: Cause Of Death
Character: Clive Johnson
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: Movie
A deputy-district attorney, assigned to investigate the murder of the mayor's cousin, finds himself falling for the victim's wife.
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Title: A Miss Mallard Mystery
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: TV
A Miss Mallard Mystery is a Sino-Canadian mystery animated series produced by Cinar and Shanghai Animation Film Studio for the Teletoon network and OTV, loosely based on the Robert Quackenbush book series. Each show focuses on Miss Mallard and her nephew Willard Widgeon as they visit various places around the world, solving mysteries. All characters in the show are ducks or resemble ducks.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Character: Pastor Van Der Veen
Released: October 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Ichabod Crane, a Yankee wanderer, arrives in Sleepy Hollow and becomes the new schoolmaster. He meets Katrina Van Tassel, and blissfully fantasizes about how can marry her, ultimately, inherit her father's rich estate. Her suitor Brom Bones, the blacksmith, wants to scare him away and dresses up as the legendary Headless Horseman. During the prank, the real ghost appears and drives Ichabod off
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Taken
Title: Taken
Character: Syd Brooks
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor.
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Title: The Little Lulu Show
Released: November 11, 1995
Type: TV
The Little Lulu Show is an animated television series, based on the Marjorie Henderson Buell comic book character Little Lulu. The show was produced by CINAR Animation after Marge's death in 1993, and aired on HBO Family and Cartoon Network in the United States and on, CTV, and the Family Channel in Canada from 1995 to 1999. In Canada, reruns are currently being shown on both the English and French versions of Teletoon Retro. The series centered on the life and adventures of Lulu Moppet and Tubby Thompkins. Between stories, they showed stand-up comedy that Lulu hosted. This show is not to be confused with Little Lulu and Her Little Friends, an anime TV series featuring the same characters made in 1976.
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The Lifeforce Experiment
Title: The Lifeforce Experiment
Character: Woody Gifford
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: Movie
A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
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Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Title: Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Character: Additional Cast
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
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Heritage Minutes: La Bolduc
Title: Heritage Minutes: La Bolduc
Character: Additional Cast
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.
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Title: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".
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Title: The Legend of White Fang
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: TV
The Legend of White Fang is a cartoon series based on the historical serial White Fang by Jack London FilmFair, at the time a division of the Storm Group, produced the series for the Canadian pay television channel Family, which transmitted it from 1992–94; HBO later transmitted it in the United States. Canadian writer Pierre Berton was a history consultant to the series.
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The Irises
Title: The Irises
Character: Auctioneer
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
An animated recreation of Van Gogh's "Les iris" is juxtaposed with audio from the auction of the piece for millions of dollars more than the artist could have ever imagined.
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Title: Urban Angel
Character: Hubie
Released: October 29, 1991
Type: TV
Urban Angel is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1991 to 1993. Based on the memoirs of real-life Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, the show starred Louis Ferreira as Victor Torres, a crusading journalist for the Montreal Tribune. The series aired in the United States as part of CBS's late-night Crimetime After Primetime line up. The show's cast also included Vittorio Rossi, Dorothée Berryman, Vlasta Vrana, Ellen David, Dean Marshall, Michael Rudder, Macha Grenon and Sophie Lorain.
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Two Sisters
Title: Two Sisters
Character: Man (voice)
Released: September 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto themselves, quiet and complete in their isolation. And then the abrupt arrival of a stranger throws their tenuous order into chaos. An animated short etched directly onto tinted 70 mm film.
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Title: Young Robin Hood
Released: September 15, 1991
Type: TV
Young Robin Hood is an animated series produced by Cinar and Hanna-Barbera. The series takes place when Robin is a teenager, Richard the Lion Heart is on his "first crusade" and Robin Hood's father, the Earl of Huntington, joins him.
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Scanners II: The New Order
Title: Scanners II: The New Order
Character: Feck
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
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Title: The Little Flying Bears
Character: Additional voices (voice)
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: TV
The series focuses on a rare species of little bears with wings that live in the magical forest in a utopian cooperative community. The little flying bears together with their friends, took on themselves the task to defend their forest from pollution. However, their efforts, very often, are disturbed by two weasels, Skulk and Sammy, which strive to pollute the forest. Every so often the weasels receive help from Slink the snake. The three always strive to find new ways to disturb the harmony of the forest but their plans are destroyed always by the bears. The bears are always attentive to the advices of the old bear, Plato (who is too old to fly) and his friend Ozzy the owl. This cartoon helps children realize the importance of protecting the environment. The series shows the harmful effects of pollution and fires as well as the important role of the ecosystem.
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Jesus of Montreal
Title: Jesus of Montreal
Character: René (voice)
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Advocate
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Einhorn / Advocate
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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The Moderns
Title: The Moderns
Character: Buffy: Group Montparno
Released: April 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
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Blindside
Title: Blindside
Character: Freelong
Released: September 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
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Perfect Timing
Title: Perfect Timing
Character: Ziggy
Released: February 4, 1986
Type: Movie
Perfect Timing is the story of Harry Crane, an infamous photographer whose sublime and evocative images single-handedly reshaped and rebuilt the boudoir and fitness industries. But, having made his mark, allowed the artist within to be released. Creatively and artistically, Harry has moved on; his work now consisting of portraits and interpreting rock wall fractals. Of course that meant leaving the professional schlock of commercial advertising behind him. Sounds good. Except there's that pesky issue of money. And Harry and his buds are quickly burning through large quantities of it. Bottom line - he's nearly broke and faces eviction.
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Sonia
Title: Sonia
Character: David
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.
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Breaking All the Rules
Title: Breaking All the Rules
Character: Harry
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Three robbers hide a stolen jewel inside a stuffed animal at one of the midway games in an amusement park. When Jack—a teen with a part-time summer job in the park—his best friend David and two girls hang out at the park, they get mixed up in the robbers' scheme to take back their jewel.
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The Surrogate
Title: The Surrogate
Character: Detective
Released: October 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he's seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. At the same time this is going on, the police are investigating a series of stabbings: as corpses pile up, we wonder if Frank's temper may be behind this; or perhaps it's Eric, a cross-dressing neighbor and friend of Lee's; it may even be the European woman, who keeps popping up with new fantasies.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Tommy
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.