Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan

Born: December 26, 1921
Died: June 3, 1985
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Movies for Sean Sullivan...

The Boy in Blue
Title: The Boy in Blue
Character: Walter
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
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Mrs. Soffel
Title: Mrs. Soffel
Character: Farmer
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
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Heavenly Bodies
Title: Heavenly Bodies
Character: Real Estate Salesman
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.
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The Dead Zone
Title: The Dead Zone
Character: Herb Smith
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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In Defense of Kids
Title: In Defense of Kids
Character: Stan
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
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The Skin of Our Teeth
Title: The Skin of Our Teeth
Character: Dinosaur/Chair Pusher
Released: January 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Buddy
Released: September 3, 1980
Type: Movie
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Nothing Personal
Title: Nothing Personal
Character: Dean Collier
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
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The Starlost: The Beginning
Title: The Starlost: The Beginning
Character: Rachel's Father
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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Crossbar
Title: Crossbar
Character: Wallace
Released: July 21, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
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The Silent Partner
Title: The Silent Partner
Character: Bank Guard
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
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Deadly Harvest
Title: Deadly Harvest
Character: Dr. George Abbott
Released: August 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
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One Man
Title: One Man
Character: Rodney Porter
Released: April 26, 1977
Type: Movie
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from his TV station as they are loathe to tangle with big business.
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Why Rock the Boat?
Title: Why Rock the Boat?
Character: Herb Scannell
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
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The Hard Part Begins
Title: The Hard Part Begins
Character: Charlie Blaine
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer.
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Face-Off
Title: Face-Off
Character: Greg Walsh
Released: November 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles.
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Dr. Frankenstein on Campus
Title: Dr. Frankenstein on Campus
Character: Prof. Preston
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain control under Prof. Preston. Campus radicals frame Viktor (photographed holding a joint) in an attempt to discredit both Preston and the Dean and Viktor is once again expelled. Vik injects Tae Kwan Do expert Tony with his new brain control pellets and soon Tony becomes an instrument of revenge, beating radicals to death, drowning the photographer in a developing tray, and karate-chopping a reporter in the throat to name a few. But why won't Viktor remove his clothes when doing his often naked girlfriend and who is the "real Frankenstein"?
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Character: Dr. Roy Michaels
Released: April 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
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Adulterous Affair
Title: Adulterous Affair
Character: Frank
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer.
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A Further Glimpse of Joey
Title: A Further Glimpse of Joey
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 filmJoey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.
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Nobody Waved Goodbye
Title: Nobody Waved Goodbye
Character: Probation Officer
Released: August 13, 1964
Type: Movie
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
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David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
Title: David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
Character: David
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A married couple doesn't communicate.
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The Long Shadow
Title: The Long Shadow
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.
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The Young Ones
Title: The Young Ones
Character: Eddie
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
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During One Night
Title: During One Night
Character: Major
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.