Saul Rubinek

Saul Rubinek

Born: July 2, 1948
in Wolfratshausen, Germany
Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13, Donny Douglas on Frasier, Lon Cohen on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven (1992), Nixon (1995), True Romance (1993), The Express (2008), Barney's Version (2010), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Germany, in 1948. His parents were Polish Jews who had been hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. They immigrated to Canada after the war.

Rubinek began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille. He made his television debut in 1977, with a guest appearance on the series Baretta.

In 1984, Rubinek starred in the film Against All Odds. He followed that up with roles in the films Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Unforgiven (1992).

In 1995, Rubinek starred in the film Nixon. He received critical acclaim for his performance, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

In 1998, Rubinek directed his first feature film, Jerry and Tom. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

From 2009 to 2014, Rubinek starred as Artie Nielsen on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series was a critical and commercial success, and it ran for five seasons.

In 2013, Rubinek starred as Louis B. Mayer on the Amazon Prime series The Last Tycoon. The series was based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981). He is also a two-time Gemini Award nominee.

Rubinek is married to Elinor Reid, a playwright and producer. They have two children.

Movies for Saul Rubinek...

SHTTL
Title: SHTTL
Character: Rebbe Weitsenzang
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: Movie
June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.
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Clock
Title: Clock
Character: Joseph
Released: March 28, 2023
Type: Movie
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
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BlackBerry
Title: BlackBerry
Character: John Woodman
Released: February 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
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I Am Normal
Title: I Am Normal
Character: Rosenhan
Released: August 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A sane woman fakes the symptoms of a mentally unstable patient in order to be admitted into a mental institution for a secret psychiatric experiment.
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Title: Hunters
Character: Murray Markowitz
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: TV
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
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The Song of Names
Title: The Song of Names
Character: Feinman
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
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The Song of Names
Title: The Song of Names
Character: Mr. Feinman
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
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Title: For All Mankind
Character: Rep. Charles Sandman
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: TV
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
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A Magical Journey
Title: A Magical Journey
Character: Saul
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: Movie
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the girl at the day of her birthday, all to get their hands on her mysterious inheritance. Chased by the villains, Polina manages to escape on a magical quest to discover the secret about her family. But she only has until midnight to achieve this goal.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Title: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Character: Frenchman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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Title: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Character: Pauly Auerbach
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: TV
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.
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Gridlocked
Title: Gridlocked
Character: Marty
Released: June 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
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Title: Angie Tribeca
Character: Pfoopa
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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Title: Schitt's Creek
Character: Tippy Bernstein
Released: January 13, 2015
Type: TV
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
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A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
Title: A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
This fast-paced Documentary was filmed inside America's biggest Comics/Film Convention and includes informative and humorous interviews with Levar Burton (Star Trek Next Generation, Roots), William Shatner (Star Trek, Boston Legal, Wrath of Khan) Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk) Saul Rubinek (Warehouse 13), Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch, Num3ers) Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Criminal Minds) and more!
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Title: Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Character: Hasty Hathaway
Released: May 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Arthur Claypool
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
Title: Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
Character: Hasty Hathaway
Released: May 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Jesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arrogant new police chief who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.
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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!
Title: Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!
Character: Martin Hirsch
Released: December 24, 2010
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy featuring a Jewish family who struggles coming to terms with their son's non-Jewish and gay boyfriend. When the gay couple adopts a child and it makes headline news, their families come to defend them and realize how much they love them
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Kill Me Please
Title: Kill Me Please
Character: M. Breiman
Released: November 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.
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Barney's Version
Title: Barney's Version
Character: Charnofsky
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Knucklehead
Title: Knucklehead
Character: Rabbi
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Title: Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Character: Hasty Hathaway
Released: May 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse's pursuit becomes hazardous.
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The Trotsky
Title: The Trotsky
Character: David Bronstein
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
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Title: Warehouse 13
Character: Arthur "Artie" Nielsen
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.
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The Express
Title: The Express
Character: Art Modell
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Title: The Trojan Horse
Character: Rafe Kott
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: TV
Politician Tom McLaughlin watches from the sidelines as Canada relinquishes sovereignty and joins the United States. He refuses to lose his country without a fight, whether it's fair or not.
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Julia
Title: Julia
Character: Mitch
Released: March 12, 2008
Type: Movie
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
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A Broken Life
Title: A Broken Life
Character: The Boss
Released: September 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Max Walker is a suicidal man who selects an aspiring young filmmaker to record the end of his life. On the agenda for his last day on Earth: telling off his old boss, confessing some of his deepest secrets, and maybe even finding redemption.
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War
Title: War
Character: Dr. Sherman
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Title: Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Character: Hasty Hathaway
Released: May 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery. Also, his investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council — which hopes to preserve Paradise's reputation as an ideal seaside resort.
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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'
Title: Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'
Character: Fred Silverman
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: Movie
As NBC's hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" proves a long-running hit for a network desperately in need of one, its young stars: Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Dana Plato face all sorts of trouble off-camera. Gary battles with his parents over the management of his salary, Todd runs into trouble with the law countless times, and Dana's career after the show meets with despair and tragedy.
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Title: Eureka
Character: Dr. Carl Carlson
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: TV
The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country's best kept secrets.
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Title: Psych
Character: Lance
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Title: Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Character: Hasty Hathaway
Released: January 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
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Title: Masters of Horror
Released: October 28, 2005
Type: TV
An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
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Santa's Slay
Title: Santa's Slay
Character: Mr. Green
Released: October 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and happiness. But this year the bet is off, and Santa is about to return to his evil ways.
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Partner(s)
Title: Partner(s)
Character: Matthew
Released: July 7, 2005
Type: Movie
An enterprising lawyer, acting on a report that a female colleague is up to make partner, plays up the established rumor that he's gay in order to better his chances at edging out his competition.
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Trump Unauthorized
Title: Trump Unauthorized
Character: Peter Wennik
Released: May 24, 2005
Type: Movie
A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Eli Rigler
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Blind Justice
Character: Dr. Alan Galloway
Released: March 8, 2005
Type: TV
Blind Justice is an American television series created by Steven Bochco about a blind New York City police detective. It was introduced mid-season in March 8, 2005 to fill the time slot left by Bochco's highly successful NYPD Blue, which had just aired its final episode after a 12-year run. The show ran for only one season, with 13 episodes broadcast.
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Camp Hollywood
Title: Camp Hollywood
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legendary Hollywood hotel. Seen through the eyes of a Canadian comic who's come out to L.A. for the first time, Camp Hollywood is an intimate portrait of the actors, musicians and other transients he meets during his two-month stay.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Donald Feldcamp
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Title: Lost
Character: Clark Finney
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Title: Jack & Bobby
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: TV
If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.
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Baadasssss!
Title: Baadasssss!
Character: Howard Kaufman
Released: May 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
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White Coats
Title: White Coats
Character: Dr. Sam Bonnert
Released: May 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.
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Coast to Coast
Title: Coast to Coast
Character: Gary Pereira
Released: April 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way, as they visit family and friends, they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.
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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
Title: Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
Character: Dr. Paul Fleiss
Released: March 29, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion.
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The Singing Detective
Title: The Singing Detective
Character: Skin Specialist
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Title: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Character: Eli Morton
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
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The Brady Bunch in the White House
Title: The Brady Bunch in the White House
Character: Sal Astor
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Mike Brady becomes the President of the United States and names Carol as his V.P.!
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Gleason
Title: Gleason
Character: George 'Bullets' Durgom
Released: October 13, 2002
Type: Movie
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night spots. Along the way, he steals gags from the best comics in town and finds love with Genevieve, a dancer whom he marries. But Gleason isn't the ideal husband or even a responsible father as he abandons his family to answer the call of Hollywood. Brash, arrogant, and egotistical, he alienates his directors and the man who discovers him. When he ends up back in New York, Gleason gets one of those rare second chances in the new medium of television, creating some of its most unforgettable characters. But even as Gleason becomes the talk of the tube, his life - ruled by demons of rage, booze, and insecurity - unravels.
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Triggermen
Title: Triggermen
Character: Jazzer
Released: July 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up.
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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Title: Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion. Amidst the rise of French-Canadian identity and the political struggles of the '60s, Jutra was at the forefront of a group of artists dedicated to social change and attacking taboo.
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Rush Hour 2
Title: Rush Hour 2
Character: Red Dragon Box Man
Released: August 3, 2001
Type: Movie
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Title: Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Character: Ira Stone
Released: May 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room
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Title: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Character: Lon Cohen
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
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The Family Man
Title: The Family Man
Character: Alan Mintz
Released: December 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Dr. Saul Funkhouser
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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The Contender
Title: The Contender
Character: Jerry Tolliver
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
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Lakeboat
Title: Lakeboat
Character: Cuthman
Released: April 13, 2000
Type: Movie
A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea.
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The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Title: The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Character: Saul Panzer
Released: March 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
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The Bookfair Murders
Title: The Bookfair Murders
Character: Martin P. Barrett
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade
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Title: Once and Again
Released: September 21, 1999
Type: TV
The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mr. Price
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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Dick
Title: Dick
Character: Henry Kissinger
Released: August 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
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36 Hours to Die
Title: 36 Hours to Die
Character: Morano
Released: April 11, 1999
Type: Movie
Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under when gangsters make threats against him, his business, and his family. With the help of his wife and his uncle, he's able to outsmart and outmuscle the crooks. Carroll O'Connor and Kim Cattrall are featured in the supporting cast.
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Jerry and Tom
Title: Jerry and Tom
Character: Dogtrack Victim
Released: December 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
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Bad Manners
Title: Bad Manners
Character: Matt Carroll
Released: October 9, 1998
Type: Movie
Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.
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Blackjack
Title: Blackjack
Character: Thomas
Released: June 11, 1998
Type: Movie
After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other friend, who works as a bodyguard for a supermodel, is wounded, Jack decides to step in for him. Now he must confront his fear and the assassin, who seems to be well aware of Jack's problem.
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Hostile Intent
Title: Hostile Intent
Character: Kendall
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Brilliant renegade hacker Mike Cleary and his crack team have finally debugged Guardian, his software program designed to block government cyber snooping. It's going to make them all rich. Now it's time to celebrate with a game of paintball, played in rugged wilderness far from the digital devices of their everyday lives. Not even an ominous encounter with a militia-style survivalist can dampen the weekend warriors' spirits. But someone is playing for keeps. Instead of getting hit with paintballs, soon they're getting splattered for real. As the body count climbs, Cleary discovers he's at the center of a worldwide web of deceit, aimed at gaining control of the program at any cost. Stalked with high-tech weapons, betrayed by trusted friends, only his programming savvy and a bizarre strategic alliance forged on the battlefield can keep him alive. If he fails and Guardian falls into the wrong hands, the game is over for everyone in the nation.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Emmett Bregman
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Arnold Hunter
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Pale Saints
Title: Pale Saints
Character: Whitey
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.
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Title: Ink
Character: Alan Mesnick
Released: October 21, 1996
Type: TV
Ink is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996-1997 that starred real-life husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as newspaper journalists, allegedly inspired by the film His Girl Friday. The show was also produced by Danson and Steenburgen. The show was canceled after one season due to lower than expected ratings. The distribution rights to the series are currently owned by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The show's pilot was drastically changed and reshot from the original version. Ink was filmed at the soundstages of CBS Studio City in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. Outdoor scenes were usually shot at the small backlot streets of the same studio.
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Past Perfect
Title: Past Perfect
Character: Bookkeeper
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective to try to save him from the same fate.
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Rainbow
Title: Rainbow
Character: Sam Cohen
Released: July 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible belief, they achieve the impossible, finding and riding the multicolored arc.
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Nixon
Title: Nixon
Character: Herb Klein
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
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Memory Run
Title: Memory Run
Character: Dr. Munger
Released: June 16, 1995
Type: Movie
The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining the most basic aspect of life: that Mind, Body, and Soul must be one, Those who benefit from this new technology will wake up to a new and youthful beginning - the rest of humankind must live a bad dream and wake up to a living nightmare that goes beyond life, beyond death, and beyond redemption.
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The Android Affair
Title: The Android Affair
Character: Fiedler
Released: April 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is much more than an assignment, and is drawn to his desire for a very human life. When Karen takes Teach into the outside world, they soon discover that there is something far more mysterious and dangerous than a medical experiment planned for them.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Professor Hugaro
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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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Aaron Zgierski
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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Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: Eric Schlockmeister
Released: January 14, 1995
Type: Movie
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Sam Smotherman
Released: June 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
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Getting Even with Dad
Title: Getting Even with Dad
Character: Robert 'Bobby' Drace
Released: June 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of planning. Timmy is ignored and Ray and his buddies pull off the heist. Timmy gets his father's attention by stealing the coins and hiding them. To get them back, his father must take him to a number of different places and treat him like he enjoys his presence. They grow fond of each other but Timmy won't stay with his dad unless he gives up the coins.
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Title: Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Character: Brian Hoyle
Released: January 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters
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Title: Frasier
Character: Donny Douglas
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Dr. Jim Curran
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Undercover Blues
Title: Undercover Blues
Character: Mr. Ferderber
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.
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True Romance
Title: True Romance
Character: Lee Donowitz
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
Title: Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
Character: Bill Bryson
Released: May 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
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Unforgiven
Title: Unforgiven
Character: W.W. Beauchamp
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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Man Trouble
Title: Man Trouble
Character: Laurence Moncrief
Released: July 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
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The Quarrel
Title: The Quarrel
Character: Hersh Rasseyner
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Title: The Bonfire of the Vanities
Character: Jed Kramer
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Professor Ira Simpkis
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Falling Over Backwards
Title: Falling Over Backwards
Character: Mel
Released: August 23, 1990
Type: Movie
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
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Title: Men
Character: Paul Armas
Released: March 25, 1989
Type: TV
A reporter, a surgeon, a lawyer and a cop bond over a weekly poker game in Baltimore.
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Liberace: Behind the Music
Title: Liberace: Behind the Music
Character: Seymour Heller
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Title: The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Character: Rabbi Teitelman
Released: September 16, 1988
Type: Movie
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.
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Hitting Home
Title: Hitting Home
Character: Owen Hughes
Released: August 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: Harry Salt
Released: December 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Kivas Fajo
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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So Many Miracles
Title: So Many Miracles
Character: Narrator
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: Movie
A documentary that follows Israel and Frania Rubinek on their emotional return journey to Poland to reunite with the woman who saved their lives 40 years earlier.
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Taking Care
Title: Taking Care
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A Canadian nurse (Kate Lynch) investigates hospital-patient deaths for which another nurse (Janet Amos) seems the scapegoat.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Harold Schoen
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Sweet Liberty
Title: Sweet Liberty
Character: Bo Hodges
Released: May 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
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Half a Lifetime
Title: Half a Lifetime
Character: Sam
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A regular night of poker among for friends turns into a night full of conflict, accusations and self-examinations.
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Murder Sees the Light
Title: Murder Sees the Light
Character: Benny Cooperman
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Private detective Benny Cooperman is hired to keep an eye on a controversial preacher who is in hiding in a picturesque lake resort, but once he gets there Benny finds himself involved with murders, satanism, and unfriendly nature.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Jason Masur
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: John Griffths
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Martin's Day
Title: Martin's Day
Character: Hitchhiker
Released: February 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.
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The Suicide Murders
Title: The Suicide Murders
Character: Benny Cooperman
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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Against All Odds
Title: Against All Odds
Character: Steve Kirsch
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
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The Terry Fox Story
Title: The Terry Fox Story
Character: Dan Grey
Released: May 22, 1983
Type: Movie
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
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Highpoint
Title: Highpoint
Character: Centino
Released: August 20, 1982
Type: Movie
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).
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Young Doctors in Love
Title: Young Doctors in Love
Character: Floyd Kurtzman
Released: July 16, 1982
Type: Movie
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
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By Design
Title: By Design
Character: Terry
Released: May 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Angie and Helen are in love. They live and work together designing women's evening wear in Vancouver. When Helen decides she wants to have a baby, the pair set out to find a suitable sperm donor.
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Soup for One
Title: Soup for One
Character: Allan
Released: April 30, 1982
Type: Movie
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
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Ticket to Heaven
Title: Ticket to Heaven
Character: Larry
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
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Clown White
Title: Clown White
Character: Mr. Freed
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Nothing Personal
Title: Nothing Personal
Character: Peter Braden (uncredited)
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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Death Ship
Title: Death Ship
Character: Jackie
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
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Agency
Title: Agency
Character: Sam Goldstein
Released: February 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
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The Wordsmith
Title: The Wordsmith
Character: Mervyn Kaplansky
Released: September 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto who boards with a family on St. Urbain Street only to find his aspirations undermined by the colourful yet desperate characters that surround him. Rubinek delivers a very touching performance as the boyish idealistic writer, and he is backed by a strong supporting cast that includes Harvey Atkin, Janet Ward and Peter Boretski.
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Sanctuary of Fear
Title: Sanctuary of Fear
Character: Jerry Stone
Released: April 23, 1979
Type: Movie
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
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Seer Was Here
Title: Seer Was Here
Released: December 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, while theatre director John Hirsch was serving as the head of the drama department. Saul Rubinek plays an inmate of a cruel Vancouver prison who brings humour, warmth, a little joy and self-understanding to the fellow prisoners of his cell block. An irreverent satire also featuring Eric Peterson and Martin Short. “Absolutely great, It’s also funny. Very Funny. Very Warm. Very touching… in some ways, a Canadian One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (Calgary Herald, 1978)
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Title: For The Record
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: TV
For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired Sundays 9:00-10:00 p.m., January 1977 to 1986. A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most of the 'big name' Canadian actors and directors of the time.
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Friday Night Adventure
Title: Friday Night Adventure
Released: November 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A young homosexual's encounter with a gay salesman leads the youth to a crucial decision about his own carefully concealed secret.
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Title: Sidestreet
Character: Frank
Released: September 14, 1975
Type: TV
Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes.
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Slow Run
Title: Slow Run
Character: Narrator
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: Movie
After 14 months of living a Bohemian life in New York City, a young Canadian becomes anxious that he is "settling down." To quell this fear, he impulsively buys a plane ticket for an unspecified destination. About a week before his scheduled departure, he wakes up musing as to whether or not he will inform his friends and his landlord. When he suddenly becomes nostalgic about the city, he is angered by his own sentimentality. Nevertheless, he lapses into a reverie in which he recalls his stay in Manhattan--working at an unspecified job, establishing a relationship with a long-haired intellectual, and having brief affairs with a number of women.
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Grierson and Gouzenko
Title: Grierson and Gouzenko
Character: Gouzenko
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
This rarely-screened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canada’s Red Scare that pre-dated the rise of McCarthyism in the United States. John Grierson and his National Film Board of Canada become targets of an anti-Communist blacklist in the immediate post-war years, after Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko produced documents revealing a spy ring operating in Canada. With a cast featuring Eric Peterson as Grierson, Saul Rubinek as Gouzenko, and Aaron Schwartz as Communist Party MP Fred Rose, this forgotten piece of Canadian history is brought to life in a very compelling CBC drama.
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Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television
Title: Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
TJFF pays tribute to the beloved and influential actor/writer/director. In addition to the special in-person event, An Afternoon with Saul Rubinek, TJFF presents a FREE online screening series full of rare titles from the CBC archive—Rubinek as small-town detective Benny Cooperman investigating a crime in Algonquin Park; early pilots featuring Saul alongside Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas from their pre-SCTV days; and more.