Rick Roberts

Rick Roberts

Born: November 13, 1965
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Richard Charles Roberts (born November 13, 1965) is a Canadian film, TV and stage actor. His most substantial role to date is as Donald D'Arby in the series Traders, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award.

He moved briefly to Los Angeles in 1998 appearing in the CBS series L.A. Doctors alongside Ken Olin and Sheryl Lee. He returned to Canada to star in An American in Canada, which ran for two seasons.

In 2012, he was tapped to play Jack Layton in the CBC biopic Jack, alongside Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow. His portrayal of Jack garnered him a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award for Best Actor.

Other work includes guest starring roles on Saving Hope (CTV/NBC), Copper (BBC America), Cracked (CBC), Republic of Doyle (CBC), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Cra$h & Burn (Showcase), Haven (SyFy), ZOS (Whizbang Films), and was featured regularly in the hit CBC series, This is Wonderland.

As a writer, his work Mimi (which he co-wrote with Allan Cole and Melody Johnson) premiered at The Tarragon Theatre and was nominated for a Dora Award. His play Kite premiered to critical acclaim earning numerous Dora Award nominations for writing and production. Other writing credits include Nod (Theatre Gargantua) and Fish/Wife (Tarragon Theatre).

Movies for Rick Roberts...

North of Albany
Title: North of Albany
Character: Paul
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Annie frantically flees Montreal for the US with her young son, Felix and teenage daughter, Sarah, fearing the repercussions after Sarah severely injures her school bully. When their car breaks down just outside a small town in the Adirondacks, the family is stranded. Paul, a single father and the town's lone mechanic, isn't able to fix the car until the following week. Annie's stubborn insistence to leave town at all costs comes head-to-head with Paul's unwillingness to give in. When Sarah realizes that her secret is out in the open, she runs away, forcing Annie and Paul to join forces to find her. When Paul's traumatic past is revealed, Annie realizes that she is not the only one running and comes to terms with facing the music.
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Title: Nurses
Character: Edward Miller
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
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Title: Coroner
Character: Gerald Henry Jones
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
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Title: Frankie Drake Mysteries
Character: Keith Campbell
Released: November 6, 2017
Type: TV
Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.
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Title: This Life
Character: Matthew Lawson
Released: October 5, 2015
Type: TV
Set in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.
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Zoom
Title: Zoom
Character: Plastic Surgery Doctor
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
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Title: Between
Released: May 21, 2015
Type: TV
Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend for themselves.
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Killer Crush
Title: Killer Crush
Character: Dr. Lucas Emery
Released: April 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Paige's crush on her professor takes a twisted turn when she is hired to be the caregiver for his wife who has Multiple Sclerosis.
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The Rivalry: Red v. Blue
Title: The Rivalry: Red v. Blue
Character: Himself
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
It's college basketball's ultimate rivalry: The Louisville Cardinals vs. the Kentucky Wildcats. This documentary weaves current events, including the schools trading national championships in 2012 and 2013, with the intriguing history of the matchup.
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Pete's Christmas
Title: Pete's Christmas
Character: Kenny
Released: November 16, 2013
Type: Movie
An overlooked middle child finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he realizes his family's terrible Christmas day keeps repeating. As the only one experiencing the day over and over, he decides to use his unique gift to give the holidays a makeover and his family a Christmas they will never forget.
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Title: Played
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: TV
The Covert Investigations Unit (CIU) risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of short-term, high-intensity undercover work, each covert “play” is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are.
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Relax, I'm From The Future
Title: Relax, I'm From The Future
Character: Percy Sullivan
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Percy Sullivan's suicide attempt gets interrupted by a man claiming to be from the future.
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Title: King & Maxwell
Character: Peter Bunting
Released: June 10, 2013
Type: TV
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell aren't your typical pair of private investigators. As discredited Secret Service agents, their unique skills often give them a leg up on suspects and conventional law enforcement. He's charming and always one step ahead of the game; she's a fearless force to be reckoned with. As a team, they're unstoppable.
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Jack
Title: Jack
Character: Jack Layton
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: Movie
NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his co-workers with a strum on his guitar and spirit in his voice (which wasn't particularly good but he sang with gusto). Growing up in a political family, Layton was a left-wing Toronto city councillor for 17 years and spent a year as head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He became leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2003... The NDP became the Official Opposition for the first time in history. Going into the 2011 federal election... Written by (STAFF)
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Foxfire
Title: Foxfire
Character: Mr. Kellogg
Released: January 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
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Still Mine
Title: Still Mine
Character: John
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concerns. As he starts building, he is blindsided by the bureaucratic codes and officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill, Craig fights back. Based on a true story.
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Title: Perception
Character: Philip Klane
Released: July 9, 2012
Type: TV
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
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The Riverbank
Title: The Riverbank
Character: Matt Costin
Released: May 6, 2012
Type: Movie
A woman returns to her hometown following the death of her fathers second wife, which leads her to uncover dark family secrets.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Character: Peter Leacock
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
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Salem Falls
Title: Salem Falls
Character: Amos Duncan
Released: November 19, 2011
Type: Movie
A man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.
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Title: Against the Wall
Released: July 31, 2011
Type: TV
This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.
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Title: Suits
Character: Tom
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: TV
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.
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The Town Christmas Forgot
Title: The Town Christmas Forgot
Character: Charles Benson
Released: November 25, 2010
Type: Movie
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Title: The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Character: Wayne Fox
Released: November 20, 2010
Type: Movie
When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
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Title: Haven
Character: Thornton Aarons
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Title: When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Released: April 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: William Cadigan Clarke
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Mayor William Cadigan Clarke
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
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Pontypool
Title: Pontypool
Character: Ken Loney (voice)
Released: March 6, 2009
Type: Movie
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
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Title: ZOS: Zone of Separation
Character: Major Gavin Hart
Released: January 19, 2009
Type: TV
ZOS: Zone of Separation is a Canadian television drama mini-series, co-executive produced by Paul Gross. It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, Sarajevo-like town of Jadac.
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Passage
Title: Passage
Character: John Rae
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew’s madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.
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Phantom Punch
Title: Phantom Punch
Character: Father Alios
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: Movie
From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and untimely death in 1971.
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Title: Murdoch Mysteries
Character: Dr. Gilbert Birkins
Released: January 24, 2008
Type: TV
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
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The Note
Title: The Note
Character: Truman Harris
Released: December 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder happens upon a hastily-written note that was from one of the passengers onboard. She makes it her mission to deliver it to its intended recipient by Christmas, bringing her readers along for the ride.
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Matters of Life & Dating
Title: Matters of Life & Dating
Released: October 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent her from seeing the positive side of life and continuing her quest for Prince Charming.
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Title: The Company
Character: William Colby
Released: August 5, 2007
Type: TV
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.
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Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Title: Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Character: Jim Jones
Released: January 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
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Man of the Year
Title: Man of the Year
Character: Hemmings
Released: October 9, 2006
Type: Movie
The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
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Title: Angela's Eyes
Released: July 16, 2006
Type: TV
FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age 14, when she learned her "average" American parents were actually spies. Attempting to right her parents' wrong, Angela is now working with the same agency that brought her parents down.
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Title: Angela's Eyes
Character: Gene
Released: July 16, 2006
Type: TV
FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age 14, when she learned her "average" American parents were actually spies. Attempting to right her parents' wrong, Angela is now working with the same agency that brought her parents down.
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Night Of Terror
Title: Night Of Terror
Character: Sean Dunne
Released: March 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A bonding family weekend turns sinister in a storm.
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Haunting Sarah
Title: Haunting Sarah
Character: Edgar Lewis
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: Movie
A mother dealing with the death of her young son learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
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Title: Life with Derek
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: TV
Life with Derek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on Family and VRAK.TV in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. The series starred Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the two oldest children in a stepfamily. It ended with 70 episodes and one spin-off television film, entitled Vacation with Derek.
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Title: Carl²
Character: Barney Crashman (voice)
Released: August 7, 2005
Type: TV
Carl² is a Canadian animated series which explores what would happen if a teenager had a clone. The concept of the cartoon is a mixture of biological studies and normal teenage life. Carl Crashman is a lazy 14-year-old who is only good at one thing: slacking. After a rough day and being tired of constantly doing things he hated, he was blogging on the Internet and complaining about his life when he accidentally ordered a clone from a spam e-mail using his fingerprint, a yearbook photo and a scabby band-aid; Carl is shocked when an online cloning company sends him an exact clone of himself in a box. Carl names him C2. Even though C2 looks like Carl, talks like him, and walks like him, C2 is more ambitious, hard-working, and charming, much to Carl's advantage. Since C2 arrived, Carl has been slacking off a lot more. However, C2 often does the opposite to what Carl wants. Carl decides to keep C2 a secret from everyone else except his best friend Jamie James. The show's theme song depicts the initial arrival of C2 at Carl's house. There are two different versions of the theme songs, each version having a different opening sequence and slightly different lyrics. As of Season 2, the opening sequence includes more on how C2 was created in the cloning lab.
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Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Title: Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Character: Jeremy Neville
Released: May 29, 2005
Type: Movie
The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
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Descent
Title: Descent
Character: Dr. Palmer Drake
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: Movie
When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.
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More Sex & the Single Mom
Title: More Sex & the Single Mom
Character: Steve
Released: February 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high school graduation. It all comes to a head when Jess' former flame and father of Jake, Alex Lofton, returns never knowing he has a son out of his and Jess' lustful fling and wants to be a part of her life again, despite Jess not wanting anything to do with Alex.
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Title: Kevin Hill
Released: September 29, 2004
Type: TV
Kevin Hill is an American legal drama that aired on UPN during the 2004-2005 TV season. It was filmed and produced in Toronto, Canada.
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Eloise at Christmastime
Title: Eloise at Christmastime
Character: Brooks the Fiance
Released: November 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discovers that the fiance has devious plans to defraud kind Rachel! When her true love is revealed to be none other than Eloise's best friend Bill who works in the kitchen, Eloise goes on a mission to bring about a Christmas miracle and get the starcrossed lovers back together.. will things work out in time for a happy holiday ending?
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Student Seduction
Title: Student Seduction
Character: Drew Dawson
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Christie Dawson always wanted to be the "cool" teacher. But her world is shaken up after a pupil's crush spirals out of control and he sexually assaults her. Suddenly, her colleagues, neighbors and even her hubby are wondering whether she crossed the line and tempted her student. But school isn't out for Christine just yet she's gonna fight back, and big time!
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Charles Wentworth jeune
Released: March 23, 2003
Type: Movie
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.
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Title: An American in Canada
Character: Jake Crewe
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: TV
Jake Crewe is an American television news host who is forced, after beating up his station manager, to accept a job in Calgary, Alberta as the host of the lowest-rated morning news program in the city.
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Title: Puppets Who Kill
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: TV
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
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A Town Without Christmas
Title: A Town Without Christmas
Character: David Reynolds
Released: December 16, 2001
Type: Movie
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.
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Title: And Never Let Her Go
Character: Daniel Chapman
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: TV
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
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As Time Runs Out
Title: As Time Runs Out
Character: Alex Redman
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.
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Title: Providence
Character: Dr. Hopper
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Providence is an American television drama series.
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Title: L.A. Doctors
Character: Dr. Evan Newman
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
L.A. Doctors is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles practice. It ran on CBS during the 1998-99 season.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Matt Cherico
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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The Haunting of Lisa
Title: The Haunting of Lisa
Character: FBI Technician
Released: April 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.
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Title: Traders
Character: Donald D'Arby
Released: February 1, 1996
Type: TV
Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000. Set in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.
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The Man in the Attic
Title: The Man in the Attic
Character: Reporter
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Fact-based drama, set in 1910 Milwaukee, about an older married woman, bored with her husband, and her dead son's friend she takes as a lover and hides in her attic over the next two decades -- an affair that ends in murder.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Andrew McLaren
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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Love & Human Remains
Title: Love & Human Remains
Character: Robert
Released: July 22, 1994
Type: Movie
In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.