Jan Rubeš

Jan Rubeš

Born: June 6, 1920
Died: June 29, 2009
in Volyně, Czechoslovakia
Born in Czechoslovakia. After graduating in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague, Jan Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member of the Canadian Opera Company, he achieved recognition for his roles, as Boris in "Boris Godunov", Schigolch in "Lulu" and as Mephisto in "Faust". As well, he served as the company's director of touring and program development. Branching out into radio and, eventually, TV, he wrote and hosted from 1975-83 TVOntario's "Guess What?" and acted in many TV dramas, later receiving the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.

Movies for Jan Rubeš...

Our Fathers
Title: Our Fathers
Character: Pope John Paul
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide to seek redress.
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Title: Tilt
Character: Frank Modeste
Released: February 17, 2005
Type: TV
Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.
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Daniel and the Superdogs
Title: Daniel and the Superdogs
Character: The Colonel
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
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Anthrax
Title: Anthrax
Character: Arthur Kowalski
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the Mountie's mother-in-law - to stage a sit-in at the research center. When an eccentric old rancher dies after being exposed to a deadly strain of anthrax, the protesters are quarantined. No one notices that the reporter has disappeared - along with several vials of the deadly bacteria. The RCMP officer begins his own investigation, gleaning information from a U.S. government agent. He finds himself racing against time to recover the stolen anthrax.
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The Christmas Secret
Title: The Christmas Secret
Character: Andree
Released: December 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas.
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Believe
Title: Believe
Character: Jason Stiles
Released: March 22, 2000
Type: Movie
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives he begins to see the ghost of a woman around his grandfather's house. He also gets to know a girl named Kathrine and the two fast become friends. They both want to help the ghost who holds a connection to both of their families. As they research the past, Ben and Katherine find out that sometimes all you need to do to help someone is to believe.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Title: Snow Falling on Cedars
Character: Ole Jurgensen
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
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What Katy Did
Title: What Katy Did
Character: Dr. Reinhart
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Kevin Whately (The English Patient) stars as Dr. Philip Carr, along with Alison Pill (The Judy Garland Story), as his daughter Katy Carr, Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables), as her cousin Helen, and long-time favorite Dean Stockwell in this warm family drama that tells the story Katy, a headstrong, energetic thirteen-year-old girl with a feisty, rebellious streak who seems to be more than her father can handle at times, even with the aid of Aunt Izzie (Martha Burns). The arrival of her ill cousin begins to alter Katy's perception of the world; then a serious accident confides Katy to her room, which changes the young girl's outlook on life forever. Based on the classic novel, What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge.
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Nightmare Man
Title: Nightmare Man
Character: Evan Hannibal
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
After recovering from a near-fatal wound, a cop develops the ability to see crime scenes through psychic flashes.
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The White Raven
Title: The White Raven
Character: Markus Strand
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage – Two Couples
Title: Rescuers: Stories of Courage – Two Couples
Character: Hendrick de Vries
Released: May 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
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Music from Another Room
Title: Music from Another Room
Character: Louis Klammer
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
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Flood: A River's Rampage
Title: Flood: A River's Rampage
Character: Jacob Gunderson
Released: November 16, 1997
Type: Movie
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit list. Lots and lots of sand bags might not do the trick but a huge explosion might. In the meantime the plot is filled up with a predictable story about a family dreading their mistake of staying behind when they become entrapped in their own home.
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Title: The Third Twin
Released: November 9, 1997
Type: TV
A biologist falls for a twin she is studying and confronts a scientist with evidence on a cloning scandal.
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Sarabande
Title: Sarabande
Character: Dr. Kassovitz
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Nicholas Ballard
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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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Joseph
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Robert Greene / Older Karl Rademacher
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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Roommates
Title: Roommates
Character: Bolek Krupa
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Title: Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Character: Far
Released: January 23, 1995
Type: Movie
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be discharged for being a lesbian. With the support of her partner Diane (Judy Davis), Cammermeyer undertakes an against-all-odds battle against the Army's policy. But to do so, she must risk everything – her career, her privacy and even the love of her family.
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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
Title: Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
Character: Phantom
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
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Title: Due South
Character: Dr. Mort Gustafson
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
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Title: ER
Character: Mr. Duzak
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Mesmer
Title: Mesmer
Character: Professor Stoerk
Released: August 25, 1994
Type: Movie
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
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D2: The Mighty Ducks
Title: D2: The Mighty Ducks
Character: Jan
Released: March 25, 1994
Type: Movie
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.
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The Birds II: Land's End
Title: The Birds II: Land's End
Character: Karl
Released: March 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Vassily Peskow (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Vassily Peskow
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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On My Own
Title: On My Own
Character: The Colonel
Released: July 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.
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Title: By Way of the Stars
Character: Hausierer Nathan
Released: December 26, 1992
Type: TV
A young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the American West.
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Devlin
Title: Devlin
Character: Vittorio Di Fabrizi
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
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The Witches of Eastwick
Title: The Witches of Eastwick
Character: Fidel
Released: July 3, 1992
Type: Movie
An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes true when a seemingly perfect man named Darryl Van Horne moves into town and sweeps them off their feet by making all their dreams come true. However, they soon realize that "perfect" isn't exactly the best word to describe their devilish new man after strange and unexplainable incidents begin occurring. The pilot was inspired by both John Updike's original novel and the 1987 movie that followed.
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Deceived
Title: Deceived
Character: Tomasz
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.
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Class Action
Title: Class Action
Character: Pavel
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
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Descending Angel
Title: Descending Angel
Character: Bishop Dancu
Released: November 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.
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Cold Front
Title: Cold Front
Character: Zoubov
Released: June 9, 1990
Type: Movie
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
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The Amityville Curse
Title: The Amityville Curse
Character: The Priest
Released: May 7, 1990
Type: Movie
After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of their closest friends to help renovate. Immediately uneasy in her new surroundings, she begins experiencing shockingly vivid nightmares.
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Courage Mountain
Title: Courage Mountain
Character: Grandfather
Released: February 14, 1990
Type: Movie
At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.
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Divided Loyalties
Title: Divided Loyalties
Released: February 13, 1990
Type: Movie
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale insurrection in its American colonies, the great Indian empire of the Six Nations must choose between longtime British allies and the American Patriots, whose democratic ideals they share.
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The Experts
Title: The Experts
Character: Illyich
Released: January 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?
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Blind Fear
Title: Blind Fear
Character: Lasky
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
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No Blame
Title: No Blame
Released: December 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant and she finds that she tests positive for HIV. The films traces the effect of this on her, her family, and her best friend Suzanne.
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Something About Love
Title: Something About Love
Released: December 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Gordon Tobin
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Dr. Von Deer
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Title: The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Character: Augustus Glick
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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Blood Relations
Title: Blood Relations
Character: Andreas
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife... Dying for a rich husband, Marie is thrilled when Thomas brings her home to his family's massive estate. But there is something wrong in the house, and as the days go by and Marie wanders the dim halls, she makes a gruesome discovery. There is a lab underground, and a body, and all that's missing is a brain...
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Dead of Winter
Title: Dead of Winter
Character: Dr. Joseph Lewis
Released: February 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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The Marriage Bed
Title: The Marriage Bed
Character: Max Ehrlich
Released: December 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
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Title: Kay O'Brien
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: TV
Kay O'Brien is an American television series set at fictional Manhattan General Hospital, which aired for one season on CBS during the 1986-87 television season.
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One Magic Christmas
Title: One Magic Christmas
Character: Santa Claus
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: The Polish Consul
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Title: Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Character: Giorgi Denerenko (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
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Murder in Space
Title: Murder in Space
Character: Gregory Denarenko
Released: July 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
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Witness
Title: Witness
Character: Eli Lapp
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
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Charlie Grant's War
Title: Charlie Grant's War
Character: Jacob
Released: January 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
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Title: Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Released: October 24, 1982
Type: TV
The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
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The Amateur
Title: The Amateur
Character: Kaplan
Released: December 11, 1981
Type: Movie
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Title: Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
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Mr. Patman
Title: Mr. Patman
Character: Vrakettas
Released: April 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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Deadly Harvest
Title: Deadly Harvest
Character: Swenson
Released: August 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
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The Incredible Journey
Title: The Incredible Journey
Character: Carl Nurmi
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?