Robert Wisden

Robert Wisden

Born: June 2, 1958
in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Robert Charles Wisden (born in Brighton, England) is a British actor who has acted in over a hundred television shows. In 2000 he won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for The Sheldon Kennedy Story (1999).

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Field Day
Title: Field Day
Character: Jerry Davis
Released: October 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Jen has moved back to her deceased husband’s home town with her daughter to start anew. She unexpectedly finds friendship and romance when she joins the school parent teacher organization.
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A Picture of Her
Title: A Picture of Her
Character: Captain Mark
Released: March 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Beth unwittingly becomes the subject of an award-winning magazine’s cover and goes on a quest to uncover the true identity of the mystery photographer who snapped her photo.
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A Royal Runaway Romance
Title: A Royal Runaway Romance
Character: Pat
Released: April 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Princess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady.
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Don't Forget I Love You
Title: Don't Forget I Love You
Character: Richard Jones
Released: January 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Taylor is a successful woman whose job is her life. Her thirtieth birthday arrives, where it turns out that her previously deceased mother has placed various tasks for her in a time capsule. They are the basis for stepping out of your comfort zone and gaining new experiences.
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Where Your Heart Belongs
Title: Where Your Heart Belongs
Character: Elliot Sullivan
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Mackenzie Sullivan is a New York-based marketing executive struggling to keep her clients. When she returns home to a rural maple farm to help her best friend plan her wedding in just two weeks, Mackenzie learns the hard way that the love and support of family and true friends means more than she'd imagined.
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Gingerbread Miracle
Title: Gingerbread Miracle
Character: Eddie
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Maya and Alex, old friends from high school, work together over Christmas to sell his uncle’s Mexican bakery famous for its gingerbread cookies that the patrons believe grants wishes.
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Five Star Christmas
Title: Five Star Christmas
Character: Ted Ralston
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
After moving back to her hometown, Lisa (Lenz) plots with her siblings and grandparents to help her father's bed and breakfast get a five-star review from an incognito travel critic (Webster), but ends up falling for him, not knowing he is the real critic.
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Title: R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Character: Dad
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: TV
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Title: Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Character: Major Bert Samuels
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: Movie
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
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Driven to Kill
Title: Driven to Kill
Character: Terry
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the life he once knew...with a vengeance.
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Watchmen
Title: Watchmen
Character: Richard Nixon
Released: March 4, 2009
Type: Movie
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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Lost Behind Bars
Title: Lost Behind Bars
Released: May 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A reporter tracing the effect of the death penalty stumbles across a murder mystery and a potentially innocent man set for execution.
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Title: Above and Beyond
Character: Pritchard
Released: October 29, 2006
Type: TV
Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30. The miniseries is about the Atlantic Ferry Organization, which was tasked with delivering aircraft from North America to Europe in the early years of the Second World War. It stars Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Scarfe, Liane Balaban, Allan Hawco, Kenneth Welsh, and Jason Priestley.
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Saving Milly
Title: Saving Milly
Character: Fred Barnes
Released: March 13, 2005
Type: Movie
True story based on the best-selling book by Mort Kondracke.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Wallace Gray
Released: October 18, 2004
Type: TV
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323
Title: NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323
Character: Pilot
Released: March 21, 2004
Type: Movie
A team of federal investigators have to comb through the wreckage of a crashed airplane to find the cause of the fatal downing. Was it terrorism? Negligence? Human failure? Or just a tragic accident?
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Title: Snow Queen
Character: Wolfgang
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: TV
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Snow Queen
Title: Snow Queen
Character: Wolfgang
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A mysterious guest with an icy stare arrives at the hotel one night, wrapped in fur and diamonds. By daybreak, the "Snow Queen" has vanished with Kai! Gerda embarks on a journey of morphing seasons, fantastical creatures, and long-frozen mysteries in a desperate quest to find her stolen love.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: New Phillip
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
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Title: Smallville
Character: Gabe Sullivan
Released: October 16, 2001
Type: TV
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.
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Title: Wolf Lake
Character: Wallace
Released: September 19, 2001
Type: TV
"There are those among us who can move at will between the world of the wolves and the world of the humans. My people call them skin walkers." Seattle police detective John Kanin has a problem. He's in love, but shortly after agreeing to marry him, his girlfriend disapears. His search leads to her home town, where people are clearly hiding information from him. One of the things they are hiding is the fact that they are all werewolves, as is John's girlfriend, Ruby.
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First Target
Title: First Target
Character: Brinkman
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: Movie
The Secret Service attempts to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.
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Painful Secrets
Title: Painful Secrets
Character: Russell Cottrell
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing self-mutilation is very real, and this movie exposes the growing epidemic. It's a film you can't afford to miss.
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Final Destination
Title: Final Destination
Character: Ken Browning
Released: March 17, 2000
Type: Movie
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
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The Sheldon Kennedy Story
Title: The Sheldon Kennedy Story
Character: Graham James
Released: October 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Alberta (Canada) rural farm-boy Sheldon Kennedy feels abused by dad when punished for poor performances compared to big brother Troy. being recruited for professional ice-hockey at age 14 seems an ideal way out, straight to a party animal's good life. Yet after a Vegas marriage with Jana and hearing she's pregnant, Sheldon breaks down and tells her what's eating at him for years: coach Graham James, whoa arranged for him to be transferred each time James was, sexually abused Sheldon, who fears to be laughed away as a queer and loose his only career avenue if he goes public
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Title: Harvey
Character: Dr. Sanderson
Released: July 18, 1999
Type: TV
Filmed in 1996 but released in 1999. An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see.
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Title: Da Vinci's Inquest
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.
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Title: First Wave
Character: James Dutton
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: TV
First Wave is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The show was created by Chris Brancato, who co-wrote an early version of the script for the seminal X-Files episode "Eve". Francis Ford Coppola was executive producer on the show. In an unusual move, the Sci-Fi Channel picked up the series on a 66-episode contract. The show was subsequently canceled once the contract expired at the end of the third season due to disappointing ratings.
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Every Mother's Worst Fear
Title: Every Mother's Worst Fear
Character: Jeff Hoagland
Released: August 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Faced with her parents' recent divorce, her mother working long hours and her high school boyfriend dumping her, 16-year-old Martha looks for solace in the world of Internet chat rooms. Innocent chatting turns deadly as Martha attracts the attention of a pedophile and cyber-kidnapping ring. Martha's mother Connie suspects foul play and begins a frantic search for her daughter, enlisting the help of the police, the FBI and an expert hacker.
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Det. Coopersmith
Released: January 29, 1998
Type: Movie
A woman finds out that her husband has been cheating on her and, as she tries to get custody of her son, events spiral out of control, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Outrage
Title: Outrage
Character: Manny Baylis
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Tom Casey reports to the police some youngsters stealing from cars. He becomes the target of the 3 teenagers, who start to terrorise him and his family.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Detective Sims
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Bert Samuels
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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Gone in a Heartbeat
Title: Gone in a Heartbeat
Character: Chief Alpert
Released: December 3, 1996
Type: Movie
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.
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Title: Millennium
Character: Gordon Roberts
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: TV
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story
Title: Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story
Character: Ken Paff
Released: October 22, 1996
Type: Movie
Real-life account of a Canadian hero, a determined female truck driver who took on the mob-controlled leadership of the International Teamsters Union.
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Harvey
Title: Harvey
Character: Dr. Sanderson
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: Movie
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
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Title: The Sentinel
Character: John Bentley
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: TV
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
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The War Between Us
Title: The War Between Us
Character: Ed Parnum
Released: December 10, 1995
Type: Movie
The Story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who finds friendship after her family is interned to a small town during World War II.
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The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
Title: The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
Character: Canada
Released: June 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a time when being a ranger meant more than operating expensive equipment. Forest fires were fought with guts and courage, not chemicals and airplanes. Bill Bell was the toughest ranger in an elite crew of very rugged men. A figure of heroic proportions, he was generally feared and respected by all. It was even rumored that he had at one time killed a sheep farmer, which only fueled his already enormous reputation. The young ranger does everything to remain in the good graces of Bill Bell, the senior ranger he idolizes. Their tentative rapport grows into a friendship through a hilarious and heroic rite of passage in which the younger ranger meets the test-and the woman of his dreams.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Sam Winter
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: Justin Wells
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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Legends of the Fall
Title: Legends of the Fall
Character: John T. O'Banion
Released: December 16, 1994
Type: Movie
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
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The Disappearance of Vonnie
Title: The Disappearance of Vonnie
Character: Det. Randy Winkler
Released: September 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Corrine Kaczmarek is seeking desperately for the truth in the case of the mysterious disappearance of her sister Vonnie.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: Ted Farley / Dutch Kreeger
Released: June 5, 1994
Type: Movie
A pilot to a prospective series involving a pair of mismatched newlyweds who are set up by her wealthy dad as partners in a travel business for thrill seekers known as "Adventures Inc." that allows clients to go anywhere and do anything for a price.
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Spoils of War
Title: Spoils of War
Character: Bartender
Released: April 9, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.
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Title: Viper
Character: Matt
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: TV
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Robert Patrick Modell
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: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Valdosta Sam
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.
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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Leonard Bostich
Released: January 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Mayor
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Col. William Everett Culbraith
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Werner
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Impolite
Title: Impolite
Character: Jack Yeats
Released: September 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A reporter meets mixed reactions as he unravels the truth about the death of a financier.
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Stay Tuned
Title: Stay Tuned
Character: Man in "3 Men and Rosemary's Baby"
Released: August 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.
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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Brad Ziegler
Released: March 9, 1992
Type: TV
The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha, Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler, and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
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Title: Palace Guard
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: TV
Palace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after serving three years in prison, is released on parole and accepts an offer to become the head of security for the posh Palace Hotel chain. There were two reasons for this somewhat unusual job offer. One was that Logan had previously enjoyed great success in stealing from the high-class clientele of the Palace chain, and hence it was thought that he'd understand how to prevent others from doing so. And the other was that Tommy was the illegitimate son of the chain's owner, Arturo Taft, though Taft did not reveal this to Logan. The show centered primarily around the working relationship between Logan and his new boss, Christy Cooper, the hotel chain's Vice-President of Public Relations. In each episode, Logan and Cooper travelled to a hotel in a different city where Logan would help avert some disaster using quirky and questionable methods, leaving Cooper to sweep up the fallout.
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Title: Lightning Force
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: TV
Lightning Force was a short lived action television starring Matthew Walker, Meat Loaf, George Takei and Guylaine St-Onge. The series premiered in 1991 and went off in 1992, in all 22 episodes were produced.
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Blood Clan
Title: Blood Clan
Character: Stuart Roos
Released: August 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him to Canada, where she grows up with no knowledge of her family's past. Then, in the present, several deaths occur and people begin to think it's Katy Bane McKay.
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Glory Enough For All
Title: Glory Enough For All
Character: Charles Best
Released: June 27, 1988
Type: Movie
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
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Title: 9B
Character: Bob Dawson
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: TV
Bob Dawson moves to the small Canadian town of Fort Hamilton to teach in peace. However, his new students are mostly local misfits and delinquents. He tries to help them with their problems. Inspired by the career of Don Hunter.
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9B
Title: 9B
Character: Bob Dawson
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: Movie
The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school.
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In This Corner
Title: In This Corner
Character: Terry Dunne
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Terry Dunne, an amateur boxer from Canada, becomes an unwitting pawn in The Troubles when he is convinced by Irish Republican Army operatives to help smuggle accused terrorist Ryan Shaw back into Ireland as part of his entourage when he travels there for a title bout.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mike Johnson
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Marty Parks
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Firebird 2015 A.D.
Title: Firebird 2015 A.D.
Character: Cam
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.