David Gardner

David Gardner

Born: May 4, 1928
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Movies for David Gardner...

Meet the Hitlers
Title: Meet the Hitlers
Character: Himself
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
What would it be like if your last name was Hitler? Director Matt Ogens seeks that answer by intimately portraying a diverse group of individuals with that same unfortunate name.
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Defendor
Title: Defendor
Character: Grandpa Henry
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
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All Hat
Title: All Hat
Character: Homer Parr
Released: September 11, 2007
Type: Movie
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. Determined to stay out of trouble, Ray heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains losing racehorses and whose debts are growing faster than his corn.
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Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Title: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Character: Grandfather
Released: November 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into contact with a beautiful mare which has suffered at the hands of its callous owner, she takes it upon herself to care for the creature.
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Suburban Madness
Title: Suburban Madness
Character: Monte Harris
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
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Boys Briefs 2
Title: Boys Briefs 2
Character: Mother (segment "Touch")
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Chicken (2001); Back Room (1999); Breakfast [Frühstück] (2002); Touch (2001); and Take-Out (2000)
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Title: Monk
Character: Minister
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Touch
Title: Touch
Character: Foster Father
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
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Title: Mutant X
Character: Old Henry Burns
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: TV
Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Avi Arad, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The mission of Mutant X is to seek out and protect their fellow New Mutants. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Even though the series had high ratings and was meant to be renewed for a fourth season, it was abruptly canceled in 2004 after the dismantling of Fireworks Entertainment, one of the show's production companies, ending the show on a cliffhanger.
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Judgment
Title: Judgment
Character: Seth Kendrick
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Helen Hannah, the Christian leader of "Apocalypse" "Revelation" and "Tribulation" is being put on trial in the One Nation Earth Court of Justice. Mitch Kendrick is a lawyer assigned to defend her, and Victoria Thorne, his ex-lover, is the attorney. Not only is the entire trial scripted, but Kendrick is on the fence about whose side he's on.
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For Love of Olivia
Title: For Love of Olivia
Character: Judge Finch
Released: March 18, 2001
Type: Movie
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congress and encountering personal threats to his family.
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My Husband's Double Life
Title: My Husband's Double Life
Character: Judge Frost
Released: March 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A woman (Margaret Colin) discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother.
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Detroit Rock City
Title: Detroit Rock City
Character: Detroit Priest
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
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Family Blessings
Title: Family Blessings
Character: Lloyd Reston
Released: December 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Lee Reston is a widow whose police officer son Greg dies in a car accident. Greg's friend and fellow officer Chris Lallek tries to help the Reston family in Greg's absence. Soon, he and Lee grow close and fall in love. But Lee is fifteen years older than Chris, something that upsets most of her family, including her college-aged daughter. When Chris proposes marriage, Lee must decide whether to risk alienating her family in order to be with the man she loves.
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Murder at 1600
Title: Murder at 1600
Character: Speaker Of The House
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Dr. Hamilton-Ives
Released: November 4, 1995
Type: Movie
Sara lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody and her life is an open book. Left with the care of her family home, she has trouble meeting the mortgage payments and her ex-boyfriend is the bank manager attempting to foreclose. When she takes in boarders to meet expenses, she unwittingly rents a room to an international criminal hiding out from a bounty hunter, John Flynn. When the bounty hunter shows up, the criminal takes a hike. Reluctantly admitting that he might need her help, Flynn agrees to make Sara a partner for half the bounty if they catch the missing man in time. What follows is a wild ride where Sara discovered that she is anything but boring and predictable.
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Title: Due South
Character: Police Academy Commandant
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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RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement
Title: RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement
Character: OCP Chairman
Released: March 14, 1994
Type: Movie
While tracking a ruthless killer, RoboCop and Madigan uncover a conspiracy between insane genius Dr. Cray Mallardo and ruthless OCP executive Chip Chayken, to develop a computer system linked to a human brain. Neuro-brain is created, a system capable of running the public services of the entire city. There s just one glitch: a ghost named Diana inhabits the machine. As RoboCop gets too close to this kindred spirit, Chayken enlists the aid of a homicidal psychopath Pudface Morgan to kill him off.
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Title: RoboCop: The Series
Character: OCP Chairman
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: TV
RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2. RoboCop has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward.
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To Catch a Killer
Title: To Catch a Killer
Character: Judge
Released: May 15, 1992
Type: Movie
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
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Beautiful Dreamers
Title: Beautiful Dreamers
Character: Dr. Lett
Released: June 5, 1990
Type: Movie
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
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The Christmas Wife
Title: The Christmas Wife
Character: Harry
Released: December 12, 1988
Type: Movie
An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
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The Good Mother
Title: The Good Mother
Released: November 4, 1988
Type: Movie
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Larson
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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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Chief of Police
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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Heartsounds
Title: Heartsounds
Character: Barney Knapp
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: Movie
New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
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Special People
Title: Special People
Character: Dr. Rhodes
Released: September 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.
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When Angels Fly
Title: When Angels Fly
Character: Dr. Lorstrum
Released: June 1, 1983
Type: Movie
When Marta Wendell's institutionalized sister suddenly dies, she suspects foul play. To uncover the truth she gets the job as chief surgical nurse at the hospital.
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Class of 1984
Title: Class of 1984
Character: Principal Morganthau
Released: August 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
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If You Could See What I Hear
Title: If You Could See What I Hear
Character: Jack Steffen
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
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Prom Night
Title: Prom Night
Character: Dr. Fairchild
Released: July 18, 1980
Type: Movie
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
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Double Negative
Title: Double Negative
Character: Cunningham
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Title: For The Record
Character: Bob Ramsay
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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Bethune
Title: Bethune
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Biographical film about Norman Bethune (one of two starring Sutherland)
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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Character: Chorus
Released: January 6, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.