Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson

Born: October 2, 1946
in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada
Eric Peterson was born on October 2, 1946 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Corner Gas (2004), Street Legal (1987) and Corner Gas: The Movie (2014). He is married to Annie Kidder.

Movies for Eric Peterson...

Sprite Fright
Title: Sprite Fright
Character: Elder Sprite (voice)
Released: April 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Set in 80’s-Britain, when a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
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Junior’s Giant
Title: Junior’s Giant
Character: Junior
Released: April 1, 2023
Type: Movie
A close-knit Grandfather and his trans Granddaughter struggle when his dementia sparks an imaginary giant and gender confusion, causing pain for them both.
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Defining Moments
Title: Defining Moments
Character: Edward
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
A touching story of eight very different people who are at a crossroads in life and must make decisions that will forever change who they are. Jack must decide to spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend Terri. Marina must reconnect with her aging father. Laurel must embrace her new pregnancy and come to terms with her father’s early Alzheimer's. And Dave must learn why life is worth living.
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Title: Chapelwaite
Character: Samuel Gallup
Released: August 22, 2021
Type: TV
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
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You Will Still Be Here Tomorrow
Title: You Will Still Be Here Tomorrow
Character: Frank
Released: September 22, 2020
Type: Movie
A gay, married man is continuously forced to 'come out' to his father, who suffers from late-stage Alzheimer's.
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True: Friendship Day
Title: True: Friendship Day
Released: September 1, 2020
Type: Movie
When a giant Grippity-Grab snags Grizelda's friendship bracelet and turns her into a mermaid, True heads under the sea with magic wishes to save the day.
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True: Rainbow Rescue
Title: True: Rainbow Rescue
Released: June 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: True: Terrific Tales
Released: May 12, 2020
Type: TV
Through the magic of the Story Spinner, True and her friends create their own versions of Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood and other classic tales.
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True: Wuzzle Wegg Day
Title: True: Wuzzle Wegg Day
Released: March 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Spring has sprung in Rainbow City, and Wuzzle Wegg Day is right around the corner! But Bartleby's convinced that a Wegg-stealing monster is on the loose.
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True: Winter Wishes
Title: True: Winter Wishes
Character: Rainbow King (voice)
Released: November 26, 2019
Type: Movie
An ice crystal from a frosty realm is freezing everything in the Rainbow Kingdom, its citizens too! Can True save Winter Wishfest -- and her friends?
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True: Grabbleapple Harvest
Title: True: Grabbleapple Harvest
Character: Rainbow King (voice)
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
It's Grabbleapple harvest season in the Rainbow Kingdom ... but Glummy Glooma doesn't want autumn to come. Can True and her friends save the festival?
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Claws of the Red Dragon
Title: Claws of the Red Dragon
Character: James MacAvoy
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
When the CFO of a Chinese multinational tech giant is arrested on Canadian soil and faces extradition to the United States, the claws come out in a heated political battle over which nation will rule the 5G cyber space. "Claws of the Red Dragon" is based on true events.
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Torching the Dusties
Title: Torching the Dusties
Character: Frank
Released: August 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Protesters have appeared outside the gates of Ambrosia Manor. From behind strange baby-faced masks, they issue a chilling simple demand: it's time for the residents of this posh retirement home to give up their space on earth.
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Title: The Umbrella Academy
Character: AI
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: TV
A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
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True: Happy Hearts Day
Title: True: Happy Hearts Day
Character: Rainbow King
Released: February 1, 2019
Type: Movie
True and Bartleby try to cheer up the Rainbow Kingdom's loneliest citizen, but his gloomy mood is contagious! Can a trio of wishes turn things around?
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His Master's Voice
Title: His Master's Voice
Character: Hogarth
Released: December 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A Hungarian journalist who is about to start a family journeys to the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missing in the 1970s while working on a top secret military research project that examined 'voices' from outer space.
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Title: Corner Gas Animated
Character: Oscar Leroy (voice)
Released: April 2, 2018
Type: TV
It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on in Dog River, 40 kilometres from nowhere. But that's all about to change.
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Title: American Gods
Character: The Caretaker
Released: April 30, 2017
Type: TV
An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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Title: Private Eyes
Character: Jasper Dazzle
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
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Corner Gas: The Movie
Title: Corner Gas: The Movie
Character: Oscar Leroy
Released: December 3, 2014
Type: Movie
It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
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Cas & Dylan
Title: Cas & Dylan
Character: Jack
Released: September 17, 2013
Type: Movie
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Character: Jeff Thorpe
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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Billy Bishop Goes to War
Title: Billy Bishop Goes to War
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Pajama-clad and elderly, WWI Flying Ace Billy Bishop wanders around his relic-filled attic reminiscing about his battle years.
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Title: Dan for Mayor
Character: Lenny-Man
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: TV
Dan Phillips is a 30-something bartender who lives and works in the ordinary city of Wessex. Dan's had the same friends since grade school, his most prized possession is a vintage Ms. Pac-Man game and his last serious relationship was with a girl who is now engaged to someone else. His life seems to be firmly on the path to more of the same... until a chance comment suddenly puts him in the running for mayor of Wessex.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Eli Kent
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: Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making
Character: Tommy Douglas
Released: October 23, 2005
Type: TV
This three-hour prequel to the 2002 miniseries, "Trudeau", chronicles the coming of age of Canada's 15th Prime Minister and the forces that shaped his brilliant mind and fierce political will. Fatherless at 14, a thorn in the side of his Jesuit professors, the young Pierre Elliott Trudeau chafed under the suffocating pressures of the very conservative Quebec of the '30s and '40s. Iconoclast, gadfly, a restless traveler and ladies' man, he helped plant the seeds for Quebec's Quiet Revolution by challenging all of its sacred cows—including the Catholic Church and the autocratic premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis.
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Title: Corner Gas
Character: Oscar Leroy
Released: January 22, 2004
Type: TV
Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.
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Title: This Is Wonderland
Character: Judge Malone
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: TV
This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series was a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F. Walker, his writing partner Dani Romain, and Osgoode Hall Law School graduate and longtime Canadian TV producer Bernard Zukerman. The first season aired in 2004, the second season began on January 25, 2005 and the third season began on November 23, 2005. On February 13, 2006, the CBC declined to order a fourth season, effectively cancelling the show. The final episode aired on March 15, 2006. Repeats of the first and second season currently air on Canadian digital specialty channel, bold, as well as on VisionTV.
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Do or Die
Title: Do or Die
Character: Henry Chesser
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A virus causes people to age rapidly. There is an antidote, but it has to be taken daily and is under control of a single company. A woman who is not infected carries an infected child, and seeks for it to be cured. This quest leads her to the blue lands, where most of the infected live.
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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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Fairytales and Pornography
Title: Fairytales and Pornography
Character: Kyle
Released: September 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman, being accused of stealing from her employer, falls in love with her lawyer while spending Christmas holidays with him and his family.
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Title: Street Time
Released: June 23, 2002
Type: TV
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
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Trudeau
Title: Trudeau
Character: Tommy Douglas
Released: March 31, 2002
Type: Movie
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe
Title: The Many Trials of One Jane Doe
Character: Dr. Daniels
Released: January 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Based on a true story about an extraordianry woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.
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The Stork Derby
Title: The Stork Derby
Character: Max MacLeod
Released: January 8, 2002
Type: Movie
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression
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Franklin's Magic Christmas
Title: Franklin's Magic Christmas
Character: Grandfather Turtle (voice)
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Franklin and his family are off on a Christmas visit with Grandma and Grandpa at Faraway Farm. When a sudden ice storm hits and Grandpa takes a terrible tumble, Franklin and his baby sister Harriet begin a magical adventure as they journey home in search of help. With the aid of a mysterious flying creature and some very special new friends, the two manage to return with Doctor Bear and her family. Once back together, friends and family share an enchanted Christmas Ever and a memory they will hold forever of a magical Christmas night.
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The Wandering Soul Murders
Title: The Wandering Soul Murders
Character: Howard Downey
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn (Wendy Crewson) keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old partner (Victor Garber). When a prime suspect is caught, it looks as if the killer may finally be brought to justice … but in a shocking turn of events, the suspect is gunned down as he's brought to the police station. Is there more to her husband's death than Joanne realized?
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The Moving of Sophia Myles
Title: The Moving of Sophia Myles
Character: Lester
Released: November 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A pastor's cherished wife is thrown into despair and experiences a crisis of faith after his mysterious death.
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Title: Big Wolf on Campus
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: TV
Tommy is bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip a week before the start of his senior year. After becoming a werewolf, he fights against supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe.
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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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Earth
Title: Earth
Character: Mr. Rogers
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
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The Sleep Room
Title: The Sleep Room
Character: Sal Rothenberg
Released: March 31, 1998
Type: Movie
At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
Title: Sleeping Dogs Lie
Character: Jack Doughty
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?
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I'll Be Home For Christmas
Title: I'll Be Home For Christmas
Character: Dave
Released: December 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor; he's a widowed doctor and single dad who's come back to visit his father for the holidays and is pressured to stay because there's need for a local doc.
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Goosebumps: A Shocker on Shock Street
Title: Goosebumps: A Shocker on Shock Street
Character: Mr. Wright
Released: September 6, 1997
Type: Movie
When Erin's special effects whiz father gives she and her friend Marty the first tickets to a new theme park ride, they think they have won the jackpot. However, when the ride breaks down midway through, things quickly go from bad to worse.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Eric Black
Released: December 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a National Park.
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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Title: Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Character: Dr. Spring
Released: October 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
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Title: Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Mr. Wright
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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Deadly Love
Title: Deadly Love
Character: Elliott
Released: October 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Rebecca Barnes is a successful photographer who has it all—including the curse of vampiric immortality. Longing for companionship, Barnes leaves a disastrous trail of blood-less bodies in her wake. Shockingly, photographs that she snapped of one of the victims bring Rebecca into the police investigation and into the arms of Detective Sean O'Connor. As the passion between Sean and Rebecca mounts, so does the evidence against her.
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Henry & Verlin
Title: Henry & Verlin
Character: Lovejoy
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verlin's mother mistrusts Henry, who she feels is dangerous.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Mac
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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Thick as Thieves
Title: Thick as Thieves
Character: Judge Head
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Tough City - where grifters, dips and shysters scramble for a dirty dollar and a clean shirt - where one man stands head and shoulders beneath the rest - Al Hacker - small time pickpocket - master bungler. Only Lisa, his curvaceous sister and partner-in-crime, stand between Al and disaster.
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Heaven On Earth
Title: Heaven On Earth
Character: Owen Baker
Released: March 1, 1987
Type: Movie
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
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Title: Street Legal
Character: Leon Robinovitch
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994. It was revived for an additional season in 2019.
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The Park Is Mine
Title: The Park Is Mine
Character: Mike
Released: October 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Hank Stewart
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: Ewoks
Character: Teebo (voice)
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: TV
The Ewok Wicket and his friends from the Bright Tree Village go on many magical adventures.
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The King of Friday Night
Title: The King of Friday Night
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A Nova Scotia singing group has a reunion concert 20 years after their successful start.
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The Kid Who Couldn't Miss
Title: The Kid Who Couldn't Miss
Character: Billy Bishop
Released: March 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Paul Cowan's feature-length film combines fiction and reality to tell the story of how William Avery (Billy) Bishop became one of the leading fighter pilots of World War I. By no accounts a biography of Billy Bishop, the film uses a 'docu-drama' approach to show how one person goes from being a brash kid from Ontario to Canada's most decorated military figure.
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Seer Was Here
Title: Seer Was Here
Released: December 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, while theatre director John Hirsch was serving as the head of the drama department. Saul Rubinek plays an inmate of a cruel Vancouver prison who brings humour, warmth, a little joy and self-understanding to the fellow prisoners of his cell block. An irreverent satire also featuring Eric Peterson and Martin Short. “Absolutely great, It’s also funny. Very Funny. Very Warm. Very touching… in some ways, a Canadian One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (Calgary Herald, 1978)
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Title: For The Record
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: TV
For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired Sundays 9:00-10:00 p.m., January 1977 to 1986. A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most of the 'big name' Canadian actors and directors of the time.
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Title: Peep Show
Released: November 20, 1975
Type: TV
An anthology of half-hour drama programs by new and emerging Canadian writers and directors.
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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Released: March 1, 1974
Type: Movie
In this off-beat romance, a grad student rents a house for three weeks to do her research. Soon after arriving, she discovers the house is haunted by a handsome and interesting ghost. Eventually the spirit and the student fall in love. During their affair, they teach each other much about their different backgrounds. In time the woman finds herself confused by the bizarre affair. To save her sanity, she escapes from the house.
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Grierson and Gouzenko
Title: Grierson and Gouzenko
Character: Grierson
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
This rarely-screened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canada’s Red Scare that pre-dated the rise of McCarthyism in the United States. John Grierson and his National Film Board of Canada become targets of an anti-Communist blacklist in the immediate post-war years, after Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko produced documents revealing a spy ring operating in Canada. With a cast featuring Eric Peterson as Grierson, Saul Rubinek as Gouzenko, and Aaron Schwartz as Communist Party MP Fred Rose, this forgotten piece of Canadian history is brought to life in a very compelling CBC drama.