Doris Petrie

Doris Petrie

Born: January 1, 1918
Died: August 21, 2000
in Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada

Movies for Doris Petrie...

Baby on Board
Title: Baby on Board
Character: Mother Comisso
Released: December 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being pursued. She commandeers a cab driven by Ernie (Judge Reinhold), and the chase is on.
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Scanners II: The New Order
Title: Scanners II: The New Order
Character: Susan Kellum
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
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Where the Spirit Lives
Title: Where the Spirit Lives
Character: Miss Weir
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
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Title: Friday the 13th: The Series
Character: Dr. Patricia Price
Released: October 3, 1987
Type: TV
Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.
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Perry Mason Returns
Title: Perry Mason Returns
Character: Mrs. Lynch
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
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To Set Our House in Order
Title: To Set Our House in Order
Character: Grandmother MacLeod
Released: May 23, 1985
Type: Movie
In coming to grips with previously well-concealed information about the death of her uncle in World War I, and the emotional upheaval it continues to cause her family, a young girl begins to question the benevolence of God and the order in God's world. Based on the short story by Margaret Laurence.
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Heartsounds
Title: Heartsounds
Character: Mrs. Weinman
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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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Mrs. Grayson
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
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Ticket to Heaven
Title: Ticket to Heaven
Character: Mrs. Foster
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
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The Olden Days Coat
Title: The Olden Days Coat
Character: Gran
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
While at her grandmother's house, a ten-year-old girl finds a coat in the closet. As she inspects it, she is suddenly taken back in time.
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Cries in the Night
Title: Cries in the Night
Character: Ruby
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
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Home to Stay
Title: Home to Stay
Character: Mrs. Strickmeyer
Released: May 2, 1978
Type: Movie
A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.
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Title: Peep Show
Character: Mrs. Rogers
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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Wedding in White
Title: Wedding in White
Character: Mary Dougall
Released: October 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.