Ken Pogue

Ken Pogue

Born: July 26, 1934
Died: December 15, 2015
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Movies for Ken Pogue...

Title: Alcatraz
Character: Old Alan Sylvane, Sr.
Released: January 16, 2012
Type: TV
A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
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Title: Alcatraz
Character: Old Alan Sylvane Sr.
Released: January 16, 2012
Type: TV
A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
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Title: Fringe
Character: Derek Merchant
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: TV
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
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Deck the Halls
Title: Deck the Halls
Character: Jack Hall
Released: August 5, 2005
Type: Movie
In the tradition of such classic films as "Miracle On 34th Street", a hip, eccentric marketing genius teaches a widow and her son the miracle of Christmas.
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Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
Title: Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
Character: Francis Gilmore
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Teevee Tenia has a plan - he intends to persuade Lynx River to dump the RCMP and establish an all Dene Police Force. But Corporal Michelle Kenidi is concerned: will a Dene Police Force in Lynx River be answerable to Canadian law, or to Teevee? When an elderly tourist is found beaten to death, Michelle’s concerns deepen as her suspicions fall upon Teevee’s friend, Matthew Fowler. As Michelle pursues the investigation, painful events from the past come alive. For the community of Lynx River, the investigation holds the town’s very future at stake.
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Title: The Collector
Released: June 2, 2004
Type: TV
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.
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Monte Walsh
Title: Monte Walsh
Character: Old Doctor
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
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Johnson County War
Title: Johnson County War
Character: Wally Tascot
Released: August 24, 2002
Type: Movie
The three Hammett brothers, Cain, Harry and Dale are caught in a conflict that escalates rapidly and the old farmers facing against new farmers who have settled in the green grasslands.
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Title: Breaking News
Released: July 17, 2002
Type: TV
Breaking News is an American drama television series about the fictional Milwaukee-based 24-hour cable news television network I-24, with the motto 'Around the Clock, Around the World.' The series premiered July 17, 2002, on Bravo.
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Title: The Dead Zone
Released: June 16, 2002
Type: TV
Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
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Title: Tom Stone
Released: February 25, 2002
Type: TV
Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on CBC Television for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover. It is listed on Hulu as "Stone Undercover."
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Title: Night Visions
Character: Henry Matson
Released: July 12, 2001
Type: TV
Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.
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Love and Treason
Title: Love and Treason
Character: Ace Timmons
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason she turns him in. He's sent to prison and she divorces him and would have to deal with the stigma of being married to a traitor. A few years later, her husband escapes from prison and the consensus is that he's going after her. And he approaches her but doesn't do anything to her. She thinks he's up to something and tries to find out what it is.
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Crossfire Trail
Title: Crossfire Trail
Character: Gene Thompson
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.
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The Christmas Secret
Title: The Christmas Secret
Character: Dr Norman Ferguson
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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The 6th Day
Title: The 6th Day
Character: Speaker Day
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
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Title: Soul Food
Character: Lyle Kinswood
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: TV
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
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Out of Time
Title: Out of Time
Character: Morgan Sutter
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A man awakwens after sleeping for 20 years to find that his small local town has changed for the worse.
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Brotherhood of Murder
Title: Brotherhood of Murder
Character: Tom Sr.
Released: December 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.
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Title: So Weird
Character: John Downs
Released: January 18, 1999
Type: TV
Fourteen-year-old Fi Phillips investigates the paranormal while touring the country in a bus with her widowed rock-star mom and her skeptical brother, Jack. At the beginning of Season 3, Fi passed the job of case cracker to a songbird named Annie
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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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An Unexpected Life
Title: An Unexpected Life
Character: Judge Whitlock
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Sequel to "An Unexpected Family."
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Title: Emily of New Moon
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: TV
Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The series consisted of three seasons of thirteen episodes and one season of seven episodes, for a total of forty-six. The executive producers were Micheline Charest, Michael Donovan, and Ronald Weinberg. The series starred Martha MacIsaac as the titular orphan Emily Starr. Susan Clark and Sheila McCarthy played Emily's aunts Elizabeth and Laura, who had taken on the responsibility of raising Emily following her father's death, and Stephen McHattie played her cousin Jimmy. Susan Clark left the series after the first season when her character, Elizabeth, was killed off. Recurring cast included Chip Ciupka as Mr. Carpenter, Peter Donaldson as Ian Bowles, Richard Donat as Dr. Burnley, Kris Lemche as Perry Miller, John Neville as Uncle Malcolm, Jessica Pellerin as Ilse Burnley, Shawn Roberts as Teddy Kent, and Linda Thorson as Cousin Isabel.
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Final Descent
Title: Final Descent
Character: Ian Pryce
Released: October 12, 1997
Type: Movie
An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.
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All the Winters that Have Been
Title: All the Winters that Have Been
Released: September 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
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Dad's Week Off
Title: Dad's Week Off
Character: Emmett Sharpel
Released: March 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Henry Winkler stars as Jack, a stressed-out computer salesman who can't sell his company's defective product and can't take any more noise from his hyperactive children. Jack looks forward to peace and quiet when his wife volunteers to take the kids camping - what he gets is a week that drives him even crazier! Jack's troubles begin when a party animal co-worker introduces him to a beautiful but wildly unpredictable manicurist named Cherice. When Cherice isn't handcuffing Jack to the bed, she's baking cakes in the middle of the night or eluding the police in high speed chases. Cherice turns Jack's dull, ordinary life into a wild non-stop adventure - and a delightfully zany comedy that will keep you laughing from start to finish.
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Contagious
Title: Contagious
Character: George Ryburn
Released: January 22, 1997
Type: Movie
When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into an epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug mule from the plane, who was smuggling cocaine in his stomach, infects the drugs, which will be on the streets soon. And to top things off, her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?
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An Unexpected Family
Title: An Unexpected Family
Character: Judge Whitlock
Released: December 4, 1996
Type: Movie
When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.
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Shadow of a Doubt
Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Judge Brown
Released: December 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
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Bad Moon
Title: Bad Moon
Character: Sheriff Jenson
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
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Title: Millennium
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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Home Song
Title: Home Song
Character: Grandpa Gardner
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: Movie
A family struggles to overcome the past and forgive one another when a long buried secret surfaces.
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Title: The Sentinel
Character: Mickey O'Toole
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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In the Lake of the Woods
Title: In the Lake of the Woods
Character: Sheriff Art Lux
Released: March 5, 1996
Type: Movie
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese village. The accusation kills his career, and severely endangers his marriage. When he and Kathy flee to an isolated cabin, he awakes one morning to find her gone. Questions are asked, answers are given or hinted at, as the tension and suspense build.
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Wings of Courage
Title: Wings of Courage
Character: Pierre Deley
Released: June 16, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the young pilots crashes on such a flight, he has to try and get back to civilization on foot. Back home, his wife and colleagues start to fear the worst.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Ian Harper
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: Mr. Jones
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: Dean Hardwick
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: Sliders
Character: Dr. Darren Morton
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: TV
In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?
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Dangerous Intentions
Title: Dangerous Intentions
Character: Andrew
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: Movie
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
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Someone Else's Child
Title: Someone Else's Child
Character: Jack Maddox
Released: December 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth.
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Title: Due South
Character: Gerard
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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Harvest for the Heart
Title: Harvest for the Heart
Character: James Hansen, Sr.
Released: April 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Twenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to the family farm and must accept the changes that happened after his departure.
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Title: Viper
Character: Jerome Midland
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: Viper
Character: Warren Keltner
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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Sherlock Holmes Returns
Title: Sherlock Holmes Returns
Character: James Moriarty Booth
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
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The Amy Fisher Story
Title: The Amy Fisher Story
Character: Elliot Fisher
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Simon Lang
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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Sexual Advances
Title: Sexual Advances
Character: Treadway
Released: May 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Drama about a happily married career woman who falls victim to a management power play involving sexual harassment by her sports-equipment company's in-house lawyer.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Sergeant Grady
Released: February 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
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Still Not Quite Human
Title: Still Not Quite Human
Character: Bundy
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
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My Son Johnny
Title: My Son Johnny
Character: Judge Burke
Released: November 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is around, Anthony is never safe, and never has been.
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Title: The Commish
Released: September 28, 1991
Type: TV
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
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Chaindance
Title: Chaindance
Character: Warden Slade
Released: May 31, 1991
Type: Movie
As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, another inmate wants to take care of J.T. Blake forever.
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The Hitman
Title: The Hitman
Character: Chambers
Released: May 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
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Run
Title: Run
Character: Halloran
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
While conveying a Porsche from Boston to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad loser and starts a fight. But he's also a bad fighter: he falls on his head and is dead. Now Charlie's in trouble; after he flees Halloran's father puts a reward on his head. Even the police won't help him against the mighty man... so Charlie has to run for his life.
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Common Ground
Title: Common Ground
Character: Father Buckley
Released: March 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
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Where the Heart Is
Title: Where the Heart Is
Character: Hamilton
Released: February 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
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Perfect Witness
Title: Perfect Witness
Character: Woods
Released: October 28, 1989
Type: Movie
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Senator Camden
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
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Day One
Title: Day One
Character: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Released: May 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: John
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: Katts and Dog
Released: September 17, 1988
Type: TV
Katts and Dog is a French and Canadian-produced television series which ran from 1988 to 1993. It was known as Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop in the United States where it originally aired on CBN Cable/The Family Channel and Rintintin Junior in France on La Cinq. CTV broadcast the series within Canada. When the episodes were filmed the dog’s name was “Rudy”. When the series was aired in the U.S. and France, the name was dubbed as “Rinty” to go with the new title. However, some episodes of Katts and Dogg have the American dubbing where "Rudy" is called "Rinty" throughout the episode. The episode Hit and Run is an example of this. When the series went out in Britain, it kept the title Katts and Dog, but the dog's name was changed to “Rinty.” The show is about the life of Canine Officer Hank Katts and his canine partner who fight crime and the forces of evil. The show’s early episodes begin with Hank just finishing up Police Academy. Later on, it shows the first meeting between Katts and Rudy/Rinty. It also shows the life of Hank’s nephew, Steve, through the death of his mother and his adoption by Officer Katts. A 1991 TV movie had Officer Katts and Rudy visit Paris.
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Hitting Home
Title: Hitting Home
Character: Detective Sergeant Sullivan
Released: August 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
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Crazy Moon
Title: Crazy Moon
Character: Alec
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Brooks is an eccentric rich kid, with a fondness for big band music, bow ties taking strange photographs who one day whilst stealing a mannequin from a clothes store, meets Anne, a free-spirited, young deaf girl who works in the shop. It's a meeting that will transform his life. As their friendship blossoms he starts to learn sign-language and she helps him to conquer his fear of water but with a bullying brother, insensitive overbearing father and his father's peculiar new girlfriend all pressurising him to be 'normal' will Brooks be able to break free from their boundaries and his own fears and limitations to find the meaning of true and selfless love.
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The Liberators
Title: The Liberators
Character: oncle Avery
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
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Dead of Winter
Title: Dead of Winter
Character: Officer Mullavy
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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Keeping Track
Title: Keeping Track
Character: Capt. McCullough
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that engages directly with brain cells.
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Title: Adderly
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: TV
Adderly is a Canadian television drama series, first aired in 1986.
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Act of Vengeance
Title: Act of Vengeance
Character: Earl Skidmore
Released: September 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Spearfield's Daughter
Title: Spearfield's Daughter
Character: Ryan
Released: May 25, 1986
Type: Movie
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.
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Mafia Princess
Title: Mafia Princess
Character: Committee Member
Released: January 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
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Miracle at Moreaux
Title: Miracle at Moreaux
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic school in which the gentile students must face their fears about harboring Jews from the Nazis. As the students become acquainted with their Jewish peers, they grow more sympathetic to their situation and eventually go to great lengths -- and take serious risks -- to save the lives of their newfound friends. - Loretta Swit, Geneviève Appleton, Milan Cheylov
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The Climb
Title: The Climb
Character: Peter Aschenbrenner
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
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Perry Mason Returns
Title: Perry Mason Returns
Character: Frank 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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A Time to Live
Title: A Time to Live
Character: Dr. Doran
Released: October 27, 1985
Type: Movie
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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Title: MacGyver
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Star Wars: Droids - The Battle Against Sise Fromm
Title: Star Wars: Droids - The Battle Against Sise Fromm
Released: September 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Combination of episodes 1 to 4 of the animated series Droid Adventures. After being dumped in the Ingo Desert by their master, C-3PO and R2-D2 accidentally run into several new masters and collide with gangsters, criminals, pirates, Boba Fett, IG-88, the Galactic Empire and other threats , finding themselves in various difficult situations.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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The Suicide Murders
Title: The Suicide Murders
Character: Joe Harrow
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
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Louisiana
Title: Louisiana
Character: Dr. Murphy
Released: January 25, 1984
Type: Movie
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
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Title: Airwolf
Character: Professor Barton Saunders
Released: January 22, 1984
Type: TV
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
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The Dead Zone
Title: The Dead Zone
Character: Vice President
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Title: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Character: Lt. Angus
Released: April 16, 1983
Type: TV
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.
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In Defense of Kids
Title: In Defense of Kids
Character: Mr. Shurtleff
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: D.A. Dillon
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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The Grey Fox
Title: The Grey Fox
Character: Jack Budd
Released: December 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. Entering a world unfamiliar to him, he returns to the only thing that gives him purpose — robbery.
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Murder by Phone
Title: Murder by Phone
Character: Fil Thorner
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
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Shock-Trauma
Title: Shock-Trauma
Character: Governor
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.
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Title: Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Character: Judge James Aloycious Foley
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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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Andrew McDonald
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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The July Group
Title: The July Group
Character: Marcus
Released: July 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their attempt at a non-violent solution actually makes things worse for themselves and their captors. Based on Stanley Ellin's novel STRONGHOLD.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Dr. Krause
Released: June 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Title: F.D.R.: The Last Year
Released: May 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
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An American Christmas Carol
Title: An American Christmas Carol
Character: Jack Latham (as Kenneth Pogue)
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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Lost and Found
Title: Lost and Found
Character: Julian
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
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The Silent Partner
Title: The Silent Partner
Character: Detective Willard
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
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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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Second Wind
Title: Second Wind
Character: Pete
Released: April 8, 1976
Type: Movie
A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.
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The Ottawa Valley
Title: The Ottawa Valley
Character: James
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of her mother’s family.