Michael Kane

Michael Kane

Born: March 21, 1922
Died: December 14, 2007
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Movies for Michael Kane...

The Gunfighters
Title: The Gunfighters
Character: Gov. Hornbeck
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
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The Challenge of Survival: Chemicals
Title: The Challenge of Survival: Chemicals
Character: Narrator
Released: August 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Cross Country
Title: Cross Country
Character: Harry Burns
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Title: Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Character: Steinhart
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
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Magic in the Sky
Title: Magic in the Sky
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Magic in the Sky investigates the impact of television on the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. The film also documents the establishment of the first Inuit-language television network, called Inukshuk, which began broadcasting to six Inuit communities in December 1980. The Inuit's efforts to create an indigenous television network mirrors the struggle of any culture trying to preserve its unique identity.
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Middle Age Crazy
Title: Middle Age Crazy
Character: Abe Titus
Released: July 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...
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Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?
Title: Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Through rare film footage and interviews with some of the pioneers who made film history, this documentary traces the history of filmmaking in Canada from 1939-1953. It covers the establishment of the National Film Board in 1939; the war years; Canada's first Oscar; and John Grierson's sudden demise as Canada's driving force in the industry. We witness the struggles of the private film producers, the development of the film industry in Québec, and the emergence of the documentary. Above all, the film asks whether the alternating fortunes of the Canadian film industry, in the face of an overwhelming American presence, reflect the attitudes of the Canadian people towards themselves and their culture.
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Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946
Title: Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.
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Harness the Wind
Title: Harness the Wind
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a form of solar energy. Harness the Wind traces the history of attempts to control and use wind energy, and projects into the future to visualize the potential of wind-power technology.
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Canada Vignettes: Trading Post
Title: Canada Vignettes: Trading Post
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.
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Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
Title: Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.
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Canada Vignettes: Trees
Title: Canada Vignettes: Trees
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal changes.
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Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland
Title: Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.
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Three Days of the Condor
Title: Three Days of the Condor
Character: S.W. Wicks
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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The Sloane Affair
Title: The Sloane Affair
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.
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Promise Her Anything
Title: Promise Her Anything
Character: Staff Doctor
Released: February 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
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Buster Keaton Rides Again
Title: Buster Keaton Rides Again
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1965
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and the occasionally combative creative process behind the scenes. An intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends.
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The Bedford Incident
Title: The Bedford Incident
Character: Commander Allison Executive Officer - Bridge
Released: October 11, 1965
Type: Movie
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.
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Bethune
Title: Bethune
Character: The words of Norman Bethune read by (voice)
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.
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Lonely Are the Brave
Title: Lonely Are the Brave
Character: Paul Bondi
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
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High Arctic
Title: High Arctic
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thirty days, and strange animals like the shaggy musk-ox, the shy lemming, and migrant water birds that survive in a land of vast deserts and almost perpetual cold.
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Lord Elgin: Voice of the People
Title: Lord Elgin: Voice of the People
Character: Solicitor-General Blake
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of Lord Elgin, a man’s whose faith in a nation’s right to self-determination was stronger than the threat of the mob or his own fear of failure. Successor to Lord Durham, he established the principles on which Canadian government stands today.
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The Face of the High Arctic
Title: The Face of the High Arctic
Character: narrator
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
This short documentary studies the geological evolution that has gone on for millions of years in the High Arctic. Following the evidence of glaciers that have advanced and receded, the film also traces life forms that have changed with the climate.