Michael J. Reynolds

Michael J. Reynolds

Born: August 15, 1939
Died: March 22, 2018
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael John Reynolds (15 August 1939 – 22 March 2018) was a Canadian actor who has featured in over one hundred films.

Movies for Michael J. Reynolds...

The Curse of Edgar
Title: The Curse of Edgar
Character: Joe Kennedy
Released: October 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light on J. Edgar Hoover. This film reveals the FBI director's battle to retain power from the Kennedy clan. From 1960 and 1963, two ideals of America come face to face and two sets of morals clash. Clyde Tolson, Hoover's right-hand man and secret lover, is the last survivor of this psychological drama. He recounts this intense political period when America's destiny has never been as dependent on one of the most powerful and mysterious figures of the time.
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Title: The Prey
Character: Arthur Martinez
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: TV
De Prooi tells the story of the rise and fall of Dutch banker Rijkman Groenink and the fall of ABN AMRO Bank. It is based on the acclaimed novel by research journalist and professor Jeroen Smit.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Jerome
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: Movie
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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The Descent: Part 2
Title: The Descent: Part 2
Character: Ed Oswald
Released: October 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
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Title: World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Gen. George C. Marshall
Released: November 10, 2008
Type: TV
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
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Red Mist
Title: Red Mist
Character: Dr. Stegman
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
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Dark Corners
Title: Dark Corners
Character: Dr. Richardson
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A troubled young woman wakes up one day as a different person - someone who is stalked by creatures.
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United 93
Title: United 93
Character: Patrick Joseph Driscoll
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Where the Truth Lies
Title: Where the Truth Lies
Character: John Hillman
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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Blessed
Title: Blessed
Character: Dr. Lehman
Released: May 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.
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Title: Days That Shook the World
Character: General J. T. Farrel
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: TV
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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Out for a Kill
Title: Out for a Kill
Character: Dean
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
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The 51st State
Title: The 51st State
Character: Mr. Escobar
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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A Secret Affair
Title: A Secret Affair
Character: Charles Stewart
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Vanessa Stewart is a beautiful American woman engaged to be married. Vanessa is an artist and is also a buyer for her father's company. She goes to Venice on a business trip and meets television reporter Bill Fitzgerald from Ireland. They fall madly in love in the four days they are in Venice.
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Strike!
Title: Strike!
Character: Mr. Armstrong
Released: August 21, 1998
Type: Movie
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
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Ms. Scrooge
Title: Ms. Scrooge
Character: Ghost of Christmas Past
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
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Title: Earth: Final Conflict
Character: President Thompson
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Colonel Donald K. Gore
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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That Old Feeling
Title: That Old Feeling
Character: Senator Marks
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: Movie
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
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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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Extreme Measures
Title: Extreme Measures
Character: Judge
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
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Her Desperate Choice
Title: Her Desperate Choice
Character: Jim's Father
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
Despite allegations of child sexual abuse against Jody's ex-husband Marcus, the court orders joint custody of their daughter Samantha. Jody faces a choice of turning Samantha over to Marcus or taking her on the run and risk kidnapping charges. Pursued by both the FBI and a private detective, Jody and Samantha are hunted, fleeing from town to town with the help of an underground network set up to help women and children escape from abuse. Based on a true story. 
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Fly Away Home
Title: Fly Away Home
Character: General
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
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Net Worth
Title: Net Worth
Character: Clarence Campbell
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
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The Lifeforce Experiment
Title: The Lifeforce Experiment
Character: Jack Aspect
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: Movie
A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
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Trial & Error
Title: Trial & Error
Character: Governor Nelson
Released: February 24, 1993
Type: Movie
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes in his current case is guilty, and that winning the case could help him much on his way to become vice-governour of Philadelphia. So he doesn't think twice about influencing witnesses. Only five years later - now head of the Department of Public Prosecution - when he receives a pledge for retrial, he gets doubts and starts investigating again... even risking his career.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
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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Deadly Matrimony
Title: Deadly Matrimony
Character: Judge Zagel
Released: November 22, 1992
Type: Movie
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed, he beats her to death...and its up to John Reed to put him away for it, and clean up the dirty cops that want to stop him. Part I starts with Diane's death and then, in a flashback, details her struggles against abuse and Reed's struggles as he coaches her to gather evidence against Alan. Part II deals with Reed's struggles with intimidating cops.
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Clearcut
Title: Clearcut
Character: Hunter
Released: September 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A white lawyer arrives to a remote area in Northern Ontario to defend Indigenous activists who are blocking a logging company's clearcut of old growth on their land.
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The Last Best Year
Title: The Last Best Year
Character: Wisnovsky
Released: November 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
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Millennium
Title: Millennium
Character: Jerry Bannister
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
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Day One
Title: Day One
Character: Kenneth Bainbridge
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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Gorillas in the Mist
Title: Gorillas in the Mist
Character: Howard Dowd
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Betrayal of Silence
Title: Betrayal of Silence
Character: Barrington
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
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The Big Turnaround
Title: The Big Turnaround
Character: Monk
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two trained men, one angry local woman and the local priest take on the local crime lord and his crew of narcotic smugglers and human traffickers in a small town next to the US-Mexico border.
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Deep Sea Conspiracy
Title: Deep Sea Conspiracy
Character: Dr. Cambridge
Released: October 22, 1987
Type: Movie
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Too Outrageous!
Title: Too Outrageous!
Released: October 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A sequel to the 1977 film Outrageous! Too Outrageous! is about the further adventures of Robin Turner, a gay hairdresser-turned-drag queen nightclub performer.
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Rolling Vengeance
Title: Rolling Vengeance
Character: Lt. Sly Sullivan
Released: October 2, 1987
Type: Movie
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.
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Blue Monkey
Title: Blue Monkey
Character: Albert Hooper
Released: September 25, 1987
Type: Movie
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
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Street Smart
Title: Street Smart
Character: Art Sheffield
Released: March 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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The Truth About Alex
Title: The Truth About Alex
Character: Major Stevens
Released: February 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Brad Stevens and Alex Prager are best friends. They are both popular high school students and key members of the football team. Brad is up for nomination to West Point, and Alex is a talented pianist who’s counting on his football skills to land him a university scholarship. But their lives are turned upside down when one day Alex admits that he is gay.
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Walking on Air
Title: Walking on Air
Character: Mr. McDowell
Released: January 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A young paraplegic wants to escape the bonds of gravity by going into outer space.
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My Pet Monster
Title: My Pet Monster
Character: Dr. Lewis
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Synder, the historian who has spent many years trying to unlock the powers of the statue, wishes to capture Max for validation of his life's work.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: John Preston
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Potter
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: 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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Heartsounds
Title: Heartsounds
Character: Dr. Roberts
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: Mr. Hasselman
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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Police Academy
Title: Police Academy
Character: Office Executive
Released: March 22, 1984
Type: Movie
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
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A Matter of Sex
Title: A Matter of Sex
Character: Bruce Jennings
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
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Running Brave
Title: Running Brave
Character: Roger Douglas
Released: November 4, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
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A Case of Libel
Title: A Case of Libel
Character: James Baldwin
Released: October 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.
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Between Friends
Title: Between Friends
Character: Kevin Sullivan
Released: September 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
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Visiting Hours
Title: Visiting Hours
Character: Porter Halstrom
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
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Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Title: Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Released: May 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
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The Kidnapping of the President
Title: The Kidnapping of the President
Character: MacKenzie
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
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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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Fish Hawk
Title: Fish Hawk
Character: Mr. Gideon
Released: January 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
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Bear Island
Title: Bear Island
Character: Heyter
Released: December 5, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate
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Plague
Title: Plague
Character: Dr. Dave McKay
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: Movie
An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
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Wild Horse Hank
Title: Wild Horse Hank
Character: Rankin
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range.
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Title: Why Shoot the Teacher?
Character: Burt Fields
Released: June 23, 1977
Type: Movie
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
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Age of Innocence
Title: Age of Innocence
Character: Helmut
Released: April 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
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Flight to Holocaust
Title: Flight to Holocaust
Character: Elevator Rescue Worker
Released: March 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
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The Neptune Factor
Title: The Neptune Factor
Character: Dr. Hal Hamilton
Released: August 3, 1973
Type: Movie
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
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The Reincarnate
Title: The Reincarnate
Character: David
Released: April 30, 1971
Type: Movie
A dying lawyer belonging to a cult, seeks to be reincarnated through a young artist with the ritual involving the sacrifice of a virgin. With limited time, he searches for someone to pass on his accumulated memories. His path crosses with a struggling artist, raising questions of destiny and a mystic ritual that may alter their fates.
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Title: The First Churchills
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: TV
The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.