R. H. Thomson

R. H. Thomson

Born: September 24, 1947
in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, CM (born September 24, 1947) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor.

Thomson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, and the National Theatre School. His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at Canadian Stage in February 2002. Thomson has also hosted programming for CBC Radio and CBC Television. In 2010, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

Thomson has portrayed a number of historical figures including Charlie Grant, Samuel Lount, Edsel Ford, Dr. Frederick Banting, Duncan Campbell Scott, Mitchell Sharp, and James Cross.

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Movies for R. H. Thomson...

The Last Curlew
Title: The Last Curlew
Character: Grandpa
Released: April 15, 2023
Type: Movie
A grieving widower and his reluctant, teenage granddaughter embark on a pilgrimage of hope and faith that become a turning point in each of their lives.
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Stellar
Title: Stellar
Character: Professor
Released: September 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
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Charlotte
Title: Charlotte
Character: Mr. Schmidt
Released: September 13, 2021
Type: Movie
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
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Clara
Title: Clara
Character: Dr. John Rickman
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
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Title: Anne with an E
Character: Matthew Cuthbert
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: TV
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
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Love's Complicated
Title: Love's Complicated
Character: Senator Douglas Townsend
Released: January 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.
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Chloe
Title: Chloe
Character: Frank
Released: February 25, 2010
Type: Movie
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Francis Chafe
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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Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
Title: Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
Character: Manuel
Released: December 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
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Title: The Englishman's Boy
Character: Tom Hardwick
Released: March 2, 2008
Type: TV
Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical events in Canadian history - the Cypress Hills Massacre
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Title: October 1970
Character: James Richard Cross
Released: October 12, 2006
Type: TV
A dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada.
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Population 436
Title: Population 436
Character: Sheriff Calcutt
Released: July 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
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Who Loves the Sun
Title: Who Loves the Sun
Character: Arthur Bloom
Released: January 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
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Full-Court Miracle
Title: Full-Court Miracle
Character: Rabbi Lewis
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.
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The Piano Man's Daughter
Title: The Piano Man's Daughter
Character: Frederick Wyatt
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to marriage and children. Meanwhile, his grandparents (R.H. Thomson and Wendy Crewson) are debating whether to put his mother (Stockard Channing) into a mental institution. Whoopi Goldberg shares producing credits on this generational drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley.
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Hell on Heels: The  Battle of Mary Kay
Title: Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
Character: Richard Rogers
Released: October 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her control of the makeup industry
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Trudeau
Title: Trudeau
Character: Mitchell Sharp
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 Stork Derby
Title: The Stork Derby
Character: Huge McLean
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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The Royal Scandal
Title: The Royal Scandal
Character: Mycroft Holmes
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse
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The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Title: The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Character: Narrator
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. Pre-eminent among today's documentary filmmakers concerned about this mind-numbing standardization, Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause.
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Title: The Associates
Character: Angus MacGregor
Released: January 16, 2001
Type: TV
The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner. The show was successful in its first two years of ratings, but due to tax cutbacks from the government, the show could not continue into a third season.
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The Dinosaur Hunter
Title: The Dinosaur Hunter
Character: Reverend Smythe
Released: August 5, 2000
Type: Movie
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
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Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
Title: Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
Character: Ray Marcassi
Released: March 16, 1999
Type: Movie
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
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Bone Daddy
Title: Bone Daddy
Character: Stone
Released: July 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
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Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Title: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Character: Narrator
Released: March 22, 1998
Type: Movie
This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Title: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Character: Dr. Issac Solti
Released: September 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects.
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Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Title: Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Released: September 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of Maddin's films up to Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, including Careful and Archangel.
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Silent Cradle
Title: Silent Cradle
Character: David Greg
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?
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Murder at My Door
Title: Murder at My Door
Character: Ed McNair
Released: October 8, 1996
Type: Movie
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
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Net Worth
Title: Net Worth
Character: Milton Mound
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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Max
Title: Max
Character: Andy Blake
Released: December 2, 1994
Type: Movie
The Blakes have a rancher in the burbs, 2 kids, a mid-sized American car, a gas barbecue and lawn furniture. Dad works in an office, Mom does something vague and equally meaningless. They are exactly like all the people you see on the freeway every morning. Something happens - their young son gets sick.
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My Breast
Title: My Breast
Character: Dr. Luke
Released: May 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
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The Lotus Eaters
Title: The Lotus Eaters
Character: Hal Kingswood
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
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Bonds of Love
Title: Bonds of Love
Character: Jake Hobart
Released: January 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
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Inner Mountains, Inner Valleys: The Life and Writing of Ernest Buckler
Title: Inner Mountains, Inner Valleys: The Life and Writing of Ernest Buckler
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler.
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Mark Twain and Me
Title: Mark Twain and Me
Character: Albert Paine
Released: November 22, 1991
Type: Movie
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.
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The Quarrel
Title: The Quarrel
Character: Chaim Kovler
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.
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Glory Enough For All
Title: Glory Enough For All
Character: Dr Frederick Banting
Released: June 27, 1988
Type: Movie
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
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Ford: The Man and the Machine
Title: Ford: The Man and the Machine
Character: Edsel Ford
Released: May 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
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Heaven On Earth
Title: Heaven On Earth
Character: Wilf Hawthorne
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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Stranger in My Bed
Title: Stranger in My Bed
Character: Dr. Davidson
Released: January 12, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn't remember her life, including her husband. While she tries to recall, she meets a man and begins a relationship with him.
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And Then You Die
Title: And Then You Die
Character: Det. Sgt. James McGrath
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat
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The Marriage Bed
Title: The Marriage Bed
Character: Dr. Jeff Reilly
Released: December 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
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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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Samuel Lount
Title: Samuel Lount
Character: Samuel Lount
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Morgan
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Dr. Steve Hill (as R.H. Thompson)
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Martin's Day
Title: Martin's Day
Character: Paul Mennen
Released: February 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.
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Vision Quest
Title: Vision Quest
Character: Kevin
Released: February 15, 1985
Type: Movie
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
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Charlie Grant's War
Title: Charlie Grant's War
Character: Charlie Grant
Released: January 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
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Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
Title: Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.
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The Terry Fox Story
Title: The Terry Fox Story
Character: Dr. Simon
Released: May 22, 1983
Type: Movie
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
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If You Could See What I Hear
Title: If You Could See What I Hear
Character: Will Sly
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
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Ticket to Heaven
Title: Ticket to Heaven
Character: Linc Strunc
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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Happy Memories
Title: Happy Memories
Character: Rick
Released: October 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
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Surfacing
Title: Surfacing
Character: David
Released: July 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However, the harsh environment becomes a dangerous catalyst for their explosive mix of personalities, propelling them into a world of raw emotion and unbridled passion.
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Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Title: Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Character: Lee Schatz
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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An American Christmas Carol
Title: An American Christmas Carol
Character: Thatcher
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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The Angry Man
Title: The Angry Man
Character: Borke
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
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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.