Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby

Born: February 20, 1925
Died: May 2, 2002
in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Movies for Michael Kirby...

Swoon
Title: Swoon
Character: Detective Savage
Released: September 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
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Shadows and Fog
Title: Shadows and Fog
Character: Killer
Released: December 5, 1991
Type: Movie
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Character: Cathy’s Father
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
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The Kissing Place
Title: The Kissing Place
Character: Pike
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
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Where the Heart Is
Title: Where the Heart Is
Character: Lionel's Father
Released: February 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
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Another Woman
Title: Another Woman
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
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Title: My Secret Identity
Released: October 9, 1988
Type: TV
My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.
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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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A New Life
Title: A New Life
Character: Dr. Dave Salisman
Released: March 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
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Rolling Vengeance
Title: Rolling Vengeance
Character: Mahoney
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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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Al Gordon
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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Mr. Patman
Title: Mr. Patman
Character: Dr. Turley
Released: April 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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Strong Medicine
Title: Strong Medicine
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
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Agency
Title: Agency
Character: Peters (Quinn's Assassin)
Released: February 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
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Meatballs
Title: Meatballs
Character: Eddy
Released: June 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
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The Silent Partner
Title: The Silent Partner
Character: Charles Packard
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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The House by the Lake
Title: The House by the Lake
Character: Ralph
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
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My Pleasure Is My Business
Title: My Pleasure Is My Business
Character: Gus
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: Movie
This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."
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A Quiet Day in Belfast
Title: A Quiet Day in Belfast
Character: Protestant
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
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Summer Holiday
Title: Summer Holiday
Character: Arthur Miller
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Boat Crewman (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Ensign John Rand
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Character: Capt. John Darrison
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.