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15th ACTRA Awards
The 15th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 2, 1986 to honour achievements in Canadian television production in 1985. They were the final ACTRA Awards presented before the responsibility for organizing and presenting Canadian television awards was transferred from ACTRA to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The ceremony was hosted by Don Harron, Pierre Berton, Barbara Frum, Gordon Pinsent, Dave Broadfoot and Ann Mortifee. Due to overlapping eligibility periods, some of the nominees or winners at the 15th ACTRA Awards were also nominees or winners at the 1st Gemini Awards, which were presented in December 1986.Bill Taylor, "Producer may boycott Geminis". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...'', June 17, 1986. Television Radio Journalism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Harron
Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music series ''Hee Haw'', on which he played his signature character of Charlie Farquharson. Early life Harron's parents owned and operated Harron's Cleaners and Dryers in Toronto. Beginning at the age of ten, he earned extra money for the family during the Great Depression, doing "chalk talks" telling humorous stories while drawing caricatures in coloured chalk at company or club banquets, making $10 or $15 a talk. As a result of his performances, he was invited to audition for, and won, a part in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission radio series ''Lonesome Trail'' in 1935. As a teenager, Harron spent time working as a farm hand in rural Ontario; experience he later credited for the development of his Charlie Farquharson cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Offer
''Final Offer'' is a Canadian film documenting the 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and GM. Ultimately, it provided a historical record of the birth of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) as Bob White, the head of the Canadian sector of the UAW, led his membership out of the International Union and created the CAW. The movie depicts life in an era of massive industrial change in North America. The audience sees the emergence of automation and how it begins to affect the lives of the working class. Other themes depicted are labour relations, life on the picket line, and corporate restructuring. A National Film Board of Canada production, ''Final Offer'' is directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and Robert Collison, written by Collison, and produced by Collison, Gunnarsson and John Spotton. The movie features Henry Ramer as the narrator, Buzz Hargrove, Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, and founding CAW president Bob White. Awards * Banff M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayo (film)
''Bayo'' is a 1985 Canadian drama film, directed by Mort Ransen and written by Ransen, Terry Ryan, and Arnie Gelbart. The film stars Ed McNamara, Patricia Phillips, Stephan McGrath, Hugh Webster, Cedric Smith, Patrick Lane, and Maisie Rillie. Set in Tickle Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, the film focuses on the relationship of Bayo (McGrath), a young boy living with his single parent Sharon (Phillips). When Sharon's long-estranged father Phillip (McNamara) returns, Bayo's fascination with his grandfather threatens to upend Sharon's plan to move to Toronto. The film had a limited theatrical run in the spring of 1985, before airing on CBC Television in the fall. McNamara received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986, while Phillips received an ACTRA Award nomination for Best Television Actress the same year. Plot Sharon (Patricia Phillips) and her ten-year old son Bayo (Stephen McGrath) reside in the small settlement of Tickle Cove, located on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Phillips
Patricia Phillips is a Canadian actress and documentary film producer. She is most noted for her performances as Sharon in the 1985 film '' Bayo'', for which she was an ACTRA Award nominee for Best Television Actress at the 15th ACTRA Awards in 1986,"ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 18, 1986. and Helen in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts' 1985 production of ''And a Nightingale Sang'', for which she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre) at the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. She was an ACTRA winner for Best Radio Actress at the 13th ACTRA Awards in 1984 for her performance as Morag Gunn in a 1983 CBC Radio dramatization of Margaret Laurence's novel ''The Diviners'', and a nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th ACTRA Awards in 1985 for her supporting role in ''The Passion of the Patriots''. She left acting in the 1990s, forming Great North Productions with Tom Radfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hockey Night (1984 Film)
''Hockey Night'' is a 1984 Canadian coming-of-age television drama film by Canadian screenwriters Jack Blum and Paul Shapiro. It stars Megan Follows, Yannick Bisson, and Rick Moranis. It was released on December 14, 1984. The film was shot primarily in Parry Sound, Ontario, and arena scenes were filmed at the Centennial Arena in North York, Ontario. It was the feature film debut of future ''Murdoch Mysteries'' star Yannick Bisson, and was an early screen appearance for Canadian stage and screen star Megan Follows. Plot Cathy Yarrow arrives in Parry Sound, Ontario with her mother and sister from Toronto following the separation of her parents. As the town has no team for girls, she attends tryouts for the local boys' hockey team, and wins a spot as one of the team's goaltenders. Even after she plays well in the first couple of games, the team sponsor indicates displeasure at having a female on the team, and threatens to withdraw his sponsorship. The young players must then deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Follows
Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian-American actress and director. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries ''Anne of Green Gables'' and its two sequels. From 2013 to 2017, she starred as Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, in the television drama series ''Reign''. Early life Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, the youngest of four children, in an acting family. Her father was Canadian theatre actor and director Ted Follows and her mother is Canadian actress Dawn Greenhalgh. Her parents later divorced. Her three siblings are all in the entertainment industry. Her elder sister Edwina is a writer, while her brother Laurence and sister Samantha Follows (who is married to American actor Sean O'Bryan) are also actors. Career Beginnings Her first acting job came at the age of nine, when she landed a spot in a commercial for Bell Canada. She was directed to make an impudent gesture out of a school b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leueen Willoughby
Anne Leueen Willoughby is a Canadian former actress. Her father was a representative of the Guinness family who helped supervise the construction of the Lions' Gate Bridge and extensive housing developments on Vancouver's North Shore. She attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and later graduated from the Bristol Old Vic's theater school. Background In 1975, she played Magenta in ''The Rocky Horror Show'' at the Kings Road Theatre in London. Two of her most notable roles are Barbara in '' Omen III: The Final Conflict'' (1981), and Leueen (a character who took on the actress' name during production), Lois Lane's fellow ''Daily Planet'' reporter in ''Superman II'' (1980). Her character, incidentally, is not present in Richard Donner's version of the Superman movie. Willoughby also appeared in a small role in the first ''Superman'' movie, playing an unnamed secretary, and was one of the voice actors who worked on the original BBC radio production of ''The Hitchhiker' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Celestial Bicycle
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Millaire
Rodolphe Albert Millaire, CC, CQ (January 18, 1935 – August 15, 2018) was a Canadian actor and theatre director."Albert Millaire" '''', April 24, 2011. Life Millaire was born in . He was raised by a single mother, after his father died when Millaire was less than a year old.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Campbell (actor)
Douglas Campbell, CM (11 June 1922 – 6 October 2009) was a Canadian-based stage actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Acting career Campbell's interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age 17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone Guthrie's production of ''King John''. He first performed in the 1941 Old Vic touring productions of ''Medea'' and ''Jacob's Ladder''. He was invited to Canada in 1953 by Guthrie, who had just been appointed the first artistic director of the fledgling Stratford Festival of Canada. Campbell played Hastings in the opening production of ''Richard III'' in 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage and screen production of ''Oedipus Rex'' in 1954. He appeared many times at Stratford in the fifty years that followed, drawing great acclaim in the role of Othello in 1959, and in many appearances as Falstaff. Campbell founded the Canadian Players in 1954, and was artistic director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1966 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury Chaykin
Maury Alan Chaykin (July 27, 1949 – July 27, 2010) was an American–Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, as well as for his work as a character actor in many films and television programs. Personal life Chaykin was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Irving J. Chaykin (1912–2007), was born in Brooklyn, and was a professor of accountancy at City College of New York. His mother, Clarice Chaykin (née Bloomfield, 1921–2012), was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but raised in Montreal, Quebec, since the age of three. She graduated from Beth Israel Hospital nursing school in Newark, New Jersey. Chaykin's maternal uncle, George Bloomfield (1930–2011), was a veteran Canadian director, producer, writer and actor who directed Chaykin in a number of projects for film and television. Raised in New York City, Chaykin studied drama at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He subsequently moved to Toronto, Ontario, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lavut
Martin Lavut (December 18, 1934 – January 26, 2016) was a Canadian filmmaker born in Montreal, Quebec. He wrote and directed numerous theatrical and television dramas, and documentary films. Among his dramas are the films '' Certain Practices'', ''War Brides'', '' Charlie Grant's War'' and ''The Marriage Bed''. His documentaries include '' At Home'', ''Without a Hobby It’s No Life'', ''Orillia'', and ''After Darwin''. In 2006, he directed ''Remembering Arthur'', a biography of filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. In 2010 he completed a documentary about the eccentric portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer which premiered on TVOntario. As a voice actor he is best known for his contributions to early Nelvana productions, such as '' The Devil and Daniel Mouse'' and its spin-off, '' Rock & Rule''. He studied acting at California's Pasadena Playhouse, and New York's American Theatre Wing The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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