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13th ACTRA Awards
The 13th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 3, 1984. The ceremony was hosted by Laurier LaPierre, Ann Mortifee and Jayne Eastwood.Rick Groen, "Popular mini-series dominates ACTRA awards: Empire earns big dividend". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', April 4, 1984. Television Radio Journalism and special awards References {{Canadian Screen Awards 1984 in Canadian television 1984 television awards ACTRA Awards ...
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Laurier LaPierre
Laurier L. LaPierre (November 21, 1929 – December 16, 2012) was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Fluently bilingual, LaPierre was best known for having been co-host with Patrick Watson of the CBC's influential public affairs show ''This Hour Has Seven Days'' in the 1960s. After the show's much publicized cancellation, LaPierre moved to politics as a " star candidate" for the New Democratic Party in the 1968 federal election. The party was hoping that he would help achieve an electoral breakthrough in Quebec, but he came second in the riding of Lachine with 19.5% of the vote. He returned to teaching, broadcasting and writing until his appointment to the Senate in June 2001. As a member of the Liberal caucus, LaPierre was an outspoken supporter of Jean Chrétien against supporters of rival Paul Martin. Early life and education LaPierre was born in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, after which hi ...
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Robert Joy
Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series ''CSI: NY'', and his appearances in the films ''Atlantic City'' (1980), ''Ragtime'' (1981), ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' (1985), ''Land of the Dead'' (2005), and ''The Hills Have Eyes'' (2006). He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor; for ''Atlantic City'' and ''Whole New Thing''. Joy has also worked extensively on the stage, particularly in Shakespearean productions, in both Canada and the United States. Earlier in his career, he was closely affiliated with Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO. Early life Joy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland. He is the son of Flora Louise (née Pike) and Dr. Clifton Joseph Joy, a physician and politician.
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Tom Harvey (actor)
Tom Harvey MBE is a BAFTA winning creative entrepreneur and writer. Early life Harvey was born outside Stevenage New Town; his father was sculptor Mark Harvey and his grandfather was author William Fryer Harvey. He attended the Nobel School Stevenage and the London College of Printing, where he studied photography, film and television. Career Harvey is Chair of hip-hop dance theatre company BirdGang Ltd and a Trustee of Peter Marlow Foundation. Harvey was founder and CEO of London-based festival SohoCreate. The festival explored creativity and championed creative people and their work. Harvey was Chief Executive of Northern Film & Media, the creative industries development agency for North East England. The company invests in creative people, ideas and companies, working in film, television, web, mobile, games and music. With North Star Ventures, Harvey helped raise £6m now invested in a range of film and tv projects. Harvey is an Executive Producer on '' One Night in Turin ...
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Gabriel Arcand
Gabriel Arcand (born June 4, 1949) is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand. After studying philosophy at McGill University, Arcand spent his formative professional years at La Criée in Marseilles, France, and later in Poland where he studied theatre. Since he made his 1973 screen debut in his brother's first feature, '' La Maudite Galette'', he established himself as Quebec’s iconic strong, silent type and has given subtle but powerful performances in a wide range of films such as ''Réjeanne Padovani'', ''Les Plouffe'', ''Le Crime d’Ovide Plouffe'', ''Le Déclin de l’empire américain'', ''Post Mortem'' and Congorama. He won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for his performance in ''The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe)'' and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for ''The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement)'', and the award for Best Supporting Actor at the ...
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Gerard Parkes
Gerard Parkes (October 16, 1924 – October 19, 2014) was an Irish-Canadian actor. He was born in Dublin, and moved to Toronto in 1956. He is known for playing "Doc" on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series ''Fraggle Rock'' and the bartender in the film ''The Boondock Saints'' and its sequel '' The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day''. Career His acting career spanned film, radio, television, and the stage. Parkes worked often on CBC radio, beginning in 1959, and shifted into television and film, acting in such diverse series as the 1960s' ecological adventure series '' The Forest Rangers'', children's show ''The Littlest Hobo'', and the detective series ''Cagney and Lacey''. In 1968, Parkes won the first Canadian film award (then called the Etrog and now known as the Gemini) for his portrayal of Uncle Matthew in the movie ''Isabel''. He received the Andrew Allan Award in 1983 for Best Radio Actor, and in 1999, he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding P ...
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Seeing Things (TV Series)
Seeing Things may refer to: * Hallucination, a perception in the absence of a stimulus Film and television * ''Seein' Things'' (1924 film), a silent comedy short film * ''Seein' Things'' (1908 film), a French short silent comedy film * ''Seeing Things'' (1930 film), a film directed by Harold Beaudine * ''Seeing Things'' (TV series), a 1980s Canadian series * "Seeing Things" (''Corner Gas''), an episode of ''Corner Gas'' * "Seeing Things" (''Covies''), an episode of the web series ''Covies'' Literature and art * ''Seeing Things'' (poetry collection), a 1991 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney * ''Seeing Things'', a 1920 play by Margaret Mayo and Aubrey Kennedy * ''Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty'', a 2000 book by John Ellis * ''Seeing Things'', a 2000 autobiography by Oliver Postgate * ''Seeing Things'', a 2005 art book by Jim Woodring * "Seeing Things", a short story by Ian Rankin, included in his 1992 collection ''A Good Hanging and Other Stories'' ...
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Louis Del Grande
Louis Del Grande (born March 23, 1943) is a Canadian-American television writer and actor. He is best known for starring in the Canadian mystery/comedy series '' Seeing Things''. Early life Del Grande was born and raised in Union City, New Jersey. By the late-1980s, he moved to Cape Breton Island. Career Del Grande moved to Toronto in 1964, drawn to Canada by the Stratford Festival, and soon found work as a stand-up comedian and comedy writer. In 1975, he was hired as head writer for a new sitcom, ''The King of Kensington'', which became a hit in Canada until the end of the decade. He also appeared in the show a handful of times as Fred, a friend of Al Waxman's lead character Larry King. Del Grande later became (with Jack Humphries) the show's co-producer (a '' Fifth Estate'' documentary said the two producers ran ''Kensington'' "with an iron hand"). When asked by the CBC if he had any projects he could star in, Del Grande created, wrote and produced '' Seeing Things'', which ai ...
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Home Fires (Canadian TV Series)
''Home Fires'' was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1980 to 1983. It was a family saga set in Toronto during World War II, and took its name from the expression " keep the home fires burning". Created and written by Jim Purdy and Peter Such, the series centred on the Lowes, a family in Toronto. Patriarch Arthur Lowe (Gerard Parkes) was a doctor who ran a family medicine clinic in a working class downtown neighbourhood with nurse Marge (Sheila Moore), and was married to housewife Hannah ( Kim Yaroshevskaya), a Jewish immigrant from Poland.Wayne Grady, "We'll Keep a Welcome". ''TV Guide Canada'', November 8, 1980. As the series progressed, storylines increasingly focused on Arthur and Hannah's children Terry (Wendy Crewson) and Sidney ( Peter Spence) and nephew Jakob (Gil Yaron). Terry married her boyfriend Graeme (Jeff Wincott) shortly before he was shipped off to serve in the war, where he was killed at Dieppe; she then served in the Canadian ...
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Wendy Crewson
Wendy Jane Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film '' The Doctor''. Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including '' The Good Son'' (1993), ''The Santa Clause'' (1994) and its sequels ''The Santa Clause 2'' (2002) and '' The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'' (2006), as well as '' Air Force One'' (1997), ''Bicentennial Man'' (1999), ''What Lies Beneath'' (2000), ''The 6th Day'' (2000), '' The Covenant'' (2006) and ''Eight Below'' (2006). She also starred in a number of independent movies, such as ''Better Than Chocolate'' (1999), '' Suddenly Naked'' (2001), ''Perfect Pie'' (2002), ''Away from Her'' (2006), ''Into the Forest'' (2015) and ''Room'' (2015). Crewson has won six Gemini Awards, two Canadian Screen Awards and ACTRA Award for her performances on television. She played leading roles in a number of television films, include playing Joan ...
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Karen Woolridge
Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic languages * House of Karen, a historical feudal family of Tabaristan, Iran * Karen (singer), Danish R&B singer Places * Karen, Kenya, a suburb of Nairobi * Karen City or Hualien City, Taiwan * Karen Hills or Karen Hills, Myanmar * Karen State, a state in Myanmar Film and television * ''Karen'' (1964 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (1975 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (film), a 2021 American crime thriller Other uses * Karen (orangutan), the first to have open heart surgery * AS-10 Karen or Kh-25, a Soviet air-to-ground missile * Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network * Tropical Storm Karen (other) See also * Karren (name) * Karyn (given name) * Keren, Eritrea a city * Caren ...
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Elva Mai Hoover
Elva Mai Hoover is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her performance as Betty Fox in ''The Terry Fox Story'', for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Genie Awards, in 1984, and her television roles as Mrs. Edison in ''The Edison Twins'' and Mrs. Lawson in ''Road to Avonlea''. She has also had guest and supporting roles in other films and television series, but worked primarily as a stage actor, most notably as painter Anne Langton in Molly Thom's ''The Bush-Ladies''."Bush-Ladies reveal once-hidden history". ''Toronto Star'', March 21, 1999. Hoover is the mother of writer Gemma Files, through her marriage to Australian actor Gary Files. Selected filmography Film Television References External links

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