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2nd Gemini Awards
The 2nd Gemini Awards were held on December 8, 1987, to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was broadcast on CBC. Awards Best Comedy Program or Series * '' Seeing Things'' * ''Hangin' In'' Best Dramatic Series * ''Night Heat'' * ''Red Serge'' * '' Street Legal'' Best Dramatic Mini Series * '' Ford: The Man and the Machine'' * ''Sword of Gideon'' Best Information Program or Series * '' The Journal'' * ''Midday'' * '' The Fifth Estate'' * '' W5'' Best Children's Series * ''Degrassi Junior High'' * ''Fraggle Rock'' * ''Spirit Bay'' * ''What's New?'' Best Writing in a Dramatic Program * ''Night Heat'' * '' Street Legal'' * ''The Beachcombers'' * ''The Campbells'' Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series * ''The S and M Comic Book'' * ''Fraggle Rock'' * '' Seeing Things'' Best Direction in a Dramatic Series or Comedy Series * ''Degrassi Junior High'' * ''Danger Bay'' * '' Seeing Things'' * '' Street Legal'' * ''The Campbells'' Best Performance by an Acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini Awards
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media, dubbed the "Canadian Screen Awards". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. The Geminis c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beachcombers
''The Beachcombers'' is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran on CBC Television from October 1, 1972, to December 12, 1990. With over 350 episodes, it is one of the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television. Series overview ''The Beachcombers'' followed the life of Nick Adonidas (Bruno Gerussi), a Greek-Canadian log salvager in British Columbia who earned a living travelling the coastline northwest of Vancouver with his partner Jesse Jim ( Pat John) aboard their logging tug ''Persephone'' tracking down logs that broke away from barges and logging booms. Their chief business competitor is Relic (Robert Clothier) (whose actual name is Stafford T. Phillips), a somewhat unsavoury person who will occasionally go to great lengths to steal business (and logs) from Nick. The series also focused on a supporting cast of characters in Nick's hometown of Gibsons, often centering on a café, Molly's Reach, run by Molly (Rae Brown), a mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Hylands
Scott Hylands Douglas (born 1943) is a Canadian actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and on the stage. Because of his longevity and versatility, critics have called him "one of Canada's greatest actors." Early years Hylands was born in 1943 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His mother Ruth was a science teacher, and his father Walter died during World War II. Hylands was raised and educated in Vancouver, where he attended Shawnigan Lake School, Shawnigan Lake Boys School; he then attended the University of British Columbia and graduated in 1964. Hylands at first studied zoology, but when the university began a theater arts major, he transferred into that program. Upon graduation, he left Canada to pursue an acting career in New York City, where his first role was as the lead in an off-Broadway production of the comedy ''Billy Liar.'' Career in the United States After that 1965 debut role, he spent several years in San Francisco, acting with the American Conservatory Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adderly
''Adderly'' is a Canadian television adventure-drama series which aired from 1986 to 1988. It was broadcast on both Canadian TV and on CBS in the United States. It starred Vancouver-born Winston Rekert as "charming and witty V.H. Adderly," an operative working for an obscure government intelligence agency. Background ''Adderly'' was based on series creator Elliott Baker's novel, ''Pocock & Pitt''. Cast * Winston Rekert as V.H. (Virgil Homer) Adderly * Jonathan Welsh as Melville Greenspan * Mairlyn Smith as Debbie Greenspan * Dixie Seatle as Mona Ellerby * Ken Pogue as Major Jonathan B. Clack Plot V.H. Adderly (Rekert) is a secret agent for an organization known as the I.S.I (International Security and Intelligence). Before the series begins, an enemy agent, Victor Barinov, crushes Adderly's left hand with a medieval mace during an interrogation in East Germany. Adderly loses the use of the hand, and since he is no longer considered useful as an active agent, he is reassigned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Rekert
Winston Houghton Rekert (June 10, 1949 – September 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for starring in the television series ''Adderly'' and ''Neon Rider''. Career A Vancouver native, Rekert started acting at age 12, appearing in an amateur production of ''Amahl and the Night Visitors''. After high school, Rekert spent a year working in a logging camp, then took a year off to try acting. Rekert subsequently joined the Arts Club Theatre Company and in 1973 he landed his first television role on the comedy-drama ''The Beachcombers''. In 1985 Rekert played the role of Detective Langevin in the American film '' Agnes of God''. In the same year, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards for his performance in the film ''Walls''."Bay Boy reels in 11 Genie nominations". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 15, 1985. From 1986 to 1988 Rekert starred as the lead character in the Canadian television series ''Adderly'', a comedy drama that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet-Laine Green
Janet-Laine Green (born December 31, 1951) is a Canadian actress, film director, director, film producer, producer and teacher, active for over 25 years. Best known for her roles in ''She's the Mayor'', ''Seeing Things (TV series), Seeing Things'' and ''This is Wonderland'', this Toronto-based film and television personality has also been a voice actress for animated series such as ''Jacob Two-Two (TV series), Jacob Two-Two'' (as Florence), ''Franklin (TV series), Franklin'', ''Little Bear (TV series), Little Bear'' (as Mother Bear) and ''Care Bears, The Care Bears'' (for which she voiced Wish Bear). She also provided the voice of the arch villain Xayide in the The Neverending Story (TV series), animated version of ''The Neverending Story'' and also Void (comics), Void in ''WildC.A.T.S. (TV series), WildC.A.T.S.''. She has also worked as an associate producer on the film ''The Circle Game'' in which she also played as Anna. Green has been nominated for three Gemini Awards and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Gibson
Martha Gibson is a Canadian actress. She is best known for appearing alongside her husband Louis Del Grande in the television series '' Seeing Things'', for which she earned a Gemini Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 1st Gemini Awards in 1986. She was nominated in the same category for the same show at the 2nd Gemini Awards in 1987, but lost to Dinah Christie. At the 4th Gemini Awards in 1989, she won the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series, for her performance in the television film '' Two Men''."Glory enough for all at CBC as docudrama wins 9 Geminis". ''Montreal Gazette'', December 6, 1989. Gibson also appeared in other notable roles in '' Black Christmas'' (1974), ''Outrageous!'' (1977) and ''Murder by Phone'' (1982), and television series such as ''King of Kensington'', ''Katts and Dog ''Katts and Dog'' is a French and Canadian-produced television series that ran from 1988 to 1993. It was known as ''Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop'' in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lally Cadeau
Lally Cadeau (born Alice Mary Cadeau, 10 January 1948) is a Canadian stage, television, film, and radio actress. Life and career Alice Mary Cadeau was born in Burlington, Ontario, the youngest child and only daughter of a once-aspiring actress from Hamilton and a French-Canadian from Penetanguishene. Her father died when she was 6 years old. She attended Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School for girls in Greenfield, Massachusetts; Edenhall Convent of the Sacred Heart in Philadelphia; and Havergal College in Toronto. Cadeau appeared as Elizabeth Rex at age 10 with the Hamilton Players Guild, and when 13 in Terrence Rattigan's ''Five Finger Exercise''. She studied under Dora Mavor Moore. A perennial stage, television, film and radio actress, she has been a mainstay with the Stratford Festival since 1997. She was in two television series, the CBC's ''Hangin' In'' and Sullivan Entertainment's ''Road to Avonlea''. Since 1980, she has been the recipient of many nominations and awards, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinah Christie
Dinah Barbara Christie (born 1942) is a Canadian actress and singer. Christie was born in London, England. One of the five children of actors Robert and Margot Christie, she came to Canada at the age of two with her parents and grew up in Toronto. At age 13, she worked as a call boy at the Stratford Festival and became an apprentice at the Festival in 1960. In 1961, she sang in a comedy revue in Toronto, directed by her father. Before she was out of her teens, she had been cast in small roles at Stratford. In 1962, aged 19, she starting singing while attending North Toronto Collegiate Institute (NTCI) and performed as a folk singer in her teens, taking voice lessons from Portia White. Christie reached Grade 13 at NTCI but did not graduate. In 1965, she was selected by Tom Kneebone to co-star in a stage revue, and the two would frequently work together for decades. The same year, she joined CBC Television's ''This Hour Has Seven Days'', for which she regularly sang satirical son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eisner (actor)
David Eisner (born March 3, 1958) is a Canadian actor. Best known for his recurring television role in ''King of Kensington'' and his regular roles in ''Hangin' In'' and '' Blue Murder'', he is co-director with Avery Saltzman of the Harold Green Jewish Theatre company in Toronto. Career Eisner is a two-time Gemini Award nominee for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for ''Hangin' In'', at the 1st Gemini Awards in 1986 and the 2nd Gemini Awards in 1987. In 2005, he played Henry Morgentaler in the controversial CTV television movie ''Choice''. His other credits have included guest appearances in ''Highway to Heaven'', '' Due South'', '' Counterstrike'', ''Forever Knight'', ''Total Recall 2070'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'', '' This Is Wonderland'', ''The Line'', '' Remedy'', '' Traders'' and ''Living in Your Car'', and the CBC Radio drama series ''Rumours and Boarders''. His film appearances include ''Running'' (1979), '' Phobia'' (1980), '' Happy Birthday to Me'' (1981), '' A New Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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