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8th ACTRA Awards
The 8th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 4, 1979."CBC sweeps ACTRA Awards" '''', April 5, 1979. The ceremony was hosted by for television categories, and for radio categories. Television Radio Journalism and special awards References {{Canadian Screen Awards |
Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Edward Pinsent (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He is known for his roles in numerous productions, including ''Away from Her'', '' The Rowdyman'', '' John and the Missus'', ''A Gift to Last'', ''Due South'', '' The Red Green Show'' and '' Quentin Durgens, M.P.'' He was the voice of Babar the Elephant in television and film from 1989 to 2015. Early life Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland (present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada). His mother, Florence "Flossie" (née Cooper), was originally from Clifton, Newfoundland and his father, Stephen Arthur Pinsent, was a paper mill worker and cobbler originally from Dildo, Newfoundland. His mother was "quiet spoken" and a religious Anglican; the family was descended from immigrants from Kent and Devon in England. He was a self-described "awkward child" who suffered from rickets. Pinsent began acting on stage in the 1940s at the age of 17. He soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Waxman
Albert Samuel Waxman, (March 2, 1935 – January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor and director of over 1,000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series '' King of Kensington'' ( CBC) and '' Cagney & Lacey'' ( CBS) and '' Twice in a Lifetime'' (CTV). Early life Waxman was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated and owned Melinda Lunch, a small restaurant. His father, Aaron Waxman, died when Al was nine. Career Waxman's career began at the age of twelve on CBC Radio, but it was not until 1975, when he began playing the role of Larry King on CBC's '' King of Kensington'', that he became a Canadian icon. In the 1980 award-winning film '' Atlantic City'' starring Burt Lancaster, Waxman appeared as a rich cocaine buyer with a seemingly endless amount of cash. During the 1980s, Waxman starred as the gruff but endearing Lt. Bert Samuels in the highly successful CBS telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take 30
''Take 30'' (also expressed as ''Take Thirty'') was a Canadian television newsmagazine series, which aired on CBC Television from 1962 to 1984 for 2,500 episodes. An afternoon series originally designed as a "women's show", the series gradually evolved into a showcase for serious journalism, airing documentary reports and interviews on social and cultural topics. Despite the title, the series at times aired in a 35-minute timeslot, as was the case in late 1965. The program's original hosts were Anna Cameron and Paul Soles. In 1965, Cameron left and was replaced by Adrienne Clarkson. During his time on the show, Soles was also a busy voiceover actor for animation, best known for shows such as ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' and ''Spider-Man'', both of which were produced concurrent with his work on ''Take 30''; he was also a regular on the comedic game show ''This is the Law'' during this time. Clarkson left the show in 1975 to become a host of '' The Fifth Estate'', and was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Gartner
Hana Gartner CM is a retired Canadian investigative journalist who is best known as the host and interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Early life and education Gartner was born in 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, but grew up in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec. She studied at Loyola College (now Concordia University), in Montreal, and graduated ''cum laude''. Career Gartner began her career as a radio host at Montreal's CJAD in 1970. In 1974, she joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a TV news anchor at CBMT Montreal. She moves to Toronto the following year to work on the program '' In Good Company'', alongside Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Nancy White, and Gene DiNovi. Gartner became the host of CBC Radio's ''This Country in the Morning'' and replaced Judy LaMarsh in 1976. The following year, she moved back to television as a co-host of both the CBC's local newscast at CBLT in Toronto and the network's afternoon public affairs program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Alive (Canadian TV Program)
''Man Alive'' is a Canadian television program about faith and spirituality. It took its name from a poem by St. Irenaeus, a 2nd-century Bishop of Lyon who wrote: ''The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God.'' The program debuted in 1967 on CBC Television, and was hosted by Roy Bonisteel for more than two decades. After several seasons of co-productions with Vision TV and the Life Network, the last episode aired on CBC Television on December 17, 2000. Bonisteel retired in 1989, and was replaced by Peter Downie who left in 1993. Arthur Kent succeeded Downie for one season, and then R. H. Thomson hosted until the program was cancelled. ''Man Alive'' took a diverse non-denominational approach to religious and spiritual matters. The program covered a wide range of topics: nuclear war, UFOs, Holocaust survivors, sexual abuse, Third World development, family relationships, people with disabilities, the Vatican Bank scandal and profiles of religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bonisteel
Roy Earnest Bonisteel, (29 May 1930 – 16 August 2013) was a Canadian journalist and, from 1967 to 1989, host of the CBC Television program '' Man Alive''. Life and career Bonisteel was born in Ameliasburg, Ontario and was a seventh generation native of the Quinte West region. He began his journalism career with newspapers in Belleville and Trenton, the ''Belleville Intelligencer'' and ''Trentonian'', respectively. In 1951, he began his broadcasting career in radio in the city of Belleville, Ontario, working at CJBQ. From this start he moved to CKTB radio in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1953. After 12 years at CKTB he left in 1964 to try for a job at a different station. He failed to obtain this job, so Bonisteel moved into religious broadcasting. (Canadian broadcasting regulation at the time required radio stations to broadcast religious shows.) He entered into an agreement with the United Church of Canada to produce a 15-minute program titled ''Checkpoint''. His efforts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Little's Christmas Carol
''Rich Little's Christmas Carol'', broadcast in Canada as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a TV special that premiered on CBC Television in December 1978, and in the United States on Home Box Office (HBO) on December 16, 1979. It was produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978. It starred Rich Little in a one-man performance with impersonations of his characters playing the parts in Charles Dickens' famous 1843 holiday story, '' A Christmas Carol''.December 1979 HBO Program Guide (''The China Syndrome'' on cover), page 12 Little played the following celebrities: * W. C. Fields as Ebenezer Scrooge § *Paul Lynde as Bob Cratchit * Johnny Carson as Fred * Laurel and Hardy as the two solicitors § *Richard Nixon as Jacob Marley * Humphrey Bogart as the Ghost of Christmas Past § * Groucho Marx as Fezziwig § * James Stewart as Dick Wilkins * Peter Falk as Columbo/the Ghost of Christmas Present *Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker/Mrs. Cratchit *Truman Capote as Tiny Tim *Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Little
Richard Caruthers Little (born November 26, 1938) is a Canadian-American impressionist and voice actor. Sometimes known as the "Man of a Thousand Voices", Little has recorded nine comedy albums and made numerous television appearances, including three HBO specials. Early life Little was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the middle of three sons. His father, Lawrence Peniston Little, was a surgeon who served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and then worked for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs until his death in 1959. His mother, Elizabeth Maud (née Wilson), was a housewife. A third-generation Canadian, he is descended from English stock on his father's side and Irish on his mother's. On his mother's side, he is descended from John Willson, who was Speaker of the 5th Parliament of Upper Canada in the 1820s. His paternal great-grandfather, William Carruthers Little, was a Liberal-Conservative Member of Parliament in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patsy Gallant Show
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already 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 pronouns 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 pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Gallant
Patricia Gallant (born August 15, 1948, in Campbellton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian pop singer and musical theatre actress. Of Acadian ancestry, she has recorded and performed in both English and French. Early life Patsy Gallant was one of the 10 children of Béatrice Aubé Gallant and Arthur Gallant. At age five, she was part of The Gallant Sisters with older siblings Angeline, Florine, and Ghislaine. At eight Gallant gained television exposure after her parents moved to Moncton; two years later the group was playing nightclubs in Montreal. She left the group for a solo career in 1967, was featured in commercials, and was a regular on both the French-language TV variety program ''Discothèque'' and its English equivalent, ''Music Hop''. Career Successful beginnings in French Gallant released her first single in 1967, which earned her appearances on a number of television variety shows. She later performed at Montreal's Place des Arts with Charles Aznavour and shortly af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moya Fenwick
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The Newcomers (miniseries)
''The Newcomers'' was a series of seven hour-long Canadian television specials that aired from 1977 to 1980 on CBC Television. These dramas explored the theme of Canada as a nation built by immigrants, spanning from the era before Canada was founded until modern times. The series was sponsored by Imperial Oil to mark the company's 100th anniversary in 1980. The series was produced by Nielsen-Ferns. McClelland and Stewart published a related book in 1979. A French version aired on Radio-Canada with the title ''Les Arrivants''. The opening theme music for the series was composed by Hagood Hardy Hugh Hagood Hardy, (February 26, 1937 – January 1, 1997) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He played mainly jazz and easy listening music. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming" from his album of the same na .... Episodes All seven episodes were re-aired between 12 March and 2 April 1980. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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