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Barbara Hamilton (actress)
Barbara Hamilton (11 December 1926– 7 February 1996) was a Canadian actress in film, television, theatre and radio. After studies at Brockville Collegiate Institute, she attended the University of Toronto where her early performances were featured at the Hart House Theatre. She is known for roles in films and television series such as ''Road to Avonlea''. Her theatre performances have included the ''Spring Thaw'' review. She is also known for originating the role of Marilla Cuthbert in both the Canadian and West End productions of Anne of Green Gables. Hamilton died as a result of breast cancer in 1996 at the age of 69. That year, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts established the Barbara Hamilton Award to honour those who demonstrate excellence in the performing arts. Filmography Awards and recognition * Earle Grey Award The Earle Grey Award is the lifetime achievement award for television acting of the Canadian Screen Awards, and its predecessor the Gemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. Kingston is also located nearby the Thousand Islands, a tourist region to the east, and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west. Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because of the many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone. Growing European exploration in the 17th century, and the desire for the Europeans to establish a presence close to local Native occupants to control trade, led to the founding of a French trading post and military fort at a site known as "Cataraqui" (generally pronounced /kætə'ɹɑkweɪ/, "kah-tah-ROCK-way") in 1673. This outpost, called Fort Cataraqui, and later Fort Frontenac, became a focus for settlement. Since 1760, the site of Kingston, Ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dangerous Age
''A Dangerous Age'' is a 1958 film directed by Sidney J. Furie. Plot summary Sidney J. Furie's low-budget tale about young lovers (Ben Piazza Ben Piazza (July 30, 1933 – September 7, 1991) was an American actor. Life and career Piazza made his film debut in Sidney J. Furie's Canadian film ''A Dangerous Age'' (1959) followed by his Hollywood debut in '' The Hanging Tree'' (1959). T ... and Anne Pearson) on the run from an uncaring adult world – they just want to get married but are thwarted at every turn – remains something of landmark in English-Canadian feature production. Reception ''A Dangerous Age'' October 14, 2015 began as an hour-long drama for CBC-TV, where the 24-year-old Furie worked as a writer, and received critical praise when it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford (TV Series)
''Sanford'' is an American sitcom television series and a sequel to the original 1972–1977 sitcom '' Sanford and Son''. It was broadcast on NBC from March 15, 1980 to July 10, 1981. Background In 1977, after six seasons of '' Sanford and Son'', Redd Foxx left the NBC show to star in a variety show for ABC. His new show, ''The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour'', was cancelled after just four months. Plot First season ''Sanford'' premiered in March 1980 as a midseason replacement. Demond Wilson refused to reprise his role as Fred's son, Lamont. His absence was explained by having Lamont away working on the Alaska pipeline. Fred's new business partner in the Los Angeles-based junkyard was Cal Pettie (Dennis Burkley), an overweight white Southerner, originally from Texas, with a generally optimistic attitude and jovial demeanor. Cal had worked with Lamont on the pipeline and Lamont sent him to visit his father. Cal moves into Lamont's old room. Rollo Lawson ( Nathaniel Taylor), a recurring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Bunker's Place
''Archie Bunker's Place'' is an American television sitcom produced as a continuation of ''All in the Family''. It aired on CBS from September 23, 1979, to April 4, 1983. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons. It performed so well during its first season that it displaced ''Mork & Mindy'' from its Sunday night time slot (a year earlier, during its first season, ''Mork & Mindy'' had been the No. 3 show on television). Background Although the Bunker home continued to be featured, the scenes were primarily set in the title's neighborhood tavern in Astoria, Queens, which Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) purchased in the series' eighth-season premiere of ''All in the Family''. During the first season as ''Archie Bunker's Place'', Bunker takes on a Jewish partner, Murray Klein (Martin Balsam), when co-owner Harry Snowden decides to sell his share of the business. Early in the first season, to increase business, Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost And Found (1979 Film)
''Lost and Found'' is a 1979 comedy film co-written and directed by Melvin Frank and starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson. Featuring much of the same cast and crew as Frank's 1973 film '' A Touch of Class'', this film is about a couple's constant meeting and clashing. It marked Martin Short's film debut. Plot While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again. Cast * George Segal as Adam Watson * Glenda Jackson as Patricia Brittenham * Paul Sorvino as Reilly * Maureen Stapleton as Jemmy * Martin Short as Engel * Ken Pogue as Julian * John Candy as Carpentier Reception R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathmakers
''Mathmakers'' was a Canadian educational children's television series produced from 1978 to 1980 by the province of Ontario's public television network, TVOntario. The series starred Derek McGrath and Lyn Harvey. Producer/Director Clive Vanderburgh, Production Assistant Jane Downey and Brian Elston, Editor. The premise is set in a television studio where the production crew produces an educational series illustrating various concepts of grade school mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics .... External linksA fan site dedicated to classic TVO children's shows of the 1970s* 1970s Canadian children's television series Canadian children's education television series TVO original programming Television shows filmed in Toronto Mathematics education television s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Of Avonlea (1975 Film)
''Anne of Avonlea'' is a film made for television 6-part miniseries, developed in the United Kingdom by the BBC as a sequel to its 1972 ''Anne of Green Gables'' miniseries. It is based on ''Anne of Avonlea'' (1909) and ''Anne of the Island'' (1915), both sequels to the 1908 novel ''Anne of Green Gables'' by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This British version was directed by Joan Craft, with Kim Braden in the role of Anne. Both had previously worked on the 1972 adaptation of the preceding novel. Cast * Kim Braden as Anne Shirley * Barbara Hamilton as Marilla Cuthbert * Madge Ryan as Rachel Lynde Plot Anne begins a new job as a teacher at the local school. While working there, she continues to pursue her dream of becoming a published writer by winning a baking soda company's essay contest; fends off several suitors; and returns to Green Gables whenever she can to visit her adoptive mother, Marilla. Archive status Although the prequel ''Anne of Green Gables'' is considered lost, ''Anne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked Mind
''The Naked Mind'' is a Canadian current affairs television miniseries on mental health which aired on CBC Television in 1974. Premise The series, hosted by Lorraine Thomson, featured drama segments to illustrate various mental health conditions. These were selected scenes from such plays as ''Anne of Green Gables'', ''The Devil's Disciple'', ''The Four Poster'', ''Harvey'', ''Johnny Belinda'', ''My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion'', with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons f ...'' and ''Saint Joan''. This was accompanied by discussion by a panel which represented various occupations such as sociologists, journalists, actors and theatrical leaders. Henry Morgan, a humorist, appeared on all episodes. This series was based on a May 1973 hour-long special broadcast of the same name. Two of the four episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delilah (Canadian TV Series)
''Delilah'' is a Canadian situation comedy television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1974. Premise ''Delilah'' marked the CBC's first situation comedy in prime-time, having aired its previous sitcom ''Toby'' in daytime. Delilah (Terry Tweed) moves out of the city and becomes a small community's first female barber. Her barbershop was intended to be given to her younger brother Vincent (Miles McNamara), but he must first graduate from school. Other series characters include Delilah's Aunt Peggy ( Barbara Hamilton), the town's newspaper editor T.J. (Eric House), family friend Franny Tree (Peter Mews), Frances (Kay Hawtrey), Mavis (Joyce Gordon) and Isabel (Paulle Clark). Production ''Delilah'' was recorded before a live studio audience. Six of the episodes were written by Bryan Barney under script editor Jean Templeton. Scheduling This half-hour series was broadcast on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 4 October 1973 to 3 January 1974. Reception The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Of Green Gables (1972 Film)
''Anne of Green Gables'' is a 1972 made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the 1908 novel ''Anne of Green Gables'' by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Despite many of the BBC's costume drama serials made during the 1970s surviving, all five episodes of this serial were wiped and it is effectively considered lost. Cast * Kim Braden - Anne Shirley * Christopher Blake - Gilbert Blythe * Barbara Hamilton - Marilla Cuthbert * Elliott Sullivan - Matthew Cuthbert * Jan Francis - Diana Barry * Avis Bunnage - Rachel Lynde Sequel Joan Craft returned to direct the 1975 sequel ''Anne of Avonlea'', also starring Kim Braden. It is based on the second and third books of the series, ''Anne of Avonlea'' and ''Anne of the Island ''Anne of the Island'' is the third book in the ''Anne of Green Gables'' series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. ''Anne Of the Island'' is the third book of the eight-book sequels written by L. M. Montgomery, about Anne Shirl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trouble With Tracy
''The Trouble with Tracy'' is a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1970–1971 television season, with intended distribution by the U.S.-based National General Pictures. It is considered by some to be one of the worst situation comedies ever produced. The series was produced as a daily show, and aired weekday afternoons at 3:30 pm from September 14, 1970. The economic and time pressures of producing 130 episodes in a single season (seven shows were filmed every five days) meant cheap, wobbly sets, no outdoor filming, a laugh track instead of a live studio audience, the use of single takes, the reuse of 25-year-old radio scripts, and other shortcuts that resulted in a poor-quality show. Even flubbed lines and bloopers sometimes ended up airing, because the show could not afford retakes. Premise Shot in Toronto at the studios of CFTO-TV, the show was set in New York City and featured a newlywed couple. Tracy Young (Diane Nyland) was wife to Doug Young (Steve Weston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forest Rangers (TV Series)
''The Forest Rangers'' is a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC Television and ITC Entertainment and was Canada's first television show produced in colour. Executive producer Maxine Samuels founded the show. The series ran for three seasons, a total of 104 30-minute colour episodes (although Canadian and UK audiences would not get to see them in colour until long after the series ended). Early episodes of the series were broadcast in serialized form as part of a CBC children's series entitled ''Razzle Dazzle'', hosted by Alan Hamel and Michelle Finney. This was the first appearance in a major series by Gordon Pinsent. He left the series in 1965 to star in ''Quentin Durgens, M.P.''. In 1966 the series was adapted into a comic strip by British comics artist John Gillatt, which appeared in the British comic magazine ''Tiger''. The show was also run in syndication in the United States from 1965-1966. In June 2004, there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
