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Canadian Screen Award For Best Performance In A Children's Or Youth Program Or Series
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series is a Canadian Screen Award that honours performances in English language children's television produced in Canada. Winners and nominees Winners in bold. 1990s 1993 * Graham Greene - ''The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon'' ("Mr. Crabby Tree") * Fred Penner - '' Fred Penner's Place'' ("Swinging") * Michelle Beaudoin - ''Madison'' ("The Fire Fighter") * Ernie Coombs - '' Mr. Dressup's 25th Anniversary'' * Jackie Burroughs - ''The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon'' ("High Flying Dragon") * Alyson Court - ''The Big Comfy Couch'' ("Funny Faces") 1994 * Laura Bertram - '' Ready or Not'' ("Am I Perverted or What?") * Tina Keeper - '' For Angela'' * Shawn Ashmore - ''Guitarman'' * Enuka Okuma - ''Madison'' ("The Girl Most Likely") * Denny Doherty - Theodore Tugboat ("George Ghost") 1995 * Ernie Coombs - ''Mr. Dressup'' ("It Goes On Top") * John Acorn - ''Acorn, the Nature Nut'' ("The Fast a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denny Doherty
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer. He was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas and the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Early life and career Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the youngest of five children. He grew up in Halifax's north end in a devout Catholic household. His father was a dockworker and Doherty has described his mother as "a housewife and mystic". Doherty and three friends, Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau, and Mike O'Connell, began their musical career in 1956 with a band called the Hepsters. Two years later they disbanded. In 1960, still in Halifax, Doherty, aged 19, along with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk group, called the Colonials. Columbia Records signed the group several months later, at which time they changed their name to the Halifax III. The band recorded two LPs and had a minor hit, entitled "The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewel Staite
Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Kaylee Frye in the Fox television series ''Firefly'' (2002–2003) and its spin-off theatrical film '' Serenity'' (2005), and as Jennifer Keller on Sci-Fi Channel's science fiction television series ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2007–2009). Staite also starred as Catalina in ''Space Cases'' (1996), as "Becca" Fisher in ''Flash Forward'' (1996–1997), as Raquel Westbrook in the Canadian drama '' The L.A. Complex'' (2012), and as Caroline Swift in AMC's crime drama '' The Killing'' (2013–2014). Since 2021, she has starred as Abigail Bianchi in the Canadian legal drama series ''Family Law''. Early life Staite was born in White Rock, British Columbia. The youngest of seven children, she modeled as a child and has acted since age six. She has stated that she is of British, Irish, French Canadian, and Iroquois ancestry. Staite attended Vancouver Film School and worked at the Vancouver Youth Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz; January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphonic conductor. She was best known as the original puppeteer of the sock puppet Lamb Chop, first appearing on ''Captain Kangaroo'' in March 1956 and then ''Hi Mom'', a local morning television show which aired on WRCA-TV in New York City. Early life Lewis was born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz to Jewish parents, Ann (née Ritz) and Abraham Hurwitz, an education professor at Yeshiva University, who was originally from Vilnius, Lithuania. She had one sister, Barbara, who was nine years younger. Her parents encouraged her to perform and her father, who had been named New York City's "official magician" by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia during the Great Depression, taught her to perform specialized magic acts by the age of 13. She also received instruction in acrobatics, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunted Mask (TV Special)
"The Haunted Mask" is the series premiere of the television series ''Goosebumps''. The episode is based on the book of the same name by R. L. Stine and is about Carly Beth, a timid girl who buys a Halloween mask that soon begins merging with her face. It first aired on October 27, 1995 in the United States on the Fox network, where it was viewed by 7.9 million households. In Canada, where the episode was filmed, it aired one day later on the YTV network. At the time, it had almost 3 million viewers and was YTV's highest-rated episode. Kathryn Long, who played Carly Beth, obtained a Gemini Award nomination for " Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series". "The Haunted Mask" was released on VHS on March 12, 1996. ''Billboard'' ranked the VHS as the 75th bestselling home video of 1996. More than 2.5 million units of the VHS had been sold by August 1996. Plot Carly Beth Caldwell (Kathryn Long) is repeatedly scared by two classmates, Chuck Greene (Amos Crawley) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goosebumps (TV Series)
''Goosebumps'' is a children's anthology horror television series based on R. L. Stine's best-selling book series of the same name. It is an anthology of stories about tweens and young teens finding themselves in creepy and unusual situations, typically involving supernatural elements or the occult. Production ''Goosebumps'' was filmed largely in the Canadian province of Ontario, with different houses and historic properties in Toronto, Markham and other outlying rural areas serving often as the sets for each episode rather than constructing artificial houses and buildings. Canada also provided a more affordable filming location and an aesthetic that could double as American while maintaining ambiguity in terms of location and setting. Props for the series were designed by Ron Stefaniuk and Alan Doucette, while Stefaniuk retained many of the animatronic props at his own studio after ''Goosebumps'' was cancelled. Episodes Broadcast history ''Goosebumps'' originally began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Forward
A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future. They may also reveal significant parts of the story that have not yet occurred, but soon will in greater detail. It is similar to foreshadowing, in which future events are not shown but rather implicitly hinted at. It is also similar to an ellipsis, which takes the narrative forward and is intended to skim over boring or uninteresting details, for example the aging of a character. It is primarily a postmodern narrative device, named by analogy to the more traditional flashback, which reveals events that occurred in the past. Literature An early example of prolepsis which predates the postmodern period is Charles Dickens' novel '' A Christmas Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Foster (actor)
Benjamin A. Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor. He has had roles in films including ''The Punisher'' (2004), '' X-Men: The Last Stand'' and ''Alpha Dog'' (both 2006), '' The Messenger'' and ''Pandorum'' (both 2009), '' The Mechanic'' (2011), ''Contraband'' (2012), ''Kill Your Darlings'' and ''Lone Survivor'' (both 2013), '' The Program'' (2015), and '' Leave No Trace'' (2018). He was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Satellite Award for his role in '' 3:10 to Yuma'' (2007) and won an Independent Spirit Award for portraying Tanner Howard in '' Hell or High Water'' (2016). He also acted as Russell Corwin in '' Six Feet Under'' (2003–2005). He had a recurring role portraying a high school student named Eli on the Judd Apatow show, ''Freaks and Geeks'' (2000), which ran for one season. Early life Benjamin A. Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 29, 1980, the son of restaurant owners Steven Foster and Gillian Kirwan. He has described his parents as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Life As A Dog (TV Series)
''My Life as a Dog'' is a contemporary, half-hour Canadian drama series that ran for 22 episodes from September 8, 1996 until February 2, 1997. It was based on the 1985 Swedish movie of the same name and was developed for Canadian television by, among others, Reidar Jönsson, author of the original autobiographical book. It is the coming of age story of a young boy, brutally dragged away from his familiar universe into an unknown world. Though aimed at teens, it has been rated above the usual "infantile sitcoms".New York Times, Canada'LIFE AS A DOG': FETCHING DEBUT April 4, 1997. The series was shot on location in Winnipeg and Gimli, Manitoba. It was directed by Neill Fearnley and produced by Atlantis Films Limited and Credo Entertainment Group. Plot After his mother's death and with his sailor father away at sea, imaginative 11-year-old Eric Johansson is sent to live in a small fishing village with his mother's twin brother, Johnny Johansson. Eric's adventures in Gimli wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callum Keith Rennie
Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960) is a British-born Canadian actor who started his career in Canadian film and television projects, where his portrayal of Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the television series ''Due South'' was his first international success. After years acting in over 125 Canadian and international projects, he became widely known for his portrayal of Leoben Conoy on ''Battlestar Galactica'', and following that, his role as record producer Lew Ashby on the Showtime series ''Californication''. Frequently cast as a bad guy in movies (and more often in numerous guest appearances on American television series), Rennie's regular participation in Canadian productions gives him an opportunity to show a broader range of his acting abilities, which have been recognized by several awards. Personal life Rennie was born in Sunderland, County Durham, to Scottish parents. When he was four years old, the family emigrated to Canada. Rennie was brought up in middle-clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Rubeš
Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor. Life and career Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, to Ružena (née Kellnerová) and Jan Rubeš. Not long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer. In 1948, he won first prize at the Geneva International Music Festival and emigrated to Canada at the end of the year to pursue a career in a wider sphere. Beginning as a singer with the Canadian Opera Company, he subsequently directed and became director of touring, before switching to radio and television, where he became well known as an actor and presenter in Canada. He is noted for his portrayal of Amish patriarch Eli Lapp in Peter Weir's major-market film ''Witness'' and Jan in '' D2: The Mighty Ducks''. Family On 22 September 1950, Rubeš married actress Susan Douglas. The couple had three sons: Christopher (died 1996), Jonathan, and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric's World
''Eric's World'' is a children's sitcom, which aired on a number of Canadian networks in 1990–1995, and was produced by Cambium Productions, running for five seasons. The show starred Eric Nagler, who had previously appeared on ''Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show''. The show also featured Ashley Brown as Max, Michelyn Emelle as Andrea, Daniel DeSanto as Horace, Niki Holt as Kaley, Maggie Huculak as Marian the Librarian, Nicole Lyn as Prue and John Pattison as C.J.. Premise Eric lives in a trailer park with his daughter Kaley, and later with his adopted son Nat. As a single parent, Eric has the help and support of friends and neighbours like Andrea and her son Max, and the very knowledgeable adventurer Marion the Librarian. All of the children had best friends, for example, Kaley's best friend was Prue. In the series, there is also a life sized puppet named C.J. who serves as Eric's manager. Cast * Eric Nagler As Himself * Niki Holt as Kaley * Nicole Lyn as Prue * Ashley Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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