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Diamonds (Canadian TV Series)
''Diamonds'' is a French and Canadian-produced television series, which aired from September 22, 1987, to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, former actors who had met and married while playing private investigators on a TV series called ''Two of Diamonds'', and continued to work together as real private investigators after both their divorce and the cancellation of their show. The show was frequently compared to the American series ''Moonlighting''. In a direct nod to the comparison, one episode actually featured an encounter with a character who mistook Devitt and Towne for Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The cast also included Roland Magdane, Geraint Wyn Davies and Tony Rosato. Campbell was also an occasional writer for the series. Produced by Alliance Entertainment, the series aired on Global in Canada, and in a late night slot on CBS in the United States, as well as on the USA Network. It was one of several Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting. He is known for such films as ''Naked Lunch'', ''Prozac Nation'', ''New Waterford Girl'' and the television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest''. Early life Campbell was born in Toronto and raised in Montreal. He went to Toronto's Upper Canada College and Kingston's Queen's University where he originally studied Political Studies but later switched to English and Drama. He continued his studies in England studying five years at the London Drama Studio and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Campbell spent 40 weeks touring the country with the York Theatre Royal Repertory Company. His debut film role was in ''The Omen,'' released in 1976. After he returned from England he divided his time amongst Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York. In the 1990s he moved back to Canada. Career His starring film and television credits include series lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Shots (Canadian TV Series)
''Hot Shots'' is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBS in the United States in 1986, and CTV in Canada in 1987. The series, produced by CTV for the '' CBS Late Night'' block of crime drama series, starred Dorothy Parke and Booth Savage as Amanda Reed and Jake West, crime journalists for the tabloid magazine ''Crime World''. The cast also included Paul Burke, Clark Johnson, Heather Smith, and Mung Ling. Only thirteen episodes of the show were produced. Its producers went on to create ''Diamonds'' the following year. Cast *Dorothy Parke as Amanda Reed * Booth Savage as Jason West * Paul Burke as Nicholas Broderick *Clark Johnson as Al Pendleton *Heather Smith as Cleo *Louis Negin Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011. Career Born in London, England, and raised in Toronto, Ontari ... as Goldsmith References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff F
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel * Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel * Jeff Allen, English session drummer * Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers * Jeff Beal (born 1963), American composer of music for various media * Jeff Beck, electric guitarist * Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter * Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator * Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will * Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles * Jeff Gillan, an American journalist * Jeff Graham, Canadian radio DJ * Jeff Hanneman (1964–2013), American guitarist, founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Shebib
Donald Everett "Don" Shebib (born 27 January 1938) is a Canadian film director. Shebib is a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s before turning to feature films, beginning with the influential ''Goin' Down the Road'' (1970) and what many call his masterpiece, '' Between Friends'' (1973). He soon became frustrated by the bureaucratic process of film funding in Canada and chronic problems with distribution as well as a string of box office disappointments. After '' Heartaches'' (1981), he made fewer films for theatrical release and worked more in television. Shebib is Noah "40" Shebib's father. Early life Shebib was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Mary Alice Long, a Newfoundlander of Irish descent, and Moses "Morris" Shebib, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1910, himself the son of Lebanese immigrants. Shebib grew up in the Toronto suburb of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Azzopardi
Mario Philip Azzopardi (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian-Maltese television director, television and film director and writer. Early life and emigration Azzopardi was born in Siggiewi, Malta, and was educated at St Aloysius' College (Malta), St Aloysius' College (Birkirkara, Malta), and the University of Malta, Royal University of Malta. In 1971, while still a student at the university, he directed Gaġġa, Il-Gaġġa, based on Frans Sammut's novel ''Il-Gaġġa'', presumed to be the first full-length feature filmed entirely in Maltese language, Maltese. Transferred to digital format and enhanced, the film was re-released in Malta in March 2007. Around the same time he assisted Cecil Satariano during the making of ''"Giuseppi."'' He left his native country for Canada in 1978, following a dispute with local censors and theatre authorities who, in 1977, had cancelled his play, ''Sulari Fuq Strada Stretta'', on the grounds that it was too offensive; the play was eventually present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Haddock
Chris Haddock is a Canadian screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the CBC Television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', ''Da Vinci's City Hall'', ''Intelligence'' and ''The Romeo Section''. He has won 14 Gemini Awards as a writer, producer and/or director and received another 15 nominations - most of them for ''Da Vinci's Inquest''. Career Haddock began as a street performer, but he later focused his creative energies into screenwriting for television. One of his earliest efforts in writing was for the popular series, ''MacGyver'', where he also served as the Story Editor and Executive Story Editor. He founded Haddock Entertainment in 1997. Haddock is most well known for his Vancouver-based television drama creations ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' (1998-2005), ''Da Vinci's City Hall'' (2005-2006) and ''Intelligence'' (2006-2007). Most recently Chris served as writer/co-executive producer on the Martin Scorsese HBO production ''Boardwalk Empire'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fruet
William Fruet (born January 1, 1933) is a Canadian film and television director, playwright and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the drama ''Wedding in White'' (1972), based on a play he had also written. The film won Best Picture at the Canadian Film Awards in 1973. His later career included several horror films, including ''Death Weekend'' (1972), ''Funeral Home (1980 film), Cries in the Night'' (1980), and ''Killer Party'' (1986), as well as television series, including ''Goosebumps (TV series), Goosebumps'' and ''Poltergeist: The Legacy''. Other writing credits include the influential Canadian film ''Goin' Down the Road'', which he co-wrote with Donald Shebib. Career Fruet began his career as a writer after attending the Canadian Theatre School. His screenwriting credits include ''Rip-Off'', ''Wedding in White'', ''Slipstream (1973 film), Slipstream'', ''Death Weekend'', ''Spasms (film), Spasms'' and ''Imaginary Playmate (film), Imaginary Playmate'', while his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, ''Cold Eye'', was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie ''Les Couleurs du diable'' (Allain Jessua, 1997). Career Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay; Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay. The first Cardinal story, '' Forty Words for Sorrow'', won the British Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger, and the second, ''The Delicate Storm'', won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best novel, as did the sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Bonnière
René Gabriel Bonnière (born 10 March 1928) is a Canadian film director and editor, originally from France. He has had a prolific career, working in television and film in both French and English productions. Biography Bonnière was born in Lyon, France. He first began his film career in France as a director for the French army, working alongside Henri Colpi and composer Georges Delerue. He then worked as an assistant to filmmaking pioneer Marcel L'Herbier. He emigrated from France in May 1955, arriving in New York City with his wife, Claude, on the SS ''Flandre''. Bonnière spent six months working at a bank on Wall Street before looking north for a return to the film industry. He contacted filmmaker F. R. Crawley and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB); Crawley met him in New York and invited him to move to Canada. From 1956 to 1971, Bonnière worked for Crawley Films, directing dozens of films. His first works were ''Beaver Dam'' (short), ''Maîtres artisans du Canada' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Bond
Timothy Bond (born 1942) is a Canadian director and screenwriter. He normally does television, but has done films as well. He has done episodes of '' Due South'', ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''Sliders'', and others. Partial filmography *1992 **'' The Lost World'' **'' Return to the Lost World'' *1994 ** Christy (TV Series) *1995 **''The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)'' **''Goosebumps (TV series)'' *1996 **''Night of the Twisters'' (TV movie) **''Goosebumps (TV series)'' *1997 **'' The New Ghostwriter Mysteries'' **''The Shadow Men'' **''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 situation ...'' *2001 **''High Explosive'' **''She'' * 2011: **''The Case for Christmas'' (TV movie) References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mendeluk
George Mendeluk ( ua, Джордж Менделюк) (born March 20, 1948, in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a Germany, German-born Canadians, Canadian film director, television director and writer of Ukrainians, Ukrainian descent. Throughout his career he has amassed a number of credits in film and television. His directorial television credits include ''Miami Vice'', ''Night Heat'', ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''The Young Riders'', ''Counterstrike (1990 TV series), Counterstrike'', ''Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'', ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', ''Poltergeist: The Legacy'', ''Highlander: The Series'', ''Highlander: The Raven'', ''Queen of Swords (TV series), Queen of Swords'', ''First Wave (TV series), First Wave'', ''Relic Hunter'', ''Romeo!'', ''Odyssey 5'' and among other series. Since 2006, Mendeluk has focused primarily on directing television films namely ''Deck the Halls (2005 film), Deck the Halls'' (2005) starring Gabrielle Carteris and ''Judicial Indiscreti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklós Lente
Miklós Lente was a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. He was most noted for his work on the 1978 film '' In Praise of Older Women'', for which he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Cinematography at the 29th Canadian Film Awards and the Canadian Society of Cinematographers award for Best Cinematography in a Feature. After the Canadian Film Awards were renamed to the Genie Awards, he was again nominated in the Best Cinematography category for '' Agency'' at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980, and for '' Suzanne'' at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981. He was also a four-time Gemini Award nominee for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series, receiving two nods for the drama series ''Night Heat'', one for the television film '' The Little Kidnappers'' and one for the television film ''Ordeal in the Arctic''. His other cinematography credits included the theatrical films '' The Girl in Blue'', '' Happy Birthday to Me'', '' Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid'', '' Screwballs'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
