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Geoffrey Bowes
Geoffrey Bowes is a Canadian actor.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Bowes, Geoffrey" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia''. He is most noted for his performance in the 1979 film ''Something's Rotten'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980. Career Bowes's roles have included the films ''Fish Hawk'', ''Middle Age Crazy'', ''War Brides'', '' Jewel'', ''Dirty Pictures'' and '' Say Nothing'', supporting or guest appearances in the television series '' Street Legal'', '' F/X: The Series'', ''Wind at My Back'', ''Due South'', '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' and '' This Is Wonderland'', voice roles in ''Babar'' and ''The Neverending Story'', and stage roles in productions of Thomas Babe's ''A Prayer for My Daughter'', Erika Ritter's ''Automatic Pilot'', David Fennario's ''Toronto'', George F. Walker's ''Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline'', and Brian Drader's ''The Norbals''. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981, as Outstandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something's Rotten
''Something's Rotten'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Harvey Frost and released in 1979."Harvey Frost's Something's Rotten". ''Cinema Canada'', March 1980. The film stars Charlotte Blunt as the queen of an unnamed European country, who is being pressured by the Prime Minister (Cec Linder) to abdicate the throne in favour of one of her sons, but who must wrestle with the question of which son, the older but emotionally unstable Prince Calvin ( Geoffrey Bowes) or the younger but more mature Prince George (Christopher Barry), will be named as her successor. Meanwhile, a series of murders of the palace staff is being committed by an unidentified "Skulker", whom the queen begins to suspect may in fact be one of the princes. The film was shot at Casa Loma in Toronto. The film was not well received by critics. The magazine ''Cinema Canada'' wrote that Bowes' performance as Prince Calvin was the only good thing about the film, while critic Jay Scott claimed that when the film screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babar (TV Series)
''Babar'' (, ; ) is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and US HBO, and subsequently was rerun on Qubo from its launch 2006 until its closure in 2021. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original ''Babar'' books, and was Nelvana's first international co-production. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages in over 150 countries. The show was the first to be based on the ''Babar'' books; previously, two ''Babar'' specials narrated by Peter Ustinov were produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez for NBC: ''The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant'' on October 21, 1968, and ''Babar Comes to America'' on September 7, 1971. In 2010, a computer-animated sequel series spin-off of ''Babar'' titled ''Babar and the Adventures of Badou'' was premiered on Disney Junior in the U.S. The new series takes place several years after the original and focuses on a majority of new characters including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stories We Tell
''Stories We Tell'' is a 2012 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Sarah Polley and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film explores her family's secrets—including one intimately related to Polley's own identity. ''Stories We Tell'' premiered August 29, 2012 at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, then played at the 39th Telluride Film Festival and the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. In 2015, it was added to the Toronto International Film Festival's list of the top 10 Canadian films of all time, at number 10. It was also named the 70th greatest film since 2000 in a 2016 critics' poll by BBC. Plot The film looks at the relationship between Polley's parents, Michael and Diane Polley, including the revelation that the filmmaker was the product of an extramarital affair between her mother and Montreal producer Harry Gulkin. It incorporates interviews with Polley's siblings from her mother's two marriages, interviews with other r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man (2005 Film)
''The Man'' is a 2005 American buddy cop comedy film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer. ''The Man'' was directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried, from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter, and based on a story by Piddock and Oberman. Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. New Line Cinema released ''The Man'' in Canada (through Alliance Atlantis) and the United States on September 9, 2005. Plot Andy Fiddler is preparing a speech for a dental convention in Detroit. Fiddler works for a dental supply company, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, in Detroit, a federal armory of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed and Internal Affairs agent Peters suspects the dead agent and his partner Agent Derrick Vann were in on the robbery. Vann, attempting to clear his name by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time To Say Goodbye?
''Time to Say Goodbye?'' is a 1997 American made-for-television drama film directed by David Jones and starring Eva Marie Saint. The film is centered on the decision of an elderly family patriarch to end his life, when faced with the degradation of Alzheimer's disease. The film originally premiered on Lifetime cable network on September 1, 1997. Television Guide - Volume 49 2001 - 0091692233 Time to Say Goodbye? (CC) — Drama 2:00 (1997) Fact-based drama about a physician (Richard Kiley) with Alzheimer's disease who wants his family to assist in his suicide. Cast * Eva Marie Saint ... Ruth Klooster * Richard Kiley ... Dr. Gerald Klooster * Margaret Colin ... Kristen Hamstra * Rick Roberts ... Chip Klooster * Alex Carter ... Craig Klooster * Kevin Hicks ... Curt Klooster * John Neville ... Michigan Judge * Elizabeth Shepherd ... Teresa Rodriguez * Louis Di Bianco ... Joe Rodriguez * Greg Ellwand ... Bill * Tracey Hoyt ... Mary * Catherine McNally ... Betty * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Dogs (film)
''Hot Dogs'' (french: Les Chiens chauds) is a Canadian crime comedy/sexploitation film, directed by Claude Fournier and released in 1980.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 101. The film has been released under a variety of English titles, including ''Cops and Other Lovers'', ''Under the Cover Cops'' and ''The Clean Up Squad'', but has become best known as ''Hot Dogs''.Charles-Henri Ramond"Hot Dogs – Film de Claude Fournier" ''Films du Québec'', January 2, 2009. The film stars Harry Reems as "Mr. Clean", the leader of a police vice squad who is determined to rid Montreal of prostitution, and Geoffrey Bowes as Maurice, a vice squad officer whose wife leaves him after discovering that his job involves dressing up as a woman to catch and arrest johns, who then decides to hire top local prostitute Estelle (Nicole Morin) to entrap Mr. Clean in a sex scandal in order to get him fired.Gary Evans, "Claude Fournier's Les Chiens Chauds (Hot Dogs)". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Mavor Moore Award
The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora Award) is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre, the award was established on December 13, 1978, with the first awards held in 1980. Each winner receives a bronze statue made from the original by John Romano. Awards Awards are given in major divisions: General Theatre (Drama/Comedy/Play, budget over $100,000 and over 150 seats), Musical Theatre (Musical/Revue/Cabaret), Independent Theatre (budget under $100,000 and/or under 150 seats), Dance, Opera, Theatre for Young Audiences, and Touring. Each of these major categories are further sub-divided in an assorted number of awards. In 2018, the awards announced that beginning with the 2019 awards it would discontinue gender-based performance categories, replacing its previous performance categories for m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Taylor (Canadian Writer)
Katherine Mary Taylor (born 1962) is a French-born Canadian critic and novelist, a cultural journalist at ''The Globe and Mail'' newspaper. She is author of three novels, ''Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen,'' ''A Man in Uniform'' and ''Serial Monogamy''. Biography Katherine Mary Taylor as born in 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The child of a Canadian diplomat, Taylor was born in France, and grew up both in Europe and in Ottawa. She attended Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, and studied history and art history at the University of Toronto. She has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. After working at the ''London Free Press'' and the ''Hamilton Spectator'', Taylor joined the copy desk of ''The Globe and Mail'' in 1989. She moved into the arts section in 1991 and was appointed theatre critic in 1995. She served in that role until 2003, winning two Nathan Cohen Awards for her reviews. In 2009, she was awarded the Atkinson Fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Drader
Brian Drader (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright."Manitoban Drader among 'fresh crop'" '''', October 21, 2003. He is best known for his plays ', about and , and ''The Fruit Machine'', about the |
George F
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Fennario
David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A committed Marxist, Fennario was a candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in 2003 and for Québec solidaire in 2007. He has been the subject of two National Film Board of Canada documentaries, ''David Fennario's Banana Boots'' and ''Fennario: His World On Stage.'' His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O." Works *''Without a Parachute'' (1972) (journals) *''On the Job'' (1976) (play) *''Nothing to Lose'' (1977) (play) *'' Balconville'' (1979) (play) *''Joe Beef'' (1984) (play; based on the life and times of Joe Beef) *''Doctor Thomas Neill Cream'' (1988) (play) *''The Murder of Susan Parr'' (1989) (play) *''The Death of René Lévesque'' (1991) (play) *''Gargoyle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Ritter
Erika Ritter (born 26 April 1948) is a Canadian playwright and humorist. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she attended Sacred Heart Academy for High School, studied drama at McGill University and the University of Toronto. In addition to her published work, she has written and hosted programming for CBC Radio. Ritter was host of ''Saturday Stereo Theatre'' (1983–1984), ''Dayshift'' (1985–88), ''Air Craft'' (1988–1990) and ''Ontario Morning'' (2000–2005). She has also served as guest host on numerous programs, including ''As It Happens'', '' The Sunday Edition'', '' The Arts Tonight'', '' Here and Now'' and ''Fresh Air'', all on CBC Radio One. Two of her plays, ''The Passing Scene'' and ''Murder at McQueen'', have been produced at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |