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Ken Pogue
Kenneth Pogue (July 26, 1934 – December 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. Career His first motion picture role in 1973 was in '' The Neptune Factor''. He almost drowned in scuba gear. He worked on stage at the Crest Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Guthrie Theater in the 1960s through 1980s before moving to television and film. His other film credits include ''The Silent Partner'' (1978), ''Lost and Found'' (1979), ''Virus'' (1980), '' Suzanne'' (1980), ''The Grey Fox'' (1982), '' The Dead Zone'' (1983, as the vice president), '' Kane & Abel'' (1985), '' Act of Vengeance'' (1986), '' Dead of Winter'' (1987), '' Crazy Moon'' (1987), and ''The Hitman'' (1991), starring Chuck Norris. He was also Father Dominic in the 2006 film ''The Mermaid Chair''. One of his memorable roles is Gerrard in CTV's pilot of '' Due South'' in 1994. It aired on CBS in the United States. Pogue reprised his character in the Season 2 episode "Bird in the Hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Moon (film)
''Crazy Moon'' is a 1987 film written by Tom Berry and Stefan Wodoslawsky, directed by Allan Eastman, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Vanessa Vaughan. Plot Brooks is a rich but slightly odd teenager who has various adventures as his older brother leads him astray. His life changed after he met a girl, Anne, who is deaf. They met as Brooks was stealing a mannequin from a clothes store where she worked as a clerk. They fall in love. The story follows their relationship as each of them learn from the others strengths and weaknesses. Cast *Kiefer Sutherland as Brooks *Vanessa Vaughan as Anne *Peter Spence as Cleveland *Ken Pogue as Alec *Eve Napier as Mimi * Sean McCann as Anne's Father *Bronwen Mantel as Anne's Mother *Terri Hawkes as Pamela See also *List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing There is a body of films that feature the deaf and hard of hearing. The ''Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series'' wrote, "The world of the deaf has received lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Larceny (1985 Film)
''Love & Larceny'' is a Canadian television film, directed by Robert Iscove and broadcast by CBC Television in 1985.David Barber, "Illusions of grandeur". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', September 21, 1985. Based on a true story, the film stars Jennifer Dale as Betsy Bigley, a Canadian con woman who successfully defrauded American banks of millions of dollars by posing as the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. The film's cast also included Alf Humphreys, Brent Carver, Ken Pogue, Sheila McCarthy, Ross Petty, Douglas Rain, Patricia Hamilton, Susan Wright, Hugh Webster, Peter Dvorsky and Kenneth Welsh. The film aired on CBC Television on October 6, 1985. The film won the Gemini Award for Best TV Movie at the 1st Gemini Awards in 1986. It was also nominated, but did not win, for Best Supporting Actor (Rain), Best Production Design or Art Direction (Milton Parcher), Best Costume Design (Suzanne Mess) and Best Music Composition for a Single Program, Dramatic Underscore (Eric Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana (1984 Film)
''Louisiana'' is a 1984 Franco - Italian - Canadian film directed by Philippe de Broca. The film score was composed by Claude Bolling. Synopsis The action is located in Louisiana in the mid-nineteenth century. Virginia will fight to get possession of the Bagatelle estate after it was lost during the American Civil War. Cast * Margot Kidder as Virginia Tregan * Ian Charleson as Clarence Dandridge * Andréa Ferréol as Mignette * Lloyd Bochner as Adrien Damvillier * Victor Lanoux as Charles de Vigors * Len Cariou as Oswald * Hilly Hicks as Brent * Raymond Pellegrin as Morley * Ken Pogue as Dr. Murphy * Akosua Busia as Ivy * Corinne Marchand as Anne McGregor * James Bearden as Percy Templeton * Larry Lewis as Adrien II * Wayne Best as Major McGregor * Ron L. Lewis as Pierre Damvillier * Angus MacInnes as Albert * Alex Liggett as Adrien II, Child * Matthew Breeding as Pierre, Child * Scott Burnelle as Fabian * Kellie Brasselle as Julie * Tara Winder as Ivy, Child * Mark Polley as Adrien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder By Phone
''Murder by Phone'' (also known as ''Bells'' and ''The Calling'') is a 1982 science fiction slasher film directed by Michael Anderson. Its plot follows a series of murders committed by a disgruntled phone company employee who designs a device that kills victims when they answer their telephones. Cast * Richard Chamberlain as Nat Bridger * John Houseman as Stanley Markowitz * Sara Botsford as Ridley Taylor * Robin Gammell as Noah Clayton * Gary Reineke as Lt. Meara * Barry Morse as Fred Waites * Alan Scarfe as John Websole * James B. Douglas as Jack Gilsdorf * Ken Pogue as Fil Thorner * Neil Munro as Winters * Tom Butler as Detective Tamblyn * Colin Fox as Dr. Leon Alderman * Jefferson Mappin as Alex * Luba Goy as Beth Freemantle * Lenore Zann as Connie Lawson * George R. Robertson as George Lord * Angus MacInnes as Colin Bartell * Neil Affleck as Phone Tracer Novel The movie was preceded by a novel called ''Phone Call'' written by the screenwriters Michael Butler and Dennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silence Of The North
''Silence of the North'' is a 1981 semi-autobiographical Canadian film of author Olive Frederickson, taken from the book of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn as Olive, Tom Skerritt as her first husband Walter Reamer who was killed, and Gordon Pinsent as her second husband John Frederickson. All three main actors were nominated for Genie Awards, as was the director, Allan King. Originally, the film was set to share the title of its country music theme song, "Comes a Time" performed by Lacy J. Dalton and composed by Neil Young, but at the last minute the title of the book was retained for the film. The film was a box office flop upon its original theatrical release, but a combination of the song winning an award and pay-TV service SelecTV picking it up 18 months later for its evening lineup, allowed the film to develop a cult following. Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Brides (1980 Film)
''War Brides'' is a Canadian television film, directed by Martin Lavut and broadcast by CBC Television in 1980. The film centres on four women, three from the United Kingdom and one from Germany, who come to Canada as war brides of Canadian soldiers after the end of World War II.Ned Powers, "25th Street director stars in CBC drama". ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', September 19, 1980. The film stars Elizabeth Richardson, Sonja Smits, Wendy Crewson and Sharry Flett as the women, and Geoffrey Bowes, Ken Pogue, Timothy Webber and Layne Coleman Layne Coleman is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director, most noted as a former artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille. Originally from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he first became prominent as a cofounder and artistic director ... as their husbands. The film was broadcast by CBC Television on September 20, 1980. The film won four awards at the Bijou Awards in 1981 for Best Television Drama Over 30 Minutes, Best Art Direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Every Person Is Guilty
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Every may refer to: People * Every (surname), including a list of people surnamed Every or Van Every * Every Maclean, New Zealand politician in sunda 19th century * Every baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England Other * Suzuki Every, a kei truck produced by Japanese automaker Suzuki *''every'', one of the English determiners See also * Universal quantification, in predicate logic * *Each (other) *Everybody (other) *Everyone (other) *Everything (other) Everything is all that exists. Everything may also refer to: * Universe, everything humans perceive to exist * Cosmos, the universe as an orderly system * World, the planet Earth, or the sum of human civilization * ''everything'', an English inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Wind (1976 Film)
''Second Wind'' is a 1976 Canadian sport comedy film, directed and edited by Don (Donald) Shebib, written by Hal Ackerman, and produced by James Margellos. This was the first feature film starring role for actor James Naughton, who portrays a stock broker whose new jogging hobby turns into an obsession to excel at long distance running, straining his career and his relationship with his wife (Lindsay Wagner). The film is Shebib's fourth feature. Commercially unsuccessful, reviews of ''Second Wind'' were mixed, tending to praise the cinematography and acting, but usually faulting the script. ''Second Wind'' won a Canadian Society of Cinematographers award and two Canadian Screen Awards. Plot Roger Mathieson (James Naughton) is a 30-year-old stockbroker for whom everything has come easily. One day, he sees a TV report about a 26-year's old running champion and listens intently to remarks from that athlete's coach. Inspired, Mathieson begins jogging, soon discovering he's not in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gross
Paul Michael Gross OC (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian actor, director, writer, producer, and musician born in Calgary, Alberta. Gross is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the popular Canadian television series ''Due South'' as well as for his 2008 war film '' Passchendaele'', which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. Gross acted as executive producer on ''Due South'' in addition to starring, wrote seven episodes including the two-part series finale, and wrote and sang songs for the soundtrack of the series. He later found success with another Canadian television series, ''Slings & Arrows'' and ''Republic of Doyle''. Early life Gross was born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Renie Gross (née Dunne), a writer and art historian, and Robert "Bob" Gross, a career soldier, colonel, and tank commander. His family moved to Arlington, Virginia in his adolescence, where Gross attended Yorktown High School. He credits drama teacher Timothy Jecko as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Due South
''Due South'' is a Canadian crime comedy-drama television series created by Paul Haggis, and produced by Alliance Communications from its premiere on April 26, 1994, to its conclusion after four seasons on March 14, 1999. The series starred Paul Gross, David Marciano, Gordon Pinsent, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Camilla Scott, Ramona Milano, and Callum Keith Rennie. The show follows the adventures of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser, who first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father, and has remained, attached as liaison with the Canadian Consulate. He works alongside a detective of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes. Both are aided at times by Fraser's deaf white wolf, Diefenbaker. The show's format mixed between elements of a police drama and comedy, derived from the stereotypical differences between Canadian and American culture at the time. It also included elements of fantasy derived from Gross' character being v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTV Television Network
The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned television network and is now a division of the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE. It is Canada's largest privately or commercially owned network consisting of 22 owned-and-operated stations nationwide and two privately owned affiliates, and has consistently been placed as Canada's top- rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival Global Television Network in key markets. Bell Media also operates additional CTV-branded properties, including the 24-hour national cable news network CTV News Channel and the secondary CTV Two television system. There has never been an official full name corresponding to the initials "CTV"; prior to CTV's launch in 1961, it was given the proposed branding of "Canadian Television Network" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
