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Thanks Of A Grateful Nation
''Thanks of a Grateful Nation'' is a 1998 original miniseries about the Gulf War. Directed by Rod Holcomb, it stars Ted Danson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Brian Dennehy. Cast * Ted Danson as Jim Tuite * Jennifer Jason Leigh as Teri Small * Brian Dennehy as Senator Donald Riegle * Marg Helgenberger as Jerrilyn Folz * Steven Weber as Jared Gallimore * Matt Keeslar as Chris Small * Robin Gammell as Clark Nugent * Sabrina Grdevich as Sandra * C. David Johnson as Steve Robertson * Cynthia Dale as Lisa Tuite * Amy Carlson as Tammy Boyer * Kenneth Welsh as Senator Shelby * Booth Savage as Gary Wall * Bruce Gray as Senator Rockefeller * Michael Rhoades as Sergeant George Grass * Jonathan Whittaker as Representative Steve Buyer * Hrant Alinak as Dr. Sid Beria * Liisa Repo-Martell as Kristie Schuermann * Steve Mousseau as Sterling Sims * Susan Coyne as Ammie West * Martha Burns as Dr. Rosemary Dove * Lynne Deragon as Mrs. Gallimore * Garnet Harding as Jimmy * Richard Chevolleau as Tat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Holcomb
Rod Holcomb is an American television director and producer, best known for directing the pilot and finale of '' ER''. He has directed episodes of numerous television series, including ''Quincy, M.E.'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Battlestar Galactica'', ''Fantasy Island'', ''The A-Team'', ''The District'', ''Lost'', ''Invasion'', ''Shark'', ''China Beach'', '' Wiseguy'', '' The Equalizer'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'', '' The Devlin Connection'', ''The Greatest American Hero'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''The West Wing'', and ''Numb3rs''. Career In 1979, Holcomb directed the television film ''Captain America''. In 1994, he directed pilot episode of '' ER'', for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and won a Directors Guild of America Award. In 1996, he directed the episode "Last Call" and was nominated for another Primetime Emmy. He returned to the show in 2009 to direct its final episode and received a Primetime Emmy for doing so. In 1997, Holcomb was announce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Grdevich
Sabrina Grdevich is a Canadian actress. Sabrina portrayed Dana Ballard in the 1999 made-for-TV movie '' Ultimate Deception'' with Yasmine Bleeth. Her starring roles include ''Mile Zero'' and ''Lola''. Other roles included playing Cathy Blake in '' Traders'', voice roles of Ann Granger and Sailor Pluto in the ''Sailor Moon R'' series and Maxine Reardon, on CBC's ''Intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be des ...''. Filmography Film Television External links * * Canadian film actresses Canadian people of Slovenian descent Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian television actresses Canadian voice actresses Living people People from Brampton Actresses from Ontario 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Best Suppor ... [...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] |
Robert Bockstael (actor)
Robert Bockstael (born May 2, 1960) is a Canadian actor, director and writer."North of 60 tracks down Bockstael; Actor-director to play constable". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 5, 1994. Career He is best known for his lead role as Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Brian Fletcher in the Canadian television drama series ''North of 60'', for which he was a two-time Gemini Award nominee for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 11th Gemini Awards in 1997 and the 12th Gemini Awards in 1998. His other leads and series regular roles have included Jim Flett in ''Wind at My Back'',"Role of a lifetime". ''Ottawa Citizen'', January 2, 2014. Jeremy Woodsworm in '' Snakes and Ladders'', Roy McMurtry in '' Trudeau'', Joey Stiglic in ''Our Hero'' and Mr. Dupree in ''The Famous Jett Jackson'', as well as voice roles in ''Silver Surfer'', ''Sailor Moon'', ''Friends and Heroes'', ''X-Men'', ''Tales from the Cryptkeeper'' , ''Monster Force, Robocop, Super Mario Brothers, Denn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Kidder
Janet Kidder (born 1972) is a Canadian actress known for her role of Osyraa in '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Biography Janet Kidder is the daughter of John Kidder and the niece of actress Margot Kidder Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018), known professionally as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress whose career spanned five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy A .... Career Janet and Margot Kidder both appeared in "Walk on By", an episode of '' La Femme Nikita'', as the younger and older Roberta, Nikita's mother. Janet's participation was in brief flashback sequences. She plays the character Lila Jacobs in the series '' Man in the High Castle'' and Osyraa in '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Filmography Film Television External links * 1972 births 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Actresses from British Columbia Canadian film actresses Canadian stage ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chevolleau
Richard Chevolleau is a Jamaican–Canadian actor, best known for playing Augur on '' Earth: Final Conflict'' from 1997 to 2002.Chris Krejlgaard, "Black actor hoping to play a superhero". ''Times and Transcript'', May 14, 1999. Early life Chevolleau was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Toronto. After completing high school, he studied the Meisner Technique of acting with Paul Bardier. Career He began his career in the late 1980s with guest parts in the television series ''My Secret Identity'' and '' Friday the 13th: The Series'', before having his first major starring role in the 1989 television film ''Pray for Me, Paul Henderson''. In 1994 he had a starring role in the television series ''Boogies Diner''. In 1995 he starred in Clement Virgo's film ''Rude''. He also starred in Virgo's 1997 film '' The Planet of Junior Brown''. He has appeared in supporting roles in the television series '' Street Time'', '' This Is Wonderland'', '' 'Da Kink in My Hair'', ''Lost Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Burns
Martha Burns (born 23 April 1957)"Martha Burns returns to her roots" '''', March 26, 2010. is a Canadian actress known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role as Ellen Fanshaw in the TV series ''''. Early life Burns was born and raised in |
Susan Coyne
Susan Coyne (born 16 June 1958) is a Canadian writer and actress, best known as one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning ''Slings & Arrows'', a TV series which ran 2003–06 about a Canadian Shakespearean theatre company. She has been nominated for four Writers Guild of Canada awards, in 2006 and 2007 and 2015, and won three. She was married to Canadian actor/director Albert Schultz. They have two children. Early life Coyne comes from a prominent Canadian family: she is the daughter of James Elliott Coyne, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, the sister of journalist Andrew Coyne and the cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne. She was born in Ottawa on 16 Jun 1958. She attended the St. John's-Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg, as did her acting colleague Martha Burns . In 2017 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada by the Governor General for her contributions to Canadian theatre, film and television as an actor and writer. She is a gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liisa Repo-Martell
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist. Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of '' This Magazine Is About Schools'', an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as ''"This"''. Liisa grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. Her Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in ''Nights Below Station Street''. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on '' This is Wonderland'' and '' Flashpoint''. She played Mrs. Genest, estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin) in the 2006 '' Jesse Stone: Night Passage'' made-for-TV-movie.credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie In February 2012 the ''National Post'' called Repo-Martell, and her husband, actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a ''"Toronto theatre power couple"''. She currently portrays Reginald Hargreeves wife Abigail in seasons 1, 3 & 4 of The Umbrella Academy ''The Umbrella Academy'' is an American comic boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Buyer
Stephen Earle Buyer ( ; born November 26, 1958) is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for , and previously the , serving from 1993 until 2011. On July 25, 2022, Buyer was arrested and charged with insider trading. He is a member of the Republican Party. In 2012, Buyer started working for R.J. Reynolds, promoting the use of smokeless tobacco. On January 29, 2010, Buyer announced he would not seek a tenth term to the House to spend more time with his wife, who has an incurable autoimmune disease. Early life, education and career Buyer was born in Rensselaer, Indiana. In 1976, he graduated from North White High School, where he had been class president. In 1980, he received a Bachelor of Science in business administration and management from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and in 1984, he received a Juris Doctor from the Valparaiso University School of Law. Buyer served three years on active duty in the Army between 1984 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gray
Bruce Gray (September 7, 1936 – December 13, 2017) was a Canadian actor, known for multiple roles in films and television shows for over 5 decades. Early Years Gray was born in Puerto Rico and lived in Toronto after 1949. He graduated from Humberside Collegiate and from the University of Toronto with a Master's in Psychology. While at the University of Toronto, he was an active member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Acting career Following a small role in the 1966 film ''Adulterous Affair'', Gray worked steadily from 1978 onwards, appearing in both Canadian and American based film and television productions. He may be best known to Canadian audiences for his four seasons as investment banker Adam Cunningham on the Global series '' Traders'' (1996-2000). He also gained attention as the father of the groom in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'', the recurring role of Judge J.E. Reilly on the television serial ''Passions'' and the ghost of Joe's father on the television show ''Medium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booth Savage
Booth Savage (born May 21, 1948) is a Canadian film, stage, and television veteran actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Team Canada head coach Harry Sinden in the 2006 CBC miniseries, ''Canada Russia '72''. Career Savage graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from York University in 1992. Savage is also a playwright and avid stage actor. His self-written plays ''Savage Heat'', ''DADS'', ''Reversing Falls'', ''Pillow Talk'', ''Pajama Games'' and ''This Bloody Business'' have been performed on stages across Canada. Moreover, he is an original actor member of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre. He has performed in over 100 plays in every province and territory in Canada, with the exception of Yukon. Savage is currently part of the Canadore College Theatre program faculty. Awards In 1987, he won a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Felix Batterinski in Allan King's ''The Last Season''. Personal life Savage is mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
