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The Last Debate
''The Last Debate'' is a 2000 American political drama television film directed by John Badham and written by Jon Maas, based on the 1995 book by Jim Lehrer, and starring James Garner and Peter Gallagher. It aired on Showtime on November 5, 2000. Synopsis A televised presidential debate has a conspiracy behind it. Cast * James Garner as Mike Howley * Peter Gallagher as Tom Chapman * Audra McDonald as Barbara Manning * Donna Murphy as Joan Naylor * Marco Sanchez as Henry Ramirez * Dorian Harewood as Brad Lily * Michael Riley as Jack Turpin * Bruce Gray as Governor Paul L. Greene * Stephen Young as Richard Meredith * Lawrence Dane as Sidney Robert Mulvane * Djanet Sears as Nancy Dewey * Peter Donaldson as Jeff Grayson * John Badham as Don Beard * Leslie Carlson as Pat Tubbs * Maggie Huculak as Gwyn Garrison * Martin Doyle as Jim Weaver * Brenda Robins as Carol Reynolds * Colin Fox as Joshua L. Simpson * Judah Katz as Bob Lucas * Robin Ward as Mark Southeran * Don Ritchie as Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Drama
A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events. Dramatists who have written political dramas include Aaron Sorkin, Robert Penn Warren, Sergei Eisenstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Federico García Lorca. Theatre In the history of theatre, there is long tradition of performances addressing issues of current events, especially those central to society itself. The political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres had considerable influence on public opinion in the Athenian democracy. Those earlier Western dramas, arising out of the polis, or democratic city-state of Greek society, were performed in amphitheaters, central arenas used for theatrical performances, religious ceremonies and political gatherings; these dramas had a ritualistic and social significance that enhanced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her work in musical theater. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in '' Passion'' (1994–1995) and as Anna Leonowens'' in The King and I'' (1996–1997). She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in ''Wonderful Town'' (2003), Lotte Lenya in ''LoveMusik'' (2007) and Bubbie/Raisel in ''The People in the Picture'' (2011). Murphy made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the 1979 musical ''They're Playing Our Song''. Her other stage credits include the original off-Broadway productions of ''Song of Singapore'' (1991) and '' Hello Again'' (1993), as well as the alternate to Bette Midler as the title character in a Broadway revival of '' Hello, Dolly!'' (2017–2018). In 1997, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special for her role in ''Someone Had to be Benny'', an episode of the HBO ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Goodman
Patrice Goodman is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her starring role in the comedy television series '' Sunnyside'', for which she and the other core cast collectively won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. Career Goodman had supporting or guest roles in the television series ''Platinum'', '' This Is Wonderland'', ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''The Umbrella Academy'' and ''Slasher'', and the films ''Blues Brothers 2000'', ''The Last Debate'', ''Subconscious Password'' and ''Fire Serpent''. In 2021 she was cast in a lead role in the family sitcom ''Overlord and the Underwoods ''Overlord and the Underwoods'' is a Canadian television family sitcom co-created by Anthony Q. Farrell and Ryan Wiesbrock, and is a co-production between MarbleMedia and Cloudco Entertainment. The series first premiered in the United Kingdom on ...''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Guadagni
Nicky Guadagni (born August 1, 1952) is a Canadian actress who has worked on stage, radio, film and television. Life and career Originally from Montreal, Nicky Guadagni majored in drama at Dawson College and went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her first role after graduation was playing Miranda, with Paul Scofield as Prospero, in a production of '' The Tempest'' in the West End of London. Her theatre work in Canada includes ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at Stratford Third Stage; ''Zastrozzi'' and ''Criminal Genius'' at the Factory Theatre; ''Hamlet'' and ''Mother Courage'' for the National Arts Centre; ''The Seagull'' and ''The Member of the Wedding'' at Tarragon Theatre; and ''OD on Paradise'' at Theatre Passe Muraille. Guadagni has been nominated for five Gemini Awards for her work on television, and received the award in 1998 (Best Supporting Actress, ''Major Crime'') and 2004 (Best Actress in a Guest Role, '' Blue Murder'', "Eyewitness"). She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Ritchie
Donald Taylor Ritchie, OAM (9 June 1926 – 13 May 2012) was an Australian who intervened in many suicide attempts. He officially rescued at least 180 people who had intended to attempt suicide at the Gap. Early life Ritchie went to Vaucluse Public School and attended Scots College. He enlisted into the Royal Australian Navy on the 30th of June 1944 as a Seaman during World War II aboard HMAS ''Hobart'' and witnessed the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Imperial Forces in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945, officially ending World War II in the Pacific. After the war he was a life insurance salesman. Intervention Officially he rescued 180 people from suicide as of 2009 over a 45-year period, although his family claims the number is closer to 500. Ritchie resided next to The Gap, a location in Sydney, Australia, known for multiple suicide attempts. Upon seeing someone on the cliff in distress, Ritchie would cross the road from his property and engage them in conversati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Ward (television Personality)
Robin Ward (born April 10, 1944) is a Canadian actor and television personality. He is known for hosting a 1980 to 1981 revival of the American game show '' To Tell the Truth'' and later hosting a Canadian game show called '' Guess What'' from 1983 to 1987. He was also an actor on the soap opera ''The Guiding Light'', in addition to having starred in the Canadian-produced 1973-74 science fiction series '' The Starlost'' and served as narrator of the late-1980s revival of ''The Twilight Zone'' for a season, replacing Charles Aidman. His film career included roles in many Canadian movies, such as ''Explosion'' (1969), '' Frankenstein on Campus'' (1970, as Victor Frankenstein), '' The Girl in Blue'' (1973), '' Sudden Fury'' (1975) and '' Thrillkill'' (1984). Ward got his start in entertainment as a member of the Toronto-based folk-pop ensemble "The Allen-Ward Trio" during the mid 1960s. The Trio was often affiliated with Toronto's influential Yorkville/Rochdale hippie community, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judah Katz
Judah Katz (born June 23, 1960) is a Canadian actor born in Montreal, Quebec. He has worked in Toronto and Los Angeles for more than 30 years, appearing in both TV series and films. Winning an ACTRA award (now called a Gemini Award) for his very first foray in front of a camera in 1983 as "best new actor in Canadian Television", he also received a Gemini for "best supporting actor" for his role as Alan Eagleson in the CBC mini-series ''Canada Russia '72''. Katz studied acting for two years at Vanier College
Vanier College ( French: ''Collège Vanier'') is an English-language public college located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as t ...
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Colin Fox (actor)
Colin Fox (born November 20, 1938) is a Canadian character actor. Career His acting credits include playing Jean Paul Desmond and Jacques Eloi Des Mondes (the latter speaking to his descendant from the portrait) in '' Strange Paradise'' (CBC/Syndicated, 1969–70), as well as voice work in various animated series, and in other roles in film, television and on the stage. He created the role of Walter Telford, an attorney on the series High Hopes. His most famous role may be that of Anton Hendricks in the TV series '' PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal''. He also appeared in Shining Time Station episode, "Schemer's Special Club" as the misogynistic and racist Nicklear Club President and owner Mr. Hobart Hume III. Fox is well known for his portrayal of Swiss chef Fritz Brenner in the A&E TV original series, ''A Nero Wolfe Mystery'' (2001–2002), and the series pilot, '' The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery'' (2000). Fox's Fritz is a complex person, like the Fritz port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Carlson
Les Carson ( Leslie Merle Carlson; February 24, 1933 – May 3, 2014) was an American-Canadian film and television character actor who acted on stage in Canada, the U.S. and England. His films include the horror films '' Deranged'', '' Black Christmas'', and ''Videodrome'', as well as the family film ''A Christmas Story''. His television credits include ''The Twilight Zone'' and ''The X-Files''. He was sometimes billed as "Les Carlson" and sometimes as "Leslie Carlson". Early life Born in the small South Dakota city of Mitchell, Carlson earned both a BFA and a MA from the University of South Dakota, which he attended in the 1950s and began his acting career performing in several stage plays in both the U.S and England. Career His performances include '' A Walk in the Woods'' in 1991 at the Gateway Theatre and ''Glengarry Glen Ross'', ''Jekyll & Hyde (musical)'', ''Hamlet'', ''Joggers'', ''All My Sons'' and '' Death and the Maiden''. He immigrated to Canada in the late 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Donaldson (actor)
Peter Thomas Donaldson (29 October 1953 – 8 January 2011) was a Canadian actor. Donaldson was the son of Betty and Norman Donaldson, and was born and raised in Midland, Ontario. While attending Midland Secondary School, he performed in Brigadoon and an abridged version of ''Romeo and Juliet''; his drama teacher did not spot Donaldson's acting potential at the time. He attended plays at the Stratford Festival during his youth, which fired his enthusiasm for acting. Donaldson attended Trent University and graduated from the University of Guelph. He also later studied with Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Olympia Dukakis in New York. He began his acting career in 1975 with a summer stock company formed with fellow Guelph students that played Muskoka resorts. He subsequently worked as a stage carpenter and scene painter in Toronto. Donaldson was known for his stage work in Shakespearean roles, particularly at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. He auditioned for the festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djanet Sears
Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director, nationally recognized for her work in African-Canadian theatre. Sears has many credits in writing and editing highly acclaimed dramas such as ''Afrika Solo'', the first stage play to be written by a Canadian woman of African descent; its sequel '' Harlem Duet''; and ''The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God''. The complexities of intersecting identities of race, and gender are central themes in her works, as well as inclusion of songs, rhythm, and choruses shaped from West-African traditions. She is also passionate about "the preservation of Black theatre history," and involved the creation of organizations like Obsidian Theatre, and AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival. Early life and education Born (1959) in England, to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother, Sears lived there until 1974 when her family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then settled in Oakville, Ontario in 1975. Her birth name was Janet — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Dane
Lawrence Joseph Zahab (April 3, 1937 – March 21, 2022), known professionally as Lawrence Dane, was a Canadian actor and film producer, best known for his role as Lt. Preston in ''Bride of Chucky''. Life and career Born in Masson, Quebec, Dane was raised in Ottawa, and was from a Lebanese family. He attended Ottawa Tech and LaSalle Academy. He began acting at the stage as an old policeman in the play ''Our Town'' at Ottawa's Fisher Park Community Centre under Lynne Gorman's direction in 1958.Ronald Grantham"Ottawa Star in RCMP Show Finds Acting 'A Rat Race'" ''Ottawa Citizen'', January 25, 1960. His screen career began when he met film maker F. R. Crawley in the same year. Crawley gave him a job as an extra and stand-in for John Perkins as Constable Frank Scott in the TV series '' R.C.M.P.''. In addition to acting, he cowrote and directed the film drama '' Heavenly Bodies'' (1984). His producing credits include ''The Rowdyman'', written by and starring Gordon Pinsent, and the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |