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The Spreading Ground
''The Spreading Ground'' is a 2000 Canadian crime film directed by Derek Vanlint and starring Dennis Hopper. It was entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. The film's score was composed by Wild Colonials guitarist, Shark. Cast * Dennis Hopper as Det. Ed DeLongpre * Leslie Hope as Leslie DeLongpre * Frederic Forrest as Det. Michael McGivern * Tom McCamus as Johnny Gault * David Dunbar as Milo Spivak * Elizabeth Shepherd as Mayor Margaret Hackett * Chuck Shamata as Chief Paul Nieman * Kim Huffman as Mrs. Osterman * Tom Harvey as Paddy Flynn * Rob Stefaniuk Robert Stefaniuk is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer who has worked in numerous television shows and films as both guest actor and series regular. His feature-film acting credits include the ''Saturday Night Live''-inspired ''Superstar'' (19 ... as Syphon References External links * * 2000 films 2000s crime films Canadian crime drama films English-language Canadian films 2000s English-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Vanlint
Derek Vanlint, (7 November 1932 – 23 February 2010) was a Canadian cinematographer and director of television commercials and motion pictures. He was best known as the cinematographer for the 1979 science fiction horror film ''Alien'', which earned him a Best Cinematography Award nomination from the British Society of Cinematographers. Career Vanlint was primarily a cinematographer and director of television commercials. Highly prolific, he produced advertisements and short films for clients like Guinness Brewery, PepsiCo, and British Airways. He was a member of the Ridley Scott Associates, a commercial and film production company based in London, England. He served as director of photography on Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film ''Alien''. Vanlint worked closely with Scott to help construct the look and style of the film, utilizing in-camera lighting and working in conjunction with the art department to construct sets and lighting specifically to achieve Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Shamata
Charles "Chuck" Shamata (born 1942) is a Canadian actor. Early life and education Born and raised in Toronto, he worked at Honest Ed's,"Shamata's riding out acting's ups and downs". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 12, 1974. and studied acting at Toronto Metropolitan University. Career Shamata had stage roles and bit parts in film and television, before his breakthrough role in the 1969 television film ''Dulcima'', as the love interest of Jackie Burroughs' title character. His later roles included the films '' Between Friends'' (1973), '' Death Weekend'' (1976), '' Welcome to Blood City'' (1977), ''Power Play'' (1978), '' I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses'' (1978), '' Stone Cold Dead'' (1979) and ''Running'' (1979), and guest appearances in the television series ''The Mod Squad'', '' Police Surgeon'', ''Baretta'' and ''The Littlest Hobo''. In 1980 he appeared alongside Earl Pennington and Marcel Sabourin in ''The Mounties'', Stuart Gillard's pilot for a proposed comedy series about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
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Canadian Crime Drama Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Crime Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). '' Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', '' Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is '' Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; '' Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and '' Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Stefaniuk
Robert Stefaniuk is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer who has worked in numerous television shows and films as both guest actor and series regular. His feature-film acting credits include the ''Saturday Night Live''-inspired ''Superstar'' (1999) and '' Phil the Alien'' (2004). Biography Stefaniuk first appeared during the ill-fated second season of ''Catwalk'' replacing Johnny Camden as guitarist. He also appeared in the 1995 short film ''Love Child'' which also starred fellow former ''Catwalk'' star Neve Campbell. Stefaniuk's first screenplay, ''The Size of Watermelons'', was produced as an independent feature in 1996. In 2003, he was story editor and line producer, and did additional editing, for the independent feature ''Public Domain'', directed by Kris Lefcoe. Shortly thereafter he made his directorial debut with the short comedy film ''Waiting for the Man'', which was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. He subsequently wrote and directed his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Huffman
Kim Huffman (sometimes credited as Kymberley Huffman) is a Canadian actress born in St. Catharines, Ontario. She trained to be an opera singer, but is most known for her television and cinema roles. Career Huffman played Lisa Trekker in the Channel 4 production of Dennis Potter's '' Lipstick on Your Collar''. She also played Donna in the Toronto production of Mamma Mia! from 2004 to 2005. She also played Cosette in the original Mirvish production of Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its origin ... at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. In the Canadian television drama series '' Wild Roses,'' Huffman played the female lead (Maggie Henry). Filmography Film Television References External links * Canadian television actresses Living people Year of bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Shepherd
Elizabeth Shepherd (born 12 August 1936) is an English character actress whose long career has encompassed the stage and both the big and small screens. Her television work has been especially prolific. Shepherd's surname has been variously rendered as "Shephard" and "Sheppard". Career Shepherd began acting in television series in 1959. In 1960, she appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, ''The Citadel''. She was the original choice to play Emma Peel in the 1960s television series '' The Avengers''. However, after filming nearly two episodes, Shepherd left the production and was replaced by Diana Rigg. In 1970, she appeared on Broadway in Barry England's ''Conduct Unbecoming'', a story of the British Army in Kipling's India, as Mrs Hasseltine. She was praised for her performance in ''Time'' magazine. Shepherd was pictured in ''Time'' along with her co-stars, the pop singers Jeremy Clyde and Paul Jones, who began their roles as British subalterns in London during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in '' Giant'' (1956). In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films, notably '' Cool Hand Luke'' (1967) and ''Hang 'Em High'' (1968). Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s. Hopper made his directorial film debut with '' Easy Rider'' (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for "Best First Work" and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (shared with Fonda and Southern). Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, ''Easy Rider'' became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a cellulo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McCamus
Tom McCamus (born July 25, 1955Tom McCamus' bio at www.northernstars.ca) is a Canadian film and theatre actor. He is most widely known for his works on the television show '' Mutant X'' and drama film ''''. Life and career McCamus was born in , , Canada, and was brought up in |
Frederic Forrest
Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor. Forrest came to public attention for his performance in ''When the Legends Die'' (1972), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. He went on to receive Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in musical drama '' The Rose'' (1979). Forrest portrayed Jay "Chef" Hicks in Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), and collaborated with Coppola on four other films: ''The Conversation'' (1974), '' One from the Heart'' (1982), '' Hammett'' (1982) and '' Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' (1988). Other credits include ''The Missouri Breaks'' (1976), '' The Two Jakes'' (1990) and '' Falling Down'' (1993), along with the television series ''21 Jump Street'', ''Lonesome Dove'' and '' Die Kinder''. Life and career Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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