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Inon (1972)
Character: Narrator
This film tells an Algonquin legend about animals on a quest to capture fire from the god of thunder and return it to their human friends.
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Bravery in the Field (1980)
Character: George
An aged World War II veteran and a young street punk violently meet and discover more in common than anticipated. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story (1970)
Character: Himself
This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. Following one of Canada’s most colourful political figures during a two-and-a-half-month period that included a stormy Liberal leadership convention, the film reveals a man misunderstood even by his close associates.
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Wildlife in the Rockies (1957)
Character: Narrator
After many years of careful conservation, Banff and Jasper National Parks have become vast zoological gardens. Deer, moose, bear, big-horn sheep, birds and small animals that live above the treeline are natural subjects for the close-up camera, with a backdrop of snowy peaks.
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The Point (1978)
Character: N/A
This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.
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The Department Manager (1958)
Character: Narrator
This film is centered on a mini-drama in which a successful design engineer encounters many problems when he is promoted to a managerial position. The film raises questions about the sources of job satisfaction, the perils of promotion from within the organization, and the demands that are put on a person placed for the first time in an administrative or managerial role.
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The Clouded Dawn (1962)
Character: Narrator (voice)
August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the monumental task of rehabilitation begins.
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Blitzkrieg (1962)
Character: Self - Narrator
April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war.
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Why Rock the Boat? (1974)
Character: Fred O'Neil
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
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Riel (1979)
Character: Osler
A film about the history and fate of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.
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In Praise of Older Women (1978)
Character: Father Confessor
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
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Johnny Concho (1956)
Character: Pearson (as Wilfred Knapp)
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
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That's the Price (1970)
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has its price, especially with regard to the environment.
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Kings and Desperate Men (1981)
Character: Judge Stephen McManus
A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their manifesto out to the world.
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The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Character: Congressman Hardison
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Character: Hammond
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
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The Great American Pastime (1956)
Character: Mr. Dawson
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son on the team causes problems with his wife.
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