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Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks (1985)
Character: N/A
A biographical drama that profiles the life of Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union leader, who came to Canada in 1949 to lead a violent fight against the rival communist shipping union. He once ruled the Canadian shipping industry, but his brutal tactics would bring his downfall.
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Change of Mind (1969)
Character: Judge Forrest
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
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Christmas Eve (1986)
Character: Judge
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
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A Case of Libel (1983)
Character: Judge
Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.
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The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973)
Character: Uncle Will
Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
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PCU (1994)
Character: Trustee #2
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
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Killzone (1985)
Character: Crawford's Men
A troubled Vietnam vet snaps during a training exercise at a survivalist-type military camp and thinks he's back in Vietnam. He kills several of the staff members who he thinks are Vietcong. The other participants set out to track him down and capture him before he hurts or kills anyone else. However, the camp's owner, who knows he'll be in trouble if word of this incident gets out, has no intention of capturing the man; he plans on killing him.
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The Silence of Adultery (1995)
Character: Joe Bingham
Drama about a therapist who, as a neglected wife, tries to spice up her stagnant life by having an affair with a soon-to-be-divorced father of an autistic youngster.
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Blown Away (1994)
Character: Wedding Band
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
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Crossbar (1979)
Character: George Hayman
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
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Welcome Home (1989)
Character: Dr. Quayle
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him?
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A Whale for the Killing (1981)
Character: N/A
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
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My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Character: Mayor Hanniger
Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
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Married to It (1991)
Character: Mullaney
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
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Welcome to Blood City (1977)
Character: Bates
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
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Killer Workout (1987)
Character: Officer Peterson
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, Rhonda runs a local gym where all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
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Physical Evidence (1989)
Character: Trial Judge
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
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Doctor Yes: The Hyannis Affair (1983)
Character: Pharmacist
A man falls for his nubile stepdaughter. When his hot wife finds out, she is furious. Murder ensues. It's obvious who the guilty party is. Or is it?
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When Michael Calls (1972)
Character: Doc Britton
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
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Shoot (1976)
Character: Bob
When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat veterans also hunting in the Canadian hills, it is expected a police investigation will follow, but when the veterans discover the incident has not been reported, the leader of the team, Major Rex suspects the other party maybe plotting revenge. Convinced that he, his party, and their families will be targets themselves he decides to beat his suspected assailants at their own game, grouping together more army comrades and stocking up an arsenal of weapons for the forthcoming battle.
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To Catch a Killer (1992)
Character: Finger Lake Proprietor
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
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Homer (1970)
Character: Driver in Accident
High school graduate Homer experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.
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Nothing Personal (1980)
Character: Man at Senate
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
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