Budd Knapp
Also Known As: Wilfred Knapp
Biography: Budd Knapp was born Wilfrid Arthur Knapp on 9 January 1913 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Front Row Center, Festival and Armchair Theatre. He was married to Pat Knapp. He died on 6 August 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 09, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 06, 1982
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Wildlife in the Rockies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell
Overview: American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Why Rock the Boat?
Overview: A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-04
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The Point
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-10
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The Clouded Dawn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-27
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The Girl He Left Behind
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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Inon or the Conquest of Fire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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In Praise of Older Women
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Overview: British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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Kings and Desperate Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-22
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Johnny Concho
Overview: In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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The Great American Pastime
Overview: Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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The People Between
Overview: A BAFTA UN Award nominated feature from Canada.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Bravery in the Field
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-19
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