Shaun Johnston
Also Known As: شان جانستون
Biography: Shaun Johnston is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Grandpa Jack Bartlett in the television series Heartland.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ponoka, Alberta, Canada
Birthday: September 09, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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The Dinosaur Hunter
Overview: A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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Supervolcano
Overview: Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-13
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The Christmas Blessing
Overview: Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast friendship with student Charlie Bennett teach Nathan to live life in the moment and embrace the time he has with friends and family.
Genres: Drama Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Due East
Overview: Mary Faith Rapple, a bright high school senior, has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a night class, cares for her widowed father and pretty much keeps to herself. When a fellow loner moves to Due East, she finds herself in a relationship for the first time, leading to a small town scandal that changes her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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A Heartland Christmas
Overview: Christmas comes to Heartland, along with an anonymous call about starving horses stranded by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains, which send Amy and Ty to their rescue.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Heart of the Sun
Overview: Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a local priest and a subsequent operation forced on her in a cover-up by the church and her family which left her infertile
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-30
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100 Days In The Jungle
Overview: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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A Beachcombers Christmas
Overview: While Donna MacGonigal is tempted by a business offer by an old love, her father and friends decide to put on an old timers celebrity hockey game and auction for charity, only to find themselves cheated by con artists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-06
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Silent Cradle
Overview: A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Agent of Influence
Overview: This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ambassador to Moscow and a close friend of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, is kidnapped and held in a hotel for questioning by the RCMP at the urging of the CIA. Several days into the interrogation he died. The official obituary claimed that he suffered a heart attack in the company of friends during a farewell supper celebrating his illustrious career.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-30
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Mayerthorpe
Overview: A semi-fictional story about the shooting of four Canadian RCMP officers during a drug raid in Mayerthorpe, Alberta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-10
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The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
Overview: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-15
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Ms. Bear
Overview: Four paws for this wonderful family film. Cute 7-year-old rescues a helpless and bumbling bear cub as the two set off on an adventure to reunite the cub with its mommy.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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Christmas in Big Sky Country
Overview: When an incident occurs on an Alaskan oil rig, Becca Collins must work with the oil company's new PR rep, Logan Johnston, to bring her brother-in-law safely home for the holidays. Becca begins to fall for the handsome stranger, but can she trust Logan's motives?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-07
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Shadow of God
Overview: While performing an unauthorized exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being – perhaps even God.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-15
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The Cold Heart of a Killer
Overview: Set around Alaska's punishing Iditarod race, a husky breeder and former musher is forced out of racing retirement to compete again and outrun an unknown killer.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-09
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Death of a Skyline
Overview: A group of citizens lobbied to save the landmark Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, one of the defining features of Mayerthorpe’s landscape, from being torn down in 2003 - as thousands of others had been. This film documents those efforts while exploring the broader history and significance of the grain elevator.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-05
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Blood Clan
Overview: A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him to Canada, where she grows up with no knowledge of her family's past. Then, in the present, several deaths occur and people begin to think it's Katy Bane McKay.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-30
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Chicks with Sticks
Overview: The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore – who almost once made the Olympic team – finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Tribe of Joseph
Overview: Filmed within the untamed wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, "Tribe of Joseph" is the engrossing story of a wayward preacher who believes he's been prophetically called to restore the Twelve Tribes of Jacob, and the eldest of his kidnapped 'children' who eventually questions his zeal.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Investigation
Overview: Tells the true story of a bungled and obstructed police manhunt for a serial killer who could and should have been imprisoned after his first crime. Two young RCMP officers, each separately investigating a rape and murder, captured the culprit, but because of legal red tape, jurisdictional chaos and incompetence, the suspect was allowed to continue his rampage until he was finally arrested and imprisoned - several murders later.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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A Frosty Affair
Overview: A rom-com about the adventures of a small town teacher, Kate Carter, going back to the city for her wedding. After a blizzard strikes, she is forced to travel with a stranger named Redford who leaves her questioning her future plans.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-03
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September Dawn
Overview: A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-17
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Stranger in Town
Overview: A 13-year-old boy, whose single mother moved her family from the big city to a small town, begins to suspect that a stranger who befriends his family is not who he initially appears to be. Harry Hamlin, Graham Green, Rebecca Jenkins and Trevor Blumas star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon
Overview: A woman who has psychic visions returns to her hometown to exorcise her demons. Once there she finds both danger and love.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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In Plainview
Overview: An ex-dirty-cop hiding in witness protection is hunted by the partner he betrayed, an unhinged hired gun and a jilted ex-lover who want his ill-gotten fortune - and their own brand of revenge - all to themselves.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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The Inspectors
Overview: U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion immediately falls on the couple's estranged and heavily in debt son, who also just happens to be a Navy munitions expert. But investigations reveal that he is on the run from a past event in his life that is associated with the bombings.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-20
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Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
Overview: A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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How the West Was Fun
Overview: Twin sisters help a woman save her dude ranch from developers who would like to turn the property into a theme park.
Genres: Family Western Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-19
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Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun
Overview: In this independent comedy-drama from Canada, a pair of brothers -- Wes (Shaun Johnston), a reckless biker, and Cliff (David Everhart), a clean-living suburbanite -- are brought back together to patch up their differences after the death of their mother. With Wes' girlfriend (Kim Hogan) in tow, the boys begin confronting issues that have weighed them down since childhood, though their rivalries and jealousies begin to surface as well.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Mystery, Alaska
Overview: In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Silver Wolf
Overview: A boy learns to deal with personal loss by making friends with a wild animal in this drama for the entire family. Jesse is a 16-year-old who is trying to put his life back together after the death of his father, who died while trying to rescue him in the wilderness. Jesse goes to live with his Uncle Roy, who lives in the rugged mountains of Washington State. While exploring, Jesse finds and rescues a wolf who has been seriously wounded; Jesse bonds with the animal, and while Roy understands the dangers of trying to tend to a wild animal, reluctantly allows Jesse to keep him. Jesse, who is fond of snowboarding, teaches the wolf to be his partner in skijoring, a sport in which a dog is used to haul a man on skis. John Rockwell the owner of a ranch, has different plans for the animal; he sees the wolf as a threat to his stock and is determined to see that the animal is put down.
Genres: Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
Overview: Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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A Bluegrass Christmas
Overview: Katie’s family’s horse sanctuary is on the brink of closure, but in a last-ditch effort to raise the money, Katie must coax her reclusive grandfather, Bluegrass legend Ben Pendleton, back onto the stage for a Christmas benefit concert.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-01
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To My Dad
Overview: A short drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-31
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Strange and Rich
Overview: A student's death and a killer's arrival unite a sergeant (Shaun Johnston) and the new police chief (Ron White) in an Alberta prairie town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
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