Jack Duffy
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Biography: Jack Duffy was a versatile entertainer, recognized for his talents as a comedian, impressionist, and singer. He gained notable recognition for his portrayal as "the Captain" on the enduring game show, The Party Game. This popular show ran from 1970 to 1981, initially broadcast on CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario, and later syndicated nationally, contributing significantly to Duffy's enduring legacy in Canadian entertainment.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: September 27, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 19, 2008
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Boo!
Overview: A comedy variety show TV special featuring Universal Monsters. Originally broadcast on the CBC in 1980.
Genres: Horror Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Biographies: The Enigma of Bobby Bittman
Overview: A look back on the career of Bobby Bittman. Includes footage from his early days to his millionth show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-16
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Hamburgers
Overview: Comedy special starring Charlie Callas, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bobby Vinton, and many other young comedians.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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It's a Boy Girl Thing
Overview: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Come Again in Spring
Overview: This gentle tale about mortality works in subliminal ways. When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to secure more time for himself. Does he have the strength to find the answers he needs? Can we negotiate our time on earth? How do we reconcile our mortal fate? A lyrical look at a reality as old as humanity, yet as young as today. Based on a story by Richard Kennedy.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Killer Party
Overview: Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately a vengeful spirit decides to take the killer epithet literally
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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The Silent Partner
Overview: Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Bleacher Bums
Overview: They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been attending for years, tirelessly rooting for a team that never seems to win. They know each other, but that's no guarantee that they'll get along. As the game unfolds, the Bums argue, wager, cheer and boo... and discover they share more in common than they could ever have imagined.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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A Holiday Romance
Overview: A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-08
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The Dream Team
Overview: Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Hostage for a Day
Overview: Warren Kooey is a man who's tired of his current life; a witch of a wife, a boss who complains about everything he does and looses his lifesavings (stolen by the wife). He has only one thing on his mind: Alaska
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-25
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Men with Guns
Overview: Three losers, Eddie, Lucas and Mamet, are sent to collect some debt at a remote farm. But the thugs there are too hard for them, and they are humiliated. They return for revenge, it gets out of hand, ends with a bloodbath and they are left with a big amount of cocaine. The drugs belong to local mob boss Horace Burke, who sends his son to find them. Cops are also after them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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David's Mother
Overview: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-10
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The Tuxedo
Overview: Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Paired with a partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting secret agent.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Spreading Ground
Overview: Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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My Horrible Year!
Overview: A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Switching Channels
Overview: A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-05
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Ordinary Magic
Overview: When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-20
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Double Take
Overview: A Writer identifies a murder, possibly mistakenly, in this tense plot twisting thriller.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-17
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