John Granik
Also Known As: Jon Granik
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pakan, Alberta, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 29, 2003
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Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Overview: A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-17
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Fortune and Men's Eyes
Overview: Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-15
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Age of Innocence
Overview: A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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A Sense of Poetry
Overview: Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan follows a visitor to Dublin, as he disembarks from a plane and wanders the streets of Dublin encountering beggars and homeless people along the way.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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To Catch a Killer
Overview: "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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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The Cube
Overview: An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-23
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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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Good Times, Bad Times
Overview: Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-04
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Power Play
Overview: A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
Overview: A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-28
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Hot Money
Overview: Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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