Richard Donat
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birthday: June 01, 1941
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Gender: Male
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Darwin's Darkest Hour
Overview: In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-06
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Dragonwheel
Overview: The story of Gloria, a worldly but crabby teen-boy-band manager and Sherman, a morose rural man as they escape from their lives, experience life-changing travel, and against their will, cling to one another. When they fall in love for the first time, it's an impossible situation, because you can't just change your life overnight. Can you?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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The House by the Lake
Overview: Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Overview: Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Heart of a Stranger
Overview: What happens when you receive someone else's heart and wind up with the transplant donor's personality traits and memories too? Jill Maddox, a middle-aged concert violinist, is about to find out! After her surgery, Maddox starts chugging beers, blasting modern music and donning barely-there miniskirts. She is acting like the 22-year-old guy whose ticker she inherited. Even weirder — this is a true story!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-09
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I Worship His Shadow
Overview: Fugitive security guard Stanley Tweedle, love slave Zev Bellringer, and love slave robot head 790 are thrown together by fate and on the run from His Divine Shadow after stealing The Lexx: the most powerful destructive force in two universes.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-23
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The Little Kidnappers
Overview: Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Net Worth
Overview: The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Blue Moon
Overview: A fishing family in Maine face domestic heartbreak and financial crisis.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-11
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Lure
Overview: Lure tells the story of unstable post-grad student Rebecca Markowitz who is writing her doctorate on a convicted internet stalker. When a game of revenge enters the picture, Lure deepens and broadens until the story becomes something else entirely, a tale of desperation, release and redemption in the modern-day internet age.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Draw!
Overview: In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-15
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Clearing the Waters
Overview: A documentary about the struggles of inshore fishermen against greedy corporations and the Canadian government.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Cougar
Overview: A flash flood sweeps a boy and his sister onto an island in the Mississippi River, where they are trapped with a cougar and her new born cubs. In an effort to escape the island, they find themselves threatened by two ruthless river-men who will stop at nothing to kidnap and hold the children for ransom.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-07
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The Event
Overview: Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members — mother Lila and sister Dana — she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Overview: Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-06
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Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
Overview: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart is a 2003 NBC TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart in which the life of Martha Stewart is outlined starting from her life in New Jersey to the scandal behind her arrest.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-19
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Promise the Moon
Overview: Ranch hand Roy Leckner tries to fulfill his employer’s dying wish to find his long lost son, bring him home and groom him to run the family’s failing cattle ranch.
Genres: TV Movie Western Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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City on Fire
Overview: An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Overview: A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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Calm at Sunset
Overview: Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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The Secret
Overview: Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The Weight of Water
Overview: A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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The Pilot's Wife
Overview: Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncover information which leads to her arrival in London for further investigation...and further devastation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-14
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Overview: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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Great Escape
Overview: The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-16
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My American Cousin
Overview: My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s. Sandy's longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older American cousin Butch Walker (John Wildman) comes for a visit. The cast also includes Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, Babz Chula and Camille Henderson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Samuel Lount
Overview: Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-12
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Eldorado
Overview: This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink's office that she has no time to listen to the doctor's advice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-28
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The Healer
Overview: The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Mystery of the Megaflood
Overview: The Channeled Scablands in Washington state defied conventional explanations for their formation for decades. Little by little evidence mounted for an old theory that was rejected by the scientific establishment. It involved glaciers, volcanoes, a relatively minor river and a prodigious amount of water. Originally aired as an episide of NOVA.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-20
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Tomorrow Never Comes
Overview: Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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Pit Pony
Overview: Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-14
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Phase IV
Overview: Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-14
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Amelia
Overview: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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The Suicide Murders
Overview: The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
Overview: Bubbles and his band, The Shitrockers, embark on a European rock tour and earn a spot opening for Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters. However, after traveling from Nova Scotia to Prague, they're kicked off the tour and must resort to busking to survive and find a way back home. Ricky and Julian must figure out how to make their dreams come true again — if that’s still possible.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Major Crime
Overview: Undercover police work to bring a pedophile to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-23
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The Conclave
Overview: In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-07
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