Walter Massey
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Biography: Walter Edward Hart Massey was a Canadian actor, best known for voicing Principal Herbert Haney on the animated series Arthur and The Doctor in the English version of The Mysterious Cities of Gold. He was based in Montreal, Quebec.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: August 19, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 04, 2014
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My First Wedding
Overview: A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-18
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First Journey, Fort William
Overview: Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a child of the fur trade, son of a Native mother and a Scottish-Canadian fur trader. John Mackenzie's father is a wintering partner of the Montréal-based North West Company, which was for decades the wealthiest merchant enterprise in North America. To mark his entry into adulthood, twelve-year-old John is travelling for the first time to Fort William, the Company's lavish winter headquarters by Lake Superior. In following his journey, the film reveals the complex network of people--Scottish, French and Native Canadian--that made up fur-trading society and gave a unique flavor to the opening up of Canada's northwest.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Blood Relatives
Overview: A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Overview: Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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A Token Gesture
Overview: Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Hard Feelings
Overview: It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-12
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A Dennis the Menace Christmas
Overview: A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-13
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State Park
Overview: A business man plans to dump toxic waste on a state park, but it doesn't go according to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-02
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The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa
Overview: The internet’s favorite musical candy bear brings his sense of fun and creativity to an exciting search for Santa. Will he find him in time?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Espolio
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovator for the thing he makes. In the film, a carpenter builds a cross but is reluctant to become involved in the right or wrong of situations that bring men to die on crosses. His interest is in his own craftsmanship. To illustrate this moral, the filmmaker used light-pen drawings, giving colour and emphasis through optical processes.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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Dead Silent
Overview: Julia Kerbridge is working hard to get her doctorate. Suddenly, she finds herself the guardian of her young niece, Amanda, after the 7-year-old witnesses her parents' murder and is rendered mute. Julia soon discovers that her dead sister and brother-in-law may have held a secret life. Now, she must risk everything as the killers are still hunting Amanda for her parents' secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Velveteen Rabbit
Overview: A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen rabbit whose one wish is to become a real rabbit someday.
Genres: Animation Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Overview: Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
Genres: History Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-13
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Mrs. Soffel
Overview: Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-26
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Of Dice and Men
Overview: Using splashy hand-drawn animation, the story about a man who ends up in the hospital and probability theory is illustrated. When the guy awakens in a hospital bed, the doctor begins spouting all sorts of statistical probabilities--at which point the patient seems confused. So, the doctor explains the history behind probability theory as well as its application.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-19
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Evil Judgment
Overview: A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Spearfield's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-25
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The Boy in Blue
Overview: Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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The Real Story of O Christmas Tree
Overview: In this children's video a little girl asks a little pine tree to stay green through the winter to remind people of spring. The little tree must disobey King Winter to stay green. He gets thrown into King Winter's dungeon. Anneka sets off to save her friend with Piney, the pinecone gnome, and Little Acorn.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-21
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Amber Waves
Overview: A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-09
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Happy Birthday to Me
Overview: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Snake Treaty
Overview: Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has finally left his alcoholic and abusive father and now lives among the Indians, Guy's childhood friends and neighbours. He also discovers friction between the white farmers and the local Indians, now faced with the choice of selling or retaining their land. A choice made harder by poverty. Guy's boyhood friend, Tom Redfox, leads those Indians who wish to keep their land. Against the background of ensuing confrontation, Guy becomes reacquainted with his estranged parents, his childhood friends and old values, leading to a tragedy that affect the whole community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-24
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Secrets of the Summer House
Overview: Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Jacknife
Overview: A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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The Contour Connection
Overview: As part of a geography course, students learn to do topographical surveys. A stroll at the Champlain lookout, in the Outaouais region, will allow them to familiarize themselves with the different methods in use from Samuel de Champlain to the present day. Finally, a visit to the Directorate of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, in Ottawa, will introduce them to a new device capable of automatically drawing contour lines. This film describes this new technique of digital mapping and gives us an overview of the progress it brings in this field.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Illegal Abortion
Overview: A dramatization that illustrates the situation of a young couple, particularly of the young woman, faced with an unwanted pregnancy and desiring an abortion forbidden by law. The film portrays her dilemma from the time the pregnancy is confirmed by her doctor to the harrowing moments in a back room where it is terminated by an illegal practitioner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Night Zoo
Overview: Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Whispers
Overview: A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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The Angry Man
Overview: Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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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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Zombie Nightmare
Overview: Tony Washington is killed by a gang of rampant trendy teenagers. Molly Mokembe is a voodoo lady who brings him back from the dead to seek revenge on his killers so he can rest in peace.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-13
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Eternal Evil
Overview: A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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Arthur: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: When the prospect of an Elwood City concert by the Backstreet Boys drives everyone else into a frenzy, a disgusted Francine decides to counter with an "anti-cute" band of her own called U Stink. But things don't go quite the way she had planned.
Genres: Animation Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-01
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Black Mirror
Overview: A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Overview: Nobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sent to a prison for children that is located on Slimer's Island and is run by the Hooded Fang, an ex-wrestler who outwardly hates children. Meanwhile, Child Power representatives the Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O'Toole try to find the prison's hidden location to help free the children.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Stork Derby
Overview: The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-08
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Caffè Italia, Montréal
Overview: Using archival documents, fictions, current accounts, and excerpts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints a nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the men and women taken to a prisoner of war camps during World War II, to the hardships and joys of building vibrant lives in Montréal. Caffè Italia Montréal chronicles a significant chapter in Canada’s history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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David Copperfield
Overview: An animated version of the classic David Copperfield story. Filled with music, color, and anthropomorphic versions of the classic characters.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Overview: The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
Overview: The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Monet: Shadow and Light
Overview: Monet's glorious summer of painting ends abruptly with harsh attacks from his father and art critics. He intends to abandon everything, but is convinced otherwise by aspiring young artist Daniel. Having been abandoned by his own father, Daniel refuses to let Monet do the same to his son. As Monet shows Daniel a new way of seeing the world through art, Daniel helps Monet see the importance of family.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
Overview: There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor but crafty" hero. The story introduces the student to our rich multicultural background through the exploration of folklore of one of the peoples that make up Canada's cultural mosaic.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Concert Man
Overview: This documentary short is a portrait of violinist, composer and dreamer Maurice Zbriger, who shared his music with Montrealers for over half a century. He hired musicians and singers and conducted them in free concerts financed with income from his ownership of Schwartz's, the famous smoked meat restaurant. The Concert Man looks at Zbriger's life, his passion for music and the people who were a part of his dream.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
Overview: A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Long Winter
Overview: In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-13
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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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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Varian's War
Overview: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-14
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The Morning Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-10-19
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Under New Management
Overview: This film is about the francization of Québec that has taken place since the Parti Québécois won power from the Liberals in 1976. It shows how the once powerful anglophone community is now questioning its very survival. It discusses some of the motivating forces behind Québécois nationalism. The film concludes by asking if the Canadian nation can survive if neither of its major language groups is welcome in the territory of the other.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Le dernier havre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Caillou's Holiday Movie
Overview: Caillou learns about winter holiday traditions from around the world. He and his entire family celebrate Christmas, sharing, giving and caring.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-07
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Malarek
Overview: Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing corruption in the social welfare system.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Nelligan
Overview: This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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