Alan Scarfe
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan John Scarfe (born June 8, 1946) is a British-born Genie Award winning Canadian actor. He is a former Associate Director of the Stratford Festival and the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in The Bay Boy and earned two other Genie best actor nominations as well as a Gemini Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan John Scarfe licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, United Kingdom
Birthday: June 08, 1946
Deathday: April 28, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Overview: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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Heart of Darkness
Overview: A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Iron Eagle II
Overview: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele
Overview: Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Double Impact
Overview: Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-31
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Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark
Overview: This latest installment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first, is about an entity that has possessed a worker. It wants to be exorcised but Col. Lochley prevents the priest & sends it & the host both back to Earth. The second is about Galen trying to dupe President Sheridan into assassinating the future Centauri President to stop him possibly attacking Earth in 30 years time.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-03
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Without Warning
Overview: A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-30
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Once a Thief
Overview: Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-29
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C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
Overview: The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group that is working on a nuclear bomb. The American government, too, is investigating Sjambok, using the top-secret spy plane Python Wolf. When one of the members of the C.A.T. Squad is shot down over South Africa during another mission, his squad leader undertakes a rescue operation to bring his friend back home.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-23
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Murder by Phone
Overview: A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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The Bay Boy
Overview: A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Back in Business
Overview: An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The mission is to catch drug runners, but it is also sting operation against dirty cops, some of whom set up the ex-cops' dismissal from the force.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-29
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Cathy's Curse
Overview: A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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The Bitter Ash
Overview: Des works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Colin, an aspiring writer who refuses to look for a job. Des meets Laurie while visiting a work-mate who is dying of leukemia. While they go for a drive, Laurie invites Des to a rent party at their house. After this Vancouver counter-culture party, Colin finds Des and Laurie in bed together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
Overview: A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately seek a reprieve.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-17
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Keeping Track
Overview: The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that engages directly with brain cells.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Deserters
Overview: Deserters is a Canadian drama film about a United States Army officer who is in Canada undercover to arrest Vietnam War draft dodgers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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As Is
Overview: Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-27
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The Wars
Overview: Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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Divided Loyalties
Overview: Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale insurrection in its American colonies, the great Indian empire of the Six Nations must choose between longtime British allies and the American Patriots, whose democratic ideals they share.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-13
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Sanctuary
Overview: Luke Kovak is part of a covert group within the CIA that works on illegal black ops involving blackmail and assassinations. When his boss orders the murder of one of the team, Luke realizes how expendable they all are and gets out (taking proof of their activities with him). He now lives as a priest until the group start to get close to tracking him down.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Overnight
Overview: An out of work actor takes a role in a vampire porno.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Day One
Overview: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Walls
Overview: a relentlessly nerve-wracking deadlock between three convicts and an emergency response team deployed to quell the rebellion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Mimi & Me
Overview: Mimi, a free spirited girl out shopping, is given a mysterious box by a dying man, who instructs her not to give it to his killers. While being chased by the thugs who killed him, she meets Howard, an uptight dental student, who enlists his private detective uncle to help them find out the truth about the box.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-07
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The Owl
Overview: After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need. ["The Owl" originally aired on CBS as a 48-minute pilot for a series that was not picked up. It was later expanded to an 84-minute telefilm for international markets by incorporating deleted scenes and lengthy montage sequences. Director Tom Holland had his name removed from the longer version.]
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-03
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Kingsgate
Overview: A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara March).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Portrait
Overview: Rougish painter, needing money to pay off debts to his ex-wife and mistress, considers agreeing to do a banal portrait for a wealthy woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-27
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Joshua Then and Now
Overview: Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-17
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Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice
Overview: Retired marshal Dillon goes after a 15 year old boy who is determined to kill the men responsible for the murder of his mother during a stagecoach robbery
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-10
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The Many Lives of Albert Walker
Overview: After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-24
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Hide and Seek
Overview: In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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Gridlock
Overview: After explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of New York, the authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organization. New York cop Jake Gorki, flying over the Federal Reserve Bank in his helicopter, suspects something else: a robbery.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-14
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Street Justice
Overview: A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Lethal Weapon 3
Overview: Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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The Wrong Guy
Overview: Nelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into Nagel's office to confront him, he finds Nagel's been murdered. Fearing that he will be implicated, Nelson decides to run from the law...despite the fact that the police already know the killer's identity.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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All My Sons
Overview: Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles in determining the outcome of events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-19
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Pajama Tops
Overview: French inspired farce about affairs, mistaken identities and similar hijinks.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-08
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birthright
Overview: The Enterprise arrives at Deep Space Nine where a mysterious alien, Jaglom Shrek, claims he can prove that Worf's father Mogh, is still alive. Meanwhile, an accident in engineering incapacitates Data. After he's revived, he insists he saw his father, Dr. Noonien Soong, while unconscious. Dr. Bashir, the station's physician, theorizes that Data may have had a dream. Intrigued, Data attempts to reenter his dream state in order to learn more about his creator, while Worf seeks out Shrek and embarks on a journey to a distant Romulan prison where his father is supposedly being held. What he finds there could be deadly...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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