Al Waxman
Also Known As: Albert Samuel Waxman, Albert Waxman, Albert S. Waxman, Stan Ferris
Biography: Al Waxman was a prolific actor and director, leaving a mark on over 1000 productions in radio, television, film, and theatre. His role in "King of Kensington" stood out as a highlight among his successful Canadian TV series. Additionally, he starred in acclaimed series like "Cagney & Lacey," "Missing Treasures," and "Twice in a Lifetime." His theatrical ventures spanned from off-Broadway in New York to the West End in London, earning praise at the Stratford Festival for his performance as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" and his direction of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Waxman's accolades included ACTRA and Gemini awards for acting, and recognition from organizations like the American Women in Film for his directorial prowess. His commitment to various charitable causes, including the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart & Stroke Foundation, showcased his dedication to social impact. His contributions were honoured with distinctions such as the Order of Ontario in 1996 and the Order of Canada in 1997.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: March 02, 1935
Deathday: January 18, 2001
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Gender: Male
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Millennium
Overview: An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Class of 1984
Overview: Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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Atlantic City
Overview: In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-03
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The Hitman
Overview: After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Heavy Metal
Overview: The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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Meatballs III: Summer Job
Overview: The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-27
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Iron Eagle on the Attack
Overview: While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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The Assignment
Overview: Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-28
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In the Company of Spies
Overview: An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old operative out of retirement to retrieve both the agent and the vital information in his possession.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-24
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Overview: An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-13
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Critical Care
Overview: Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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When Michael Calls
Overview: A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-05
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What Makes a Family
Overview: Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Collision Course
Overview: A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-27
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Scream of Stone
Overview: A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-03
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A Saintly Switch
Overview: The story is about a married couple with children on the verge of divorce. Their imminent divorce, like many, is due to their mutual lack of respect and compassion for each other and the effect it has on their children. When the family makes a traumatic move to New Orleans they move into an old, Victorian home. There, in the attic, the children think they have found the "magic" to solve their parent's problems. The children accidentally manage to switch the souls of their parents. Now the wife must face the perils of the lockeroom and pressures as family breadwinner and the husband must face pregnancy and bond with his children. Newfound respect and appreciation is gained as the couple finally find out what it's like to walk in the other person's shoes.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-24
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Gotti
Overview: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-17
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The Shamrock Conspiracy
Overview: A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York.
Genres: TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-12
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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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Quiet Killer
Overview: On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-24
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I Know My Son Is Alive
Overview: A couple's life is torn apart by the disappearance of their new-born son.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-20
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The Soulmates in the Gift of Light
Overview: Wicked Angris McBragg sets out to ruin Christmas by undermining the forces of good. Santa Claus abandons his workshop and Comet, his head reindeer, summons Orion and Orilla, "Soulmates" from another planet. They show the Earth folks that if they believe in themselves they can defeat the evil McBragg.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
Overview: With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Spasms
Overview: A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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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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The Dowry
Overview: A little drama, almost a love triangle, filmed on the Canadian Atlantic coast, about a fisherman, his girl, and his boat. The boat needs a new engine but the owner lacks the cash. His girl's undertaker brother has money enough if he can be persuaded to lend it. What develops in the film is an object lesson showing that neither a boat nor a girl can be taken too much for granted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Sunday in the Country
Overview: Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Wild Horse Hank
Overview: A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Clown Murders
Overview: A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Operation Golden Phoenix
Overview: A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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The Hurricane
Overview: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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I Still Dream of Jeannie
Overview: Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home (temporarily) to hear their son's important academic presentation without knowing exactly where he is in the first place. The general in charge of the mission won't reveal anything. Things are further complicated when Jeannie's sister (Jeannie II) reminds Sham-Ir, the head of the genies, that a genie on Earth cannot go more than 3 months without an earthly master. (Col. Nelson is no longer Earthly, being in space.) Sham-Ir give Jeannie I a fortnight (14 days) to either find Col. Nelson or get a new master, a single male. (Col. Healy can't help, since he's now married.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-20
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The War Lover
Overview: Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-25
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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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Holiday Affair
Overview: "Meeting cute" while Jodie's son Timmy enthuses over a model train set, Jodie and the raffish but likeable Steve immediately hit it off, but she is already engaged to conservative lawyer Paul Davis. The days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Jodie finds herself in the unenviable position of choosing between two men whom she adores equally--a job not made easier by the well-meaning interference of son Timmy.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-15
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Noah's Magic Ark
Overview: Family / Adventure - Children and parents alike will love this captivating and charming version of the story of Noah's ark and the great flood, uniquely told from the animals' point of view. Vincent, a friendly young koala, tells others about his portentous dream that a dangerous flood is coming. When they only laugh at him in response, we see that in the animal kingdom there is much of the same cruelty and thoughtlessness that plagues humankind. But when Vincent finds Noah building his ark, he discovers new proof that his dream may come true!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Double Negative
Overview: Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-12
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Tulips
Overview: A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Isabel
Overview: A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-22
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Mob Story
Overview: On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano (John Vernon) flees to his Canadian hometown and old flame Dolores (Margot Kidder) in this kooky, disorganized crime caper. Luciano soon discovers his long-lost son and tries to teach him the tricks of the trade. Meanwhile, Luciano's bumbling right-hand man (Albert S. Waxman) -- who'd like to become the boss himself -- has put a contract on Luciano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-24
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Live Wire
Overview: Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-03
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Child Under A Leaf
Overview: A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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The Thin Blue Lie
Overview: Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-13
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Death Junction
Overview: A small-time drug pusher is caught in the middle of a war between rival Jamaican drug lords, and is accused of stealing a major shipment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Overview: First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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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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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Overview: 1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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Bogus
Overview: Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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The Sloane Affair
Overview: The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story
Overview: Based on a true story of Sue Rodriguez who campaigned for the right to die with dignity, opening a controversial ethical debate throughout Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Overview: For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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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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The Crowd Inside
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Something from Nothing
Overview: A holiday special based on Phoebe Gilman's award-winning book, this is the heartwarming story of a boy named Joseph, his beloved Grandfather and his special friend, Mazel the mouse. A celebration of Jewish culture and traditions, Something From Nothing is a warm-hearted, Hanukkah classic about love, hope and renewal.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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The Ride
Overview: Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follows the daily lives of drivers for an urban cab company.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-27
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