Kate Reid
Also Known As: Daphne Katherine Reid
Biography: Daphne Katherine Reid OC (4 November 1930 – 27 March 1993) was an English-born Canadian stage, film, and television actress. She played more than one thousand roles, most notably onstage in Death of a Salesman, in the 1980 film Atlantic City, and in episodes of the TV show Dallas. She was described by Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory as "generally regarded as the finest actress ever developed in Canada". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kate Reid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: November 04, 1930
Deathday: March 27, 1993
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Gender: Female
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The Andromeda Strain
Overview: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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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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Death Ship
Overview: Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
Genres: Adventure Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: A salesman faces a crisis as he's about to lose his job, struggles with bills, and feels disrespected by his sons, who haven't lived up to their potential. He reflects on where things went wrong and how to fix his family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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A Delicate Balance
Overview: In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-12
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This Property Is Condemned
Overview: Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-03
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Fire with Fire
Overview: A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Plague
Overview: An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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Heaven Help Us
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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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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The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
Overview: After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Enemies
Overview: In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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The Last Best Year
Overview: Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-04
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The Rainbow Boys
Overview: Struggling to subsist on negligible and infrequent gold discoveries, prospector Ralph Logan crosses paths with Mazella, a New York City drifter with a three-wheel motorcycle and plenty of time on his hands. After introducing his new acquaintance to the practical but volatile Gladys, Logan suggests the trio join forces for a mission deep into the mountains of British Columbia in search of his father's elusive stash of gold.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-27
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She Cried Murder
Overview: Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the presumption that the woman committed suicide, Sarah contacts the police. But when they arrive to take her statement, she recognizes one of the detectives as the killer. Can she get anyone to believe her before she becomes his next victim?
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-25
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Overview: Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-23
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Crossbar
Overview: The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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To Market to Market
Overview: To Market To Market is a 1987 Australian political film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Control
Overview: An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-14
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A Dangerous Age
Overview: Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-09
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Highpoint
Overview: James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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Loose Change
Overview: Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-26
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Equus
Overview: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-16
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Monkey Grip
Overview: Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-17
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Christmas in America
Overview: TV movie depicting a father and son's strained relationship with the mother often trying to be the bridge between the men in her life. The father, Frank Morgan (Kenny Rogers), is a photographer who is too often absent, according to his son. When his son, David Morgan (Kenneth Rogers Jr.), finally attends a display of his father's work despite still being bitter about their relationship, he finally realizes how important his family really was to him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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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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The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Overview: A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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The Ugly Little Boy
Overview: Edyth Fellows is a nurse recruited for an research project with a time travel device that can snatch any being from any time and bring it to the present. The first such test brings an Neanderthal child to the project and Fellows is responsible for his care for the interim. As she manages this task, Fellows is increasingly revolted at how the scientists dismiss him as little more than an animal, especially when his real intelligence shows. This growing moral dilemma comes to a head when Fellows realizes what they plan to do with him and she cannot stand by and let it happen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Death Among Friends
Overview: Shirley investigates the murder of a millionaire who was strangled on his tennis court.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-20
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Shoot
Overview: When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat veterans also hunting in the Canadian hills, it is expected a police investigation will follow, but when the veterans discover the incident has not been reported, the leader of the team, Major Rex suspects the other party maybe plotting revenge. Convinced that he, his party, and their families will be targets themselves he decides to beat his suspected assailants at their own game, grouping together more army comrades and stocking up an arsenal of weapons for the forthcoming battle.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-28
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Farewell Oak Street
Overview: This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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Deceived
Overview: The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
Overview: This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register the transformation as he dons his make-up for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. We also see Toronto actress Kate Reid as well as actors Len Birman and Martha Henry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Bye Bye Blues
Overview: During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband, soldier Teddy, is assigned to Singapore. With the help of trombonist Max Gramley, Daisy's amateurish piano and vocal skills improve, and soon she is supporting her family with her performances. Unsure whether Teddy is alive or dead, Daisy is torn between staying faithful and giving in to her growing feelings for Max.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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An Enemy of the People
Overview: Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa for tourist dollars, his warning to the powers-that-be falls on deaf ears.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-02
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Overview: The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports
Overview: A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Sweet Hearts Dance
Overview: Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
Overview: "The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush worker in Ottawa Valley, resisting government aid to support his family. The film compassionately depicts their struggles and the resolve of Emery's daughter, Rosie, (Margot Kidder in her film debut) to break the cycle of poverty through education. This '60s NFB standout authentically portrays their dignity amid hardship, showcasing Canadian filmmaking despite hurdles from private broadcasters' cost concerns. The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar won eight Canadian Film Awards, including Best Picture (John Kemeny, Barrie Howells), Director (Peter Pearson), Cinematography (Tony Ianzelo), Screenplay (Joan Finnegan) and Lead Actor (Chris Wiggins).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Morning's at Seven
Overview: In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Holy Terror
Overview: A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Signs of Life
Overview: The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Circle of Two
Overview: A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-07
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