Robin Gammell
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: September 22, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
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Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The Girl Next Door
Overview: There's someone peeping through windows so Arthur has been asked to watch the neighbour's eighteen year old daughter while her parents are away. Soon their mutual attraction develops into something that Arthur later regrets.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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Last Night
Overview: Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Project X
Overview: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Rituals
Overview: Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-21
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Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Overview: The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-05
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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 Arrow
Overview: The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-12
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The Pyx
Overview: A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-08
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Lipstick
Overview: An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Full Circle
Overview: After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-09
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Net Worth
Overview: The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits and pensions. A dramatization based on the true story from the book of the same title.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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She's In Portland
Overview: Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-16
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Wishman
Overview: Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-25
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The Vegas Strip War
Overview: Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip's top attraction to avenge his outing by his former partners who run a more fancy hotel/casino just across the street.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-25
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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Overview: A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-23
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Dark Skies
Overview: In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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Panic in Echo Park
Overview: A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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Inhumanoid
Overview: A family of three is travelling in space, when they encounter a stranded spaceship. They manage to pull out one survivor (Grieco) who's in shock. However, when the father goes on to investigate the ship, he finds that everyone was murdered. Suddenly, the stranger leaves him on the damaged spaceship and starts to terrorize his wife and daughter, for it turns out that the stranger is really an emotionally unstable android programmed without morals, making him go on a killer rampage. Who will survive?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-23
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Klondike Fever
Overview: This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Overview: An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-31
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Missing Pieces
Overview: A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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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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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Overview: The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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A Case of Libel
Overview: Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-17
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When the Vows Break
Overview: Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Scandal in a Small Town
Overview: Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter Julie, a high school student, as a loving responsible mother. So, when she becomes aware that Julie's very popular history teacher, Mr Baker, spreads antisemitic ideas among his pupils, Leda Beth decides to ask Mr Baker for an explanation. But she comes up against a wall. Nobody in town - Julie less than all others - wants to support her and it looks as if she will have to bring the Board of Education to court. The trouble is that a school dropout and a tramp of her kind does not count for much compared to the holders of knowledge and of morality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Man Called Intrepid
Overview: During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-07
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The King of Love
Overview: A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-19
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Kids Don't Tell
Overview: When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-05
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Nightmares
Overview: A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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MacBeth
Overview: This is a very theatrical version, full of sound & fury, histrionics and big arm movements. Cynical audiences might not buy into it, but if you were to go back to the early 1600s this is probably the way you'd see it. The plot of Macbeth, if you were snoozing during high school English class, is about an 11th century Scottish warrior who hatches a dubious plan to steal the throne. Spurred on by his wife Lady Macbeth, who wears the pants in the household, he finds himself swiftly slipping down the path of evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-22
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Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Thursday's Child
Overview: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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The Last Ninja
Overview: A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.
Genres: TV Movie Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Bone Daddy
Overview: Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-19
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Sweet Movie
Overview: The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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If These Walls Could Talk
Overview: A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Contact
Overview: A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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Wait Until Dark
Overview: A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll that, unbeknownst to her, is very incriminating. The play had already been famously adapted for the screen in 1967 starring Audrey Hepburn. This 1982 version was frequently shown on HBO in the 1980s.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-20
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Skyline
Overview: When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-11
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His Bodyguard
Overview: A deaf man working at his father's high tech chemical engineering firm witnesses criminals fleeing from the firm's headquarters just after they've stolen an ultra-valuable experimental migraine cure. A female security officer is assigned to protect him, and as she does, the two fall for each other.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-22
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Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
Overview: Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
Genres: Drama Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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Guilty by Suspicion
Overview: Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Overview: As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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The Star Chamber
Overview: As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Lonely Boy
Overview: While seeking answers to a past he cannot remember, a schizophrenic must find the strength to control his mental illness as he tries to build relationships with those he pushed away. Winner of multiple festival awards.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Happy Endings
Overview: A teenager postpones his determination to become a songwriter so that he can keep his younger brother and two sisters together as a family following the death of their parents.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Streets of Justice
Overview: After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek his revenge as a clandestine vigilante.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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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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The Fall
Overview: A brash, amateur photographer, reeling from her mother's suicide, must rectify her self-destruction and accept the past in order to receive love and redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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