Kay Hawtrey
Also Known As: Kay Hawtry , Kay Hartrey, Katharine Hawtrey, Katharine Mary Craven Hawtrey
Biography: Kay Hawtrey, born Katharine Mary Craven Hawtrey, later Katharine Mary Craven Clark, was born on November 8, 1926, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, who embarked on her career at Toronto’s Hart House Theatre. Following a year-long engagement at London's Embassy Theatre, she ventured into television during the "Golden Age of Television" in the 1950s. Credited as Kay Hawtrey, she notably portrayed Mrs. Lutz in 15 episodes of "The Great Detective," starring Douglas Campbell. Also known for Videodrome (1983), Urban Legend (1998) and Funeral Home (1980). She was previously married to John Clark. Her career spanned both stage and screen, showcasing her talents during this pivotal era of television. She died on June 11, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: November 08, 1926
Deathday: June 11, 2021
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Gender: Female
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American Psycho II: All American Girl
Overview: Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave the way to an FBI career, and she's willing to do anything to obtain it -- including killing her classmates. The school psychiatrist, Dr. Daniels, becomes aware that Rachel is insane, but Rachel is skilled at her dangerous game of death and identity theft.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-22
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Max & Ruby's Christmas
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Max & Ruby - A Merry Bunny Christmas
Overview: A Nick Jr. animated preschool series based on the hugely popular storybooks by Rosemary Wells. Max & Ruby celebrates the warm & humorous relationship between Max, an enthusiastic and determined bunny, and his big sister Ruby. The TV series has a distinct look & feel, incorporating 2D characters into a 3D world. Books first launched 1979 & more than a million books have been sold to date.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Taking Care of Terrific
Overview: 14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered boy. The two hook up for some hilarious adventures in the park with a mysterious bag lady and a street musician. With the help of Enid's boyfriend, Seth, they try to give the park dwellers a "special evening," but their good deed backfires and lands them in trouble.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-16
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Overview: Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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Trapped in Paradise
Overview: Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-02
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Dirty Work
Overview: Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Cries in the Night
Overview: A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Baby on Board
Overview: Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being pursued. She commandeers a cab driven by Ernie (Judge Reinhold), and the chase is on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-28
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Haunted by Her Past
Overview: While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an antique mirror and compelled to murder her husband.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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What Katy Did
Overview: A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Overview: The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based on the poem by Robert Browning.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-05
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Focus
Overview: In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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The Starlost: The Beginning
Overview: Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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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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An Avonlea Christmas
Overview: An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indomitable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hetty King. When she suddenly collapses during the holidays, Hetty is hospitalized. Feeling homesick and alone, she begins to re-evaluate her relationships and her accomplishments in life. The story takes place against the backdrop of World War I as the King family prepares for its traditional Christmas dinner. The reunion is marred by the fact that one of its youngest members, Felix, is missing in action; making differences of opinion about the war effort glaringly obvious. This wonderful and accomplished cast comes together in an uplifting drama that illustrates the frailty of life and the importance of strength of family in turbulent times. (from DVD liner notes)
Genres: War Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-13
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Face-Off
Overview: A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles. Several National Hockey League players also appear in the film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-12
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Torn Between Two Lovers
Overview: Diane is happily married. But, one day while travelling she meets a dashing architect. With some relief, she parts ways with him at the airport, her resistance to his alluring manner having been tested. She later discovers that she has his gloves, so she returns them in person, only to end up in bed with the man, and later falling in love. She now faces the toughest decision of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-07
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A Little Piece of Heaven
Overview: Will Loomis is living with his mentally handicapped sister Violet, who wants a younger child to play with, so Will 'kidnaps' one (and then another) child from the local children's home. The child is told it is dead and gone to heaven. Will and Violet try to make their farm a little piece of heaven for the kids, while the authorities wonder what has happened to the kidnapped children.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-02
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Police Academy
Overview: New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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The Thanksgiving Treasure
Overview: Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-18
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Videodrome
Overview: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Goofballs
Overview: Another entry in the Canadian "Balls" comedy era, this time set in a golf resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Confidential
Overview: The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of her father thirty seven years earlier. Jameson disappears during his search and his wife hires Charles Ripley P.I. to find him. Ripley's search leads him to Emma's son who has his own nasty secrets to protect.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Intruder
Overview: An entertainer arrives to put on a show in a small town. It turns out that he has mystical powers that give each person a glowing aura, and forces them to tell the truth. Complications ensue.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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Urban Legend
Overview: A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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The Wandering Soul Murders
Overview: Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn (Wendy Crewson) keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old partner (Victor Garber). When a prime suspect is caught, it looks as if the killer may finally be brought to justice … but in a shocking turn of events, the suspect is gunned down as he's brought to the police station. Is there more to her husband's death than Joanne realized?
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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At the Midnight Hour
Overview: Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb neither. She learns of mother Alycia's fatal fall, an official suicide but was probably murder. Dad keeps Andy at a distance, so he draws towards Liz. Real danger starts when Richard's brother, novelist Blain, arrives with his friend Jillian, to sell the ancestral estate against Richard's will.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-29
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The Third Miracle
Overview: The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Summer's Children
Overview: SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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The Ottawa Valley
Overview: Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of her mother’s family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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High-Ballin'
Overview: When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke and his visiting friend Rane put the brakes on the bad guys by taking the law into their own hands. But their vigilante plan involves going toe-to-toe with powerful trucker boss King Carroll and his henchmen, who've been driving everyone out of the game.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Overview: A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-02
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In Love and War
Overview: After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Overview: Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo Marker, Irish Wolfhound owner, doing everything to get keep them together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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The Scream Team
Overview: Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Heritage Minutes: Bluenose
Overview: A Nova Scotian schooner — the undefeated champion of the International Fisherman's Trophy — is pitted against an American ship in the last and most dramatic sailing race of her career (1938).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-04
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All the Way Home
Overview: Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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