Paul Gross
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Biography: Paul Michael Gross (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. During Due South's final season, Gross acted as executive producer in addition to starring, wrote the season three opener and finale, the two part series finale and wrote and sang for the show, some of which can be found on the two Due South soundtracks. He later found success with another Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows. Gross studied acting at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, but he left during the third year of his study. He went back later to complete the half-credit needed to receive his fine arts degree. He appeared in several stage productions, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Other productions in which he appeared include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and As You Like It. After the play Successful Strangers, Gross starred in his first movie, Turning to Stone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Gross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Birthday: April 30, 1959
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Gender: Male
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Turning to Stone
Overview: Alison Campbell was sentenced to seven years after trying to smuggle drugs into Canada. This hard-hitting film tells the story of how she survived the prison system,and sacrificed herself to protect her inmates and saved her own sanity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Overview: In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Men with Brooms
Overview: A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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Passchendaele
Overview: Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Gunless
Overview: American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-19
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Wilby Wonderful
Overview: A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Aspen Extreme
Overview: T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test. Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator Robin.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-22
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H2O
Overview: When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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Cold Comfort
Overview: Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-28
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Whale Music
Overview: Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force. Written by Vancouver Film Festival, Handbook
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Due South
Overview: The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser follows the trail of his killers to Chicago, where he teams up with a local cop to bring them to justice. However, he soon finds that the trail leads closer to home than he ever imagined.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-23
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Burnt Toast
Overview: An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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Still Rowdy After All These Years
Overview: A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Falling
Overview: John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Hooked on Speedman
Overview: Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blair Witch proportions and they have just the idea to take them to the top: a documentary about their hometown hero Scott Speedman. As Nick and Vince scour the city to document Scott Speedman stories, they encounter prolific producer Dietrich Baum, who agrees to help them if they can get the "actual Scott Speedman" in their movie. Nick and Vince seem destined to succeed. The only thing in their way, is reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-07
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Beeba Boys
Overview: Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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XXX's & OOO's
Overview: Four ex-wives become friends bonding through their shared experiences as ex-wives of country music singers.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-21
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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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Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
Overview: Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, she's persuaded by her mother to leave her own aspirations behind and help with the ranch -- a choice that's helped along by the presence of Alex (Paul Gross), an attractive ranch hand.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Hyena Road
Overview: Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. A unique and dramatic look at the Canadian Army in Afghanistan.
Genres: War Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Pirate's Passage
Overview: Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life. The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-04
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Sam's Army
Overview: Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have been clinically insane, but the importance of Canada's contribution in that war owes a great deal to him. The man of course, was Colonel - later made Lieutenant General by his own hand - Sam Hughes. Sam's Army is a compelling portrait of a complex man and the formidable military he built. Sam Hughes was not your standard-issue military leader. Canada's World War I Minister of Militia and Defence concentrated power in his own hands, insisted that the Canadian military use the ill-conceived Ross rifle and liberally promoted his cronies. But there was no denying Hughes was a visionary. He assembled the world's largest-ever volunteer army and bucked superiors to keep his ferocious fighting force together in one Canadian Corps.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge
Overview: A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that Canadian character at its best, forging an identity for a country that before the First World War had been seen only as a British colony - an identity and a character that became recognized and respected throughout Europe.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-21
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The Last 100 Days
Overview: Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was destroyed, surpassed those of any other army. The Canadian success was, in no small measure, due to Arthur Currie, whom a recent British historian describes as "the most successful Allied General and one of the least well known."
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-28
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Paint Cans
Overview: A Canadian take on The Player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Buried on Sunday
Overview: Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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The Parting Glass
Overview: A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-24
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Barney's Version
Overview: The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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Murder Most Likely
Overview: In 1981, former RCMP Undercover Agent "Patrick Kelly" was accused of causing the mysterious death of his wife. Managing to elude the authorities, Kelly married his second wife, and continued to live the extravagant lifestyle he so desperately desired. However, in 1984, based on the testimony of a key witness, Kelly was finally convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, (allegedly by throwing her off the balcony of their luxury high-rise condo). But then a whole ten years later, the witness claimed she lied on the stand.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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The Middle Man
Overview: Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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