Michael Kirby
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Michael Kirby was born on February 20, 1925 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silent Partner (1978), Summer Holiday (1948) and The Golden Boat (1990). He died on May 25, 2002 in Orange County, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: February 20, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 02, 2002
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The Silent Partner
Overview: Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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The House by the Lake
Overview: Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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A New Life
Overview: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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A Quiet Day in Belfast
Overview: Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Overview: A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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Summer Holiday
Overview: Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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Strong Medicine
Overview: Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-25
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Agency
Overview: A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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The Kissing Place
Overview: Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-11
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Overview: Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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Mr. Patman
Overview: Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-22
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Where the Heart Is
Overview: A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Meatballs
Overview: Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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Rolling Vengeance
Overview: A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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Swoon
Overview: Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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My Pleasure Is My Business
Overview: This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-17
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U-Turn
Overview: In this Canadian romance, Scott (David Selby) was so smitten by the looks of a pretty girl that he spends years looking for her. He keeps his searches a secret from his live-in lover, whom he stays with the entire while. When Scott actually meets the girl, he discovers that she has been similarly motivated, even though she is married and has had two children in the meantime. They share a romantic assignation and discover that the ideal figure they were each searching for is absent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
Overview: Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she would win the gold medal in Skating at the 1928 Olympics, thus becoming the youngest Olympic skating champion -- a record that stood for 70 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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