Harvey Atkin
Birthday: Born in 1942-12-18 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: 2017-07-17
Harvey Atkin was born on December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Meatballs (1979), Cagney & Lacey (1981) and Heavy Metal (1981). He was married to Celia Tessler. He died on July 17, 2017 in Toronto.
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The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police
Character: Sam (voice)
The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police is an American-Canadian children’s action & adventure animated television series that was aired on Fox Kids in the US, and it even aired on YTV in Canada, the show ran from October 4th, 1997 to April 25th, 1998....
The Ripping Friends
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The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! is a Canadian animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi. The show premiered September 22, 2001 on Fox Kids, but was cancelled in September 2002. Adult Swim later picked up the show. The series occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The series also aired briefly in the UK on the CNX channel. The show is rated TV-Y7 on Fox Kids and TV-PG on [adult swim] in the United States, and C8 to 14+ on Teletoon in Canada....
My Secret Identity
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My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People....
Cagney & Lacey
Character: Sergent Ronald Coleman
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time....
RoboCop: The Series
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RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2. RoboCop has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and ...
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Alan Ridenour
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes....
Wish Kid
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Wish Kid starring Macaulay Culkin is an animated television series that originally aired on Saturday mornings from September 14, 1991, through July 1992 on NBC, although a few repeats aired from 1998, through 2002 on Toon Disney after that. Produced by DIC Entertainment, the series starred pre-teen movie star Macaulay Culkin....
The NeverEnding Story
Character: Mr. Rockchewer (voice)
The animated adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux in the enchanted storybook world of Fantasia....
Little Shop
Character: Mr. Mushnick (Voice)
Little Shop was a 1991 animated television series that aired on Saturday morning about a teenager and a giant talking plant that eats everything in sight. Little Shop was based on the off-broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors, which was based on the 1960 Roger Corman film The Little Shop of Horrors. The concept of the adaptation is credited to Ellen Levy and Mark Edward Edens, and the series was produced by Tom Tataranowicz. The horror elements in previous versions of the story, in which chara...
Jacob Two-Two
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Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated TV series based on a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler that first aired on Canadian children's channel YTV and aired on the French Canadian VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob, in Spanish on Telemundo as Jacobo Dos Dos and in Portuguese on Canal Panda from Portugal as Jacob Dois Dois It also aired on ZigZap in the Poland and on Canal Futura from Brazil as 'Jacó Dois Dois'. It was produced by Nelvana; before being put on hiatus in 2005, it has 61 episodes. In th...
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Character: King Koopa (voice)
In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mus...
Swamp Thing
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Scientist Alec Holland invents a growth substance that could end world hunger, but a plantation owner obsessed with immortality tries to steal it and causes an accident that turns Alec into a human-plant mutant, protector of the bayou....
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Character: King Koopa (voice)
The Mario Bros., Princess Toadstool, and Toad protect the Mushroom Kingdom against the evil forces of Bowser and his seven Koopa Kids....
Super Mario World
Character: King Koopa (voice)
Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Princess Toadstool are on Dinosaur Island foiling the plans of King Koopa and his Koopa kids....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Alan Ridenour
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories....
18 to Life
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18 to Life is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on January 4, 2010, on CBC Television. The series is shown in Quebec on Vrak.TV with the title Majeurs et mariés....
Suits
Character: Judge Palermo
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory....
Suits
Character: Judge N. Palermo
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory....
Law & Order
Character: Judge Ronald Mannheim
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Bad Dog
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Bad Dog is a cartoon series produced by Saban Entertainment and CineGroupe for the Teletoon and Fox Family networks. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog. This would happen in every episode. It is unknown whether or not the show was inspired by the popular After Dark screensaver "Bad Dog". The two dogs have a...
Goosebumps
Character: Mr. Malik
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears....
Due South
Character: Tex Markles
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes....
Kevin Hill
Character: Judge Larson
Kevin Hill is an American legal drama that aired on UPN during the 2004-2005 TV season. It was filmed and produced in Toronto, Canada....
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sam Wickes
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents....
Producing Parker
Character: Judge (voice)
An animated TV program that follows the life of an overworked and underpaid TV producer and her crewmates who work on a daytime talk show....
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The Guardian
Character: Mr. Wallace
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work....
Atlantic City
Character: Bus Driver
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....
Heavy Metal
Character: Alien / Henchman (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror....
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Character: Geralyn's Father
A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer....
Meatballs
Character: Morty
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....
Guilty as Sin
Character: Judge Steinberg
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty....
The Wordsmith
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Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto who boards with a family on St. Urbain Street only to find his aspirations undermined by the colourful yet desperate characters that surround him. Rubinek delivers a very touching performance as the boyish idealistic writer, and he is backed by a strong supporting cast that includes Harvey Atkin, Janet Ward and Peter Boretski....
Cries in the Night
Character: Harry Browning
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....
Critical Care
Character: Judge Fatale
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?...
Between Love and Honor
Character: Lerner
Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with Gambino's daughter Maria and must make a choice between his duties as a police officer, his love for Maria, and his allegiance to Carlo Gambino....
Mindfield
Character: Bob Champlain
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating i...
High-Ballin'
Character: Buzz
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....
Out of Sync
Character: Sidney Golden
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman's voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him....
One Tough Cop
Character: Rudy
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster....
Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales
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Join Hello Kitty and her friends in five exciting storybook adventures!...
Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat
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A collection of Hello Kitty and Friends holiday specials. Includes Hello Kitty - Santa's Missing hat, Keroppi - the Christmas Eve GIft, and Santa and His Reindeer Kuppi. (1995) From the Family Home Entertainment Christmas classics series....
If You Could See What I Hear
Character: Bert
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan....
Family of Cops
Character: Avrum Weiss
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna, and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie. Neither Paul nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and doesn't know about her husba...
Tintin in America
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
In order to assassinate the inquisitive Belgian reporter Tintin, the evil gangster Al Capone orders Smiles, an executive under his command, to lure him to a meeting to be held in Chicago…...
Visiting Hours
Character: Vinnie Bradshaw
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off....
Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Det. Kiley
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it....
All in Good Taste
Character: Cochrane
A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about strippers....
The Making of a President
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In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama featuring Melvyn Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Soles and a 15-year-old Mike Myers. Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by Order of Canada winner Morley Torgov. Collie-haired Myers, in one of his first TV roles, is more behaved than usual a...
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Character: Lew Eisen
In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity....
Radiant City
Character: Mr. Lewis
Driven to the brink by her overworked and insensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman seeks a meaning to life....
Mr. Nice Guy
Character: Jerry Reeman
A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!...
Love and Death on Long Island
Character: Lou
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society....
Power Play
Character: Anwar
A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak....
Incubus
Character: Joe Prescott
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister cult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell....
Maxwell Saves the Day
Character: (voice)
Maxwell, the silly rabbit, wants to deliver the this year's Easter eggs, and challenges the arrogant Star for the job. Subsequently, Maxwell becomes a hero when he uses his wits!...
Silver Streak
Character: Conventioneer
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him....
Ticket to Heaven
Character: Mr. Stone
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him....
Seasons of the Heart
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After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own....
Hello Kitty: Mom Loves Me After All
Character: Mr. Jones (Voice)
While her mom is looking after a baby named Julianna Scott, Hello Kitty doesn’t feel loved anymore and feels depressed. She runs away from home to her grandparents house where she finds out that her mom is always there for her. She even discovers how her mother and father met....
Speed Zone
Character: Gus Gold
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life....
Barney's Version
Character: 2nd Mrs. P's Father
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky....
A Change of Heart
Character: Cardiologist
Discouraged with cards that life has felt him, Hank is a man whose circumstances have steered him to fear change, but his town is adhering less to traditional white man and wife partnerships of which he is comfortable. After suffering a heart attack, Hank's life is saved by a transplant from a Puerto Rican drag queen....
The Last Chase
Character: Jud
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior....
Terror on Track 9
Character: Verona
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station....
Joshua Then and Now
Character: Dr. Jonathan Cole
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life....
Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster
Character: Sidney Glassberg
A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people....
Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety
Character: (voice)
This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test....
Every Dog's Guide to the Playground
Character: (voice)
In this animated film our hero, Wally the Safety Dog, continues to suffer a host of injuries as he instructs his master in the rules of playground safety. This is the second film in which Wally provides a proper example to young adults, parents, and caregivers in the area of child safety....