Jack Mather
Birthday: Born in 1915-12-08 in Mountain Park, Alberta, Canada
Deathday: 2006-01-25
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Twice in a Lifetime
Character: Sammy
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better....
War of the Worlds
Character: Doc
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse....
The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim
Character: Ol' Coop
The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim was a children's television serial consisting of ten 15 minute installments which originally aired in 1975 on Canada's TVOntario and was rerun countless times afterward over the next decade on TVO as well as on other Canadian educational channels and PBS. The title character is a shoeshine boy who travels back 100 years in time by means of a magic trunk and meets Zachariah Gibson, a travelling salesman and showman who peddles elixers and tonics. Episodes are ba...
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Hunger Point
Character: Grandpa Max
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences....
Canadian Bacon
Character: Pops
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada....
Anne of Green Gables
Character: Station Master
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley....
Middle Age Crazy
Character: Minister
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ......
Mrs. Soffel
Character: Mr. Watson
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....
To Kill the King
Character: Grandfather
Hank Adams (Lance Henriksen) is a successful restaurateur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one rendezvous they overhear the husband and an Admiral discussing "the killing of the patient", and as the adulterous couple have been under surveillance this information reaches a top Federal Agent (Patrick O'Neal) who provides security for the President. His investigation begins to cast light on a conspiracy within government to assassin...
Billy Madison
Character: Ted 'Old Man' Clemens
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business....
Ordinary Magic
Character: Mr. Samuels
When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort....