Al Waxman
Birthday: Born in 1935-03-02 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: 2001-01-18
Al Waxman was a prolific actor and director, leaving a mark on over 1000 productions in radio, television, film, and theatre. His role in "King of Kensington" stood out as a highlight among his successful Canadian TV series. Additionally, he starred in acclaimed series like "Cagney & Lacey," "Missing Treasures," and "Twice in a Lifetime." His theatrical ventures spanned from off-Broadway in New York to the West End in London, earning praise at the Stratford Festival for his performance as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" and his direction of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Waxman's accolades included ACTRA and Gemini awards for acting, and recognition from organizations like the American Women in Film for his directorial prowess. His commitment to various charitable causes, including the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart & Stroke Foundation, showcased his dedication to social impact. His contributions were honoured with distinctions such as the Order of Ontario in 1996 and the Order of Canada in 1997.
TV Credits
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Carl Wilson
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Due South
Character: Vince Leggett
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....
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Dale Linseman
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....
Cagney & Lacey
Character: Lieutenant Bert Samuels
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....
Twice in a Lifetime
Character: Judge Othniel
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better....
King of Kensington
Character: Larry King
King of Kensington is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1980. The show starred Al Waxman as Larry King, a convenience store owner in Toronto's Kensington Market who was known for helping friends and neighbours solve problems. His multicultural group of friends consisted of Nestor Best, Max, and Tony "Duke" Zarro, who hung around regularly to the perennial disapproval of King's mother Gladys. The show was popular with viewers; prior to the start of the four...
Street Legal
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Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994. It was revived for an additional season in 2019....
Ben Casey
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character....
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Character: Trimmer Waltz
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO....
Sidestreet
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Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes....
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Character: Louis B. Mayer
Chronicles the life of Judy Garland, from her first public performance in 1924 until her death....
For The Record
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For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired Sundays 9:00-10:00 p.m., January 1977 to 1986. A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most of the 'big name' Canadian actors and directors of th...
Twitch City
Character: Homeless Man
Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent....
Due South
Character: Nicholas Van Zandt
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....
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Character: Aguado (voice)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS. A third season and reruns of previous episodes aired on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000....
Movie Credits
Millennium
Character: Dr. Brindle
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley....
Class of 1984
Character: Detective Stewiski
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business....
Atlantic City
Character: Alfie
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....
The Hitman
Character: Marco Luganni
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within....
Heavy Metal
Character: Rudnick (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror....
Meatballs III: Summer Job
Character: Peter
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life....
Iron Eagle on the Attack
Character: Gen. Kettle
While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline....
The Assignment
Character: Carl Mickens - CIA
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez....
In the Company of Spies
Character: Myron Sindell
An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old operative out of retirement to retrieve both the agent and the vital information in his possession....
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Character: Burt
An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time.....
Critical Care
Character: Sheldon Hatchett
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?...
When Michael Calls
Character: Sheriff Hap Washbrook
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?...
What Makes a Family
Character: Frank Cataldi
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter....
Collision Course
Character: Dingman
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger....
Scream of Stone
Character: Stephen
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in t...
A Saintly Switch
Character: Coach Beasily
The story is about a married couple with children on the verge of divorce. Their imminent divorce, like many, is due to their mutual lack of respect and compassion for each other and the effect it has on their children. When the family makes a traumatic move to New Orleans they move into an old, Victorian home. There, in the attic, the children think they have found the "magic" to solve their parent's problems. The children accidentally manage to switch the souls of their parents. Now the wife m...
Gotti
Character: Bruce Cutler
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him....
The Shamrock Conspiracy
Character: O'Connor
A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York....
Net Worth
Character: Jack Adams
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like....
Quiet Killer
Character: Mayor Andy Carmichael
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single pers...
I Know My Son Is Alive
Character: Herb
A couple's life is torn apart by the disappearance of their new-born son....
Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
Character: The Bug (voice)
With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday....
Malarek
Character: Stern
Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing corruption in the social welfare system....
Spasms
Character: Crowley
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation....
The Dowry
Character: Barbery
A little drama, almost a love triangle, filmed on the Canadian Atlantic coast, about a fisherman, his girl, and his boat. The boat needs a new engine but the owner lacks the cash. His girl's undertaker brother has money enough if he can be persuaded to lend it. What develops in the film is an object lesson showing that neither a boat nor a girl can be taken too much for granted....
Sunday in the Country
Character: Sergeant
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive....
The Clown Murders
Character: Police Sergeant
A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious....
Wild Horse Hank
Character: Jay Connors
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range....
Operation Golden Phoenix
Character: Chief Gordon
A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it takes....
The Hurricane
Character: Warden
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence....
I Still Dream of Jeannie
Character: Gen. Wescott
Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home (temporarily) to hear their son's important academic presentation without knowing exactly where he is in the first place. The general in charge of the mission won't reveal anything. Things are further complicated when Jeannie's sister (Jeannie II) reminds Sham-Ir, the head of the genies, that a genie on Earth cannot go more than 3 months without an earthly master. (Col. Nelson is no longer Earthly, being in sp...
The War Lover
Character: Prien: Crew of 'The Body'
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive....
Man in the Middle
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In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest level...
Holiday Affair
Character: Mr. Corley
"Meeting cute" while Jodie's son Timmy enthuses over a model train set, Jodie and the raffish but likeable Steve immediately hit it off, but she is already engaged to conservative lawyer Paul Davis. The days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Jodie finds herself in the unenviable position of choosing between two men whom she adores equally--a job not made easier by the well-meaning interference of son Timmy....
Noah's Magic Ark
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Family / Adventure - Children and parents alike will love this captivating and charming version of the story of Noah's ark and the great flood, uniquely told from the animals' point of view. Vincent, a friendly young koala, tells others about his portentous dream that a dangerous flood is coming. When they only laugh at him in response, we see that in the animal kingdom there is much of the same cruelty and thoughtlessness that plagues humankind. But when Vincent finds Noah building his ark, he ...
Double Negative
Character: Dellassandro
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer....
Tulips
Character: Bert Irving
A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love....
Isabel
Character: Herb
A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits....
Mob Story
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On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano (John Vernon) flees to his Canadian hometown and old flame Dolores (Margot Kidder) in this kooky, disorganized crime caper. Luciano soon discovers his long-lost son and tries to teach him the tricks of the trade. Meanwhile, Luciano's bumbling right-hand man (Albert S. Waxman) -- who'd like to become the boss himself -- has put a contract on Luciano....
Live Wire
Character: James Garvey
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body....
Child Under A Leaf
Character: The Storekeeper
A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover....
The Thin Blue Lie
Character: Art Zugler
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers....
Death Junction
Character: Captain Jenkow
A small-time drug pusher is caught in the middle of a war between rival Jamaican drug lords, and is accused of stealing a major shipment....
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Character: Dr. Jakob Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the ch...
Switching Channels
Character: Berger
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story....
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Character: Lt. Samuels
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms....
Bogus
Character: School Principal
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus....
The Sloane Affair
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The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue....
At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story
Character: John Hofsess
Based on a true story of Sue Rodriguez who campaigned for the right to die with dignity, opening a controversial ethical debate throughout Canada....
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Character: Allen
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union....
The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Character: Harry
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler....
The Crowd Inside
Character: Director
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The Ride
Character: Max Lieberman
Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follows the daily lives of drivers for an urban cab company....