Patrick Watson
Birthday: Born in 1929-12-23 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Patrick Watson is a Canadian actor, television host, writer and producer. He became chairman of the CBC Board of Directors in 1989 and resigned four and a half years later.
TV Credits
The Way It Is
Character: Co-Host
"The Way It Is," a Sunday night one-hour show, aired from September 1967 to June 1969. Under the executive production of Ross McLean, following the success of similar CBC programs, it attracted up to 60 contributors, aiming to challenge viewers with compelling content. Hosted by John Saywell and Barbara Frum, who honed her interviewing style here, it featured Patrick Watson, Warren Davis, Percy Saltzman, Ken Lefolii, Peter Desbarats, and Moses Znaimer. Segment producers like Perry Rosemond and P...
So Long, Marianne
Character: Artist in Restaurant
The intimate tale of two young people, Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen and extraordinary Norwegian woman Marianne Ihlen, falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time....
Movie Credits
The Terry Fox Story
Character: Peg Leg
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research....
Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr
Character: Narrator (voice)
The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work....
Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr
Character: Narrator (voice)
The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight school operator....
Countdown to Looking Glass
Character: Don Tobin
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast....
The Fourth Angel
Character: U.S. Ambassador
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself....
The Land That Devours Ships
Character: Narrator (voice)
For almost a century and a half, Her Majesty's Ship Breadalbane lay wrecked and forgotten under the Arctic ice. In the spring of 1983, noted undersea explorer Dr. Joseph MacInnis led a team of twenty men on one of the most difficult, dangerous and unforgettable undersea adventures of the century--to put a diver on board the sunken vessel and recover some artifacts. This film, introduced by H.R.H. Prince Charles, provides a stunning visual account of this historic expedition....
Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl
Character: Narrator (voice)
Englishman Archie Belaney rises to prominence as a notable author and lecturer after he took on the First Nations identity called Grey Owl. Adapted from the film of the same name....
Bethune
Character: R.E. Coleman
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, where he developed his overwhelming compassion for those less fortunate, and his driving desire to see that they get the medical attention they need. Most of his life after college was spent either working in war zones around Europe or developing new treatment techniques in his home country....