Known for Acting
Sean Sullivan (December 26, 1921 – June 3, 1985) was a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his stage and television performances in productions of David French's play Of the Fields, Lately, for which he won an ACTRA Award in 1977 as Best Television Actor for the CBC Television film; and his film performances in Springhill, for which he won a Canadian Film Award as Best Actor in a Non-Feature Film in 1972, and The Boy in Blue, for which he received a posthumous Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he began his career as an actor when a stage play he appeared in in his 20s, Golden Boy, reached the finals of the Dominion Drama Festival. He soon began appearing in CBC Television productions, including episodes of the drama anthology series Playbill, CBC Summer Theatre, Folio and General Motors Theatre. His film roles included Nobody Waved Good-bye, The Young Ones, Why Rock the Boat?, 125 Rooms of Comfort, One Man, The Silent Partner, Atlantic City and The Grey Fox.
Born
December 26, 1921
Died
June 3, 1985 (age 63)
Birthplace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmography
32 films, 1 show


Simon Birch
1998 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.


The Boy in Blue
1986 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.


Mrs. Soffel
1984 · 1h 52m
country: United States
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.


Heavenly Bodies
1984 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.


Best Revenge
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks on a suicide mission to smuggle four million dollars worth of hashish out of Morocco.


The Dead Zone
1983 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.


In Defense of Kids
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.


The Skin of Our Teeth
1983 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).


Atlantic City
1980 · 1h 44m
country: Canada
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.


Nothing Personal
1980 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.


The Starlost: The Beginning
1980
country: Canada
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.


Crossbar
1979 · 1h 18m
country: Canada
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.


The Silent Partner
1978 · 1h 42m
country: Canada
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.


Deadly Harvest
1977 · 1h 27m
country: Canada
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.


One Man
1977 · 1h 28m
country: Canada
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from his TV station as they are loathe to tangle with big business.


Pinocchio’s Birthday Party
1974 · 1h 19m
country: Canada
It's Pinocchio's sixth birthday, and Geppetto, the Good Fairy, and Pinocchio's friends throw him a magical surprise party. Includes two puppet stories - "Puss in Boots" and "The Drummer Boy".
Why Rock the Boat?
Why Rock the Boat?
1974 · 1h 53m
country: Canada
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.


The Hard Part Begins
1973 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer.
Springhill
Springhill
1972 · 2h 8m
country: Canada
Docudrama about the 1958 Canadian mining disaster


The Sloane Affair:
1972 · 54m
country: Canada
The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.


Face-Off
1971 · 1h 45m
country: Canada
A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles. Several National Hockey League players also appear in the film.


Flick
1970 · 1h 23m
country: Canada
Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain control under Prof. Preston. Campus radicals frame Viktor (photographed holding a joint) in an attempt to discredit both Preston and the Dean and Viktor is once again expelled. Vik injects Tae Kwan Do expert Tony with his new brain control pellets and soon Tony becomes an instrument of revenge, beating radicals to death, drowning the photographer in a developing tray, and karate-chopping a reporter in the throat to name a few. But why won't Viktor remove his clothes when doing his often naked girlfriend and who is the "real Frankenstein"?


2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · 2h 29m
country: United Kingdom
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.


Adulterous Affair
1966 · 1h 24m
country: Canada
An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer.


A Further Glimpse of Joey
1966 · 28m
country: Canada
Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.


Nobody Waved Goodbye
1964 · 1h 21m
country: Canada
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.


David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
1964 · 29m
country: Canada
A married couple doesn't communicate.
Gang War
Gang War
1962 · 1h 5m
country: United Kingdom
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.


The Young Ones
1961 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.


The Long Shadow
1961 · 1h 4m
country: United Kingdom
Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.


During One Night
1961 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.
Here I Will Nest
Here I Will Nest
1942 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
The life and career of the founder of Southwestern Ontario, Thomas Talbot.