Best Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature) is a defunct

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award, which was presented by the

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from 1969 to 1978, by the

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in 1980 and by the shortlived Bijou Awards in 1981, to honour the best performance by an actor in film which was not a theatrical feature film, such as

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s or

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s.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''.

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, 2000. .

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1970s

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