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Diamonds (Canadian TV Series)
''Diamonds'' is a French and Canadian-produced television series, which aired from September 22, 1987, to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, former actors who had met and married while playing private investigators on a TV series called ''Two of Diamonds'', and continued to work together as real private investigators after both their divorce and the cancellation of their show. The show was frequently compared to the American series ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting''. In a direct nod to the comparison, one episode actually featured an encounter with a character who mistook Devitt and Towne for Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The cast also included Roland Magdane, Geraint Wyn Davies and Tony Rosato. Campbell was also an occasional writer for the series. Produced by Alliance Entertainment, the series aired on Global Television Network, Global in Canada, and in a late night slot on CBS in the United States, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is a four-time Gemini Awards, Gemini Award winner, a three-time Genie Awards, Genie Award nominee, and a Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian Screen Award nominee. He is known for his portrayal of coroner Dominic Da Vinci, on the crime drama television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' (1998-2005) and its spin-off ''Da Vinci's City Hall'' (2005-2006). In film, Campbell is known for his collaborations with director David Cronenberg, starring in ''Fast Company (1979 film), Fast Company'' (1979), ''The Brood'' (1979), ''The Dead Zone (film), The Dead Zone'' (1983), and ''Naked Lunch (film), Naked Lunch'' (1991). He has also notably appeared in ''A Bridge Too Far (film), A Bridge Too Far'' (1977), ''The Boys Club'' (1996), ''New Waterford Girl'' (1999), ''Prozac Nation (film), Prozac Nation'' (2001), ''Turning Paige'' (also 2001), ''Cinderella Man'' (2005), and ''Goon (film), Goon'' (2011). As a director, he made t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ Television
RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's public service broadcaster. Its first channel was Telefís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. Since the 1960s, RTÉ Television has added channels and digital television service. Channels Linear * RTÉ One (launched in 1961 as Telefís Éireann, known as RTÉ from 1966, HD service launched on 16 December 2013) * RTÉ2 (launched in 1978, known from 1988 to 2004 as ''Network 2'', HD service launched in October 2011) * RTÉ News (launched on 12 June 2008 as ''RTÉ News Now'') * RTÉjr (launched on 27 May 2011) * RTÉ One +1 (launched on 27 May 2011 sharing with RTÉjr, 24 hour introduced from 19 February 2019) * RTÉ2+1 (launched on 19 February 2019, airs from 7pm Monday to Friday, 12:20pm Saturday and Sunday) Former Channels IPTV * RTÉ Food (available through RTÉ Player) * RTÉ Archive (available through RTÉ Player) Proposed channels * RTÉ Ireland. * RTÉ Arts & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Barzman
Paolo Barzman (born April 9, 1957) is a Canadian film and television director, and television writer. He is the son of blacklisted screenwriters Ben Barzman, Ben and Norma Barzman. He grew up largely in Europe. Career Directing His television directing credits include ''The Adventures of the Black Stallion'', ''Highlander: The Series'', ''Counterstrike (1990 TV series), Counterstrike'', ''Bordertown (1989 TV series), Bordertown'', ''Relic Hunter'', ''Queen of Swords (TV series), Queen of Swords'', ''15/Love'', ''18 to Life'', ''Lost Girl (TV series), Lost Girl'', ''Haven (TV series), Haven'', ''Wynonna Earp (TV series), Wynonna Earp'', the American-Canadian adaptation of ''Being Human (North American TV series), Being Human'' and ''SurrealEstate''. Barzman has also directed a number of television films. In 2007, he directed the feature film ''Emotional Arithmetic'' starring Susan Sarandon and Christopher Plummer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Gantillon
Bruno Gantillon (born 16 June 1944, in Annemasse), is a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography ;Assistant director * 1970: ''Cannabis'', directed by Pierre Koralnik ;Director * 1970: '' Un couple d'artistes'' * 1971: '' Morgane et ses nymphes'' * 1972: '' Le Self-service du nu'' * 1972: ' * 1976: '' Cinéma 16'', episode: ''La maison d'Albert'' * 1977: '' Cinéma 16'', episode: ''L'amuseur'' * 1977: '' Servante et maîtresse'' (English title: '' Servant and Mistress'') * 1978: '' Zigzags'' * 1979: '' Les Héritiers'', episode: ''Les régisseurs'' * 1979: '' Médecins de nuit'', 2 episodes: ''Légitime défense'' and ''Léone'' (TV series) * 1980: '' Cinéma 16'', episode: ''L'homme aux chiens'' * 1981: '' Les Héritiers'', episode: ''Les femmes du lac'' * 1981: '' Non lieu'' * 1983: '' Capitaine X'' * 1985: '' Machinations'' * 1985: '' L'Intruse 2'' * 1987: '' Les Mémés sanglantes'' * 1989: '' Le Masque'', episode: ''Les dames du Creusot'' * 1989–1991: '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Henshaw
Jim Henshaw (born September 28, 1949) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film and television producer. Early life and education Henshaw was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Career A mainstay of the Canadian theatre scene during the 1970s, he appeared in more than 50 productions of new Canadian plays, including the first performances of several works by playwright George F. Walker. His film career included such films as '' The Last Detail'', '' Monkeys in the Attic'', '' Lions for Breakfast'', ''The Supreme Kid'' and '' A Sweeter Song'' for which he also wrote the screenplay. Henshaw was the voice of Daniel Mouse and Beaver Drummer in the 1978 animated film '' The Devil and Daniel Mouse'', a television special created by Nelvana Productions, the Canadian animation company that worked on various television specials during this time from 1977 to 1980. In the field of animation, he is best known for playing Bright Heart Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff F
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel * Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel * Jeff Allen, English session drummer * Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers * Jeff Beal (born 1963), American composer of music for various media * Jeff Beck (1944–2023), English guitarist * Jeff Buckley (1966–1997), American singer-songwriter * Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator * Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will * Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles * Jeff Gillan, an American journalist * Jeff Graham, Canadian radio DJ * Jeff Hanneman (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Shebib
Donald Everett Shebib (27 January 1938 – 5 November 2023) was a Canadian film and television director. Shebib was a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s before turning to feature films, beginning with the influential ''Goin' Down the Road'' (1970) and what many call his masterpiece, ''Between Friends (1973 film), Between Friends'' (1973). He soon became frustrated by the bureaucratic process of film funding in Canada and chronic problems with distribution as well as a string of box office disappointments. After ''Heartaches (1981 film), Heartaches'' (1981), he made fewer films for theatrical release and worked more in television. Shebib was 40 (record producer), Noah "40" Shebib's father. Early life Shebib was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Mary Alice Long, a Newfoundlander of Irish descent, and Moses "Morris" Shebib, born in Sydney, Nova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Azzopardi
Mario Philip Azzopardi (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian-Maltese television and film director and writer. Early life and emigration Azzopardi was born in Siggiewi, Malta, and was educated at St Aloysius' College ( Birkirkara, Malta), and the Royal University of Malta. In 1971, while still a student at the university, he directed ''Il-Gaġġa'', based on Frans Sammut's novel ''Il-Gaġġa'', presumed to be the first full-length feature filmed entirely in Maltese. Transferred to digital format and enhanced, the film was re-released in Malta in March 2007. Around the same time, he assisted Cecil Satariano during the making of ''Giuseppi''. He left his native country for Canada in 1978, following a dispute with local censors and theatre authorities who, in 1977, had cancelled his play, ''Sulari Fuq Strada Stretta'', on the grounds that it was too offensive; the play was eventually presented at the Manoel Theatre in January 2008. He has worked on such shows as '' The Outer L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Haddock
Chris Haddock is a Canadian screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the CBC Television series '' Da Vinci's Inquest'', '' Da Vinci's City Hall'', ''Intelligence'' and ''The Romeo Section''. He has won 14 Gemini Awards as a writer, producer and/or director and received another 15 nominations - most of them for '' Da Vinci's Inquest''. Career Haddock began as a street performer, but he later focused his creative energies into screenwriting for television. One of his earliest efforts in writing was for the popular series, ''MacGyver'', where he also served as the story editor and executive story editor. He founded Haddock Entertainment in 1997. Haddock is most well known for his Vancouver-based television drama creations '' Da Vinci's Inquest'' (1998-2005), '' Da Vinci's City Hall'' (2005-2006) and ''Intelligence'' (2006-2007). Most recently Chris served as writer/co-executive producer on the Martin Scorsese HBO production '' Boardwalk Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fruet
William Fruet (born January 1, 1933) is a Canadian film and television director, playwright and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the drama '' Wedding in White'' (1972), based on a play he had also written. The film won Best Picture at the Canadian Film Awards in 1973. His later career included several horror films, including '' Death Weekend'' (1972), '' Cries in the Night'' (1980), and '' Killer Party'' (1986), as well as television series, including '' Goosebumps'' and '' Poltergeist: The Legacy''. Other writing credits include the influential Canadian film '' Goin' Down the Road'', which he co-wrote with Donald Shebib. Early life and education Fruet was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1952. He worked for the CBC as an actor and photographer. He appeared '' Drylanders'' (1963), the National Film Board’s first English-language feature film. Between 1962 and 1963, Fruet studied directing at the UCLA Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, ''Cold Eye'', was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie ''Les Couleurs du diable'' (Allain Jessua, 1997). Career Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay, Ontario, North Bay; Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay. The first Cardinal story, ''Forty Words for Sorrow'', won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, Silver Dagger, and the second, ''The Delicate Storm'', won the Crime Writers of Canada's Crime Writers of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Bonnière
René Gabriel Bonnière (born 10 March 1928) is a Canadian film director and editor, originally from France. He has had a prolific career, working in television and film in both French and English productions. Biography Bonnière was born in Lyon, France. He first began his film career in France as a director for the French army, working alongside Henri Colpi and composer Georges Delerue. He then worked as an assistant to filmmaking pioneer Marcel L'Herbier. He emigrated from France in May 1955, arriving in New York City with his wife, Claude, on the SS ''Flandre''. Bonnière spent six months working at a bank on Wall Street before looking north for a return to the film industry. He contacted filmmaker F. R. Crawley and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB); Crawley met him in New York and invited him to move to Canada. From 1956 to 1971, Bonnière worked for Crawley Films, directing dozens of films. His first works were ''Beaver Dam'' (short), ''Maîtres artisans du Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
