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Endgame (TV Series)
''Endgame'' (stylized as ENDGAMƎ) is a Canadian drama television series that premiered on the Showcase Television network on Monday, March 14, 2011. The series was developed and produced by Thunderbird Films. The series followed fictional former World Chess Champion Arkady Balagan ( Shawn Doyle), a genius who uses his analytical skills to solve crimes. The show starts four months after the death of Balagan's fiancée Rosemary, when Balagan has developed agoraphobia. Balagan uses the faculties he honed playing chess to help him solve cases. Cast and characters * Shawn Doyle as Arkady Balagan – a former world chess champion from Russia. While attending a world championship in Vancouver his fiancée, Rosemary, is killed by an assassin's gunfire in front of the hotel Huxley. His resultant agoraphobia makes him an "armchair detective" like Nero Wolfe or Lincoln Rhyme. Initially, he primarily makes money by charging exorbitant rates for games against "Grandmaster Arkady Balag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frazee
David Frazee is a Canadian cinematographer and television director. He has earned numerous Gemini Award nominations. His work includes cinematography for ''Intelligence'', ''Da Vinci's Inquest ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' is a Canadian crime drama television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, the critically acclaimed show did attract a loyal following, and ultimately seven se ...'' and '' Da Vinci's City Hall''. He won a Gemini Award for Best Direction for the '' Flashpoint'' episode " One Wrong Move". Filmography Film Television Actor References External links * Canadian Society of Cinematographers interview with David Frazee from 2001 Canadian cinematographers Canadian television directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian Screen Award winning cinematographers Canadian Screen Award winning directors {{Canada-cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Chess Champion
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship 2024, 2024 World Chess Championship. The first event recognized as a world championship was the World Chess Championship 1886, 1886 match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. Steinitz won, making him the first world champion. From 1886 to 1946, the champion set the terms, requiring any challenger to raise a sizable stake and defeat the champion in a match in order to become the new world champion. Following the death of reigning world champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) took over administration of the World Championship, beginning with the World Chess Championship 1948, 1948 tournament. From 1948 to 1993, FIDE organized a set of tournaments and matches to choose a new challenger for the world championship match, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Skogland
Kari Skogland is a Canadian filmmaker. In 2016, she co-founded independent production company Mad Rabbit. Her most recent project is ''The Falcon and the Winter Soldier'', a television series for Marvel Studios. Career Skogland started as an editor. Then she moved on to directing, starting with award-winning television commercials and music videos. Then she became a director of television shows, beginning with an episode of 1994's '' Dead at 21'' and five episodes of 1996's '' Traders''. ''Traders'' was nominated for several Geminis including Best Director, and won Best Series. Her first film, ''The Size of Watermelons'', won the Silver Award at WorldFest Houston. Her CBC film ''White Lies'' was nominated for several Geminis and an International Emmy and won a Tout Ecran. She also directed '' 50 Dead Men Walking ''starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Rose McGowan in March 2009. She directed episodes of ''Boardwalk Empire'', '' The Borgias'' and in 2014 the miniseries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Binamé
Charles Binamé (born May 25, 1949) is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. He joined the National Film Board of Canada as an assistant director in 1971, but soon left for the private sector. During the 1970s, he mostly directed documentaries for Quebec television, and in the 1980s he directed over 200 television commercials, including some in England. When he returned to Canada in the early 1990s, he directed two of Quebec's most popular television series of all time, ''Blanche'' (the sequel to the series ''Les Filles de Caleb'') and '' Marguerite Volant''. The former won him seven Prix Gémeaux and the FIPA d'Or at Cannes Film Festival for best drama series. Also in the 1990s Binamé wrote and directed a trio of edgy urban dramas – '' Eldorado'', '' Streetheart (Le Coeur au poing)'' and '' Pandora's Beauty (La Beauté de Pandore)''. His big-budget '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone'' (a remake of ''Un Homme et son péché'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Collins
Katherine Shannon Collins is a Canadian-born cartoonist, writer, media personality, stage performer, and composer. She created the newspaper comic strip '' Neil the Horse'', which ran from 1975 to 1991. Biography Katherine Collins (formerly Arnold Alexander Saba, Jr.) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 6, 1947. Her name comes from her maternal great-grandmother, Mary Adda "Dolly" Collins, a painter, writer, and illustrator herself. Collins’s mother, who was also a cartoonist and comics collector, instilled in her an interest in comics from a young age. Her earliest influences include Carl Barks and Milton Caniff, whose comics she collected throughout the 1950s and onward. She started reading underground comics in the late 60s, enjoying artists such as Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, and Trina Robbins. Growing up in Canada, she was surrounded by and presented with works of both American and British comics culture. Career Neil the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Talalay
Rachel Talalay (born July 16, 1958) is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing films such as ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (1991), ''Ghost in the Machine (film), Ghost in the Machine'' (1993), and ''Tank Girl (film), Tank Girl'' (1995). Her television credits include episodes of ''Ally McBeal'', ''Supernatural (American TV series), Supernatural'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'', ''Riverdale (American TV series), Riverdale'', ''Doom Patrol (TV series), Doom Patrol'', ''Superman & Lois'' and ''Quantum Leap (2022 TV series), Quantum Leap''. Talalay is also a professor at the University of British Columbia. Early life and education Talalay was born in Chicago. Her father Paul Talalay was a pharmacologist, born in Berlin to a Belarusian Jewish family, and her mother Pamela is an English biochemist. She has two sisters and a brother. She was raised mostly in Baltimore, with two years of her childhood in Britain. Talalay attended Yale Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Head (director)
James David Head is a Canadian television director. Career Cameraman Head began his career as a cameraman on various film crews. In 1985, he was a second assistant camera for the concert film ''9012Live (video), 9012Live'' by Yes (band), Yes. In 1987, he was a second assistant camera for the film ''Stakeout (1987 film), Stakeout''. He then worked as a first assistant camera on ''Beyond the Stars'' (1989), ''The Fourth War'' (1990), ''Run (1991 film), Run'' (1991), ''And the Sea Will Tell'' (1991), and ''Bingo (1991 film), Bingo'' (1991). Early years as a director Head made his directorial debut in 1991, directing at least one episode of TV's ''The Commish'', but did not become a full-time director at that time. He was second unit director of photography for ''Man of the House (1995 film), Man of the House'' (1995) and ''Fear (1996 film), Fear'' (1996). He was back as a director in 1996, directing at least one episode of ''F/X: The Series''. In 1997, he directed an episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torstar
Torstar Corporation is a Canadian mass media company which primarily publishes news. It is known for publishing the ''Toronto Star'', its flagship and namesake. Torstar was purchased by NordStar Capital LP, which is currently owned by Jordan Bitove. They also publishes daily newspapers in Hamilton, Peterborough, Niagara Region, and Waterloo Region. In addition to the Metroland Media Group and a minority position on Canadian Press. The corporation was initially established in 1958 to take over operations of the ''Star'' from the Atkinson Foundation after a provincial law banned charitable organizations from owning for-profit entities. From 1958 to 2020, the class A shares of Torstar were held by the families of the original Atkinson Foundation trustees. The private investment firm NordStar Capital LP, formed by Paul Rivett and Jordan Bitove, acquired the company in 2020 In 2022, Rivett left NordStar due to disputes with Bitove. History Torstar was founded after the Onta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Wheeler
Anne Wheeler, OC, (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer, and director. Biography Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of old friends to form a film collective. From 1975 to 1985 she worked for the NFB where she made her first feature film, ''A War Story'' (1981), which was about her father, Ben Wheeler and his time as a doctor in a P.O.W. camp during World War II. The war is a common theme in her work and she revisited it later in her films '' Bye Bye Blues'' (1989) and ''The War Between Us'' (1995). Her first non-NFB film was '' Loyalties'' in 1986. In addition to her films, Wheeler has directed episodes of ''Anne with an E'', ''Private Eyes'', '' Strange Empire'', ''The Romeo Section'', '' The Guard'', '' This Is Wonderland'', '' Da Vinci's Inquest'', and '' Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collin Lawrence
Collin may refer to: People Surname * Collin (surname) * Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793–1881), French occultist, demonologist and writer * Victor Collin de Plancy (1853–1924), French diplomat, bibliophile and art collector * Jean-Baptiste Collin de Sussy (1750–1826), senior official and politician Given name For information on the origin of the name ''Collin'', see Colin (given name). * Collin Abranches (born 1991), Indian football (soccer) player * Collin Altamirano (born 1995), American tennis player * Collin Ashton (born 1983), American football linebacker * Collin Balester (born 1986), American professional baseball pitcher * Collin Benjamin (born 1978), Namibian football midfielder * Collin Brooks (1893–1959), frequently known as "CB", British journalist, writer, and broadcaster * Collin Burns, speedcuber from the United States * Collin Cameron (born 1988), Canadian paralympic sitskier * Collin Chandler (born 2003), American basketball player * Collin Chou (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veena Sood
Veena Sood (born 21 November) is a Canadian actress. Sood is best known for dramatic and comedic roles in a career spanning more than 3 decades. Early life and education She was born on 21 November in Nairobi, Kenya. Her father was a doctor and her mother, a nurse. When she was 7 years old, the family immigrated to Canada. At the age of 16, she graduated from high school and at age 20, graduated from University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree. Personal life Veena is an avid outdoor enthusiast, having grown up in Canada's Rocky mountains. Her father received the Order of Canada, her brother Manoj Sood is also an actor, while their cousin, Ashwin Sood (previously married to popular singer Sarah McLachlan), is a musician. Her nephew Kama Sood is a filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. She married J. Johnson on 30 August 2008. Career After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama theater degree, Veena helped co-found Calgary's 'Loose Moose Theatre Company' with Improv ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Rhyme
Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Award from The Wolfe Pack. He is also a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Times'', Italy's ''Corriere della Sera'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', and the ''Los Angeles Times''. Life and career Deaver was born near Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer. His sister Julie Deaver is an author of youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
