R.H. Thomson
Birthday: 1947-09-24
Place of Birth: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, CM (born September 24, 1947) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor. Thomson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, and the National Theatre School. His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at Canadian Stage in February 2002. Thomson has also hosted programming for CBC Radio and CBC Television. In 2010, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Thomson has portrayed a number of historical figures including Charlie Grant, Samuel Lount, Edsel Ford, Dr. Frederick Banting, Duncan Campbell Scott, Mitchell Sharp, and James Cross. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats e...
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Who Loves the Sun
A man encounters a childhood friend who had an affair with his wife five years earlier....
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Chloe
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen eve...
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Heaven On Earth
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the ...
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The Dinosaur Hunter
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils....
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The Last Curlew
A grieving widower and his reluctant, teenage granddaughter embark on a pilgrimage of hope and faith...
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The Royal Scandal
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring ad...
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Ford: The Man and the Machine
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public l...
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Mark Twain and Me
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a...
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Net Worth
The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer...
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Full-Court Miracle
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers o...
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Martin's Day
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He ...
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If You Could See What I Hear
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan....
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Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her c...
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The Lotus Eaters
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns...
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And Then You Die
An intense crime drama about a Canadian drug lord who amasses a fortune from the cocaine and marijua...
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Inner Mountains, Inner Valleys: The Life and Writing of Ernest Buckler
Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler....
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Glory Enough For All
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin a...
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Silent Cradle
A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but disco...
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Happy Memories
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier....
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Trudeau
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott T...
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Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her s...
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The Quarrel
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he...
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Surfacing
Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed b...
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Stellar
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based...
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The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, fo...
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Ticket to Heaven
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing ...
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Charlotte
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...
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Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist....
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L'Homme en colère
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the...
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Charlie Grant's War
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...
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Bonds of Love
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relatio...
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An American Christmas Carol
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue at...
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My Breast
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspir...
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Murder at My Door
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the bru...
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The Marriage Bed
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in...
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Bone Daddy
Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, th...
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker...
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Samuel Lount
Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists t...
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The Piano Man's Daughter
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) s...
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Stranger in My Bed
A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn't remember her life, including her husband. While ...
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Love's Complicated
Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he s...
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Max
The Blakes have a rancher in the burbs, 2 kids, a mid-sized American car, a gas barbecue and lawn fu...
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The Stork Derby
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would in...
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Vision Quest
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain ...
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Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Easte...
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Population 436
A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 re...
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Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in...
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Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-mak...
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Clara
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads ...
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The Terry Fox Story
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero, who decided to run across Canada on only one ...
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The First Season
A British Columbia woman struggles to support herself and her daughter after the death of her husban...
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P.T. Barnum
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter....
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Hamlet {Solo}
"Hamlet {Solo}" chronicles the six-year journey of actor Raoul Bhaneja as he mounts a one-man versio...
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Love & Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wif...
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Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
A biographical drama that profiles the life of Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union ...
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Five Stories
In this inventive short, celebrated actor and director R.H. Thomson playfully deconstructs narrative...
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What We Have Left
70-something Melanie invites her once young and idealistic hippie friends for a long-overdue reunion...
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Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven
Past meets present in a film that is evocative in approach, energized by breathtaking cinematography...
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Whirligig
Floundering twenty-something Nicolas Sinclair attempts to win the heart of a married woman by befrie...
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The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story
Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks t...
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