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Sean Sullivan

Born: 26th Dec 1921 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Died 3rd Jun 1985
Dept: 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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 32
Film: 31 (97%)
Television: 1 (3%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Adventure

Filmography

1986
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 th ... view
Character:
Walter
Mrs. Soffel Drama, Romance
1984
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 executio ... view
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Farmer
Best Revenge Crime, Drama
1984
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 doll ... view
Character:
Paperman
Heavenly Bodies Drama, Romance
1984
A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. ... view
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Real Estate Salesman
The Dead Zone Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
1983
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 lea ... view
Character:
Herb Smith
In Defense of Kids TV Movie, Drama
1983
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 ne ... view
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Stan
1983
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, an ... view
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Dinosaur/Chair Pusher
Atlantic City Crime, Drama, Romance
1980
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 a ... view
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Buddy
Nothing Personal Comedy, Romance
1980
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter. ... view
Character:
Dean Collier
The Starlost: The Beginning Science Fiction
1980
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 ... view
Character:
Rachel's Father
Crossbar Drama, TV Movie
1979
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 ... view
Character:
Wallace
The Silent Partner Drama, Thriller
1978
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns th ... view
Character:
Bank Guard
Deadly Harvest Science Fiction, Drama
1977
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. ... view
Character:
Dr. George Abbott
One Man Drama, Thriller
1977
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live i ... view
Character:
Rodney Porter
1974
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 ... view
Character:
Geppetto
Why Rock the Boat? Romance, Comedy
1974
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause. ... view
Character:
Herb Scannell
The Hard Part Begins Drama, Music
1973
The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer. ... view
Character:
Charlie Blaine
The Starlost Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Sep 1973 (first aired)
A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware tha ... view
Character:
Rachel's Father (1 ep.)
Springhill Drama, TV Movie
1972
Docudrama about the 1958 Canadian mining disaster ... view
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1972
The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue. ... view
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Face-Off Drama, Romance
1971
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 th ... view
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Greg Walsh
1970
Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain cont ... view
Character:
Prof. Preston
2001: A Space Odyssey Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure
1968
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 advan ... view
Character:
Dr. Roy Michaels
1966
An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer. ... view
Character:
Frank
1966
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 tro ... view
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1964
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own. ... view
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Probation Officer
1964
A married couple doesn't communicate. ... view
Character:
David
Gang War Drama
1962
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket. ... view
Character:
Al Hodges
Wonderful to Be Young! Comedy, Music
Original title: The Young Ones
1961
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 £150 ... view
Character:
Eddie
1961
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 j ... view
Character:
Burgen
During One Night Drama, Romance, War
1961
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. ... view
Character:
Major
Here I Will Nest Drama, Romance
1942
The life and career of the founder of Southwestern Ontario, Thomas Talbot. ... view
Character:
Col. Thomas Talbot