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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
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Walter
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
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
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Paperman
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
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
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Herb Smith
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
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
1980
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter. ... view
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Dean Collier
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
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Rachel's Father
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
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Wallace
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
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Bank Guard
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
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Dr. George Abbott
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
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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
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Geppetto
1974
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause. ... view
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Herb Scannell
1973
The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer. ... view
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Charlie Blaine
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
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Rachel's Father (1 ep.)
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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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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
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Prof. Preston
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
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Dr. Roy Michaels
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
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David
1962
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket. ... view
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Al Hodges
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
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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
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Burgen
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
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Major
1942
The life and career of the founder of Southwestern Ontario, Thomas Talbot. ... view
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Col. Thomas Talbot