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R.H. Thomson
Born: 24th Sep 1947 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 74
Film: 61 (82%)
Television: 13 (18%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction, Western, Adventure
Filmography
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70-something Melanie invites her once young and idealistic hippie friends for a long-overdue reunion where everyone is told they have inherited the ca ... view
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Sep 2024 (first aired)
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all ... view
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Carlyle Burke (1 ep.)
2023
A grieving widower and his reluctant, teenage granddaughter embark on a pilgrimage of hope and faith that become a turning point in each of their live ... view
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Grandpa
Original title: Ananghoonska
2022
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this ... view
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Professor
2022
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative ... view
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Mr. Schmidt
2018
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery. ... view
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Dr. John Rickman
Mar 2017 (first aired)
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. ... view
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Matthew Cuthbert (27 ep.)
2016
Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-managem ... view
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Senator Douglas Townsend
2015
Past meets present in a film that is evocative in approach, energized by breathtaking cinematography and an uplifting musical score, and offers a new ... view
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voice of J.E.H. MacDonald
2015
In this inventive short, celebrated actor and director R.H. Thomson playfully deconstructs narrative, parting the curtain on the five central stories ... view
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Self
2011
Floundering twenty-something Nicolas Sinclair attempts to win the heart of a married woman by befriending her 12-year-old son in this independent come ... view
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Andre
2010
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David i ... view
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Frank
Jan 2010 (first aired)
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Do ... view
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Francis Chafe (1 ep.)
Original title: Καλά Κρυμμένα Μυστικά: Αθανασία
2008
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to ... view
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Manuel
Mar 2008 (first aired)
Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical events in Canadian history - the Cypress Hills Massacre ... view
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Tom Hardwick (2 ep.)
Jan 2008 (first aired)
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also stru ... view
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Chief Inspector Stewart (1 ep.)
2007
"Hamlet {Solo}" chronicles the six-year journey of actor Raoul Bhaneja as he mounts a one-man version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film includes a num ... view
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Self
Oct 2006 (first aired)
A dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada. ... view
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James Richard Cross (8 ep.)
2006
A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years. ... view
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Sheriff Calcutt
Mar 2006 (first aired)
In 1930s Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, a small town pastor, sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address from the pu ... view
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Dr. Moulds (2 ep.)
2006
A man encounters a childhood friend who had an affair with his wife five years earlier. ... view
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Arthur Bloom
2003
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who s ... view
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Rabbi Lewis
2003
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to ma ... view
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Frederick Wyatt
2002
Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her control of the makeup industry. ... view
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Richard Rogers
2002
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing P ... view
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Mitchell Sharp
2002
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depressi ... view
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Huge McLean
2001
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is thr ... view
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Mycroft Holmes
2001
This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can b ... view
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Narrator
Jan 2001 (first aired)
The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto ... view
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Angus MacGregor (13 ep.)
2000
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils. ... view
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Reverend Smythe
1999
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman ... view
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James Anthony Bailey
Sep 1999 (first aired)
The story of the great American showman and promoter. ... view
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James Anthony Bailey (2 ep.)
1999
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist. ... view
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Ray Marcassi
1998
Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still u ... view
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Stone
1998
This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major ... view
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Narrator
1997
Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects. ... view
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Dr. Issac Solti
1997
Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of ... view
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Dr. Isaac Solti (during prod. of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs)
1997
A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been de ... view
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David Greg
1996
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter. ... view
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Ed McNair
1995
The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benef ... view
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Milton Mound
1994
The Blakes have a rancher in the burbs, 2 kids, a mid-sized American car, a gas barbecue and lawn furniture. Dad works in an office, Mom does somethin ... view
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Andy Blake
1994
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life str ... view
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Dr. Luke
1994
Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unus ... view
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Bill Castellano
1993
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light ... view
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Hal Kingswood
1993
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship. ... view
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Jake Hobart
1993
Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler. ... view
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1991
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick. ... view
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Albert Paine
1991
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits i ... view
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Chaim Kovler
1989
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the ... view
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Gerry Allbright
1989
A British Columbia woman struggles to support herself and her daughter after the death of her husband. Nominated for achievements in editing and cinem ... view
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Eric Anderson
1988
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting a ... view
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Dr Frederick Banting
1987
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff R ... view
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Edsel Ford
1987
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks ... view
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Wilf Hawthorne
1987
A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn't remember her life, including her husband. While she tries to recall, she meets a man and begins a ... view
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Dr. Davidson
1987
An intense crime drama about a Canadian drug lord who amasses a fortune from the cocaine and marijuana trade. His empire is threatened by the Mafia, H ... view
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Det. Sgt. James McGrath
1986
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at h ... view
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Dr. Jeff Reilly
Sep 1985 (first aired)
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1985
Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New Worl ... view
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Samuel Lount
1985
A biographical drama that profiles the life of Hal C. Banks, a controversial American labour union leader, who came to Canada in 1949 to lead a viole ... view
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May 1985 (first aired)
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's ... view
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Morgan (1 ep.)
Mar 1985 (first aired)
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, ... view
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Dr. Steve Hill (as R.H. Thompson) (2 ep.)
1985
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good littl ... view
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Paul Mennen
1985
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge ... view
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Kevin
1985
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich. ... view
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Charlie Grant
1985
One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film ... view
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1983
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero, who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research. ... view
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Dr. Simon
1982
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan. ... view
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Will Sly
1981
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of ... view
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Linc Strunc
Original title: Les beaux souvenirs
1981
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier. ... view
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Rick
1981
Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However, t ... view
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David
1981
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution. ... view
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Lee Schatz
1979
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is vis ... view
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Thatcher
Original title: Jig-Saw
1979
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the deceased is not his son, but an individual who wa ... view
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Borke
Feb 1976 (first aired)
For the Record, an anthology of 60-to-90-minute dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76.
A collection of docud ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)