Sean Sullivan

Nacimiento : 1921-12-26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 1985-06-03

Películas

Raza de campeones (The Boy in Blue)
Walter
Drama ambientado a finales del siglo XIX y basado en la historia real de Ned Hanlan, un delincuente juvenil que llega a convertirse en un remero de talla mundial. Al ver en él una oportunidad de hacer dinero fácil, Bill (David Haughton), aficionado a las apuestas, decide entrenar y promocionar a Hanlan en el mundo de las competiciones. Con el tiempo crece el talento de Hanlan y con él su fama, llegando a convertirse en campeón del mundo, cosechando premios en tres continentes y siendo el primer remero que utilizó con éxito el "asiento móvil". Pero todo se complica cuando Hanlan cae presa de un hombre de negocios sin escrúpulos (Christopher Plummer) que le enseñará el alto precio que, en ocasiones, hay que pagar por la fama.
Mrs. Soffel, una historia real
Farmer
Pittsburgh, 1901. Los hermanos Ed y Jack Biddle son acusados de asesinato y condenados a morir en la horca, a pesar de que mantienen su inocencia. En la prisión del condado conocen a la señora Soffel, esposa del alcaide que intenta reconfortarles llevándoles la palabra de Dios.
Heavenly Bodies
Real Estate Salesman
A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.
La zona muerta
Herb Smith
Adaptación de la novela escrita por Stephen King. Un joven profesor sufre un accidente que le hará permanecer cinco años en coma. Al despertar, descubre que posee poderes extrasensoriales y que es capaz de adivinar el futuro. La policía pedirá su colaboración para resolver un asesinato...
In Defense of Kids
Stan
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 neglected children.
American Playhouse: The Skin of Our Teeth
Dinosaur/Chair Pusher
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth."
Atlantic City
Buddy
A Lou Pascal, un viejo gángster que consigue algún dinero con las apuestas, lo mantiene en realidad la viuda de su ex jefe. En el mismo edificio que él vive Sally, una atractiva mujer cuyo cuerpo lo tiene obsesionado.
Nada personal
Dean Collier
Una abogada comprometida con el medio ambiente es contratada por un profesor para parar la construcción de una base en terrenos de cría de las focas.
The Starlost: The Beginning
Rachel's Father
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 they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.
Crossbar
Wallace
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 year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
Testigo silencioso
Bank Guard
Toronto, Canadá. Unos días antes de Navidad, Miles Cullen, un cajero aburrido que trabaja en una sucursal bancaria ubicada en un centro comercial, descubre accidentalmente que el lugar está a punto de ser robado cuando encuentra una desconcertante nota sobre uno de los mostradores.
Cosecha mortal
Dr. George Abbott
Durante una gran hambruna, un granjero se esfuerza por sacar a su familia adelante y por recuperar a su hijo, que se ha unido a un grupo de delincuentes.
One Man
Rodney Porter
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from his TV station as they are loathe to tangle with big business.
Why Rock the Boat?
Herb Scannell
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
Face-Off
Greg Walsh
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 their differences in careers and lifestyles.
Dr. Frankenstein on Campus
Prof. Preston
Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain control under Prof. Preston. Campus radicals frame Viktor (photographed holding a joint) in an attempt to discredit both Preston and the Dean and Viktor is once again expelled. Vik injects Tae Kwan Do expert Tony with his new brain control pellets and soon Tony becomes an instrument of revenge, beating radicals to death, drowning the photographer in a developing tray, and karate-chopping a reporter in the throat to name a few. But why won't Viktor remove his clothes when doing his often naked girlfriend and who is the "real Frankenstein"?
2001: Una odisea del espacio
Dr. Roy Michaels
La historia de la humanidad, en diversos estadios del pasado y del futuro, es narrada en la película de ciencia-ficción de culto por excelencia de la historia del cine. Hace millones de años, en los albores del nacimiento del homo sapiens, unos simios descubren un monolito que les lleva a un estadio de inteligencia superior. Otro monolito vuelve a aparecer, millones de años después, enterrado en una luna, lo que provoca el interés de los científicos humanos. Por último, HAL 9000, una máquina de inteligencia artificial, es la encargada de todos los sistemas de una nave espacial tripulada durante una misión de la NASA.
Adulterous Affair
Frank
An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer.
A Further Glimpse of Joey
Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 filmJoey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.
Nobody Waved Goodbye
Probation Officer
18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his only real ally being his girlfriend Julie. Peter's relationship with his parents reaches its boiling point when he borrows his father's new car without permission and is left by him to spend the night in jail after Peter is arrested for reckless driving. Peter runs away from home and moves into a rooming house, and eventually gets a shady job as a parking attendant. His relationship with Julie becomes exponentially more complicated and he finally realizes that being alone in the real world is much harder than he ever imagined.
David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
David
A married couple doesn't communicate.
The Young Ones
Eddie
Nicky y sus amigos corren peligro de perder su club juvenil, porque va a ser derruido para construir un nuevo complejo de oficinas, a menos que paguen 1500 libras a su propietario, el despiadado magnate Hamilton Black. Para reunir el dinero, Nicky graba una canción, que sus amigos transmiten por una emisora pirata. Pero Nicky guarda un secreto que no puede confesar ni a su novia: Hamilton Black es su padre..
During One Night
Major
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.