R. H. Thomson

R. H. Thomson

Nacimiento : 1947-09-24, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Historia

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

Perfil

R. H. Thomson

Películas

Stellar
Professor
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 story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
Charlotte
Mr. Schmidt
La verdadera historia de Charlotte Salomon, una joven pintora judía alemana que alcanza la mayoría de edad en Berlín en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ferozmente imaginativa y profundamente dotada, sueña con convertirse en artista. Su primer amor aplaude su talento, lo que envalentona su determinación. Cuando las políticas antisemitas inspiran turbas violentas, ella escapa a la seguridad del sur de Francia. Allí comienza a pintar de nuevo y encuentra un nuevo amor. Pero su trabajo se ve interrumpido, esta vez por una tragedia familiar que revela un secreto aún más oscuro. Creyendo que solo un acto extraordinario la salvará, se embarca en la monumental aventura de pintar la historia de su vida.
Clara
Dr. John Rickman
Isaac Bruno es un astrónomo obsesionado con encontrar señales de vida extraterrestre: pasa demasiado tiempo mirando las estrellas, así que apenas puede hacer nada cuando su vida personal comienza a colapsar delante de sus ojos. Bruno encontrará la inesperada ayuda de Clara, una joven asistente que tiene pocos conocimientos pero mucha motivación. Juntos harán un revolucionario descubrimiento.
El amor es complicado
Senator Douglas Townsend
Leah Townsend tiene una relación estable y predecible con su novio de siempre. Pero su vida amorosa cambia de repente cuando conoce al presentador de un programa de radio en un grupo de terapia.
Chloe
Frank
Catherine, una doctora de éxito, sospecha que su marido David, un guapo profesor de música, la engaña. Con el fin de acallar sus sospechas y temores, contrata a Chloe, una joven irresistible que ponga a prueba la fidelidad de David. Los tórridos relatos de Chloe sobre sus encuentros con David embarcan a Catherine en un viaje de redescubrimiento sexual y sensual.
Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
Manuel
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 protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
Ciudad maldita 436
Sheriff Calcutt
Rockwell Falls es una ciudad pequeña y apacible, que parece el Paraíso en la Tierra. Pero cuando Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto), un investigador del gobierno, es enviado allí para averiguar por qué esta pequeña y perdida población siembre tiene el mismo censo, 436 residentes, desde hace 100 años, pronto descubre lo que se esconde realmente bajo una superficie aparentemente perfecta. Atrapado en una red de fervor religioso y tradiciones puritanas de la que nadie ha podido escapar nunca, Kady debe encontrar una salida o se arriesga a perder la vida...
Who Loves the Sun
Arthur Bloom
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
Gigantes del basket
Rabbi Lewis
Lamont Carr (Richard T. Jones), un exjugador de baloncesto, entrena a un pequeño equipo de un instituto judío. Con su esperanza, conseguirá que unos pequeños sin apenas probabilidades de ganar consigan lo imposible: ganar la liga infantil.
The Piano Man's Daughter
Frederick Wyatt
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to marriage and children. Meanwhile, his grandparents (R.H. Thomson and Wendy Crewson) are debating whether to put his mother (Stockard Channing) into a mental institution. Whoopi Goldberg shares producing credits on this generational drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley.
Hell on Heels: The  Battle of Mary Kay
Richard Rogers
The film is about two companies who are battling it out for customers, Mary Kay, and one of her workers Lexi Wilcox are fighting it out with Jinger Heath. Who will win? You will have to see.
Trudeau
Mitchell Sharp
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
The Stork Derby
Huge McLean
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 Depression
Escándalo en Bohemia
Mycroft Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Narrator
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 be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. Pre-eminent among today's documentary filmmakers concerned about this mind-numbing standardization, Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause.
The Dinosaur Hunter
Reverend Smythe
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
Ray Marcassi
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
El sabor del terror
Stone
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 uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Narrator
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 movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Dr. Issac Solti
Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia that will see him inherit the farm. Amelia has since fallen for the vain Dr. Isaac Solti who controls the island and has a hold on both Zephyr Eccles, the widow of a local fisherman, and Juliana, Peter's dream girl from the ship. Solti's true obsession is a recently discovered statue of Venus that possesses strange powers. All the characters meet at Solti's lab where the sexual tensions erupt.
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
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 Maddin's films up to Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, including Careful and Archangel.
Silent Cradle
David Greg
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 dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?
Murder at My Door
Ed McNair
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.
Net Worth
Milton Mound
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
Max
Andy Blake
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 something vague and equally meaningless. They are exactly like all the people you see on the freeway every morning. Something happens - their young son gets sick.
My Breast
Dr. Luke
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
The Lotus Eaters
Hal Kingswood
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 of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
Bonds of Love
Jake Hobart
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
Mark Twain y yo
Albert Paine
Dorothy Quick, una joven chica, se hace amiga del famoso escritor, Samuel "Mark Twain" en sus últimos años de vida.
The Quarrel
Chaim Kovler
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 in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.
Glory Enough For All
Dr Frederick Banting
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
Ford: The Man and the Machine
Edsel Ford
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
Heaven On Earth
Wilf Hawthorne
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 for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
Stranger in My Bed
Dr. Davidson
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 relationship with him.
And Then You Die
Det. Sgt. James McGrath
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat
The Marriage Bed
Dr. Jeff Reilly
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 how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
Samuel Lount
Samuel Lount
Drama histórico sobre la rebelión en el Alto Canadá de 1837.
El día de Martin
Martin Steckert, harto de estar durante años en prisión, sueña con volver a experimentar la sensación de libertad que sentía en su infancia. Lejos de la celda de Steckert, en un pueblo de Ontario, un niño llamado Martin vive una normal, pero solitaria existencia. A primera vista, ninguno de los dos tiene nada en común, excepto el nombre. Un buen día, Steckert escapa de la cárcel, toma a Martin como rehén, y se dirige a un apartado lugar junto a un lago donde solía disfrutar de pequeño. Esta experiencia será el inicio de una amistad, proporcionando a cada uno la libertad y la aventura de la que están tan necesitados.
Loco por ti
Kevin
Un joven (Matthew Modine) aspira a ser el mejor luchador de la escuela y, por ello, se entrena duramente y sigue una rígida dieta para perder los kilos que le sobran. Mientras tanto, el amor adolescente llama a su puerta.
Charlie Grant's War
Charlie Grant
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
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 considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.
La historia de Terry Fox
Dr. Simon
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.
If You Could See What I Hear
Will Sly
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
Ticket to Heaven
Linc Strunc
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
Happy Memories
Rick
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
Surfacing
David
Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However, the harsh environment becomes a dangerous catalyst for their explosive mix of personalities, propelling them into a world of raw emotion and unbridled passion.
Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Lee Schatz
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
An American Christmas Carol
Thatcher
En la época de la Depresión en Nueva Inglaterra, un miserable empresario llamado Benedict Slade recibe un ajuste de actitud largamente esperado una víspera de Navidad cuando es visitado por tres figuras fantasmales que se parecen a tres de las personas cuyas posesiones Slade había confiscado para cobrar los préstamos no pagados. Asumiendo los roles de los Fantasmas de Navidad Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la historia clásica de Charles Dickens, las tres apariciones obligan a Slade a enfrentar las consecuencias de sus maneras de derramar piel, y se convierte en un hombre cariñoso, generoso y amable.
Laberinto
Borke
A pesar de ser vigilado desde el aire por un helicóptero que sobrevuela una zona boscosa situada en la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y Canadá, el presunto guía de un individuo que luce un traje acaba con su vida, disparándole a bocajarro. En su huida, el guía, que obedece al nombre de Lentini, trata de zafarse del acoso del helicóptero y de la policía con un automóvil que se dirige hacia el aeropuerto. Para evitar ser reconocido en este lugar lleno de agentes del orden, Lentini ha suplantado la personalidad de un individuo cuyo cuerpo se encuentra en la morgue. Precisamente, se trata del mismo cadáver que Romain Duprey intenta descubrir si corresponde con el de su hijo Julien. Al tiempo que el inspector Mackenzie y su equipo llevan a cabo una minuciosa investigación sobre la presunta desaparición de Julien, Romain se encomienda a encontrar a su hijo, con quien ha roto cualquier tipo de relación desde hace tiempo.