Chuck Shamata
약력
Chuck Shamata's career spans four decades in film, television and theatre. Among his most recent credits are the feature films One Week, The Sentinal, Cinderella Man and War Games 2; the cable movies Tipping Point,The Engagement Ring and Kojak (and the ensuing series). Don Shebib's classic Between Friends - often recognized by critics as one of Canada's all time best - was the film for which Shamata received his first Genie Award nomination, and was presented with a Migliore Attore award by the legendary Vittorio De Sica at the Sorrento Film Festival. His other feature credits include The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper, Joshua Then and Now with James Woods, Power Play with Peter O'Toole, The Devil and Max Devlin with Bill Cosby and Night Friend with Art Carney. On the small screen, Shamata was nominated for a Gemini Award for his starring role as a family man facing his homosexuality in the network film The Running Man. Other network movie credits include A Father for Brittany, On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story, the Cable Ace Award-winning Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, Echoes in the Darkness and Between Friends alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett. He played Pierre Salinger in the mini-series Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and for Showtime Networks he co-starred in the Tony Bill-directed cable feature Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story; as mafia boss Sam Giancana in The Family; The Thin Blue Lie with Rob Morrow; and Escape Clause with Paul Sorvino. On stage, Shamata played Dr. Astrov opposite Peter O'Toole in Uncle Vanya in Toronto and Chicago, Torvald in A Doll's House and leading roles in Doc, Good Woman of Setzuan, To Clothe The Naked, You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy, Battering Ram, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, The Country Girl and The Indian Wants The Bronx in theaters from Halifax to Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography
Man
A couple in traffic doesn’t get the “thank you” wave they deserve after another driver cuts in. According to its director, “this film was written while in traffic.”
Fire Chief
한 어머니의 실제 이야기를 바탕으로, 한 어머니의 믿음과 사랑으로 부터 시작된 헌신이 희망과 기적의 산을 만들 수 있음을 보여주는 감동 실화
Bill Sanford
승률 100%를 자랑하는 최고의 로비스트 슬로운. 총기 규제 법안으로 온 나라가 떠들썩한 가운데, 자신의 신념에 따라 모두가 포기한 싸움에 뛰어들게 된다. 승리를 위해서라면 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는 슬로운은 뛰어난 전략으로 한 번도 굴복한 적 없는 거대 권력에 맞서지만, 동시에 자신과 주변 사람 모두를 위험에 빠트리게 되는데…
Frank Thompson
Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the police, and one behind an unraveling criminal syndicate, he must once again sacrifice everything in the name of family.
Walt
부동산 중개인인 주인공은 아들의 생일에 오기로 한 광대가 약속을 어기는 바람에, 자신이 중개하기로 한 집에서 우연히
발견한 광대복으로 광대복장을 하고, 아들의 생일잔치를 즐겁게 치뤄낸다. 하지만 그는, 그 날 이후로 광대복장이 벗겨지지 않아서 애를 먹기 시작을 하는데...
Judge
89세 ‘크레이그 모리슨’은 평생 해로한 아내 ‘아이린’이 알츠하이머에 걸리자 그녀를 위해 직접 맞춤형 새 집을 지어주기로 결심한다. ‘크레이그’의 ‘집 짓기 프로젝트’가 한창일 즈음, 시청 건축과에서는 자재부터 건축방식까지 허가를 받아야 한다며 사사건건 참견을 한다. 내 땅에서 내가 사랑하는 아내를 위해 집을 짓겠다는데 무엇이 문제냐는 ‘크레이그 모리슨’은 점점 더 악화되는 아내를 위해 집짓기를 강행하고, 결국 구속될 위기에 처한다.
Hit-man
A hit-man meets his mark for breakfast to discuss his assassination.
Bill Kissel
Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their horrible undoing
Gerald Tyler
그녀도 세상도 모두 두고 떠나는 1주일! 사랑하는 약혼녀와의 결혼을 앞둔 선생님 벤은 어느 날 갑자기 암으로 시한부 선고를 받는다. 지금 당장 치료를 시작해도 생존 가능성이 희박하다는 의사의 진단을 받은 그에게는 모든 것이 힘겨울 뿐인데… 병원을 나온 벤은 우연히 모터사이클 마니아 노인을 만나게 되고, 그에게서 평소에 가지고 싶어했던 모터사이클을 사게 된다. 사랑하는 연인과 가족 그리고 세상 모든 것을 두고 홀홀 단신의 여행을 시작하게 되는데…
Bill Carter
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
John Patterson
A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be.
Director Overbrook
미국의 국가안보국의 피트 게리슨(마이클 더글라스)은 최고 경력의 베테랑 비밀요원. 20년 전 총알 세례속에 몸을 던져 대통령의 목숨을 구할만큼 나라에 대한 충성심이 강한 그는 현재 영부인 새라(킴 베이싱어)의 안전책임을 맡고 있다. 모든 면에서 완벽한 피트는 후배들에게 존경과 사랑을 한몸에 받으며 일과 삶에서 행복을 누리고 있었다. 적어도 그의 절친한 동료인 찰리 메리웨더(클락 존슨)가 살해되기 전까지는. 찰리의 살인사건을 맡은 데이빗 베킨릿지(키퍼 서덜랜드)는 피트의 수제자로 현재 국가안보국 최고의 실력을 자랑하는 요원. 데이빗은 날카로운 분석으로 감정보다 논리와 이성을 중시하는 냉철한 성격으로 단한번의 실수도 용납치않는다. 그는 열정적인 신참파트너 질 마린(에바 롱고리아)과 함께 찰리 사건을 세밀하게 조사해 나가던 중 찰리가 죽기 직전 피트에게 극비의 정보를 건내주려 했던 사실을 알게 된다. 그 극비정보는 바로 미국 대통령 암살음모에 관한 것이었다. 데이빗은 지난 141년 미국 안보국 역사상 상상도 할 수 없는 이 엄청난 음모의 중심에 피트 게리슨이 있음을 알게 된다. 단 하나의 오차도 없는 완벽한 암살기도계획. 이제 국가비밀안보국 최고의 실력자인 데이빗과 피트는 진실을 사이에 두고 치밀한 두뇌게임을 시작하는데...
Johnny Anselmi
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
Detective Lupo
In Kansas City, the deranged middle-age Donna Germaine stabs and kills her lover, when he calls off their relationship to stay with his wife. Donna uses an excuse to move to the house of her aunt, and she becomes obsessed in their neighbor, the executive William Costigan. The sick Donna plots an evil scheme to take William from his wife Jeannie Costigan.
Father Rorick
미국의 최고 암흑기였던 경제 대공황 시기... 전도유망했던 라이트 헤비급 복서 브래독은 잇단 패배와 부상으로 복싱을 포기하게 되고, 아내와 아이들을 위해 각종 허드렛일을 하며 생계를 꾸려나간다. 하지만 복싱에 대한 꿈을 단념하지 못한 그는 결국 다시 링 위에 오르고,. 왜소한 체구, 끊임없는 부상에도 불구하고 연승행진을 이어간다. 이미 2명 이상의 상대를 사망 직전까지 몰아간 악랄한 챔피언 맥스 베어와의 결전을 눈앞에 둔 브래독... 생의 마지막이 될지도 모를 경기를 위해 링에 오르는데... 스스로를 '헝그리 복서'라 칭하며 불황의 늪에서 허덕이던 미국인들에게 큰 희망을 선사한 전설적 복서 짐 브래독... 그의 진실된 이야기와 함께 가슴 벅찬 가을의 감동이 시작된다.
Russo
After learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg have no choice but to seek out Cheryl's violent ex-husband, Kurt, to have him tested as a possible bone marrow donor. Cheryl is particularly disturbed about seeing Kurt again, since her testimony sent him to prison ten years earlier.
Sal Hugo
Brooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation, who has come a long way from her tough childhood spent going from one foster home to another as an orphan. She has always dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, and is thrilled to finally be on her way. But, when the grandfather she never knew about passes away, her life is suddenly turned upside down. Not only has he left her his estate, but he's left her in charge of the family business, as mob boss to one of the top crime syndicates that has been trying to go legit. If that isn't enough, the handsome new student she's falling for is actually an undercover FBI agent aiming to get dirt on her to bring down the family empire.
Shelton
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
Father
Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arranges an assignment in Boston for a considerable sum of money. Unable to turn it down in her dire straits, Natalie takes the job -- only to find that her estranged gay brother, Roy, is the employer. Roy wants to mend their broken past, but must convince her to stay long enough to do so.
Don Brown
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the Belleville High School volleyball team. Three days after her body was discovered, Brandley was arrested as the murderer. Jew Don Boney, a popular activist and Houston city council member, leads the fight to uncover the truth about the Ferguson murder. Mike DeGeurin, a Texas attorney, is brought in to act as the head defense attorney for Brandley, and is joined by a former minister, Jim McCloskey. The lawyers discover that not only is there a complete lack of evidence against Brandley, but the District Attorney, James Keeshan, has been strategizing with the presiding judge. After nine years in prison, three trials and a stay of execution that saved Brandley's life, justice finally prevails as Brandley is granted his freedom.
Det. Mike Virgilio
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
One mother must fight back to prove her innocence or lose her children.
Pierre Salinger
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
Vinnie
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.
Capt. Neiman
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Captain Tanner
A detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a beautiful district attorney (Marlee Matlin) who becomes a main suspect.
Santo Trafficante
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
Narrator (Voice)
Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta's father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. Meanwhile, Frac and Giulietta discover a gang of children who are held prisoner by a criminal leader who forces them to do his bidding, and they devise a plan to win the kids their freedom. .
Bob Minkowitz
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.
Leo Burns
A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a National Park.
Captain Vincent Nalli
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...
Michael Delfano
The true story of a love affair between mob boss Sam Giancana and singer Phyllis McGuire.
Al Binder
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
Sal Paconi
데드 위시 시리즈의 영웅 폴 커시는 이제 거리의 쓰레기들에 대한 그의 집념을 대학에서 학문에 대한 열정으로 바꾸고 정상의 패션 모델인 볼리비아와의 사랑으로 새로운 인생의 시작을 꿈꾸고 있었다. 그러나 마피아의 보스이자 볼리비아의 딸인 첼시의 생부인 톰니는 질투에 불타 커시와 볼리비아를 습격하여 볼리비아가 그들의 손에 죽고만다. 일시에 모든 희망을 잃은 커시를 제거하기 위하여 첼시마저 납치하자 다시 타오르는 커시의 분노는 가장 악랄하고 잔인하게 그들을 하나씩 제거하기 시작하는데.
Tim
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape.
Dr. Merritt
Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running out, he clings to two goals: publishing his journal and losing his virginity. But as Ryan finds fresh strength from his new friends' optimism and defiant refusal to surrender to cancer, his perspective changes.
Connie Babilonia Sr.
The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.
Jack
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
Mike Watson
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.
Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
Millard Atler
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Louie
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
Dr. Strathmore
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
Danton
Seymour Kaplan
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Pete Staziak
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
Carl
Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" looks at life two decades later for Peter and Julie's (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) daughter Isabelle "Izzy" Marks (Isabelle Mejias). Curious, funny and intelligent, 17 year old Izzy feels the frustrations of her limiting environment and the pull of a more exciting, larger world. She meets passionate anarchist wannabe Jessie 'Fixit' (Peter Spence) and is quickly drawn into his free living alternative lifestyle. Much to the displeasure of her once free-thinking parents and friends.
Dr. Seth Simpson
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
Wilson
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.
Jerry Nadler
아파트 관리인 맥스는 심술궂은 사람으로 괘씸한 소행만 일삼다가 갑자기 교통사고를 당해 지옥에 간다. 염라대왕 앞에 서자, 저승 사자 바니는 이승에 되돌려 보내는 조건으로 순결한 어린 아이 영혼 셋을 지옥에 구해 오라고 한다. 이승에 돌아온 맥스는 바니로부터 받은 초능력을 사용하여 날 샌 가수지망생 스텔라를 일약 스타덤에 올려준다. 또한 아빠를 그리워하는 토비한테는 엄마와 결혼해 주고 아빠 노릇을 한다고 하다가 진짜 사랑에 빠진다. 저승사자 바니와 약속대로 약혼을 구해주고 자신의 영혼을 찾으려는 순간 계약서를 불태우고 대신 자신이 지옥행을 결심한다.
Ben Carfield
A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.
Tony (uncredited)
루스 박사(Doctor Paul Ruth: 패트릭 맥구한 분)가 개발한 피임약 페므롤 복용으로 태어난 초능력자 스캐너스. 이들을 관리하는 콘섹에서 초능력 시험 도중 연구원들이 암살당하는 사건이 발생한다. 루스 박사는 콘섹의 존재를 위협하는 지하 스캔너의 지도자 리벅(Darryl Revok: 마이클 아이론사이드 분)을 제거하기 위해 새로운 스캐너 베일을 고용한다. 그러나 죽음의 고비를 넘긴 리벅의 입에서 흘리운 충격적인 탄생의 비밀. 마침내 두 사람의 인간에 대한 처절한 복수극이 시작된다.
Howard
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Sgt. Tony Colabre
뉴욕의 밤, 거리의 여자들을 겨냥한 연쇄 살인 사건이 벌어진다. 경찰관 클라우디는 사건의 수사를 맡게 되지만 단서는 쉽사리 잡히지 않는다. 유일한 사실은 모델이자 호스티스인 모니카 페이지와 안면이 있는 여자들이 죽어간다는 것이다. 한편 클라우디는 첫번째 용의자로 포주이며 마약상인인 줄리커츠를 지목한다. 그러나 뜻밖에 모습을 드러낸 킬러는 매혹적인 젊은 여성인데...
Hillsman
A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
Gershen Isen
Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke Sommer). As the trial draws to a close, Charles reflects on the events leading up to the terrible incident...
Ricardo
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any means necessary.
Harry
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Chino
An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
