Paul Gross
출생 : 1959-04-30, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
약력
Paul Michael Gross (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. During Due South's final season, Gross acted as executive producer in addition to starring, wrote the season three opener and finale, the two part series finale and wrote and sang for the show, some of which can be found on the two Due South soundtracks. He later found success with another Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows.
Gross studied acting at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, but he left during the third year of his study. He went back later to complete the half-credit needed to receive his fine arts degree. He appeared in several stage productions, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Other productions in which he appeared include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and As You Like It.
After the play Successful Strangers, Gross starred in his first movie, Turning to Stone.
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The Sherriff
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Dr. Solvei
인종, 성별, 성정체성에 대한 편견으로 뭉친 고집 센 아버지가 있다. 동성애자인 아들은 시골 농장에 홀로 살던 그를 집으로 모셔 오지만 감당하기 쉽지 않다. 지독한 차별주의자인 아버지는 치매 증상까지 있어 번번이 주위 사람들을 당황시킨다. 아들이 남자와 결혼해서 살고 있지만 아들의 결혼을 인정하지 않고, 흑인이나 여성에 대한 태도도 개선의 여지가 없다. 영화는 아버지의 과거를 보여주는 플래시백을 통해 이 남자의 젊은 시절을 구원했던 여자인 어머니의 존재를 보여준다. 그들의 사랑 역시 오래가지 못한다. 어머니도 이 남자의 비뚤어진 마음을 바로잡는데 실패한다. 마주치고 싶지 않은 불쾌한 노인의 삶을 들여다보면서 그도 구원받을 기회가 있었다는 사실을 안타까워하는 영화.
Sean
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Jamie
Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.
Producer
목표물을 인간으로 보지 않는 냉혹하지만, 최고 실력을 갖춘 저격수. 군인이지만 직접 살상을 해 본 적 없는 정보 장교. 존재를 숨기며 살다 전쟁터로 다시 돌아온 전설적인 아프간 전사. 서로 다른 인생을 살아온 세 명이 다른 모습으로 만났지만, 생존을 위해 손을 잡는다.
Writer
목표물을 인간으로 보지 않는 냉혹하지만, 최고 실력을 갖춘 저격수. 군인이지만 직접 살상을 해 본 적 없는 정보 장교. 존재를 숨기며 살다 전쟁터로 다시 돌아온 전설적인 아프간 전사. 서로 다른 인생을 살아온 세 명이 다른 모습으로 만났지만, 생존을 위해 손을 잡는다.
Director
목표물을 인간으로 보지 않는 냉혹하지만, 최고 실력을 갖춘 저격수. 군인이지만 직접 살상을 해 본 적 없는 정보 장교. 존재를 숨기며 살다 전쟁터로 다시 돌아온 전설적인 아프간 전사. 서로 다른 인생을 살아온 세 명이 다른 모습으로 만났지만, 생존을 위해 손을 잡는다.
Pete
목표물을 인간으로 보지 않는 냉혹하지만, 최고 실력을 갖춘 저격수. 군인이지만 직접 살상을 해 본 적 없는 정보 장교. 존재를 숨기며 살다 전쟁터로 다시 돌아온 전설적인 아프간 전사. 서로 다른 인생을 살아온 세 명이 다른 모습으로 만났지만, 생존을 위해 손을 잡는다.
Calico Jack (voice)
Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life. The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.
Executive Producer
When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.
Executive Producer
When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to find a way to get them to safety. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path, inspiring her father, Matt, and the rest of the community to join together and save the horses in the spirit of Christmas.
Producer
기차가 역으로 들어온다. 기차의 마지막 칸이다. 부랑자가 화물칸에서 새로운 도시에서 새 출발을 하려고 뛰어 내린다. 그러나 그가 온 곳은 정작 지옥과 같은 도시이다. 이곳은 범죄자가 거리에서 득세하는 곳이다. 이 도시의 두목인 드레이크는 사디스트적인 살인마인 슬릭과 이반, 두 아들과 함께 이곳의 최고로 군림하고 있다. 이러한 혼란 가운데 부랑자는 중고 잔디깎이 기계를 전시하고 있는 전당포 앞을 가로질러 간다. 그는 이 도시를 아름답게 가꾸고 새로운 삶을 시작하는 꿈을 꾼다. 하지만 그의 주변에서 잔혹한 사태가 끊이지 않자 잔다깎이 기계 위에 걸려 있는 엽총이 그의 눈에 들어 온다. 곧이어 부랑자는 이 마을에 변화를 가져올 수 있는 유일한 길은 그의 손에 든 엽총과 창탄에 든 두 발의 총알임을 깨닫게 된다.
(2011년 제15회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Constable O'Malley of the North
당신에겐 있었나요? 잡고싶은 단 한사람 사랑...그 이상의 감동을 만나다
Sean 'The Montana Kid' Rafferty
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Paul
Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blair Witch proportions and they have just the idea to take them to the top: a documentary about their hometown hero Scott Speedman. As Nick and Vince scour the city to document Scott Speedman stories, they encounter prolific producer Dietrich Baum, who agrees to help them if they can get the "actual Scott Speedman" in their movie. Nick and Vince seem destined to succeed. The only thing in their way, is reality.
Producer
주인공 마이클 던(폴 그로스)은 제1차 세계대전에 원정군으로 참여하여 전쟁을 치르는 중 포탄에 의한 상처를 입고 후방으로 호송된다. 사라 맨(캐롤라인느 다버나스)를 비롯한 간호사들의 도움으로 몸의 상처는 나아가지만, 참전한 어린 청년들까지 죽여가며 진행되는 전쟁의 잔혹함에 진저리를 친다. 자신을 돌봐준 사라 맨과 사랑에 빠진 마이클은 그녀의 동생 데이비드가 자신이 사랑하는 소녀의 부모에게 인정받기 위해 전쟁에 자원하자 데이비드를 돕기 위해 마이클은 직급을 속이고 다시 전쟁터로 향하는데…
Writer
주인공 마이클 던(폴 그로스)은 제1차 세계대전에 원정군으로 참여하여 전쟁을 치르는 중 포탄에 의한 상처를 입고 후방으로 호송된다. 사라 맨(캐롤라인느 다버나스)를 비롯한 간호사들의 도움으로 몸의 상처는 나아가지만, 참전한 어린 청년들까지 죽여가며 진행되는 전쟁의 잔혹함에 진저리를 친다. 자신을 돌봐준 사라 맨과 사랑에 빠진 마이클은 그녀의 동생 데이비드가 자신이 사랑하는 소녀의 부모에게 인정받기 위해 전쟁에 자원하자 데이비드를 돕기 위해 마이클은 직급을 속이고 다시 전쟁터로 향하는데…
Michael Dunne
주인공 마이클 던(폴 그로스)은 제1차 세계대전에 원정군으로 참여하여 전쟁을 치르는 중 포탄에 의한 상처를 입고 후방으로 호송된다. 사라 맨(캐롤라인느 다버나스)를 비롯한 간호사들의 도움으로 몸의 상처는 나아가지만, 참전한 어린 청년들까지 죽여가며 진행되는 전쟁의 잔혹함에 진저리를 친다. 자신을 돌봐준 사라 맨과 사랑에 빠진 마이클은 그녀의 동생 데이비드가 자신이 사랑하는 소녀의 부모에게 인정받기 위해 전쟁에 자원하자 데이비드를 돕기 위해 마이클은 직급을 속이고 다시 전쟁터로 향하는데…
Director
주인공 마이클 던(폴 그로스)은 제1차 세계대전에 원정군으로 참여하여 전쟁을 치르는 중 포탄에 의한 상처를 입고 후방으로 호송된다. 사라 맨(캐롤라인느 다버나스)를 비롯한 간호사들의 도움으로 몸의 상처는 나아가지만, 참전한 어린 청년들까지 죽여가며 진행되는 전쟁의 잔혹함에 진저리를 친다. 자신을 돌봐준 사라 맨과 사랑에 빠진 마이클은 그녀의 동생 데이비드가 자신이 사랑하는 소녀의 부모에게 인정받기 위해 전쟁에 자원하자 데이비드를 돕기 위해 마이클은 직급을 속이고 다시 전쟁터로 향하는데…
Scott
An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.
Thomas David McLaughlin
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Writer
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Buddy French
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
Original Music Composer
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutterdisappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
Story
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutterdisappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
Screenplay
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutterdisappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
Chris Cutter
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutterdisappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
Director
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutterdisappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.
In 1981, former RCMP Undercover Agent "Patrick Kelly" was accused of causing the mysterious death of his wife. Managing to elude the authorities, Kelly married his second wife, and continued to live the extravagant lifestyle he so desperately desired. However, in 1984, based on the testimony of a key witness, Kelly was finally convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, (allegedly by throwing her off the balcony of their luxury high-rise condo). But then a whole ten years later, the witness claimed she lied on the stand.
Ned
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Daniel Howl
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force. Written by Vancouver Film Festival, Handbook
Morton Ridgewell
A Canadian take on The Player.
Bucky Dean
Four ex-wives become friends bonding through their shared experiences as ex-wives of country music singers.
Constable Benton Fraser
The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser follows the trail of his killers to Chicago, where he teams up with a local cop to bring them to justice. However, he soon finds that the trail leads closer to home than he ever imagined.
Writer
A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off because of his temper. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's life both before and after his death.
T.J.
T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test. Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator Robin.
Augustus Knickel
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
Jeremy Brimfield
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
Alex Bresnyachuk
Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, she's persuaded by her mother to leave her own aspirations behind and help with the ranch -- a choice that's helped along by the presence of Alex (Paul Gross), an attractive ranch hand.
Stephen Miller
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
Billy
Alison Campbell was sentenced to seven years after trying to smuggle drugs into Canada. This hard-hitting film tells the story of how she survived the prison system,and sacrificed herself to protect her inmates and saved her own sanity.
