Bruce Boa

Bruce Boa

Nascimento : 1930-07-10, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Morte : 2004-04-17

História

Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television.

Perfil

Bruce Boa

Filmes

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Amassador Kerens
In the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psycho-analytical conference in Viena, Austria. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austia, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florence, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. With her husband away in Rome, Anna is torn between her feelings for her husband and the impulsive Italian.
Assassinos Cibernéticos
Secretary Green
A história se passa no ano de 2078, no planeta Sirius 6B, local de minas de exploração de metal. Após ano de guerra contra N.E.B., os mineiros e cientistas criaram uma aliança e construiram os “screamers”, robôs com inteligência artificial, pequenos e velozes. Mas essa arma começa a se desenvolver independente do controle humano, e inicia uma nova missão: acabar com toda forma de vida.
The Neighbor
Bishop
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
For the Moment
Mr. Anderson
This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.
Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Al Podgis
A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.
White Light
Clay Avery
A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
The Serpent of Death
Bartlet
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
The Wreck on the Highway
George Jackson
In Edinburgh washed up country-and-western singer John McGuire is broke and his family is emigrating. He and grandson Billy share the same dreams. They run away together in search of John's wealthy American ex-co-star Betsy Hall.
Murder Story
Corrigan
Aspiring young novelist Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee). Together, they pick through random newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up... an international scandal... and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller... he's writing his own obituary.
Slipstream
Guard Supervisor
Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great power. There are also numerous sub-plots, such as free will and humanity amongst artificial intelligence.
The Forgotten
Pearse
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
Hawks
Byron Deckermensky
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Donald Regan
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
The Vision
Channel President
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.
Nascido Para Matar
Poge Colonel
Um sargento treina de forma fanática e sádica os recrutas em uma base de treinamentos, na intenção de transformá-los em máquinas de guerra para combater na Guerra do Vietnã. Após serem transformados em fuzileiros navais, eles são enviados para a guerra e quando lá chegam se deparam com seus horrores.
Three Wishes for Jamie
Sheriff Jack Haynes
Adapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th Century young man named Jamie McGrew, the three wishes granted to him in a dream by a fairy queen, and the unusual way they come true. His first is for travel (he goes from Ireland to a life of horse trading in Georgia); his second, to marry the girl of his dreams; the third, a son with the gift of poetry and the ability to speak in the ancient Gaelic tongue.
Claudia
A woman falls in love with a young musician, behind her husband.
O Mundo Fantástico de Oz
Policeman
Dorothy, salva de um experimento psiquiátrico por uma misteriosa garota, por algum motivo estranho é chamada de volta ao mundo de Oz. É quando Dorothy, se depara com uma bruxa que destrói tudo aquilo que faz de Oz, uma Terra mágica.
Gulag
McHenry
Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
Ilha dos Malucos
U.S. Advisor
A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
O Fio da Navalha
Henry Maturin
Larry Darrell é um jovem americano que vive uma experiência no front da Primeira Guerra que o faz reavaliar a sua vida. Decidido a encontrar respostas para seus anseios mais espirituais, ele abdica de um grande amor e sai pelo mundo em busca do sentido da vida. Baseado no clássico romance de W. Somerset Maugham, filmado anteriormente por Edmund Goulding em 1946.
Scream for Help
Surgeon
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
007 Contra Octopussy
U.S. General
Ao tentar solucionar quem assassinou o agente 009 (Andy Bradford), James Bond (Roger Moore) resolve seguir uma pista de uma jóia Fabergé roubada do Kremlin, que aparece em uma famosa casa de leilões de Londres. O agente 007 acredita que esta jóia pode ser a chave para solucionar o mistério, pois o agente morto foi encontrado com um Fabergé falso.
Golda Meir
Mr. Macy
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Na Época do Ragtime
Jerome
Um jovem pianista negro se envolve na vida de uma família branca de classe alta que vive entre as tensões raciais, a infidelidade, a violência e outros eventos nostálgicos no início do século XX em Nova York. A história se passa na década de 1910 em Nova York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. é um pianista negro. Ele ganhou fama e fortuna tocando com uma banda de jazz. Alguns homens brancos não gostam dessa situação, e um dia eles o agridem e estragam seu novo carro. Walker tenta por todos os meios obter justiça, sem uma resposta. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Silver Dream Racer
Reporter
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Star Wars: Episódio V - O Império Contra-Ataca
General Carlist Rieekan
Após a destruição da Estrela da Morte, as forças imperiais continuam a perseguir os rebeldes. Após a derrota da Rebelião no planeta de gelo Hoth, Luke viaja para o planeta Dagobah para treinar com o Mestre Jedi Yoda, que vive escondido desde a queda da República. Numa tentativa de converter Luke para o lado negro, Darth Vader atrai o jovem Skywalker para uma armadilha na Cidade Nuvem de Bespin.
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Morgan Stanfield
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
The London Connection
Colonel
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
O Estranho Aliado do Rei Arthur
Tom Trimble, um astronauta, e seu androide, Hermes, voltam por acidente aos tempos do Rei Arthur. Ele tenta ganhar a confiança do Rei afirmando que sabe que Mordred e Merlin irão traí-lo.
A Man Called Intrepid
Jump Master
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
One Fine Day
Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Come Back, Little Sheba
Ed
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
A Profecia
Thorn's Aide
O embaixador americano e a esposa querem muito ter filhos. Quando ela dá à luz um bebê morto e um padre sugere que adotem um recém-nascido saudável e órfão, ele aceita sem contar à mulher. O que ele não sabe é que o bebê é o anticristo.
Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
Who?
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
Who Killed Lamb?
Professor Friedland
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
The Cherry Picker
American V.I.P James Burn II finds his son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) leading a giant "sleep-in" that has taken over Windsor Castle. He hires Nancy (Lulu) to get him out of the castle and into work. With the help of her crazy eccentric father, (Wilfred Hyde-White) who believes in working day and night and producing nothing and uses a fantastic astro-telescope for casual bird watching, she does just that !
Between the Anvil and the Hammer
Commentator (voice)
A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.
Mister Jerico
Nolan
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
The Adding Machine
Detective
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
The Franchise Trail
Ballade vom roten Mohn
Stop-over Forever
Freddie
The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.
Man in the Moon
Roy
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.