
Dan MacDonald
Actor · 1934 – 2023 · Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dan MacDonald was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, director, producer and narrator.
Movies11
Movie5.1ActionScience FictionWhen an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
The Neptune Factor
1973 · 56 votes
- MovieDramaRomance
This short fictional film features the picturesque seaside landscape of Prince Edward Island as the setting for a summer romance between a girl from Winnipeg and a young fisherman from North Rustico, PEI. The young couple visits historic and scenic sites such as Government House in Charlottetown and Cavendish, of Green Gables fame. The film is a classic summertime romance and a nostalgic visit to the delightfully sun-soaked PEI of the past.
Island Romance
1957
Movie5.6DramaWhen his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
Ordinary Magic
1993 · 16 votes
Movie5.4AdventureTV MovieIn this sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, the Pathfinder (Kevin Dillon) defends a British fort under siege during the French and Indian Wars. His Indian father, Chingachgook (Graham Greene), and the lovely Mabel Dunham (Laurie Holden) are swept up in the battle, and the Pathfinder finds himself forced to choose between his father and the woman he loves. The film is based on last of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."
The Pathfinder
1996 · 6 votes
Movie5.9WesternRomanceA group of young adults struggle to run the biggest cattle ranch in the world amidst World War II.
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
1998 · 7 votes
Movie6.1AdventureDramaA 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000 · 5 votes
Movie5.7TV MovieCrimeLoosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
The Little Kidnappers
1990 · 9 votes
- Movie7.0HorrorTV Movie
This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoker's original vision for the character.
Dracula
1973 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaFamilyJane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930’s, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.
Lantern Hill
1989 · 1 votes
Movie7.0A young engineer returns to the home of his parents and computer whiz brother after his promising career abruptly falls apart.
Out of a Job
1986 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!
Mr. Nice Guy
1987 · 3 votes
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TV7.6DramaCrimeConstable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
Due South
1994 · 85 votes
TV6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyMysterySydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
Relic Hunter
1999 · 182 votes
TV7.5DramaSci-Fi & FantasyFBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Haven
2010 · 519 votes
TV8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryAnything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
Goosebumps
1995 · 652 votes
TV7.8DramaFamilyClint Cassidy, a rural Montana doctor with traditional values and simple methods, moves to bustling New York City to work at a Manhattan clinic, where he must adapt to a cold, modern medical system while trying to maintain his integrity and help his patients in a humane way.
Doc
2001 · 17 votes
TV7.3MysterySci-Fi & FantasyMicki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987 · 233 votes
TV5.7DramaAboriginal hip-hop artist Jack Sinclair and his best friend Zoey Jones established an underground ezine called renegadepress.com. What started as a pet project soon took on a life of its own pushing Jack, Zoey and their crew of renegade reporters to deliver the goods on what's really going on in the lives of today's teens.
renegadepress.com
2004 · 3 votes
TV6.1CrimeDramaBlue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
Blue Murder
2001 · 7 votes
TV7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaStrange Paradise is a Canadian occult / supernatural soap opera of 195 episodes, initially launched in syndication in the United States on September 8, 1969, and later broadcast on CBC Television from October 20, 1969 to July 22, 1970. The production was the brainchild of producer Steve Krantz, in an attempt to capitalize on the phenomenal success of ABC's daytime serial Dark Shadows. To develop this series, Krantz hired actor-writer Ian Martin and veteran TV and radio producer Jerry Layton, both of who would be given screen credit for the creation of Strange Paradise. With the CBC and American broadcasters Metromedia and Kaiser Broadcasting handling distribution and co-production, the series was produced in Ottawa at CTV affiliate CJOH-TV and aired for 39 weeks, presenting three separate 13-week story arcs.
Strange Paradise
1969 · 4 votes
TV6.6AnimationComedyPuppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
Puppets Who Kill
2002 · 7 votes