Chuck Shamata
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
Clown
as WaltA loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is...
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Miss Sloane
as Bill SanfordAn ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control...
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Breakthrough
as Fire ChiefTragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is...
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Cinderella Man
as Father RorickThe true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a...
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After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by...
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The Sentinel
as Director OverbrookA secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He...
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Still Mine
as JudgeCraig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for...
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
as Sal PaconiPaul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business...
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One Week
as Gerald TylerBen Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case...
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WarGames: The Dead Code
as Bill CarterComputer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online...
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Flash of Genius
as Professor IrwinIn this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up...
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The House by the Lake
as HarryHarry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he...
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Nowhere to Hide
as Mike WatsonMarine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two...
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Crimes of Fashion
as Sal HugoBrooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation,...
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Act of Vengeance
as Millard AtlerIn 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union,...
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Escape Clause
as Captain Vincent NalliA man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be...
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The Devil and Max Devlin
as Jerry NadlerWhen Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer:...
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Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
as Narrator (Voice)Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of...
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Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Tony ColabreSergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
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Snap Decision
as uncreditedInspired by a true story, a young widowed mother finds herself on trial for child pornography...
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Behind the Red Door
as FatherNatalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she...
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
as Santo TrafficanteThe true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings...
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Virus
as Leo BurnsA United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full...
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Power Play
as HillsmanA thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical...
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Saving Emily
as RussoAfter learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg...
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Guilty Hearts
as Det. Mike VirgilioQuiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class...
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The Terry Fox Story
as WilsonThe true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only...
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Welcome to Blood City
as RicardoFive strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west....
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When Justice Fails
as Captain TannerA detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a...
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Sugartime
as Michael DelfanoSam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a...
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Joshua Then and Now
as Seymour KaplanBased on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a...
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
as SheltonThis is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to...
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The Engagement Ring
as Johnny AnselmiA long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden...
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The Perfect Neighbor
as Detective LupoIn Kansas City, the deranged middle-age Donna Germaine stabs and kills her lover, when he calls...
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The Two Mr. Kissels
as Bill KisselDrama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have...
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Mafia Princess
as LouieLooks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with...
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A Father for Brittany
as Bob MinkowitzKeith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster...
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On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
as Connie Babilonia Sr.The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall...
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The Thin Blue Lie
as VinniePhiladelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by...
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Starcrossed
as ChairmanAn alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young...
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Unfinished Business
as CarlSeventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life...
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Spreading Ground
as Capt. NeimanVeteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the...
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Pierre SalingerTold in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a...
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
as Al BinderThe story of one of America's first female reporters.
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Running
as HowardAn Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and...
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Family of Strangers
as TimJulie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she...
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In Like Flynn
as DantonLife is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young...
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Night Friend
as JackA priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
as Don BrownBased on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder...
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Gone Tomorrow
as Frank ThompsonFive years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to...
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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
as Gershen IsenSuccessful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his...
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The Italian Machine
as uncreditedThis TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes:...
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Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
as uncreditedThree aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
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Between Friends
as Dr. Seth SimpsonTwo middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship...
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A Time to Live
as Dr. StrathmoreThe problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the...
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Between Friends
as ChinoAn ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in...
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Princes In Exile
as Dr. MerrittDiagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that...
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A Simple Fucking Gesture
as ManA couple in traffic doesn’t get the “thank you” wave they deserve after another driver cuts in....
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Break a Leg
as Hit-manA hit-man meets his mark for breakfast to discuss his assassination.
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La Femme Nikita
as Stephan VacekLa Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by...
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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Philip BellamyThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...
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War of the Worlds
as BradleyHumanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation...
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FX: The Series
as Mini the PickpocketRollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making...
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Twice in a Lifetime
as Coach RybeckPrematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in...
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Republic of Doyle
as Anton StrataJake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged...
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Highlander: The Raven
as Martin FosterHighlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander,...
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Blood & Treasure
as Sharif GazalAn antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks...
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For The Record
as Ben CarfieldFor The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series,...
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Kojak
as Henry MussinaKojak is an American television series starring Ving Rhames, airing on the USA Network cable...
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Sidestreet
as uncreditedSidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It...
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