Jan Rubeš

Born: 1920-06-06

Born in Czechoslovakia. After graduating in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague, Jan Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member of the Canadian Opera Company, he achieved recognition for his roles, as Boris in "Boris Godunov", Schigolch in "Lulu" and as Mephisto in "Faust". As well, he served as the company's director of touring and program development. Branching out into radio and, eventually, TV, he wrote and hosted from 1975-83 TVOntario's "Guess What?" and acted in many TV dramas, later receiving the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.


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Witness

as Eli Lapp
Released: 1985-02-08

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia...

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D2: The Mighty Ducks

as Jan
Released: 1994-03-25

After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the...

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One Magic Christmas

as Santa Claus
Released: 1985-11-22

Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the...

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Snow Falling on Cedars

as Ole Jurgensen
Released: 1999-12-22

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For...

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Class Action

as Pavel
Released: 1991-03-15

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many...

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Music from Another Room

as Louis Klammer
Released: 1998-04-24

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who...

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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

as Far
Released: 1995-01-23

After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam,...

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Deceived

as Tomasz
Released: 1991-09-27

The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling...

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The Incredible Journey

as Carl Nurmi
Released: 1963-11-20

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on...

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The Amityville Curse

as The Priest
Released: 1990-05-07

After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of...

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The Birds II: Land's End

as Karl
Released: 1994-03-19

Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can...

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Dead of Winter

as Dr. Joseph Lewis
Released: 1987-02-06

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is...

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The Experts

as Illyich
Released: 1989-01-13

Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a...

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Courage Mountain

as Grandfather
Released: 1990-02-14

At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.

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The Amateur

as Kaplan
Released: 1981-12-11

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to...

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Murder: By Reason of Insanity

as Giorgi Denerenko (uncredited)
Released: 1985-10-01

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they...

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Never Too Late

as Joseph
Released: 1996-08-26

Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

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Roommates

as Bolek Krupa
Released: 1995-03-03

An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn...

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Mesmer

as Professor Stoerk
Released: 1994-08-25

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used...

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What Katy Did

as Dr. Reinhart
Released: 1999-01-01

A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her...

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Descending Angel

as Bishop Dancu
Released: 1990-11-25

A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the...

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The White Raven

as Markus Strand
Released: 1998-12-18

A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a...

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The Kiss

as Gordon Tobin
Released: 1988-10-14

After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences...

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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

as Psychiatrist
Released: 1981-09-19

Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is...

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The Christmas Secret

as Andree
Released: 2000-12-12

In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way...

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Divided Loyalties

as uncredited
Released: 1990-02-13

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a...

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Cold Front

as Zoubov
Released: 1990-06-09

An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a...

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Daniel and the Superdogs

as The Colonel
Released: 2004-10-27

A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to...

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Flood: A River's Rampage

as Jacob Gunderson
Released: 1997-11-16

After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas...

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Our Fathers

as Pope John Paul
Released: 2005-05-11

In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors....

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Believe

as Jason Stiles
Released: 2000-03-22

After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern...

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Murder in Space

as Gregory Denarenko
Released: 1985-07-28

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return...

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The Marriage Bed

as Max Ehrlich
Released: 1986-12-22

Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third...

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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

as Augustus Glick
Released: 1988-09-16

The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman)...

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Deadly Harvest

as Swenson
Released: 1977-08-21

Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of...

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Mr. Patman

as Vrakettas
Released: 1981-04-22

Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

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Anthrax

as Arthur Kowalski
Released: 2001-01-01

When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP...

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Blood Relations

as Andreas
Released: 1988-07-01

A trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her...

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Blind Fear

as Lasky
Released: 1989-01-01

A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at...

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The Witches of Eastwick

as Fidel
Released: 1992-07-03

An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their...

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Charlie Grant's War

as Jacob
Released: 1985-01-27

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out...

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Devlin

as Vittorio Di Fabrizi
Released: 1992-09-12

A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.

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On My Own

as The Colonel
Released: 1993-07-02

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his...

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Nightmare Man

as Evan Hannibal
Released: 1999-01-01

After recovering from a near-fatal wound, a cop develops the ability to see crime scenes through...

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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

as Hendrick de Vries
Released: 1998-05-10

Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save...

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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio

as Phantom
Released: 1994-10-21

Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.

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Sarabande

as Dr. Kassovitz
Released: 1997-10-24

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent...

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Stargate SG-1

as Nicholas Ballard
First aired: 1997-07-27

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the...

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The X-Files

as Vassily Peskow (uncredited)
First aired: 1993-09-10

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...

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The X-Files

as Vassily Peskow
First aired: 1993-09-10

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...

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ER

as Mr. Duzak
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Due South

as Dr. Mort Gustafson
First aired: 1994-09-22

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the...

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The Outer Limits

as Robert Greene / Older Karl Rademacher
First aired: 1995-03-26

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...

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War of the Worlds

as Dr. Von Deer
First aired: 1988-10-07

Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation...

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Tilt

as Frank Modeste
First aired: 2005-02-17

Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.

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Kane & Abel

as The Polish Consul
First aired: 1985-11-17

Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey...

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Little Gloria... Happy at Last

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-24

The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn...

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The Third Twin

as Mr. Oliver
First aired: 1997-11-09

A biologist falls for a twin she is studying and confronts a scientist with evidence on a...

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By Way of the Stars

as Hausierer Nathan
First aired: 1992-12-26

A young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the...

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