Jan Rubeš
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.
Witness
as Eli LappA sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia...
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Deceived
as TomaszThe murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling...
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The Amityville Curse
as The PriestAfter purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of...
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D2: The Mighty Ducks
as JanAfter 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 ClausGinny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the...
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The Incredible Journey
as Carl NurmiThe story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on...
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Class Action
as PavelA liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many...
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Snow Falling on Cedars
as Ole JurgensenIn the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For...
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as PsychiatristSet within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is...
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Roommates
as Bolek KrupaAn elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn...
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The Experts
as IllyichTravis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
as Giorgi Denerenko (uncredited)A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they...
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Descending Angel
as Bishop DancuA recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the...
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Dead of Winter
as Dr. Joseph LewisA fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is...
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The Birds II: Land's End
as KarlTed and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can...
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The Amateur
as KaplanA researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to...
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Music from Another Room
as Louis KlammerMusic From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who...
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The Kiss
as Gordon TobinAfter the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences...
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as FarAfter serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam,...
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
as Augustus GlickThe early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman)...
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What Katy Did
as Dr. ReinhartA 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her...
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Our Fathers
as Pope John PaulIn the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors....
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The Christmas Secret
as AndreeIn this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way...
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Believe
as Jason StilesAfter being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern...
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Cold Front
as ZoubovAn American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a...
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On My Own
as The ColonelSimon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his...
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Daniel and the Superdogs
as The ColonelA young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to...
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Murder in Space
as Gregory DenarenkoSet in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return...
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Mr. Patman
as VrakettasWomen, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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Flood: A River's Rampage
as Jacob GundersonAfter heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas...
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Mesmer
as Professor StoerkA biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used...
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Divided Loyalties
as uncreditedStory of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a...
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Sarabande
as Dr. KassovitzThe film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent...
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Deadly Harvest
as SwensonFarmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of...
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Courage Mountain
as GrandfatherAt the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.
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The White Raven
as Markus StrandA journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a...
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The Witches of Eastwick
as FidelAn unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their...
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Devlin
as Vittorio Di FabriziA troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
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Blood Relations
as AndreasA trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her...
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Nightmare Man
as Evan HannibalAfter recovering from a near-fatal wound, a cop develops the ability to see crime scenes through...
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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
as PhantomShari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
as Hendrick de VriesTwo fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save...
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Never Too Late
as JosephFour old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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The Marriage Bed
as Max EhrlichLinda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third...
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Anthrax
as Arthur KowalskiWhen cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP...
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Charlie Grant's War
as JacobA Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out...
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Blind Fear
as LaskyA blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at...
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Stargate SG-1
as Nicholas BallardThe 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)The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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The X-Files
as Vassily PeskowThe exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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ER
as Mr. DuzakER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...
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Due South
as Dr. Mort GustafsonConstable 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 RademacherAnthology 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 DeerHumanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation...
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Tilt
as Frank ModesteYoung 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 ConsulKane & 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 uncreditedThe 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 uncreditedA 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 NathanA young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the...
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