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Kenneth Welsh
Actor 1942 - 2022

Kenneth Welsh

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kenneth Welsh, CM (March 30, 1942 – May 5, 2022) was a Canadian film and television actor (sometimes credited as Ken Welsh). He was known to Twin Peaks fans as the multi-faceted villain Windom Earle, and had more recently played the father of Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett)... Read full bio →

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The Middle Man

The Middle Man

Bent Hamer 2021 1h 35m 6.0

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

Psycho Goreman

Psycho Goreman

Steven Kostanski 2020 1h 35m 5.5

Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.

The Void

The Void

Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski 2016 1h 30m 6.0

In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman.

The Art of the Steal

The Art of the Steal

Jonathan Sobol 2013 1h 30m 6.3

Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.

Cottage Country

Cottage Country

Peter Wellington 2013 1h 31m 5.0

When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.

The Last Templar

The Last Templar

2009 4h 3.0

An adaptation of Raymond Khoury's novel about a New York archaeologist researching the lost secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.

Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead

George A. Romero 2009 1h 30m 5.0

On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

Michael Sucsy 2009 1h 44m 5.0

The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Onassis.

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Patricia Rozema 2008 1h 40m

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.

Silk

Silk

François Girard 2007 1h 47m 5.5

Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a married French smuggler whose perilous and solitary travels lead him to the strange and captivating new world of the west to collect his materials.

4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Tim Story 2007 1h 32m 5.6

The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realise.

The Covenant

The Covenant

Renny Harlin 2006 1h 37m 4.2

Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

One Way

One Way

Reto Salimbeni 2006 1h 56m

To cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers the brutal revenge of the victim.

The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

Julian Gibbs 2005 56m 5.0

Gerda sets out on a magical journey to find her best friend, Kay who has been taken by the Snow Queen.

The Fog

The Fog

Rupert Wainwright 2005 1h 40m 4.6

The Fog is the 2005 unsuccessful remake of the classic cult horror film from 1980 by John Carpenter. The ghost of seamen take revenge on a small coastal town for old wrongdoings.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Scott Derrickson 2005 2h 2m 6.9

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

Karol, un uomo diventato Papa

Karol, un uomo diventato Papa

Giacomo Battiato 2005 2h 35m 7.0

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.

Four Brothers

Four Brothers

John Singleton 2005 1h 49m 7.6

Four brothers look to avenge their mother's death.

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow

Roland Emmerich 2004 2h 4m 6.9

A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from an abrupt global climate shift. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age

The Aviator

The Aviator

Martin Scorsese 2004 2h 50m 7.6

Young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Miracle

Miracle

Gavin O'Connor 2004 2h 15m 6.8

Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.

The Man Who Saved Christmas

The Man Who Saved Christmas

Sturla Gunnarsson 2002 1h 40m 6.0

A.C. Gilbert figures out a way to keep Christmas alive after the war threatens to take it away in his name.

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Rodney Gibbons 2002 1h 30m

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of death rumoured to be caused by a vampire.

The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Rodney Gibbons 2001 1h 30m

Greed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Mary Morstan, a young governess, has been receiving a rare and lustrous pearl annually from an anonymous benefactor. This mysterious person now wants a meeting.

The Royal Scandal

The Royal Scandal

Rodney Gibbons 2001 1h 24m

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage.

The Day Reagan Was Shot

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Cyrus Nowrasteh 2001 1h 38m 6.0

The 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a Poland on the brink of a revolution. Based on actual events during the final stages of the cold war.

Focus

Focus

Neal Slavin 2001 1h 46m 6.0

In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Rodney Gibbons 2000 1h 30m 5.0

The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed his family for 200 years, a supernatural hound who roams the moors. Detective Sherlock Holmes attempts to uncover the truth.

Thunder Point

Thunder Point

George Mihalka 1998 1h 39m

50 Years after World War II Hitler's deadly 'The Windsor Protocol' turns up. This document shouldn't be in wrong hands, so the British call upon a smart criminal to retain it.

The Third Twin

The Third Twin

1997 1h 28m 5.0

A researcher's life is in danger when she discovers a secret cloning operation.

Habitat

Habitat

René Daalder 1997 1h 43m 4.0

In order to combat the damage caused by the depletion of the ozone layer, maverick biologist Hank Symes unleashes his most ambitious experiment to date: accelerated evolution. Unfortunately, this not only causes the authorities to take notice, but also creates a backlash from his new neighbors--leaving his son caught in the middle.

Absolute Power

Absolute Power

Clint Eastwood 1997 2h 1m 6.9

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller from and starring Clint Eastwood and based on a novel by David Baldacci.

Margaret's Museum

Margaret's Museum

Mort Ransen 1995 1h 54m

In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.

Hideaway

Hideaway

Brett Leonard 1995 1h 43m 8.0

After a severe traffic accident, Hatch Harrison was dead for two hours before his doctors were able to revive him. Hatch is glad to be alive, but soon he starts to have strange thoughts and feelings. Soon he discovers that he is now somehow tied to a killer who had entered Hatch's mind while he was dead.

Timecop

Timecop

Peter Hyams 1994 1h 38m 5.9

An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall

Edward Zwick 1994 2h 13m 7.1

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

Allan A. Goldstein 1994 1h 35m 5.3

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters

Adrift

Adrift

Christian Duguay 1993 1h 33m 5.0

Katie and Guy take a sea cruise in their sailboat and discover a couple on a wrecked boat, victims of a brutal attack by their crew. They take Eliza and Nick on board.

Perfectly Normal

Perfectly Normal

Yves Simoneau 1991 1h 47m

A cab driver and an opera fan strike up an unusual friendship.

The Freshman

The Freshman

Andrew Bergman 1990 1h 42m 6.3

An N.Y.C. film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.

The January Man

The January Man

Pat O'Connor 1989 1h 37m 5.5

Two years after being forced out of the NYPD, quirky Nick Starkey is rehired by the mayor to help catch a serial killer after 11 women are murdered in the city.

Physical Evidence

Physical Evidence

Michael Crichton 1989 1h 39m 5.0

Police officer Joe Paris, suspended and now accused of strangling hated extortionist Jake Farley, is forced to join forces with his attorney Jenny Hudson to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link.

Another Woman

Another Woman

Woody Allen 1988 1h 24m 6.7

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office.

'Crocodile' Dundee II

'Crocodile' Dundee II

John Cornell 1988 1h 51m 5.4

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Radio Days

Radio Days

Woody Allen 1987 1h 29m 7.2

The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Loyalties

Loyalties

Anne Wheeler 1987 1h 38m

Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody.

Heartburn

Heartburn

Mike Nichols 1986 1h 48m 4.0

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

Perfect

Perfect

James Bridges 1985 1h 55m 3.7

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Falling in Love

Falling in Love

Ulu Grosbard 1984 1h 46m 7.0

Although they live married lives, two strangers keep running into each other, starting a friendship that could blossom into so much more.

Covergirl

Covergirl

Jean-Claude Lord 1984 1h 33m 4.0

Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."

Of Unknown Origin

Of Unknown Origin

George P. Cosmatos 1983 1h 28m 7.0

A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

Phobia

Phobia

John Huston 1980 1h 31m 6.0

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

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