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Sharon Acker is a Actor Canadienne born on 2 april 1935 at Toronto (Canada)

Sharon Acker

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Nationality Canada
Birth 2 april 1935 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 16 march 2023 (at 87 years)

Sharon Acker (born April 2, 1935 in Toronto, Canada) is a film, stage and television actress.

Acker began her acting career in theater and made her film debut when she recreated her stage role in Lucky Jim (1957). Her first American film appearance was in the Lee Marvin action film Point Blank (1967).

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Paul Almond
Paul Almond
(1 films)
Walter Massey
Walter Massey
(2 films)
Roger Smith
Roger Smith
(1 films)
Ron Kelly
Ron Kelly
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sharon Acker (10 films)

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Actress

Happy Birthday to Me, 1h51
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Serial killer films, Teen movie
Actors Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Sharon Acker, Lawrence Dane, Frances Hyland, Tracey Elizabeth Bregman
Roles Estelle Wainwright
Rating60% 3.000733.000733.000733.000733.00073
Virginia "Ginny" Wainwright is a pretty and popular high school senior at Crawford Academy. She is one of her school's "Top Ten," an elite clique which comprises the richest, most popular and most snobbish teens at the Academy. The Top Ten meet every night at the Silent Woman Tavern, a pub near Crawford's campus.
Threshold
Threshold (1981)
, 1h37
Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin Canada
Actors Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Mare Winningham, Sharon Acker, John Marley, Allan F. Nicholls
Roles Tilla Vrain
Rating60% 3.000623.000623.000623.000623.00062
Respected cardiac surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain performs a risky operation to provide a patient with the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human subject.
The Hanged Man, 1h13
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Steve Forrest, Dean Jagger, Cameron Mitchell, Will Geer, Sharon Acker, BarBara Luna
Roles Carrie Gault
Rating56% 2.8006752.8006752.8006752.8006752.800675
Having survived his own hanging, hired killer James Devlin turns over a new leaf, defending a widow and her son from an avaricious land baron.
Act of the Heart, 1h43
Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker, Eric House, Claude Jutra
Roles Adele
Rating60% 3.0478853.0478853.0478853.0478853.047885
Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold), a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint, arrives in Montréal to serve as nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac).
Don't Let the Angels Fall, 1h39
Directed by George Kaczender
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Arthur Hill, Sharon Acker, Charmion King, Monique Mercure, Michèle Magny, Andrée Lachapelle
Roles Barbara
Rating63% 3.152183.152183.152183.152183.15218
A Montreal businessman (Arthur Hill), who's going through a mid-life crisis and on a business trip out of town, has a brief affair with a divorcée (Sharon Acker). His family is falling apart and his wife (Charmion King) seems incapable of understanding what’s going on.
Point Blank, 1h32
Directed by John Boorman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Se déroulant à Alcatraz
Actors Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Strong
Roles Lynne
Rating72% 3.64733.64733.64733.64733.6473
Walker (Lee Marvin) works together with his friend Mal Reese (John Vernon in his first major role) to steal a large amount of cash from a courier transporting funds for a major gambling operation, with the deserted Alcatraz island as a drop point. Reese then double-crosses Walker by shooting him, leaving him for dead. Reese also makes off with Walker's wife Lynne (Sharon Acker).
Waiting for Caroline, 1h24
Directed by Ron Kelly
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alexandra Stewart, François Tassé, Monique Mercure, Sharon Acker, Daniel Gadouas, Paul Buissonneau
Roles Emily
Rating59% 2.9768652.9768652.9768652.9768652.976865
Caroline (Alexandra Stewart) is torn between two cultures, the English-speaking community of Vancouver where she grew up and the French-speaking Québec where she is currently living. Her uncertainty extends to her lovers, Peter (Robert Howay) from Vancouver who wants to take her home and Marc (François Tassé) from Québec who would like to continue their pleasant, if inconclusive affair.
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim (1957)
, 1h35
Directed by John Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Jean Anderson, Maureen Connell
Roles Christine Callaghan
Rating59% 2.9964652.9964652.9964652.9964652.996465
Jim Dixon is a young lecturer in history at a redbrick university, who manages to offend his head of department and create various disastrous incidents. When he eventually delivers a lecture drunk, he feels forced to resign. But just as his career seems over, he is offered a job in London, and when he learns that the girl of his dreams is on her way to the railway station, he chases after her in the professor's old car. The professor's whole family chases after, and arrives at the station just in time to see Jim and the girl disappear on the train to London.