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Birth name Andrew Bruce Boa
Nationality Canada
Birth 10 july 1930 at Calgary (Canada)
Death 17 april 2004 (at 73 years) at Surrey (United-kingdom)

Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television.

Biography

Boa's main film role is probably in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as General Rieekan. He also played the pogue colonel in Full Metal Jacket (1987) that chastises Mathew Modine's character over a peace pin on the lapel while having "Born To Kill" written on his combat helmet. Other films include Man in the Middle (1964), The Adding Machine (1969), Who? (1973), The Cherry Picker (1974), The Omen (1976), Silver Bears, Superman, Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), A Touch of the Sun, The London Connection, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), Silver Dream Racer (1980), Ragtime (1981), Octopussy (1983), Return to Oz (1985), and Screamers (1995).

On television, his most notable role is probably as the American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. In 1977 he appeared in Come Back, Little Sheba, an episode of Laurence Olivier Presents, opposite Laurence Olivier and Joanne Woodward.

Other television credits include: The Avengers, Out of the Unknown, The Champions, The Troubleshooters, The Saint, Ace of Wands, Special Branch, The Onedin Line, Z-Cars, The New Avengers, The Professionals, The Omega Factor, Dempsey & Makepeace, Astronauts, Hart to Hart, Remington Steele, Howards' Way, the 1979 miniseries A Man Called Intrepid, the 1988 television film The Bourne Identity, Tales of the Unexpected, As Time Goes By, Road to Avonlea, Kavanagh QC and Bulman.

Boa was also an author, writing and producing a double-story CD 'Now not over the Rainbow' a year before his death.

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Filmography of Bruce Boa (32 films)

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Screamers
Screamers (1995)
, 1h48
Directed by Christian Duguay
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sur une planète fictive, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Dystopian films, Space opera, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer, Liliana Komorowska, Charles Edwin Powell
Roles Secretary Green
Rating62% 3.149123.149123.149123.149123.14912
The year is 2078. The planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a civil war between the mining company, known as the New Economic Block (NEB), and the Alliance, a group of former mining and science personnel. Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created and deployed Autonomous Mobile Swords (AMS) — artificially intelligent self-replicating machines that hunt down and kill NEB soldiers on their own. They are nicknamed "screamers" because of a high-pitched noise they emit as they attack. Screamers track targets by their heartbeats, so Alliance soldiers wear "tabs" which broadcast a signal canceling out the wearer's heartbeat and rendering them "invisible" to the machines.
The Neighbor
Directed by Rodney Gibbons
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Rod Steiger, Linda Kozlowski, Ron Lea, Bruce Boa, Frances Bay, Sean McCann
Roles Bishop
Rating55% 2.758592.758592.758592.758592.75859
The film is about an aging gynecologist (Steiger) who terrorizes his urban neighbors in a rural community in Burlington, Vermont.
For the Moment, 2h
Directed by Aaron Kim Johnston
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Russell Crowe, Scott Kraft, Peter Outerbridge, Bruce Boa, Roxanne Boulianne
Roles Mr. Anderson
Rating59% 2.9997852.9997852.9997852.9997852.999785
In the summer of 1942, something is dramatically changing for the small community of Brandon, Manitoba as hundreds of young men from all over the world descend on this sleepy hamlet. In this newly found excitement of meeting newcomers, Lill (Christianne Hirt), a young prairie farm wife whose husband is already overseas for two years, and LAC Lachlan Curry (Russell Crowe), a gallant Australian airman are fated to meet. He has come to train at the Royal Canadian Air Force air base nearby to become a pilot. His friend, LAC Johnny Crouch (Peter Outerbridge) who has struck up a relationship with Lill's younger sister, Kate (Sara McMillan), introduces Lachlan to Lill.
Slipstream
Slipstream (1989)
, 1h42
Directed by Steven Lisberger
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Chase films, Disaster films
Actors Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton, Robbie Coltrane, Eleanor David
Roles Guard Supervisor
Rating47% 2.353632.353632.353632.353632.35363
The film opens with a mysterious man, later referred to as "Byron" (portrayed by Bob Peck), running down a canyon, being harassed by an aeroplane. Byron takes refuge from his pursuers on a precipice overlooking the canyon. The plane lands and its occupants, two obsessive law enforcement officers named Will Tasker and Belitski (Mark Hamill and Kitty Aldridge), chase the man on foot. They shoot the fugitive through the arm with a grappling hook. The fugitive looks at his arm, but does not seem injured, only intrigued. Tasker pulls on the rope now connected to the fugitive. He tumbles down the side of the canyon, but once again is not harmed. Immediately after his fall, the fugitive recites the words of famous World War II aviator and poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr., "I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth - put out my hand and touched the Face of God.", from the poem High Flight.
The Vision
The Vision (1988)

Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Helena Bonham Carter, Eileen Atkins, Lee Remick, Lynda Bellingham, Bruce Boa
Roles Channel President
Rating68% 3.4289753.4289753.4289753.4289753.428975
A sinister cult uses a new television station to create a new European order. Dirk Bogarde plays a has-been UK TV personality hired to front the organisation but grows uneasy about its aims. At the end of the film, he attempts to warn the television audience about the dangers they face during the station's first transmission. But he fails to realise that recorded footage is being played during his "live" broadcast. He only realises when he is escorted from the studio by a stony-faced security guard and sees on the television monitors the (innocuous) beginning of his broadcast followed by a swift cut to his interviewer who thanks him for his contribution and then announces the showing of their first film, Back to the Future.
The Bourne Identity, 3h5
Directed by Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Political films, Road movies
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle, Donald Moffat, Denholm Elliott, Yorgo Voyagis
Roles Sen. Crawford
Rating67% 3.3968553.3968553.3968553.3968553.396855
The film's plot exhibits some differences from that of the novel by Ludlum. The undercover identity of Jason Bourne is simplified. In the book, David Webb, because of his amnesia, believes himself to be Jason Bourne and an assassin called Cain. In the film, the name Cain is left out. In the film, Carlos is shown to be responsible for killing Webb's wife and child, which is not the case in the novel. Alexander Conklin is accidentally shot by his own people when attempting to kill Bourne; in the novel he survives and appears in subsequent novels. In the book's ending, Carlos escapes in the confusion, whereas in the film he is gunned down at the last moment by Bourne/David Webb. Because Carlos is the primary antagonist of the original Bourne trilogy (although only The Bourne Supremacy had been published when the film was produced), this essentially ends the story with one film.
Full Metal Jacket, 1h56
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Adam Baldwin, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard, Dorian Harewood
Roles Poge Colonel
Rating82% 4.1489354.1489354.1489354.1489354.148935
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, a group of new U.S. Marine Corps recruits arrive at Parris Island, South Carolina, for basic training. After having their heads shaved, they meet Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, who employs excessively aggressive tactics to turn the recruits into hardened, combat-ready Marines. Among the recruits are privates "Joker", "Cowboy", and the overweight, bumbling Leonard Lawrence, who earns the nickname "Gomer Pyle" after attracting Hartman's wrath.
Ping Pong
Ping Pong (1987)
, 1h40
Directed by Po-Chih Leong
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors David Yip, Robert Lee, Barbara Yu Ling, Ric Young, Victoria Wicks, David Lyon
Roles American Tourist
Rating64% 3.227173.227173.227173.227173.22717
Return to Oz, 1h53
Directed by Walter Murch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Witches in film, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Brian Henson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Seán Barrett
Roles Policeman
Rating66% 3.3499753.3499753.3499753.3499753.349975
In October 1899, six months after returning home from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale has become melancholic. Her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry take her to Dr. Worley, known for his electrotherapy treatments, and leave her under the care of Nurse Wilson. During a thunderstorm, the lab suffers a blackout and Dorothy is saved by a mysterious girl. They escape with Nurse Wilson in pursuit, and fall into a river. Dorothy clambers aboard a chicken coop, but the other girl appears to have vanished underwater.
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, 1h32
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Richard Jaeckel, Wolf Kähler, Sonny Landham
Roles a US Colonel
Rating50% 2.519212.519212.519212.519212.51921
September 1944, in German occupied France, Waffen-SS General Dietrich (Wolf Kahler) plots with other high-ranking Nazi officials to make a second attempt on Hitler's life.
Gulag
Gulag (1985)

Directed by Roger Young
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, John Benfield, Bruce Boa, Warren Clarke, Eugene Lipinski
Roles McHenry
Rating65% 3.2916653.2916653.2916653.2916653.291665
TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a World athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet Union. Almon is imprisoned and interrogated over several days by prison official Bukovsky who ultimately forces him to confess to being a spy for the United States. Though promised with release for doing so, Almon is instead transported to a railway station and placed aboard a train on a Stolypin prison car with other political prisoners bound for a labour camp near the Arctic Circle.
Water
Water (1985)
, 1h55
Directed by Dick Clement
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Oscar James, Billy Connolly
Roles U.S. Advisor
Rating59% 2.999462.999462.999462.999462.99946
The story is set in the fictional Caribbean British colony of Cascara. Widely ignored by the British Government, media and general public, local Governor Baxter Thwaites is having an easy life in his small and peaceful colony. That peace is disturbed when an abandoned oil rig starts delivering water - at the standard of the finest table water brands (and laxative companies as it contains a substance that makes you "shit like clockwork"). Different parties, including Downing Street, the Cascara Liberation Front, the White House and the Cubans take interest in the future of the island and threaten to destroy the cosy way of life enjoyed by the island's inhabitants.
Scream for Help, 1h29
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Marie Masters, David Allen Brooks, Corey Parker, Bruce Boa, Clare Burt
Roles Surgeon
Rating57% 2.899722.899722.899722.899722.89972
A teenage girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tries to tell other people about it, no one will believe her.