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James Mavor Moore is a Actor Canadien born on 8 march 1919 at Toronto (Canada)

James Mavor Moore

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Nationality Canada
Birth 8 march 1919 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 18 december 2006 (at 87 years) at Victoria (Canada)
Awards Companion of the Order of Canada

James Mavor Moore, CC OBC (March 8, 1919 – December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator. He notably appeared as Nero Wolfe for Canadian radio in 1982.

Biography

Moore was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Francis John Moore, an Anglican theologian, and Dora Mavor, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s and 1940s. He began acting at the age of six on the Hart House Stage and continued his passion throughout high school, turning to radio acting to pay his way through college He received a BA degree from the University of Toronto in 1941. Moore served in the Canadian military as an Intelligence officer during World War II. Following the War, he was employed by CBC Radio, becoming its producer for International Service (based in Montreal). He transferred to CBC Television in 1950, serving as its first chief producer.

Known professionally as Mavor Moore, he was among the pioneers of Canadian television in the 1950s, and was the creator of the CBC National News, later known as The National. Moore selected the program's first regular newsreader, Larry Henderson.

Moore is well known for his contributions to drama, having created more than 100 plays, documentaries, musicals and librettos for stage, radio and television. From 1970 to 1984 he taught theatre history as a professor at York University, and chaired its theatre department (1975-1976). He was named to the Canada Council in 1974, and was the first artist to chair the council (1979-1983). He received three Peabody Awards for his radio documentaries produced in behalf of the United Nations.

Moore was the founding chair of the British Columbia Arts Council (1996-1998). He sat of the first Board of Governors of the Stratford Festival. He was the founding chair of the Canadian Theatre Centre, the Guild of Canadian Playwrights, and was a founding director of the Charlottetown Festival.

In 1973 Moore was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988. In 1999 he was appointed to the Order of British Columbia. He received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in November 1999. He received a total of seven honorary degrees during his lifetime.

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Filmography of James Mavor Moore (8 films)

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Shadow of a Doubt, 1h40
Directed by Brian Dennehy
Origin USA
Actors Bonnie Bedelia, Fairuza Balk, Kevin Dunn, Mike Nussbaum, Joe Grifasi, Donnelly Rhodes
Roles Max Webster
Rating60% 3.0493253.0493253.0493253.0493253.049325
A defense attorney defends a former lover's step-daughter in a murder case.
Malone
Malone (1987)
, 1h32
Directed by Harley Cokeliss
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Lauren Hutton, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb, Scott Wilson
Roles Hausmann
Rating58% 2.9024452.9024452.9024452.9024452.902445
A floatplane navigates through the Pacific Northwest, landing in Puget Sound. As the well-dressed passenger emerges, CIA hitman Richard Malone targets him in his crosshairs, but he is unable to pull the trigger. He burns his Maryland driver's license and heads inland. His Mustang breaks down in a rural Oregon valley. He manages to push it to Mountain Service station, owned by Paul Barlow who runs the station with his 17-year-old daughter Jo. Barlow suggests the fastest way to repair the car is to tow it 60 miles to a larger service station. Malone opts to stay and wait for the necessary parts to arrive. Paul invites Malone to stay in the spare room.
Spot Marks the X, 1h30
Directed by Mark Rosman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Children's films
Actors Barret Oliver, Natalie Gregory, Richard B. Shull, Jerry Wasserman, Geoffrey Lewis, David Huddleston
Roles Saul Frobel
Rating65% 3.260323.260323.260323.260323.26032
Capone est un chien appartenant à Doc, membre d'une bande de gangsters. Quand son maître est arrêté, Capone se retrouve à la fourrière. C'est alors qu'un petit garçon le recueille dans sa famille.
Scanners
Scanners (1981)
, 1h37
Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Horror
Actors Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman
Roles Trevellyan
Rating66% 3.34993.34993.34993.34993.3499
Private security firm ConSec plans to showcase potential "scanners", people with exceptional powers of telekinesis, telepathy, and mind control. However, when ConSec's scanner attempts to read the mind of a volunteer from the invited group, the scanner's head explodes. ConSec officials surmise that the volunteer was himself a scanner and initially take him into custody. However, he is able to use his powers to kill the men guarding him and escape.
Heavy Metal, 1h30
Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, Pino Van Lamsweerde
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Harvey Atkin, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy
Roles l'ancien
Rating65% 3.2989253.2989253.2989253.2989253.298925
The movie's title sequence story (based on the original story by Dan O'Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth. The bay doors (on the belly of the shuttle) open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. An astronaut seated in the Corvette then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon.
Dirty Tricks, 1h35
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Elliott Gould, Kate Jackson, Rich Little, Arthur Hill, Alberta Watson, James Mavor Moore
Roles Mr. Underhill
Rating48% 2.4403352.4403352.4403352.4403352.440335
A Harvard University student, (Rich Little) attempts to contact Prof. Chandler, (Elliott Gould) to authenticate a mysterious letter supposedly signed by George Washington. The student is murdered and the letter vanishes. Professor Chandler finds himself being hunted by a mafia killer and intrepid TV reporter Polly Bishop (Kate Jackson).
Fish Hawk
Fish Hawk (1980)
, 1h34
Directed by Donald Shebib
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Will Sampson, Don Francks, Chris Wiggins, Karen Austin, Michael J. Reynolds, James Mavor Moore
Rating67% 3.365763.365763.365763.365763.36576
A young boy befriends a Native American man who has become an alcoholic after the death of his wife and children from small pox.
City on Fire, 1h46
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, Musical films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus, Ava Gardner
Roles John O'Brien
Rating44% 2.2134052.2134052.2134052.2134052.213405
William Dudley (Leslie Nielsen) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typical hot summer day, Herman Stover (Jonathan Welsh), a dangerously disturbed employee at the works has been denied an expected promotion and in addition, finds himself fired. He then decides to take his revenge against the works by opening the valves to the storage vats and their interconnecting pipes, flooding the area and sewers with gasoline and chemicals. It doesn't take long for this act of petty vandalism to start a fire, which starts a chain reaction that causes massive explosions at the refinery, destroying it and spreading a mushroom-cloud of flame that soon engulfs the entire metropolis. The drama focuses on a newly built hospital which, like the refinery and all civic buildings that went up during the mayor's crooked administration, is shoddily built and poorly equipped where the head doctor, Frank Whitman (Barry Newman), and his staff treat thousands of casualties from the fire while the city fire chief Risley (Henry Fonda) keeps in constant contact with the fire companies fighting a losing battle against the fires, and Maggie Grayson (Ava Gardner), an alcoholic reporter, sees it as her chance to make it nationwide with her coverage of the story of the "city on fire".