Babs Chula

Acting

Babs Chula

Born — Died

1947-03-22 — 2010-05-07

Place of birth

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Babs Chula (March 22, 1947 – May 7, 2010) was an American-born Canadian actress and musician.

Known for

MacGyver poster
7.7

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's brakes... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

MacGyver

1985

21 Jump Street poster
7.3

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

21 Jump Street

1987

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Sanctuary poster
7.3

The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.

Sanctuary

2008

Double Jeopardy poster
6.6

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superior and law enforcement colleagues, as she plunges into a desperate fight for justice, survival, and revenge.

Double Jeopardy

1999

John Doe poster
7.2

John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.

John Doe

2002

Film credits

2000s · 17 titles

The X-Files: I Want to Believe poster
5.9

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

2008

The Secret poster
6.0

Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.

The Secret

2007

Cheats poster
5.4

While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.

Cheats

2002

Becoming Dick poster
4.0

Story of a struggling New York actor who discovers the formula for success and suddenly finds himself richer and more famous than he could have imagined.

Becoming Dick

2000

7 Times Lucky poster
6.7

An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.

7 Times Lucky

2004

When Angels Come to Town poster
6.2

Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As she struggles to get custody of her younger brother, Max immediately believes that his new mission is to help Sally. But Jo, a strict angel, is sent to explain to his colleague that this is not exactly what is expected of him. Indeed, Max's mission is not to help Sally, but Karl, the manager of a small factory of Christmas decorations. His business is barely surviving because its traditional products do not meet the success of yesteryear. First bored, Max notices that Karl knows Sally ...

When Angels Come to Town

2004

Mothers & Daughters poster
1.0

Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

Mothers & Daughters

2008

Criminal Intent poster
5.4

Devon Major thought that his share of difficulties were over. Having gone through a difficult divorce with his wife he was now on the way to rebuilding his life when tragedy strikes leaving him in a fight for his freedom and his innocence. Devons' beautiful ex-wife is found viciously murdered, and all evidence points to Devon. In desperation Devon turns to Susan Grace the lawyer who represented his ex-wife during their divorce. Although initially reluctant and unconvinced of Devon's innocence Susan finds herself agreeing to take on the case and finds that the path to justice can often lead to betrayal, deception and murder.

Criminal Intent

2005

Baby for Sale poster
6.4

A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.

Baby for Sale

2004

The Wednesday Woman poster
8.0

Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traumatic pasts, Muriel's life slowly begins to resemble one of her darker novels.

The Wednesday Woman

2000

See Grace Fly poster
3.8

Grace McKinley is a brilliant 38-year-old woman with schizophrenia. When her mother dies, Grace's actions become increasingly erratic. She takes two weeks to report the death, and in that time is sent a shattering message that only she can decipher.

See Grace Fly

2003

Tilt poster
9.5

This version of "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha" brings the ancient tale to modern day but all the old familiar names are there. As in Cervantes's tale, Don Quixote is persistent in his belief in chivalry and honor. He clings to the old ways and is reluctant to give way to modern behaviors. He sees things in a different way, the smoke stack of a factory is a beast to be conquered, his bicycle is his trusty steed and the hapless man stranded by a transit strike who tries to help suddenly finds himself to be the sidekick to the deluded Quixote.

Tilt

2003

Living Out Loud poster
2.5

A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable, and the family must adjust.

Living Out Loud

2009

The Saddest Boy in the World poster
6.6

Timothy Higgins, the saddest boy in the world, prepares to hang himself at his ninth birthday party.

The Saddest Boy in the World

2006

The Green Chain poster
9.0

The battle between loggers and environmentalists is defining, dividing, and destroying communities in Canada and around the world. The Green Chain is a powerful, funny, and thought-provoking film about the people who love trees.

The Green Chain

2007

Last Wedding poster
4.2

Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. He's working hard at a business that may go under. Sarah and Shane are architects; he can't handle her success at a downtown firm. Leslie is a librarian, sour and prickly; her mate, Peter, is a college teacher whose head is turned by a student. Can any of these couples sort things out and stay together? Should they?

Last Wedding

2001

The French Guy poster
8.0

A French artist struggling to put the finishing touches on his masterpiece finds his concentration repeatedly broken by the unusual sounds emanating from his neighbor's apartment in this black comedy from Ann Marie Fleming. Immediately discharged from the hospital following her hastily executed brain surgery, Elizabeth Murray wanders the streets in a curious haze, her personality visibly affected by the botched cerebral procedure. Upon spotting the man of her dreams wandering along the beach in a similarly confused manner, Elizabeth lovingly brings the disoriented man back to her apartment in hopes of nursing him back to health. Following an allergic reaction to her environment that forces Elizabeth to wrap her entire apartment in plastic, a bloody mishap with her new beau quickly spirals into a murderous, and quite noisy, rampage of good intentions gone horribly awry.

The French Guy

2005

1990s · 22 titles

Double Jeopardy poster
6.6

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superior and law enforcement colleagues, as she plunges into a desperate fight for justice, survival, and revenge.

Double Jeopardy

1999

Run poster
6.0

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

Run

1991

When a Stranger Calls Back poster
5.9

Jill Johnson, now a crisis center counselor, reunites with retired detective John Clifford to hunt a killer stalking a coed.

When a Stranger Calls Back

1993

A Pyromaniac's Love Story poster
5.3

A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try to take credit for his act of love. Before long, Sergio and Garet become entangled in a zany love-quadrangle involving Hattie and Stephanie. Written by Brian Whiting

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

1995

A Killer Among Friends poster
7.2

A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.

A Killer Among Friends

1992

Roommates poster
4.5

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.

Roommates

1994

Live Bait poster
4.0

A 23-year-old slacker tries find his way amidst the oppressive suburban environment where he was raised in this Canadian comedy-drama. Amiable Trevor McIntosh faces two major problems. He wants to get away from his overbearing mom, philandering father and his older brother; and he wants to lose his virginity. Trevor tries hard at the latter, but can't seem to connect with the young women who interest him. Then he meets Charlotte Peacock, an artist in her '60s. She accepts Trevor and encourages him. They start out as friends, but gradually become much more.

Live Bait

1995

Crooked Hearts poster
5.6

An upper-middle class family in Washington state deals with failures, infidelities and troubling secrets. Charley is 26 and still lives at home, despite his simmering anger at his father, Edward. Charley's younger brother, Tom, just dropped out of college and returned home to live. Tom's unstable new girlfriend, Marriet, has designs on joining the family, but she's hardly a calming influence on the crumbling home.

Crooked Hearts

1991

For Hope poster
6.3

The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.

For Hope

1996

My Name Is Kate poster
6.4

Kate (Donna Mills) is an alcoholic--and, as is often the case, she is in full denial regarding her illness. Only when she is threatened with mass desertion by her husband, children and best friend does the sullen Kate agree to seek out treatment.

My Name Is Kate

1994

Dirty poster
4.4

Angie is a middle-aged drug dealer, who fulfills the masochistic fantasies of young student David. David shares a residence with lonely log company worker Tony. Angie’s roommate Nancy, Angie’s son Ethan and her old mother Abbie are also very lonely and desperate for human communication.

Dirty

1998

The Ex poster
4.8

In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.

The Ex

1996

Jitters poster
7.0

An independent, professional woman has second thoughts about getting married.

Jitters

1997

Echo poster
4.7

Twin brothers are separated at birth after their parents are killed in a car accident. One grows up to have a good and successful life, and the other to be a disturbed young man who now plans to achieve the perfect life by stealing his brother's.

Echo

1997

Little Witch poster
7.0

A young witch finds her desire to use her powers for good at odds with her aunts' traditional mean ways. Little Witch's wish to make new friends changes one Halloween night.

Little Witch

1999

Christopher the Christmas Tree poster
5.0

Animated Christmas special about a tree selected to be a Christmas Tree.

Christopher the Christmas Tree

1993

Out of Nowhere poster
6.0

After being run off the road by two fleeing car thieves, an amnesiac starts to put her life back together, unraveling a plot by the carjackers to have her charged with their crimes while holding her young daughter hostage.

Out of Nowhere

1997

Late Night Sessions poster
8.0

When local thugs, Danny and Dax, decide to launch their new dance club the same night as couple Ben and Zoie's "United Get Down" rave, a fierce competition arises with dramatic consequences. In probing issues of spirituality, relationships, love, morality and the struggle to fine oneself, Late Night Sessions exposes modern youth in all its exuberance. And contradictions.

Late Night Sessions

1999

Power of Attorney poster
5.3

Mafia don Joseph Scassi is a man willing to use all of his vast resources to defend himself against an indictment for murder and extortion.

Power of Attorney

1995

The Raffle poster
3.5

Two out of work men come up with a money-making promotion to find the most beautiful woman in the world and to set up a raffle where the winner wins a date with her.

The Raffle

1994

No artwork available
7.0

In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In the midst of social chaos, a lesbian couple, Barb and Alex, dress themselves in protective masks, gowns and rubber boots to spend a quiet afternoon at the zoo. Barb is gang-raped by soldiers while taking a short cut through a restrictive zone. Fearful of infection, Alex begs her to take an AIDS test. With a world imploding around them, Barb decides to announce her result as the punchline of a comic routine. At first, Alex can't see the joke, but she eventually joins in and engineers an attempt to make love without touching.

Valentine's Day

1994

No artwork available
7.0

A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

Escape in Canada

1993

1980s · 10 titles

The Accused poster
7.1

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.

The Accused

1988

Runaway poster
5.6

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

Runaway

1984

Cousins poster
6.0

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.

Cousins

1989

Immediate Family poster
5.9

Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things don't go quite to plan however..

Immediate Family

1989

Beyond the Stars poster
5.1

Teenager Eric, the son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon, is determined to become an astronaut himself one day, and befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.

Beyond the Stars

1989

Into Thin Air poster
7.4

Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.

Into Thin Air

1985

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry poster
6.8

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

1986

My American Cousin poster
6.4

Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older American cousin, Butch Walker, comes for a visit.

My American Cousin

1985

American Boyfriends poster
3.6

A Canadian college student learns about life and love during a trip to her cousin's wedding in California.

American Boyfriends

1989

The Penthouse poster
5.7

A rich young woman fights to save her life when she is held captive by an obsessed former friend in her own penthouse.

The Penthouse

1989

Series credits

MacGyver poster
7.7

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's brakes... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

MacGyver

1985

21 Jump Street poster
7.3

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

21 Jump Street

1987

21 Jump Street poster
7.3

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

21 Jump Street

1987

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Sanctuary poster
7.3

The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.

Sanctuary

2008

John Doe poster
7.2

John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.

John Doe

2002

Littlest Pet Shop poster
8.0

Five miniature animals live in a pet shop on Littlest Lane and have their own tree house in the store.

Littlest Pet Shop

1995

jPod poster
7.2

jPod is a comedic television series based on Douglas Coupland’s novel of the same name. It premiered on CBC Television on January 8, 2008. Starting with the fifth episode, the show began airing Fridays at 9:00. On April 4, 2008, it was announced that the CBC had cancelled the show because of low ratings. However, all but one of the remaining episodes aired. The cancellation of jPod sparked a fan-led protest. The show's opening title theme is Flutter by Bonobo. Produced by I’m Feeling Lucky Productions for the CBC, jPod was created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. Coupland also co-wrote many of season one’s episodes.

jPod

2008

Double Dragon poster
6.9

Fraternal twin brothers destined to be great martial arts warriors fight evil in this animated series based on a video game.

Double Dragon

1993

Action Man poster
7.8

Action Man is a member of an elite multinational task force named Action Force who fight against the terrorist Dr. X and his "Council of Doom".

Action Man

1995

The Days poster
9.0

The Days are your typical, average American family... at least on the outside. Father Jack is a corporate lawyer who quits his job at a pharmaceutical company in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Mother Abby has recently re-entered the workforce as an advertising executive after taking time off to raise their children. Eldest child Natalie is homecoming queen and the most popular girl in school, until she learns she's pregnant. Middle child, aspiring writer and series narrator Cooper, counts the days before graduation. And youngest, child prodigy Nathan, is prone to panic attacks.

The Days

2004

Magical Super Trolls poster
5.0

Wise King Astar of Trølland transforms 3 fun-loving trolls into the Super trolls — a 'totally trollsome" trio complete with amazing powers! Their first assignment is to battle the evil Trollminator... a mechanical giant controlled by a sinister wizard who plots to destroy the city of San Francisco! With lots of outrageous chases, wild battles, and a little help from the S.F.P.D., the Super Trolls can't lose!

Magical Super Trolls

1992