Acting

Budd Knapp

Born — Died

1913-01-09 — 1982-08-06

Place of birth

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Budd Knapp was born Wilfrid Arthur Knapp on 9 January 1913 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Front Row Center, Festival and Armchair Theatre. He was married to Pat Knapp. He died on 6 August 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Known for

Screen Director's Playhouse poster
7.0

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955

The Starlost poster
7.5

A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are aboard a ship.

The Starlost

1973

Armchair Theatre poster
6.0

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Armchair Theatre

1956

In Praise of Older Women poster
5.3

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

In Praise of Older Women

1978

The Point poster
8.0

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.

The Point

1978

Lewis Mumford on The City poster
10.0

Six-part series tracing the origins of the city, its transformations and prospects, based on Lewis Mumford's book The City in History. Aired by CBC in their Explorations strand.

Lewis Mumford on The City

1963

Film credits

1970s · 8 titles

In Praise of Older Women poster
5.3

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

In Praise of Older Women

1978

The Point poster
8.0

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.

The Point

1978

No artwork available
6.3

This film tells an Algonquin legend about animals on a quest to capture fire from the god of thunder and return it to their human friends.

Inon or the Conquest of Fire

1972

The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight poster
10.0

British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson

The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight

1979

No artwork available
9.0

A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.

Why Rock the Boat?

1974

That's the Price poster
9.0

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has its price, especially with regard to the environment.

That's the Price

1970

Riel poster
6.0

A film about the history and fate of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.

Riel

1979

A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story poster
8.0

This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. Following one of Canada’s most colourful political figures during a two-and-a-half-month period that included a stormy Liberal leadership convention, the film reveals a man misunderstood even by his close associates.

A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story

1970

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 5 titles

Series credits