Acting

Florence Paterson

Born 1927-11-03 · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Acting credits

Bird on a Wire poster
6.2

An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.

Bird on a Wire

1990

Little Women poster
7.3

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Little Women

1994

The Lady Forgets poster
6.3

After being mugged and taking trauma to her head, Rebecca returns home to discover that she's suffered amnesia and has lost the last two years of her life. She is haunted by dreams of a violent event and starts to remember what transpired prior to her memory loss. Rebecca frantically tries to piece together her missing past, but as the memories come into focus, it increasingly jeopardizes her safety.

The Lady Forgets

1989

Seasons of the Heart poster
4.4

After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.

Seasons of the Heart

1994

To Grandmother's House We Go poster
6.5

When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.

To Grandmother's House We Go

1992

The Man Upstairs poster
5.7

Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.

The Man Upstairs

1992

DEFCON-4 poster
4.5

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.

DEFCON-4

1985

Captive poster
6.0

Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.

Captive

1991

Lantern Hill poster
8.0

Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930’s, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.

Lantern Hill

1989

No artwork available
NR

A play by Frian Friel, adapted for television by Hugh Webster. The story of three Londonderry citizens who took refuge in the Guildhall, escaping from the gas bombs and confusion of riot-filled streets during a confrontation between civil rights marchers and the military. Their story emerges in a series of flashbacks as a judge presides over a court of inquiry into their deaths.

Freedom of the City

1975

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump poster
3.8

Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, she's persuaded by her mother to leave her own aspirations behind and help with the ranch -- a choice that's helped along by the presence of Alex (Paul Gross), an attractive ranch hand.

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump

1990

No artwork available
NR

A drama documentary about the life of explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

The Undaunted: Sir Humphrey Gilbert

1983