
Acting
Catherine Colvey
Born — Died
1951-10-01 — 2011-06-08
Place of birth
Canada
Known for
Acting
Credits
31 titles
Catherine Colvey (1 October 1951, Canada – 8 June 2011, Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian actress and sculptor whose career spanned from 1985 to 2012 (posthumous). She graduated from St. Paul's Academy in 1968. Her film credits include Cursed (1990), The Hunger (1997), The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000), I'm Not There (2007), and Deadfall (2012). On television she appeared in Heritage Minutes: Superman (1991, as Lois Lane), Street Legal, and PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her career was concentrated in Canadian and French-Canadian productions, primarily in thriller, horror, and legal-drama genres. No major awards are on record. She died at age 59 in Montreal.
Known for
7.3Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.
Heritage Minutes
1991
8.04 and a half is the apartment occupied on the Plateau Mont-Royal in Montreal by a young couple. It is a chronicle of the daily life of the urban reality of 25-30 year olds: love, friendship, humor and tenderness.
4 et demi...
1994
6.5Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
I'm Not There
2007
5.5On her deathbed, Doris Duke, the world's wealthiest woman, recalls her lavish, tumultuous years as a young socialite.
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
6.0A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
Deadfall
2012
5.8Two engineers try to save Boston after terrorists use nuclear missiles to create huge tidal waves.
Killer Wave
2007
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
2000s · 11 titles
6.5Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
I'm Not There
2007
5.7In 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
The Woods
2006
6.0Husband, 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
5.7Lauren is a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be.
I Do (but I Don't)
2004
6.1Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.
Levity
2003
6.1The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The Audrey Hepburn Story
2000
6.4A 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
3.7An ex-SAS agent and a thief battle for their lives as air runs out in a maze of abandoned mine tunnels while they're searching for $200 million in stolen diamonds.
Tunnel
2002
5.0Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.
Task Force: Caviar
2000
5.0Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
A Deadly Encounter
2004
6.0After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be free for a woman.
From My Window, Without a Home
2006
1990s · 10 titles
6.1Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world...
Dead Innocent
1997
4.9A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
5.8After a botched suicide attempt Sam Hoffman finds herself trapped in an evil insane asylum
Captive
1998
5.6A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.
The Last Breath
1999
3.3When a gargoyle falls off a church during a storm, a scientist and his assistant take it back to their lab, where they are doing genetic experiments. However, the gargoyle is possessed by an evil spirit and starts to interfere in their experiments.
Cursed
1990
5.5Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
Never Too Late
1996
10.0Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Zelda
1993
4.5A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
1997
5.1A detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a beautiful district attorney (Marlee Matlin) who becomes a main suspect.
When Justice Fails
1999
10.0Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.
Heritage Minutes: Superman
1991
1980s · 4 titles
5.4Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Joshua Then and Now
1985
4.0Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Hitting Home
1988
7.3After discovering that her cancer has returned, Moira Browning launches a quiet campaign to find a potential replacement for herself in her family's life.
Miles to Go…
1986
8.0Can true love survive two workaholics? For high-powered, successful executive Rosemary Michaels, her work commands her life - until romance novelist Steve Grady, with his subtle charm and quirk humor, writes his way into her heart.
Shades of Love: Make Mine Chartreuse
1987
Series credits
7.3Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.
Heritage Minutes
1991
8.04 and a half is the apartment occupied on the Plateau Mont-Royal in Montreal by a young couple. It is a chronicle of the daily life of the urban reality of 25-30 year olds: love, friendship, humor and tenderness.
4 et demi...
1994
5.5On her deathbed, Doris Duke, the world's wealthiest woman, recalls her lavish, tumultuous years as a young socialite.
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
5.8Two engineers try to save Boston after terrorists use nuclear missiles to create huge tidal waves.
Killer Wave
2007
