Hugh Thompson

Acting

Hugh Thompson

Long Island, New York, USA

Hugh Thompson is a Canadian stage and screen actor known for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111, Black Harbour and Forgive Me. Thompson won the Gemini Award for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111. He was nominated for an ACTRA Award and a Canadian Screen Award for his work on Forgive Me. For his theatre work, Thompson was honored by the Robert Merritt Awards for his performances in Whale Riding Weather in 2013 for The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 2012, for Kingfisher Days in 2018, and was nominated for his work in Jacob's Wake in 2004 and Some Blow Flutes in 2019. His other film credits have included Noise, Whole New Thing, Poor Boy's Game, Copperhead, Splinters and Stage Mother.

Acting credits

Sea of Love poster
6.6

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

Sea of Love

1989

Maximum Risk poster
5.8

Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.

Maximum Risk

1996

Stage Mother poster
6.1

A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

Stage Mother

2020

Snow Angels poster
6.5

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter goes missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.

Snow Angels

2007

The Memory Keeper's Daughter poster
6.5

During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

2008

The Christmas Shoes poster
6.9

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.

The Christmas Shoes

2002

Mistrial poster
5.3

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.

Mistrial

1996

Our Fathers poster
6.5

In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide to seek redress.

Our Fathers

2005

Little Lorraine poster
6.0

Little Lorraine, a North Atlantic seaside town with a population of 60, becomes embroiled in an international cocaine smuggling operation under the noses of multiple governments, distributed in coffins through a network of funeral homes.

Little Lorraine

2026

Poor Boy's Game poster
5.5

Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created him. At the other end of town, the black community still wants revenge. The instrument of justice will be Ossie Paris, a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges Donnie to a match; a match Donnie's family and peers won't let him refuse. George Carvery has waited nine years to avenge his son's fate at the hands of Donnie. When finally they meet face to face, however, both realize they share a similar desire to overcome the past.

Poor Boy's Game

2007

What We Dreamed Of Then poster
NR

A passionate swim coach and dedicated father navigates the turbulent reality of invisible homelessness when he is forced to live out of his van.

What We Dreamed Of Then

2026

Sea Wolf poster
5.7

A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.

Sea Wolf

2009

Touched poster
NR

A ghostly, psychological drama about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who tries to track her down.

Touched

2017

Growing Op poster
6.4

The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.

Growing Op

2008

Whole New Thing poster
5.8

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.

Whole New Thing

2005

Splinters poster
2.0

Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.

Splinters

2018

A Glimpse of Hell poster
5.2

A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

A Glimpse of Hell

2001

The Christmas Blessing poster
6.1

Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast friendship with student Charlie Bennett teach Nathan to live life in the moment and embrace the time he has with friends and family.

The Christmas Blessing

2005

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice poster
7.2

Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice

1996

Trudeau poster
8.2

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Trudeau

2002

Canada Russia '72 poster
5.8

A docudrama loosely based on real events. In 1972, an 8 game ice hockey series is arranged where Canadian pro stars of the National Hockey League play the the Soviet Union national team. Tho most Canadian fans were convinced that the Soviets would be no match for the pros, what followed was a bitter struggle as Team Canada faught to win a series that would change Canadian hockey's history forever.

Canada Russia '72

2006

Stolen Miracle poster
4.8

Karen and Phil's first child is stolen by someone impersonating a nurse on Christmas Eve. A determined policewoman follows all clues in order to find the baby before it's too late.

Stolen Miracle

2001

Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew poster
NR

The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.

Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew

1995

Copperhead poster
5.0

A family is torn apart during the American Civil War. Abner Beech (Billy Campbell), a righteous farmer from upstate New York, exercises his right to free speech in a time when families are divided by the Civil War.

Copperhead

2013