
Acting
Michael Kirby
Born 1925-02-20 · Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Michael Kirby was born on February 20, 1925 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silent Partner (1978), Summer Holiday (1948) and The Golden Boat (1990). He died on May 25, 2002 in Orange County, California, USA.
Acting credits
6.7With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Shadows and Fog
1991
6.5After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
They Were Expendable
1945
5.8Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Meatballs
1979
6.8Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Another Woman
1988
6.3Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
Strong Medicine
1981
7.1Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
The Silent Partner
1978
7.0An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
Between Friends
1973
5.7A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.
Rolling Vengeance
1987
7.0Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The film is about his escape and search for his home.
The Kissing Place
1990
5.8Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
The House by the Lake
1976
6.2A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Where the Heart Is
1990
5.7Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Swoon
1992
6.4Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
5.2Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991
6.2A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
Agency
1980
4.2Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
A New Life
1988
4.7Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
Mr. Patman
1981
5.2Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
Summer Holiday
1948
6.1A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945
4.1In this Canadian romance, Scott (David Selby) was so smitten by the looks of a pretty girl that he spends years looking for her. He keeps his searches a secret from his live-in lover, whom he stays with the entire while. When Scott actually meets the girl, he discovers that she has been similarly motivated, even though she is married and has had two children in the meantime. They share a romantic assignation and discover that the ideal figure they were each searching for is absent.
U-Turn
1973
6.3Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
A Quiet Day in Belfast
1974
Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she would win the gold medal in Skating at the 1928 Olympics, thus becoming the youngest Olympic skating champion -- a record that stood for 70 years.
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
1995
4.7This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."
My Pleasure Is My Business
1975