Chuck Shamata
Chuck Shamata's career spans four decades in film, television and theatre. Among his most recent credits are the feature films One Week, The Sentinal, Cinderella Man and War Games 2; the cable movies Tipping Point,The Engagement Ring and Kojak (and the ensuing series). Don Shebib's classic Between Friends - often recognized by critics as one of Canada's all time best - was the film for which Shamata received his first Genie Award nomination, and was presented with a Migliore Attore award by the legendary Vittorio De Sica at the Sorrento Film Festival. His other feature credits include The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper, Joshua Then and Now with James Woods, Power Play with Peter O'Toole, The Devil and Max Devlin with Bill Cosby and Night Friend with Art Carney. On the small screen, Shamata was nominated for a Gemini Award for his starring role as a family man facing his homosexuality in the network film The Running Man. Other network movie credits include A Father for Brittany, On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story, the Cable Ace Award-winning Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, Echoes in the Darkness and Between Friends alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett. He played Pierre Salinger in the mini-series Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and for Showtime Networks he co-starred in the Tony Bill-directed cable feature Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story; as mafia boss Sam Giancana in The Family; The Thin Blue Lie with Rob Morrow; and Escape Clause with Paul Sorvino. On stage, Shamata played Dr. Astrov opposite Peter O'Toole in Uncle Vanya in Toronto and Chicago, Torvald in A Doll's House and leading roles in Doc, Good Woman of Setzuan, To Clothe The Naked, You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy, Battering Ram, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, The Country Girl and The Indian Wants The Bronx in theaters from Halifax to Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography
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2005
Cinderella Man
7.546/2162
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
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Cinderella Man
1996
Escape Clause
4.6/17
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...
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Escape Clause
1981
Scanners
6.7/1176
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discover...
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Scanners
1991
Princes In Exile
5.3/3
Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running...
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Princes In Exile
1987
Nowhere to Hide
6.3/12
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashe...
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Nowhere to Hide
1995
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
5.5/2
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
1994
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
5.518/273
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
1976
The House by the Lake
5.9/40
Harry 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 h...
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The House by the Lake
1981
The Devil and Max Devlin
5.8/36
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell hi...
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The Devil and Max Devlin
2004
Crimes of Fashion
4.4/35
Brooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation, who has come a long way from her tough childhood spent...
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Crimes of Fashion
1979
Stone Cold Dead
6.4/14
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
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Stone Cold Dead
1976
The Italian Machine
6/8
This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fan...
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The Italian Machine
2008
The Two Mr. Kissels
5.3/12
Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs...
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The Two Mr. Kissels
2004
Saving Emily
5/1
After learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg have no choice but to seek out Cheryl's violent ex-husban...
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Saving Emily
2003
Behind the Red Door
5.7/23
Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arrang...
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Behind the Red Door
1977
Welcome to Blood City
4.7/6
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what t...
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Welcome to Blood City
2005
The Engagement Ring
4.8/6
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and...
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The Engagement Ring
2000
The Thin Blue Lie
6/1
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick in...
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The Thin Blue Lie
1990
On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
0/0
The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.
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On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1986
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
4.5/6
Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
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Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
2012
Still Mine
6.8/74
Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concer...
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Still Mine
1999
When Justice Fails
4.2/5
A detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a beautiful district attorney (Marlee Matlin) who becomes a...
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When Justice Fails
1996
Virus
2.7/11
A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a National...
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Virus
1998
A Father for Brittany
6.7/3
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of...
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A Father for Brittany
2007
Tipping Point
6.4/5
A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be...
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Tipping Point
1995
Sugartime
5.9/10
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...
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Sugartime
2008
Flash of Genius
6.505/217
In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail...
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Flash of Genius
2006
The Sentinel
6.033/763
A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attem...
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The Sentinel
1978
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
4.6/9
Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke So...
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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
1984
Unfinished Business
7/1
Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen...
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Unfinished Business
1999
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
3.8/5
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
2008
One Week
6.793/121
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead...
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One Week
2014
Clown
5.778/1354
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer...
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Clown
1978
Power Play
6.7/10
A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
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Power Play
1985
Starcrossed
5.1/11
An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight...
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Starcrossed
1985
In Like Flynn
0/0
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate...
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In Like Flynn
2008
WarGames: The Dead Code
5.142/127
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know th...
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WarGames: The Dead Code
2002
Guilty Hearts
4.3/3
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the...
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Guilty Hearts
2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
0/0
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl F...
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
0/0
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
1973
Between Friends
0/0
An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
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Between Friends
1985
A Time to Live
8.5/2
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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A Time to Live
1986
Mafia Princess
10/1
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
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Mafia Princess
2016
Miss Sloane
7.441/1787
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
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Miss Sloane
1983
Between Friends
6/3
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
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Between Friends
1979
Running
6.8/16
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
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Running
1986
Act of Vengeance
5.9/15
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Act of Vengeance
2001
Snap Decision
6.1/8
Inspired by a true story, a young widowed mother finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after allowing her best friend to photograph h...
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Snap Decision
2015
Gone Tomorrow
6.4/4
Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the poli...
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Gone Tomorrow
2005
The Perfect Neighbor
5.9/7
A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.
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The Perfect Neighbor
2000
Spreading Ground
3.5/4
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead...
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Spreading Ground
2009
Break a Leg
2/1
A hit-man meets his mark for breakfast to discuss his assassination.
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Break a Leg
1988
Night Friend
2/1
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
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Night Friend
1990
Uncut Gem
0/0
A robber falls for the girl his gang kidnaps during a jewelry store robbery.
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Uncut Gem
2019
Breakthrough
7.631/1058
Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushe...
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Breakthrough
2003
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
7.1/22
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the Sept...
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
1985
The Suicide Murders
0/0
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and...
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The Suicide Murders
1985
Joshua Then and Now
5.25/8
Based 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...
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Joshua Then and Now
2020
A Simple Fucking Gesture
6.6/5
A couple in traffic doesn’t get the “thank you” wave they deserve after another driver cuts in. According to its director, “this film was written whil...
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A Simple Fucking Gesture
1999
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
6.8/6
Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one...
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Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
1981
The Running Man
0/0
A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.
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The Running Man
1993
Family of Strangers
5.8/5
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted an...
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Family of Strangers
1983
The Terry Fox Story
6.1/15
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
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