General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre, Encounter, Ford Television Theatre, and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology...
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screened by CBC Television, and broadcast on April 3, 1956, on the General Motors Theatre series. It was later adapted into two different feature films, a...
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television show" and said its "moral struggle comes off fairly well, but the general situation is as patently contrived as one of Walter Mitty's daydreams."...
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episodes of the drama anthology series Playbill, CBC Summer Theatre, Folio and General Motors Theatre. His film roles included Nobody Waved Good-bye, The Young...
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Armoured Vehicle General Purpose (AVGP) requirement of the Canadian Army. This was a 6x6 variant of the Piranha I produced by General Motors Diesel in London...
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Colicos began his acting career with the Canadian Art Theatre, before the Montreal Repertory Theatre, later winning a Dominion Drama Festival award. Colicos...
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(1990–96) Weekend Playhouse (1984) First Performance (1955–58) General Motors Theatre (1953–61) Encounter (1958) Norman Corwin Presents (1972) On Camera...
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Fisher Stevens (category American theatre directors)
Shadows" 1990 The Young Riders "Bulldog" Episode: "Bull Dog" 1991 General Motors Theatre Wally Zuckerman Episode: "It's Called the Sugar Plum" 1993 Key West...
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Who (1980–1989) Mic Neumann: Kung Faux Sydney Newman: General Motors Theatre, Armchair Theatre Jonathan Nolan: Person of Interest Rockne S. O'Bannon:...
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the 1994 album Vauxhall and I by English indie artist Morrissey. General Motors Theatre presented a live telecast of Billy Budd in 1955, starring a young...
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Prejudice in a play called The Bennets which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 29 March 1901. The play was directed by and featured Harcourt Williams...
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James Doohan (category Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre alumni)
early 1974, he was introduced to 17-year-old fan Wende Braunberger at a theatre performance. They were married that same year, when he was 54 and she was...
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that this was a female "fantasy" that was only possible in a context of general powerlessness on the part of women. At the time of the French Revolution...
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Real American Hero season 1, episode 50 (1985) "The Invaders", General Motors Theatre episode (1958) "The Invaders", ITV Television Playhouse season 2...
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Ted Kotcheff (category Canadian theatre directors)
staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre, Encounter, First Performance and On Camera. In 1958, he left Canada...
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2 episodes 1960 General Motors Theatre Celia Lang Also known as CBC Theatre, Encounter, Ford Television Theatre, and General Motors Presents 2 episodes...
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Rogers Arena (redirect from General Motors Place)
in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place (GM Place) from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights...
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Challenge (1957–1995) Gallery (1973–1979) The Game of Scouting (1967) General Motors Theatre (1953–1961) Generation (1965) George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (2005–2014)...
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to work with professional repertory companies, including the Manitoba Theatre Center from 1956 to 1960. Her career on television started in 1955. In...
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Kotcheff and Arthur Hailey, and oversaw shows such as the popular General Motors Theatre. Writing in 1990, the journalist Paul Rutherford felt that during...
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(UK) (1949–1995) Death Valley Days (1952–1975) Dragnet (1951–1959) General Motors Theatre (Can) (1953–1956, 1958–1961) Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)...
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family moved to Saltspring Island. Patricia Farmer died at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on 5 March, 2004, aged 65...
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December 1 – CBC Theatre on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [later known as General Motors Theatre (1954–1956) and General Motors Presents (1958–1961)]...
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Danger was broadcast live-to-air on April 3, 1956, on the network's General Motors Theatre, it was seen by two million people and received a resounding positive...
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(1955–1976) Dragnet (1951–1959) Face the Nation (1954–present) General Motors Theatre (Can) (1953–1956, 1958–1961) Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)...
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(1951–1959) Face the Nation (1954–present) Father Knows Best (1954-1960) General Motors Theatre (Can) (1953–1956, 1958–1961) Fury (1955-1960) Gillette Cavalcade...
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New Zealand, Kneebone went to England to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He moved to Canada in 1963 and performed in various revues in Toronto...
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Ted Follows (category Canadian theatre directors)
studied psychology at the University of Toronto, also acting in Hart House theatre productions, and following his graduation he had his first professional...
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Douglas Campbell (actor) (category Governor General's Award winners)
born in Glasgow, Scotland. Campbell's interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age 17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone...
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spokesman in Ford Motor Company commercials. He also appeared as an actor in CBC Television anthology series such as General Motors Theatre, Encounter, Folio...
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