August SchellenbergFilmography

The Green Chain

Actors: Babs Chula, Jillian Fargey, Brendan Fletcher, Tricia Helfer, Scott McNeil

Synopsis: Seven inner-linking monologues highlight the growing chasm between environmentalists and those who make their living from the land in director Mark Leiren-Young's poignant look at an ongoing conflict. Who loves trees more, the logger or the protestor? Dylan and Ben both love trees, but while Dylan Read More

Missionary Man

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, John Enos III, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: A Bible-toting angel of vengeance descends upon a small-town determined to deliver the frightened residents from a ruthless tyrant in this explosive action thriller from writer/director/star Dolph Lundgren. Ryder (Lundgren) is a mysterious wanderer with a thundering motorcycle, plenty of Read More

Eight Below

Actors: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett

Synopsis: Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base, where he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) Read More

The New World

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s features Badlands and Days of Heaven, returns for a rare directorial outing with the sweeping period piece The New World -- an epic dramatization of Pocahontas' relationships with John Smith and John Rolfe. Malick Read More

National Lampoon's Going the Distance

Actors: Christopher Jacot, Joanne Kelly

Synopsis: National Lampoon's Going the Distance involves three high-school friends who go on a road trip. During their time together on the amorous adventure, they meet a variety of beautiful women, some others looking to do them harm, and pop star Avril Lavigne. They eventually become mixed up with an Read More

Dreamkeeper

Actors: Eddie Spears, August Schellenberg, Gil Birmingham, Chaske Spencer, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse

Synopsis: The Hallmark Hall of Fame production Dreamkeeper is a four-hour television miniseries. Teenager Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears) is a member of the Dog Soldiers gang on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His mom (Sheila Tousey) asks him to take his grandpa Old Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) Read More

High Noon

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed Westerns gets a new interpretation in this made-for-TV remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic. Will Kane (Tom Skerritt), the marshal of the frontier town of Hadleyville, is stepping down to marry his sweetheart Amy (Susanna Thompson) and move on to a less Read More

Out of Time

Actors: James McDaniel, Mel Harris, August Schellenberg, Ken Pogue

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play and Oscar-winning film On Golden Pond, was both director and co-writer of the cable-TV film Out of Time. The story begins in Oregon in 1980, when Jack Epson -- a young business owner, family man, and dedicated environmentalist -- discovers Read More

Scattering Dad

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy-drama, Olympia Dukakis plays Dotty, a woman with extreme agoraphobia. Dotty's condition has prevented her from leaving her house for the past 20 years, but just before her husband Hiram (Andy Griffith) died, he made Dotty promise that she would scatter his ashes near Read More

Silence

Actors: Tantoo Cardinal, August Schellenberg

Free Willy 3: The Rescue

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick

Synopsis: In the third installment in the Free Willy series, Jesse (Jason James Richter), the once-troubled youth whose life was changed by his friendship with the killer whale Willy, is spending the summer on board a ship assisting a group a whale researchers, including his old friend Randolph (August Schellenberg Read More

True Heart

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Zachery Ty Bryan, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: Two city kids gain a new perspective on life when they're lost in rugged Northwestern Canada in this adventure for the family. Sam (Zachery Ty Bryan) and Bonnie (Kirsten Dunst) are two teenage siblings who don't always get along, a situation made more uncomfortable by their mother's recent Read More

Sisters and Other Strangers

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Debrah Farentino, George Grizzard, Audra Lindley, Gary Graham

Synopsis: Pragmatic businesswoman Gail Metzger (Joanna Kerns) has never seen eye to eye with her eccentric sister Renee (Debrah Farentino), a bad situation made worse when the two women butt heads over a real estate deal. Later on, Renee turns up dead, an apparent suicide. But as more "facts" come to Read More

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

Actors: Randy Quaid, Laura Dern, Kirsten Dunst, Darren E. Burrows

Synopsis: The tragic story of the Ruby Ridge "massacre" has been so thoroughly covered and disseminated by the mainstream press that to add anything here would be pointless. Suffice to say that the two-part TV movie The Siege at Ruby Ridge uses the facts at hand to show how the tragedy occurred, and how but Read More

What Love Sees

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama covers fifteen years, from WW2 to the mid-1950s, in the lives of farm couple Gordon and Jean Holly (Richard Thomas, Annabeth Gish). A daughter of privilege, Jean had married Gordon much against her parents' wishes, whereupon the couple took charge of a ranch in California Read More

Crazy Horse

Actors: Michael Greyeyes, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, August Schellenberg, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The true-story of Native American legend Crazy Horse is told in this made-for-cable movie. Michael Greyeyes stars as the Oglala Sioux warrior who battled for freedom against encroaching westward expansion and fought General Custer and his forces at Little Big Horn. Filmed on location in South Read More

The West Side Waltz

Actors: Jennifer Grey, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Ernest Thompson

Synopsis: Shirley Maclaine stars as a reclusive piano player in this made-for-television movie based on the play by Ernest Thompson. Maclaine plays Margaret Mary Elderdice, a loner-type who befriends her next-door neighbor and violinist Cara Varnum (Liza Minnelli) only so the two can play music together. Read More

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: Two unlikely friends -- a boy and a killer whale -- are reunited under potentially dangerous circumstances in this sequel to the successful family adventure Free Willy. Jesse (Jason James Richter) has finally found stability and contentment with his foster parents Glen and Annie Greenwood (Michael Madsen Read More

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Getting Gotti

Synopsis: This made-for-TV crime drama follows the actions of the courageous, determined prosecutor who attempted to put notorious Mafioso John Gotti behind bars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Iron Will

Actors: MacKenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, August Schellenberg, Brian Cox

Synopsis: A rousing Disney dog-sled adventure based on a real life event -- a 522-mile dog-sled race between Winnipeg, Canada and St. Paul, Minnesota that occurred in 1917. When his father is accidentally killed, South Dakota farmboy Will Stoneman (Mackenzie Astin) decides to enter the dog-sled race in Read More

Lonesome Dove: The Series - Last Stand

Geronimo

Actors: Joseph Running Fox, August Schellenberg, Jimmy Herman, Ryan Black, Nick Ramus

Synopsis: Geronimo is a made-for-cable dramatization of the violent life and times of the legendary Apache warrior. Geronimo is one of the most accurate and balanced accounts of the Indian leader's life. The video release of the film included 10 extra minutes of footage. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Free Willy

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

Terror on Track 9

Actors: Joan Van Ark, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Richard Crenna makes his fifth appearances NYPD detective Frank Janek in Terror on Track 9. The villain this time is a serial killer who preys upon women at Grand Central Station. The murderer's modus operandi is to inject his victims with poison. Janek suspects that the perpetrator is a man with Read More

The Broken Cord

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Michael Spears

Synopsis: Sight unseen, anthropologist David Moore (Jimmy Smits) adopts a Native American child named Adam. As Adam grows older (he is played as a boy by Michael Spears, and as a teenager by Fredrick Leader-Charge), Moore becomes painfully aware that the boy is developmentally delayed and emotionally Read More

Black Robe

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: Adapted by Brian Moore from his own novel, The Black Robe is a sprawling recreation of a turbelent period in Canadian history. In 1634, Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue (Lothair Bluteau) arrives in the New World, hoping to convert the Huron Indian tribe to Catholicism-and, incidentally, to Read More

Striker's Mountain

Synopsis: A resort owner struggles to turn heliskiing into a hot new sport. Along the way he encounters many obstacles that include convincing a millionaire to sponsor him and turmoil within his own family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Confidential

Actors: Neil Munro, August Schellenberg, Chapelle Jaffe, Tom Butler, Antony Parr

Synopsis: Confidential a Canadian-made, low-budget, but stylish thriller directed by Bruce Pittman, is the familiar story of a detective forced to solve a crime. Reporter Hugh Jameson (Neil Munro) disappears while investigating a murder that occurred 30 years ago. A reporter who is interested in the case Read More

A Question of Loving

Tramp at the Door

Actors: Ed McNamara, August Schellenberg, Monique Mercure, Joanna Schellenberg, Eric Peterson

Synopsis: This low-key Canadian drama stars August Schellenberg as Albert, a young farm boy growing up in 1930s Manitoba. Schellenberg's solitude is interrupted when hobo Gustave (Ed McNamara) shows up, asking for a bit more than a handout. Gustave claims that he's a long-lost relative of Albert's family, a Read More

Qui A Tire Sur Nos Histoires D'Amour

Actors: Monique Mercure, Guylaine Normandine, August Schellenberg, Claude Gauthier

Synopsis: This study of the feminist mystique and its underlying issues centers on Madeline (Monique Mercure), a middle-aged director set on conquests of any kind. Also featured are Madeline's relationship to her daughter Renee (Guylaine Normandine) and a few lovers. Madeline is working as a radio talk show Read More

West Winds Trilogy

Synopsis: August Schellenberg narrates this three-part Canadian made-for-TV movie. The first episode, "Fall," is about a father who leaves his family once a year to work at a job -- but will not tell them where or what it is. The second part, "Hunting Season," is about a young woman who is riding through Read More

The Mark of Cain

Synopsis: A Canadian film, Mark of Cain is a tale of mistaken-identity that throws an innocent man into prison while his evil twin terrorizes a rural landscape. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Running Brave

Actors: Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In the case of this dramatized story about a Native American who thrilled the world when he won the 10,000 meter run in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the subject is far nobler than the script, the dialogue, and the acting. Billy Mills (Robby Benson), a member of the Sioux tribe from South Dakota, ran Read More

Cross Country

Actors: Richard Beymer, Nina Axelrod, Michael Ironside, Brent Carver, Mike Kane

Synopsis: Jovana (Milena Dravic) is a cross-country runner training for the Olympics with the help of a kindly priest. She meets a poor man on one of her journeys but falls for his black brother-in-law, a worker at the local crematorium. The worker is killed by his jealous brother-in-law and the first man Read More

Le Ruffian

Actors: Lino Ventura, Claudia Cardinale, Bernard Giraudeau, Beatrix Van Til, Pierre Frag

Synopsis: Aldo (Lino Ventura) is a worker in a Canadian goldmine who escapes being murdered by a gang of marauding bandits as they kill off everyone in the camp except Aldo and two Native American workers and then nab the gold stores. The three survivors manage to kill off the assassins and discuss dividing Read More

Best Revenge

Actors: John Heard, Levon Helm

Synopsis: John Heard and Levon Helm play a couple of frizzy-haired leftovers from the sixties. Living by their wits in Spain, Heard and Helm get mixed up in an multimillion-dollar Moroccan drug deal. Their intentions are more honorable than they seem: at stake is the life of a kidnap victim. But as the Read More

Covergirl

Actors: Jeff Conaway, Irena Ferris, Cathie Shirriff, Roberla Leighton, Deborah Wakeham

Synopsis: An electronics tycoon takes a shine to a beautiful aspiring model and decides to turn her into a superstar in this melodrama that was funded by the Canadian Film Development Corporation. First he buys the modeling agency where she works and then sets about towards turning her into the "The Read More

Latitude 55°

Actors: Andree Pelletier, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: When a woman is stranded in Alberta by a blizzard, she finds it's not just the storm that holds her prisoner on the isolated farm she seeks aid from. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Kings and Desperate Men - A Hostage Incident

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Alexis Kanner, Andrea Marcovicci, Margaret Trudeau, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan stars in this thriller as a loutish talk-show host who is held hostage by a band of terrorists who plan to use his program to broadcast their demands. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Heavy Metal

Actors: Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total of all evil in the universe travels Read More

Death Hunt

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Johnson, a trapper, has extensive knowledge of wilderness living, but Millen has the resources of the Canadian police at Read More

Bear Island

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: Up on Bear Island -- somewhere off the northeast American coast -- a U.S. meteorological team discovers German submarines stashed with gold. Though the plot is difficult to follow, it does involve murder and a certain amount of intrigue, though many have felt that this movie version of the Read More

L'Affaire Coffin

Actors: August Schellenberg, Yvon Dufour, Micheline Lanctôt, Gabriel Arcand

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque has stayed close to his calling in this dramatization of the trial of Wilbert Coffin in Quebec in the 1950s. Three American hunters were murdered in the woods, and Coffin, an English-speaking prospector from the dominantly Francophone province, came Read More

Power Play

Actors: Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse, Jon Granik

Synopsis: After years of an oppressive dictatorship, a group of army officers in a tiny, vaguely delineated European country organize a coup. Colonel Narriman (David Hemmings) has bravely taken chances which could have resulted in his death, and he expects, once the coup is successful, to become the next Read More

The New Avengers: Forward Base

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jack Creley, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this fourth Canadian-filmed episode of The New Avengers, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) doggedly search for a missing circuit, following such clues as a drowned corpse in an evening gown. The trail leads to the bottom of Lake Ontario, where our heroes Read More

One Man

Actors: Len Cariou, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from Read More

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