Chris Wiggins Filmography

Babar: King of the Elephants

Actors: Dan Lett, Janet-Laine Green, Kristin Fairlie, Chris Wiggins, Elizabeth Hanna

Synopsis: This sequel to 1989's Babar: The Movie tells more animated tales in the life of the famous elephant from the popular children's books of Jean deBrunhoff and Laurent deBrunhoff. Babar is a young elephant living happily in the jungle until his mother is murdered by hunters. Distraught, Babar wanders Read More

Thunder Point

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, James Kidnie, Pascale Bussières, Cedric Smith, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sins of Silence

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars in this TV movie as Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed (and grossly underfunded!) as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophia (Holly Marie Combs) seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that Read More

Black Fox

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Tony Todd, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: Christopher Reeve stars in this made-for-TV western drama in which a former slave looks to make peace between the Indians and homesteaders in the wild west. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Fox: The Price of Peace

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In this made-for-television Western-drama, Alan Johnson (Christopher Reeve) and Britt Johnson (Tony Todd) are two ranchers living in Texas in the 1860s who are forced to take sides in an ugly domestic situation. Delores Holtz (Cyndy Preston) is the wife of Ralph Holtz (Chris Wiggins), a crude and Read More

Married to It

Actors: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a wealthy couple having trouble with a daughter from a previous marriage. John (Beau Bridges Read More

A Cry in the Night

Actors: Perry King, Carol Higgins Clark, James Rae

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the film explores the life of an art-gallery manager (Carol Higgins Clark) who marries a famous Canadian painter (Perry King). After moving her two young daughters to his mansion, she soon comes to the frightening realization that he is much more than the Read More

Mark Twain and Me

Synopsis: This made-for-cable Disney effort stars Jason Robards as the writer Mark Twain who, in the twilight of his life, met and befriended an 11-year-old girl named Dorothy Quick. Their relationship served as the basis for Quick's autobiographical book Enchantment: A Little Girl's Friendship with Mark Twain, Read More

Divided Loyalties

Synopsis: The course of the American Revolution was changed dramatically when the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, decided to side with the British rather than the Americans during the American Revolution. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Babar: The Movie

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Gavin Magrath, Elizabeth Hanna, Sarah Polley, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious Read More

Friday the 13th: The Series - Season 03

Actors: John D. LeMay, Robey, Chris Wiggins, Steve Monarque

Quilt of Hathor

Friday the 13th: The Series - Season 02

Actors: John D. LeMay, Robey, Chris Wiggins, Steve Monarque

Friday the 13th: The Series - Season 01

Actors: John D. LeMay, Robey, Chris Wiggins

Ford: The Man and the Machine

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Hope Lange, R.H. Thomson, Heather Thomas, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Spearfield's Daughter

Synopsis: A Canadian-Australian coproducton which originally aired over Australia's 7 Network, the six-hour miniseries Spearfield's Daughter stars Kim Braden as the title character. The daughter of a prominent and powerful Australian politician (Chris Wiggins), Cleo Spearfield (Kim Braden) incurs her Read More

Barnum

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hanna Schygulla, John Roney, Sandor Raski, Patty Maloney

Synopsis: This made-for-television film chronicles the life of 19th-century American showman P. T. Barnum. Using flashbacks (and flash forwards) the earliest efforts of his career are shown, through the formation of the "Greatest Show on Earth" with his partner Bailey, with many interesting things in Read More

The Bay Boy

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Scarfe, Mathieu Carrière, Peter Donat

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland won the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Award for his performance in Bay Boy. In 1937 Nova Scotia, Donald Campbell (Sutherland) lives with his dirt-poor parents (Liv Ullmann and Peter Donat). His folks hope that Donald will enter the priesthood, but he isn't keen on this. For Read More

Rock & Rule

Actors: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Susan Roman, Dan Hennessy

Synopsis: A rock & roll singer searches for eternal life in this animated musical fantasy set in a post-nuclear dystopia. Similar to the earlier Heavy Metal (1981) in tone, this film attempts to incorporate mythical themes and mutant beings with music by Cheap Trick, Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, and other Read More

Shocktrauma

Synopsis: This drama is based on Dr. R. Adams Cowley's true story of how he and his colleagues developed the very first medical shock trauma unit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

Synopsis: After the seizing of the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, six Americans manage to escape. They contact Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor (Gordon Pinsent), who keeps them hidden from the Iranian anti-US activists. For three grueling months, Taylor and his "guests" plan a daring escape. Read More

Jig Saw

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kavik the Wolf Dog

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adventure is an account of a sled dog's 2,000-mile trek through Alaska to find the boy he loves. Also known as Kavik and The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder by Decree

Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, David Hemmings

Synopsis: The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer), but he does not receive the expected call from Scotland Yard because he is being purposefully excluded from the investigation. Instead, Robert Lees (Donald Sutherland), a Read More

Fish Hawk

Actors: Will Sampson, Charlie Fields, Geoffrey Bowes, Mary Pirie, Don Francks

Synopsis: Native American actor Will Sampson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) plays the title role in Fish Hawk. Sampson's character starts out on the wrong foot by getting roaring drunk at the slightest opportunity. In response to a hero-worshipping young farm boy (Charlie Fields), the man swears off Read More

An American Christmas Carol

Actors: Henry Winkler

Synopsis: Made up to look like a septuagenarian, Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, a Scrooge-like miser living in a tiny New England town during the Depression. Slade goes Scrooge one further by repossessing items from a poor farm couple and an orphanage on Christmas eve. While reading a copy of Dickens' Read More

A Man Called Intrepid

Actors: David Niven, Michael York, Barbara Hershey, Paul Harding, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by William Stevenson, this three-part NBC miniseries begins in 1939, just before the outbreak of WWII. With his warnings of Hitler's treachery going ignored, out-of-power politician Winston Churchill (Nigel Stock) approaches patriotic Canadian industrialist Sir Read More

L'Homme en Colère

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada. Romain is called to Canada to identify the corpse of a murder victim believed to his son. When the murdered man turns out to be someone else, his son automatically becomes the Read More

Two Solitudes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Stacy Keach, Gloria Carlin, Chris Wiggins, Claude Jutra

Synopsis: This drama examines the tensions felt between French and English speaking Canadians after WW I as it tells the story of a town squire interested in promoting industry in his village. Unfortunately, his son betrays him and with the help of another, he reveals his father's true, antireligious Read More

High Ballin'

Actors: Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins, David Ferry

Synopsis: Peter Fonda and Jerry Reed star as truckers pitted against a rival big-rig boss who wants them off the highway. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Why Shoot the Teacher

Actors: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, John Friesen

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Max Braithwaite, this film follows the trials of young schoolteacher Max Brown (Bud Cort) as he travels to Saskatchewan to serve as a teacher in a one-room, small-town schoolhouse. Struggling with the hardships presented by the Depression, the local townsfolk prove to be Read More

Welcome to Blood City

Actors: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse, Hollis McLaren

Synopsis: In this film, an unusual western town sports a population that awards status based on the number of people one can kill. When Lewis (Keir Dullea) is mysteriously transported there, he must struggle to stay alive and out of the way of Sheriff Frendlander (Jack Palance), the local hero who has Read More

Tom Sawyer

Actors: Josh Albee

Synopsis: This much-laundered adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer was first presented as a 90-minute TV special on March 23, 1973. Josh Albee is Tom, Jeff Tyler is Huckleberry Finn, Jane Wyatt is Aunt Polly and Buddy Ebsen is Muff Potter--all acceptable but antiseptic shadows of the Twain original. Only Read More

Follow the North Star

Actors: Chris Valentine, Dennis Hines, Mel Profit, Jon Granik, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: In the months just prior to the Civil War, a Yankee boy named Benjy (Chris Valentine) befriends a slave boy named David (Dennis Hines). Sympathetic to Dave's plight, Benjy vows to help his young friend escape to the North. To do this, the boys must navigate the long and sometimes treacherous Read More

King of the Grizzlies

Actors: John Yesno, Chris Wiggins, Hugh Webster, Jack Van Evera

Synopsis: Moki (John Yesno) is the Indian foreman at a ranch owned by The Colonel (Chris Higgins). He watches as a baby grizzly bear becomes his playful friend before going off on his own. Years later, the bear returns as a menacing adult and threatens the cattle protected by Moki. When the Colonel wants to Read More