Paul SolesFilmography

Terminal City [TV Series]

Actors: Maria Del Mar, Gil Bellows, Paul Soles, Katie Boland, Nico McEown, Adam Butcher

Stormy Weather: The Music Of Harold Arlen

Actors: Paul Soles, Kim Bubbs, Ranee Lee, Deborah Harry, Little Jimmy Scott

Synopsis: Larry Weinstein's Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen is about the final years of the great songwriter. As a heavily medicated, elderly Arlen (Paul Soles) goes about his days with his nurse, he remembers his life's accomplishments and imagines performances of some of his most well known Read More

The Score

Actors: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, an aging thief whose specialty is safecracking and who is on the verge of retiring to a life of ease, running his jazz club and romancing his Read More

Einstein: Light to the Power of 2

Synopsis: From the award-winning children's series The Inventors' Specials, comes this entertaining and educational glimpse into the life and work of Albert Einstein. The series combines fact with fictionalized stories to highlight a key period in the lives of famous inventors. In Einstein: Light to the Read More

Love After Death

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, John Stamos, Teri Polo

Synopsis: Adapted by Richard Vetere from his own play, the made-for-TV The Marriage Fool served to reunite Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, the stars of the 1972 theatrical feature Pete 'n Tillie. Matthau is cast as widowed septuagenarian Frank Walsh, whose sedentary lifestyle is shifted into third gear by Read More

The Abduction

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-cable The Abduction is told in flashback from the viewpoint of Kate Finley (Victoria Principal), who for 11 years was trapped into an abusive marriage with former police officer Paul Olavsky (Robert Hays). Accustomed to violently taking out his frustrations on Read More

Due South: All the Queen's Horses

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen makes a return appearance as "legendary" Canadian mountie Sgt. Buck Frobisher, as do Alex Carter and Mark Melymick as well-meaning but bumbling FBI agents Ford and Deeter. Frobisher is among a group of singing mounties on board a train bound for an American concert. These redcoated Read More

Trial by Jury

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer stars as a woman corrupted by the criminal justice system in this courtroom suspense thriller. She plays a civil servant named Valerie Alston, a single mother living in New York City, who gets placed on a jury trying the case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante). A Read More

The Lotus Eaters

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, R.H. Thomson, Frances Hyland

Synopsis: It is the 1960s, but Hal Kingswood (R.H. Thomson), the old-fashioned headmaster of a small school in British Colombia not far from Vancouver hasn't quite gotten hip to it yet. He won't even let his late-teen daughter Cleo (Tara Frederick) go to a concert alone with her boyfriend Dwayne (Gabe Khouth Read More

The Colours of My Father: a Portrait of Sam Borenstein

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

Actors: Neil Munro, Fiona Reid, Albert Schultz

Synopsis: Prague and Ontario stand in for 19th century Vienna in Beethoven Lives Upstairs. Young Chris (Illya Woloshin) lives with his none-too-prosperous mother (Fiona Reid) and uncle (Albert Schultz), who are forced to take in a boarder. Enter a fellow named Ludwig (Neil Munro), with a hearing problem, a Read More

Strand: Under the Dark Cloth

Actors: Paul Soles, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: Strand: Under the Dark Cloth refers to the methods of artist Paul Strand, both literally and figuratively. Based in New York, Strand was an innovative photographer and filmmaker who prefered to work alone. John Walker's documentary explores the contradictory artist and his relationship to his work Read More

Falling Over Backwards

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Paul Soles, Helen Hughes, Carolyn Scott

Synopsis: Falling Over Backwards was filmed in Quebec through the good graces of the National Film Board of Canada. Saul Rubinek plays a high school teacher, currently in the doldrums over his divorce. Ignoring advice of Thomas Wolfe, Rubinek decides to "go home again" to forget his troubles. With his aged Read More

Family Reunion

Actors: David Eisner, Rebecca Jenkins, Henry Beckman

Synopsis: Returning to Toronto to attend a family reunion, a recently-jilted man gives a lift to an attractive young hitchhiker. Confusion abounds when the man's family members take the hitchhiker for his former fiancee. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Just the Way You Are

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter, Robert Carradine, Lance Guest

Synopsis: In this standard human interest comedy, Susan Berlanger (Kristy McNichol) has been crippled since a child and has to wear a leg brace in order to get around, but that does not in any way prevent Sam (Robert Carradine) and several other men from being very attracted to her. Susan is a professional Read More

The Gunrunner

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles, Gerard Parkes, Ron Lea

Synopsis: Filmed in 1984, The Gunrunner didn't receive a widespread release until 1989, thanks in great part to the presence of Kevin Costner in the cast. The future Oscar-winning actor is herein cast as the title character, an illicit "arms dealer" named Ted Beaubein. Set in 1926 Montreal, the story finds Read More

Ticket to Heaven

Actors: Nick Mancuso, R.H. Thomson, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: The "Moonie" cult of the 1970s and '80s has been cited as the principal inspiration for the 1981 Canadian production Ticket to Heaven. Nick Mancuso plays impressionable youth David Kappel, who, after breaking up with his girlfriend, tries to find an emotional balm by joining a religious sect. The Read More

Canada After Dark

Beyond Reason [TV Series]

Actors: Allen Spraggett, Bill Guest, Paul Soles

Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: Animated by the Canadian cartoon firm of Rankin-Bass, this version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (with a bit of Through the Looking Glass thrown in) is superficially more faithful to its source than the previous Disney and Hanna-Barbera versions. Once again, Alice tumbles down the rabbit Read More

The Arabian Knights

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: Coproduced by Canada's Rankin-Bass and Japan's Mushi Studios, this 30-minute cartoon special is essentially a remake of the classic 1940 film The Thief of Baghdad (which would itself provide inspiration for the 1991 animated feature Aladdin. It's the story of Pindar, a dauntless teenager in love Read More

Wonderful World of Professor Kitzel

Synopsis: This entertaining cartoon features Professor Kitzel as he takes children through history and introduces them to some fascinating moments of the past. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Festival of Family Classics: Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: This two-part cartoon adaptation of Jules Verne's fanciful adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days was a coproduction of Canada's Rankin-Bass and Japan's Mushi Productions. The familiar story of how Phileas Fogg and his manservant Passepartout undertake to circle the globe in 80 days is retold Read More

Irish Coffee [TV Series]

Actors: Paul Soles, Bill Walker, Frederick C. Davis, Paul Kligman

Synopsis: This lively, spontaneous Canadian talkfest was an outgrowth of a weekly lunchtime discussion held by certain CBC employees at the Four Season Bar, just across the street from the network's Toronto headquarters. For the series proper, the four regular hosts and their guests held court at another Read More

Spider-Man [Animated Series]

Actors: Paul Soles, Peg Dixon

Charlie Had One But He Didn't Like It, So He Gave It To Us

Crew: Screenwriter

Happening [TV Series]

Actors: Adrienne Clarkson, Paul Soles

Synopsis: This Canadian series was created as a five-minute filler, to be aired on weekday afternoons between the end of To Tell the Truth at 3:25 and the beginning of Take 30 at 3:30. The program consisted of brief general-interest films, many lensed in Canada but many more imported from other countries. Read More

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

Actors: Larry Mann, Billie Richards, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman, Bunny Cowan

Synopsis: As if inventing a time machine weren't enough to enshrine him in the pantheon of great minds of history, in this puppet cartoon, professor Rasputin von Rotton is planning on using it to claim credit for the achievements of the greats of history, from the cavemen to Buffalo Bill. The professor's Read More

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Actors: Burl Ives

Synopsis: This stop-motion animagic version of the classic Christmas tale adds a bit of a twist when Rudolph encounters an abominable snowman. This was made for TV and features Burl Ives as the narrator. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Flashback [TV Series]

Synopsis: Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth, the Canadian production team who later struck gold with the American series Hee Haw, were among the instigators of the CBC game show Flashback (Syd Wayne was another of the series' creators). In the tradition of Front Page Challenge, a panel of four celebrities Read More