R.H. ThomsonFilmography

Athanasia

Actors: R.H. Thomson, Stavroula Logothettis, Marina Kalogirou, Yorgos Karamihos

Synopsis: A woman looking for the keys to her history uncovers a secret that has affected the lives of several people close to her in this drama from Greek filmmaker Panos Karkanevatos. Angela (Marina Koem) is an American woman of Greek heritage who has never met her real father. Angela knows little about Read More

Who Loves the Sun

Actors: Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson, Wendy Crewson

Synopsis: When the former best friend of a now-successful writer suddenly appears following an extended absence, the confrontation that follows will alter their views of the past and forever transform the future in a simmering tale of lost friendship from director Matt Bissonette. It's been five long years Read More

The Queen and the Skipper: The Story of Bluenose

Bugs

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Angie Everhart, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Perhaps inspired by the finale of the 1954 horror film Them!, the made-for-cable chiller Bugs explores the consequences stemming from a swarm of giant insects gathering in a major metropolitan subway systems. These bugs not only eat human beings, but tear their bodies apart and leave the fragments Read More

Full Court Miracle

Actors: Richard T. Jones, Alex D. Linz, Elle Downs, Linda Kash, Jason Blicker

Synopsis: The made-for-cable biopic Full Court Miracle is the true story of Lamont Carr, here played by Richard T. Jones. A college basketball star, Lamont seems to be a shoo-in for the Philadelpha 76ers until he is permanently sidelined by a knee injury. Seeking out employment in his chosen profession Read More

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Parker Posey, Shannen Doherty

Synopsis: In this broadly satirical TV biopic, Shirley MacLaine pulls out all the stops as legendary cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash. In Citizen Kane fashion, Mary Kay relates her rise to the top of the home-beauty industry to an inquiring reporter (Rachel Crawford), never allowing an opportunity pass to Read More

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace

Actors: Robert Joy, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: This video provides an in-depth look at the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian who felt compelled to take part in the little-known efforts of the German resistance movement. Bonhoeffer worked with others to try and put a stop to Hitler's cruel regime. He was a highly respected Lutheran Read More

Palmer's Bones

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Barbara Williams, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays William Palmer, formerly the chief medical examiner of Chicago who now makes his living as a writer. Palmer has written a novel based on one of the more interesting cases he investigated, a psychopathic murderer who would remove the bones from his victims while they were still Read More

The Piano Man's Daughter

Actors: Christian Campbell, Allan Price, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young man must deal with several generations of madness and familial intrigue in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley. Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) is a young man whose mother, Lily (Stockard Channing), is the daughter of Frederick Wyatt (R.H. Thomson), the Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 07

Actors: Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau, Gema Zamprogna

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) brings shocking news to Felicity King (Gema Zamprogna): her erstwhile fiancé Gus Pike (Michael Mahonen) has been reported killed in a shipwreck in the Caribbean. As she wrestles with her grief, Felicity turns to "good works," Read More

Murder at My Door

Actors: Judith Light, Johnny Galecki, Grace Zabriskie, R.H. Thomson, Keegan Macintosh

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama a mother tires to learn the truth about her college-age son following the murder of a neighborhood girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 06

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau

Synopsis: Season six of Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) begins not in the titular Prince Edward Island village but instead in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Felicity King (Gema Zamprogna) has defied the standard gender expectations of early 20th century Canada by enrolling in medical school. While Read More

My Breast

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Jamey Sheridan, James Sutorius, Barbara Barrie, Sara Botsford

Synopsis: Based on the story of real breast-cancer survivor Joyce Wadler, this drama follows the noted journalist on her quest to stay alive and rebuild her life after she receives news of her potentially fatal condition. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 05

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau

Synopsis: Felix King (Zachary Bennett) finds himself torn between holding on to his job at Avonlea's White Plains Hotel and upholding family tradition by becoming a farmer like his dad, Alec (Cedric Smith), in "Fathers and Sons," the fifth-season opener of the popular Canadian drama series Road to Avonlea. Read More

Max

Actors: R.H. Thomson, Denise Crosby, Walter Dalton, Garwin Sanford, Don S. Davis

Synopsis: This Canadian family drama follows a yuppie couple as they try to reclaim their hippy idealism to save the life of their young son. Andy and Jayne Blake used to be hippies. Now they are living the yuppie dream in suburban Vancouver. They have two kids and great jobs. When their son Max is given Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 04

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau

Synopsis: Season four of Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) serves to introduce the Pettibone family, specifically widower Clive Pettibone (David Fox), the new schoolteacher hired to replace the semi-retired Hetty King (Jackie Burroughs); Clive's son, Arthur (Zachary Ansley), a talented veterinarian; Read More

The Quarrel

Actors: Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: The year is 1948 and the place is Montreal's Mont Royal Park. Chaim Kovler, a Holocaust survivor who has become a journalist for a Yiddish newspaper bumps into Hersh Rasseyner, a rival he had known in Hebrew school. The two went their separate ways when Chaim became an author while Hersh became 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

Tales From Avonlea: Season 03

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau

Synopsis: The early 20th century Canadian village of Avonlea is a busy place indeed during season three of the popular series Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea). The first of the season's 13 episodes is "Ties That Bind," in which the domineering but lovable Hetty King (Jackie Burroughs) oversees the Read More

Bonds of Love

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a deep and genuine romance. Their wedding plans are challenged by his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and Read More

Glory Enough for All: The Discovery of Insulin

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was produced in Canada and focuses on the research leading to the development of insulin in the 1920s. Based on Michael Bliss' The Discovery of Insulin, this movie depicts the discovery, from the initial rivalry of the four researchers who are hunting for a treatment for 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

Defy Gravity

Actors: Simon Reynolds, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Patrick (Simon Reynolds) is a teenager with the usual concerns of teens: schoolwork, his peers' opinions of him, and girls. In addition, he has to put up with his weirdo dad (R.H. Thomson), who imagines he is some kind of inventor. His dad has some other problems, too, like his habit of taking out Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 01

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Lally Cadeau, Gema Zamprogna

Synopsis: Season one of the phenomenally popular Canadian series Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) begins in the early 20th century, as Sara Stanley (Sarah Polley), the pampered and privileged daughter of a wealthy Montreal merchant, is sent to the Prince Edward Island town of Avonlea to avoid public Read More

Tales From Avonlea: Season 02

Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau

Synopsis: Season two of Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) begins as Sara Stanley (Sarah Polley) reluctantly returns to Montreal after spending a happy year living with her relatives, the King family, in the Prince Edward Island village of Avonlea. But upon her arrival home, Sara discovers to her Read More

The First Season

Actors: R.H. Thomson, Kate Trotter, Christianne Hirt, Dwight Ross

Synopsis: After a series of setbacks and mishaps have resulted in the suicide of her fisherman husband, Jodie Cauldwell (Christine Hirt) hires Eric (R. H. Thomson), a reluctant, very troubled Vietnam War veteran, to man their boat in an attempt to keep her family's livelihood intact. Gradually, his deep Read More

Heaven on Earth

Synopsis: This Masterpiece Theatre presentation co-written by novelist Margaret Atwood, chronicles the history of the thousands of British orphans (or "home children") sent off to live in Ontario between 1867 and 1914. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Welsh, John Colicos, R.H. Thomson, Brent Carver

Synopsis: While Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell had its American network debut in July of 1990, it was not precisely a world premiere. The film had already been shown in 1989 on Canadian TV, where it was the highest-rated TV movie of that year. Small wonder: It was based on a true story that had Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Hugh Grant, Megan Gallagher, Megan Follows, Georges Descrieres

Synopsis: Charles Heidseick's fight to introduce and popularize French bubbly in the 19th-century US provides the basis of this romantic made-for-TV biography. It was not an easy task as Champagne Charlie met with considerable resistance from American vintners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Glory Enough for All

Synopsis: Glory Enough for All was the second presentation in the 1989-90 season of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. Glory is a two-part dramatization of the discovery of insulin. R. H. Thompson plays Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting who, fresh out of World War One, virtually stumbles onto the insulin Read More

And Then You Die

Actors: Kenneth Welsh, R.H. Thomson, Wayne Robson, Maggie Huculak, Pierre Chagnon

Synopsis: And Then You Die is a 115-minute Canadian melodrama starring Ken Welsh as an above-the-border drug czar. Having amassed a fortune on the miseries of others, Welsh intends to retire. But the Mafia, notorious for its poor retirement plan, wants a piece of Welsh's riches. So does a vicious motorcycle Read More

Moonlighting: Father Knows Last

Synopsis: Now that he knows Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) is pregnant, David (Bruce Willis) is pressured to do the "right thing" by Maddie's overprotective father Alexander (Robert Webber). Meanwhile, our harried hero must also deal with the increasingly disgruntled employees of the Blue Moon Detective Agency. Read More

Moonlighting: Tale of Two Cities

Synopsis: Three weeks have gone by since David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) have seen each other. Having retreated to her parents' house in Chicago, Maddie is more depressed than ever, prompting her mom (Eva Marie Saint) and dad (Robert Webber) to throw her a cheer-up party. Meanwhile, back Read More

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

The Marriage Bed

Actors: Linda Griffiths, Layne Coleman, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Marriage Bed began life as a Canadian made-for-TV movie. Described as "a comedy/drama about the perils of marriage", the film stars Linda Griffiths as a young bride. Griffiths' hubby Layne Coleman picks the worst possible time to walk out: the night before Christmas. R. H. Thompson costars in this Read More

Christmas Bed

Synopsis: In this grim holiday movie, a mother suffers depression and has difficulty making a happy Christmas for her two children after she is deserted by her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Samuel Lount

Actors: R.H. Thomson, Linda Griffiths, Cedric Smith, Donald Davis, David Fox

Synopsis: Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount Read More

Stranger in My Bed

Synopsis: This drama is based on a true story and chronicles the struggle of a woman who loses her memory in a car crash and attempts to put her old life back together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vision Quest

Actors: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox, Harold Sylvester

Synopsis: According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" is necessary for him to decide his future. Thus, Modine starts behaving in a manner that amazes even himself. The crowning achievement of Modine's new outlook on life is his romance with 21-year-old artist Linda Fiorentino Read More

Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks

Actors: Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: This biographical drama profiles the true life of Hal C. Banks, the tough American who once ruled the Canadian shipping industry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ray Bradbury Theater, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Volume Two of Ray Bradbury's frightful TV tales is about a man who fears there's a connection between a number of recent car accidents and a strange crowd which keeps showing up at the scene of each accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tyler

The Terry Fox Story

Actors: Robert Duvall, Eric Fryer, Michael Zelniker, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao

Synopsis: This moving docudrama on a man whose courage raised $20,000,000 for a worthy cause is also an honest look at the nature of determination. When Canadian Terry Fox was diagnosed with cancer in 1977, his right leg was amputated and rather than simply battle depression, Fox decided to run his own Read More

If You Could See What I Hear

Actors: Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Sarah Torgov, Shari Belafonte, Douglas Campbell

Synopsis: Marc Singer stars in this biography of Tom Sullivan, a blind singer, songwriter and actor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Beaux Souvenirs

Actors: Monique Spaziani, Julie Vincent, R.H. Thomson, Paul Hebert, Michel Daigle

Synopsis: In this family drama, an estranged daughter returns to her father and sister. After the girl's sudden departure years before, her father is unhappy, and her sister milks her father's favoritism for all it is worth. The conniving younger sister then causes the prodigal daughter's boyfriend to dump 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

Surfacing

Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Kathleen Beller, R.H. Thomson, Margaret Dragu, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Margaret Atwood, this suspenseful psycho-sexual drama chronicles a young woman's quest through the wilderness to find her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ticket to Heaven

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

Charlie Grant's War

Synopsis: This WW II drama tells the true tale of a Canadian diamond broker who attempts to save Austrian Jews from Nazi brutality and persecution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Population of One

Synopsis: Population of One stars Dixie Seattle as a small-town Canadian woman unlucky in love. Reasoning that her lack of amorous attachments may be due to an overall lack in men, she heads for the Big City. R.H. Thompson is the man with whom Seattle may settle down--if he meets her demanding standards. 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