Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan (December 26, 1921 – June 3, 1985) was a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his stage and television performances in productions of David French's play Of the Fields, Lately, for which he won an ACTRA Award in 1977 as Best Television Actor for the CBC Television film; and his film performances in Springhill, for which he won a Canadian Film Award as Best Actor in a Non-Feature Film in 1972, and The Boy in Blue, for which he received a posthumous Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he began his career as an actor when a stage play he appeared in in his 20s, Golden Boy, reached the finals of the Dominion Drama Festival. He soon began appearing in CBC Television productions, including 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 Ones, Why Rock the Boat?, 125 Rooms of Comfort, One Man, The Silent Partner, Atlantic City and The Grey Fox.

  • Title: Sean Sullivan
  • Popularity: 3.966
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-12-26
  • Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sean Sullivan Movies

  • 1968
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    8.1 1968 HD

    Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most...

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  • 1970
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    Dr. Frankenstein on Campus

    Dr. Frankenstein on Campus

    6.5 1970 HD

    Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit looney, goes to college in Canada to study brain...

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  • 1983
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    The Dead Zone

    The Dead Zone

    7 1983 HD

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which...

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  • 1980
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    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

    6.8 1980 HD

    In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs...

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  • 1978
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    The Silent Partner

    The Silent Partner

    7.1 1978 HD

    Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns...

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  • 1986
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    The Boy in Blue

    The Boy in Blue

    4.8 1986 HD

    Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when...

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  • 1977
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    Deadly Harvest

    Deadly Harvest

    4.3 1977 HD

    Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.

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  • 1984
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    Heavenly Bodies

    Heavenly Bodies

    5.6 1984 HD

    A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.

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  • 1974
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    Why Rock the Boat?

    Why Rock the Boat?

    1 1974 HD

    A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.

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  • 1983
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    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    10 1983 HD

    Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys,...

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  • 1984
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    Mrs. Soffel

    Mrs. Soffel

    6.1 1984 HD

    Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting...

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  • 1979
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    Crossbar

    Crossbar

    4.5 1979 HD

    The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a...

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  • 1980
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    The Starlost: The Beginning

    The Starlost: The Beginning

    1 1980 HD

    Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering...

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  • 1966
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    Adulterous Affair

    Adulterous Affair

    4 1966 HD

    An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer.

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  • 1973
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    The Hard Part Begins

    The Hard Part Begins

    1 1973 HD

    The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer.

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  • 1961
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    During One Night

    During One Night

    5.6 1961 HD

    Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.

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  • 1961
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    The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

    1 1961 HD

    Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper...

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  • 1971
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    Face-Off

    Face-Off

    5.3 1971 HD

    A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with...

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  • 1974
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    Pinocchio’s Birthday Party

    Pinocchio’s Birthday Party

    1 1974 HD

    It's Pinocchio's sixth birthday, and Geppetto, the Good Fairy, and Pinocchio's friends throw him a magical surprise party. Includes two puppet...

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  • 1964
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    Nobody Waved Goodbye

    Nobody Waved Goodbye

    6.4 1964 HD

    A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

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  • 1980
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    Nothing Personal

    Nothing Personal

    5.8 1980 HD

    Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.

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  • 1966
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    A Further Glimpse of Joey

    A Further Glimpse of Joey

    1 1966 HD

    Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven...

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  • 1983
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    In Defense of Kids

    In Defense of Kids

    5 1983 HD

    When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for...

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  • 1964
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    David and Hazel: A Story in Communication

    David and Hazel: A Story in Communication

    1 1964 HD

    A married couple doesn't communicate.

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  • 1977
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    One Man

    One Man

    1 1977 HD

    In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live...

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  • 1961
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    The Young Ones

    The Young Ones

    6.2 1961 HD

    Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with...

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  • 1972
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    Springhill

    Springhill

    1 1972 HD

    Docudrama about the 1958 Canadian mining disaster

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  • 1962
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    Gang War

    Gang War

    1 1962 HD

    During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

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  • 1973
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    The Starlost

    The Starlost

    8.1 1973 HD

    A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware...

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