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Budd Knapp
Born January 9, 1913 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died August 6, 1982 · aged 69
Budd Knapp was born Wilfrid Arthur Knapp on 9 January 1913 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Front Row Center, Festival and Armchair Theatre. He was married to Pat Knapp. He died on 6 August 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Known For
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger · 1960Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
★ 7.31960
MovieDramaMystery
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
In Praise of Older Women · 1978In Praise of Older Women
★ 5.31978
MovieDramaRomance
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Johnny Concho · 1956Johnny Concho
★ 4.51956
MovieWestern
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
The Great American Pastime · 1956The Great American Pastime
★ 7.01956
MovieComedy
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son on the team causes problems with his wife.
Riel · 1979Riel
★ 6.01979
MovieDramaHistory
A film about the history and fate of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.
Kings and Desperate Men · 1981Kings and Desperate Men
★ 5.51981
MovieDramaThriller
A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their manifesto out to the world.
The Point · 1978The Point
★ 8.01978
MovieDocumentary
This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.
The Girl He Left Behind · 1956The Girl He Left Behind
★ 4.51956
MovieComedyDrama
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.







