Sean Sullivan
Date of birth: 1921-12-26
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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.
Movie Credits
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968-04-02
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins
Dr. Frankenstein on Campus
1970-04-10
Viktor Frankenstein, expelled from Ingoldstat U for doing weird experiments and for acting a bit loo
The Dead Zone
1983-10-21
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's ho
Atlantic City
1980-09-03
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thro
The Silent Partner
1978-09-07
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch
The Boy in Blue
1986-01-17
Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dram
Deadly Harvest
1977-08-21
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding ci
Heavenly Bodies
1984-02-01
A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.
Why Rock the Boat?
1974-09-26
A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and j
The Skin of Our Teeth
1983-01-18
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and
Mrs. Soffel
1984-12-26
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. E
Crossbar
1979-07-21
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly pers
The Starlost: The Beginning
1980-01-01
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door
Adulterous Affair
1966-03-01
An ex-stripper falls for a blackmailer.
The Hard Part Begins
1973-10-25
The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer.
During One Night
1961-02-01
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly consci
The Long Shadow
1961-07-31
Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the
Face-Off
1971-11-12
A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union i
Pinocchio’s Birthday Party
1974-10-01
It's Pinocchio's sixth birthday, and Geppetto, the Good Fairy, and Pinocchio's friends throw him a m
Nobody Waved Goodbye
1964-08-13
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live
Nothing Personal
1980-03-28
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to pr
A Further Glimpse of Joey
1966-01-01
Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the epon
In Defense of Kids
1983-04-06
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she dec
David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
1964-01-01
A married couple doesn't communicate.
One Man
1977-04-26
In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been
The Young Ones
1961-12-19
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a n
Springhill
1972-05-05
Docudrama about the 1958 Canadian mining disaster
Gang War
1962-01-01
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.
Here I Will Nest
1942-03-31
The life and career of the founder of Southwestern Ontario, Thomas Talbot.
The Sloane Affair:
1972-01-02
The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National
Best Revenge
1984-10-19
When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks