Ken Pogue
Date of birth: 1934-07-26
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Kenneth Pogue (July 26, 1934 – December 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. His first motion picture role in 1973 was in The Neptune Factor. Where on set he almost drowned in scuba gear.[citation needed] He worked on stage at the Crest Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Guthrie Theater in the 1960s through 1980s before moving to television and film. His other film credits include The Silent Partner (1978), Lost and Found (1979), Virus (1980), Suzanne (1980), The Grey Fox (1982), The Dead Zone (1983, as the vice president), Kane & Abel (1985), Act of Vengeance (1986), Dead of Winter (1987), Crazy Moon (1987), and The Hitman (1991), starring Chuck Norris. He was also Father Dominic in the 2006 film The Mermaid Chair.
Movie Credits
In the Lake of the Woods
1996-03-05
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering
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
The Silent Partner
1978-09-07
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch
Chaindance
1991-05-31
As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reyno
Lost and Found
1979-07-13
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced Briti
Crossfire Trail
2001-01-21
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that h
Welcome Home
1989-09-29
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the que
Run
1991-02-01
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessl
Bad Moon
1996-11-01
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himsel
Murder by Phone
1982-12-01
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murder
Final Descent
1997-10-12
An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full
Dead of Winter
1987-02-06
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually
Dangerous Intentions
1995-01-03
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
Wings of Courage
1995-06-16
In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable ai
Home Song
1996-03-20
A family struggles to overcome the past and forgive one another when a long buried secret surfaces.
Deck the Halls
2005-08-05
In the tradition of such classic films as "Miracle On 34th Street", a hip, eccentric marketing geniu
Johnson County War
2002-08-24
The three Hammett brothers, Cain, Harry and Dale are caught in a conflict that escalates rapidly and
Contagious
1997-01-22
When cholera-tainted shrimp from Mexico is served to people on a Los Angeles-bound plane, an outbrea
Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
2005-01-01
Teevee Tenia has a plan - he intends to persuade Lynx River to dump the RCMP and establish an all De
Someone Else's Child
1994-12-04
Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at
Louisiana
1984-01-25
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover
Shock-Trauma
1982-10-27
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights
Spearfield's Daughter
1986-05-25
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journ
Common Ground
1990-03-25
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court or
An Unexpected Life
1998-06-24
A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depe
Day One
1989-05-12
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the he
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980-05-15
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth
Crazy Moon
1987-12-11
Brooks is an eccentric rich kid, with a fondness for big band music, bow ties taking strange photog
Mafia Princess
1986-01-19
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his fa
Shadow of a Doubt
1996-12-03
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman
An American Christmas Carol
1979-12-16
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue at
The Hitman
1991-05-01
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts
The Grey Fox
1982-12-16
Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 a
The Amy Fisher Story
1993-01-03
The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.
Sherlock Holmes Returns
1993-09-12
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended a
Second Wind
1976-04-08
A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a lo
The Climb
1986-01-01
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
A Mother's Justice
1991-11-25
A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mo
A Time to Live
1985-10-27
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the tru
Out of Time
2000-05-17
A man awakwens after sleeping for 20 years to find that his small local town has changed for the wor
An Unexpected Family
1996-12-04
When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at
Suzanne
1981-09-18
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but
Sexual Advances
1992-05-10
Drama about a happily married career woman who falls victim to a management power play involving sex
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
My Son Johnny
1991-11-10
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent crimina
Keeping Track
1987-01-30
The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that eng
Harvest for the Heart
1994-04-17
Twenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to t
Perfect Witness
1989-10-28
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob kill
All the Winters that Have Been
1997-09-21
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) h
Virus
1980-06-26
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a p
The Liberators
1987-02-08
Act of Vengeance
1986-09-04
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and be
The 6th Day
2000-11-17
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cl
Blind Man's Bluff
1992-02-19
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by findin
Miracle at Moreaux
1986-01-01
On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given re
Hitting Home
1988-08-24
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hi
Where the Heart Is
1990-02-23
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
The July Group
1980-07-01
A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely t
The Ottawa Valley
1974-01-01
Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of he
Brotherhood of Murder
1999-12-12
Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.
Love and Treason
2001-03-07
Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason
Perry Mason Returns
1985-12-01
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
The Christmas Secret
2000-12-12
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discove
Monte Walsh
2003-01-17
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, bu
Still Not Quite Human
1992-01-01
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carso
The Suicide Murders
1985-01-01
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman
Dad's Week Off
1997-03-29
Henry Winkler stars as Jack, a stressed-out computer salesman who can't sell his company's defective
Hot Money
1983-01-01
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small t
The Windsor Protocol
1998-11-10
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to
Love & Larceny
1985-10-06
Besty Bigley, a notorious con-woman of the 1890s, alias Mrs. Chadwick, alias Pelvina de Vere, and a
War Brides
1980-09-20
War Brides is a Canadian television film that centres on four women, three from the United Kingdom a
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985-11-17
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now aw
The Magic of Ordinary Days
2005-01-30
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriag
A Dog Named Christmas
2009-11-29
A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to co
The Mermaid Chair
2006-09-09
When her mentally ill, elderly mother begins mutilating herself, Jessie (Kim Basinger) returns to he