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Prolific Canadian character actor Sean McCann, best known for playing Lt. Jim Hogan on the 1980s CBS police drama Night Heat, has died. He was 83.

McCann, who appeared in more than 150 movies and TV series over nearly six decades, died June 13 in Toronto due to complications from heart disease, his agent, Karen Law Wanstall, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

His screen credits included playing Frank Rittenhauer in Chris Farley's Tommy Boy, a judge in the Oscar-winning Chicago and O'Brien in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

Born on Sept. 24, 1935, in Windsor, Ontario, McCann made his acting debut in ...

Prolific Canadian character actor Sean McCann, best known for playing Lt. Jim Hogan on the 1980s CBS police drama Night Heat, has died. He was 83.

McCann, who appeared in more than 150 movies and TV series over nearly six decades, died June 13 in Toronto due to complications from heart disease, his agent, Karen Law Wanstall, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

His screen credits included playing Frank Rittenhauer in Chris Farley's Tommy Boy, a judge in the Oscar-winning Chicago and O'Brien in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

Born on Sept. 24, 1935, in Windsor, Ontario, McCann made his acting debut in ...

So much for the Eagles’ spectacular win. The Internet was obsessing over owls on Sunday night.

As you may have noticed a seemingly odd, yet utterly adorable phrase was trending on Twitter before and during the big game: “Superb owl.” But why?

Well, it doesn’t take the wisest owl in the parliament to figure it out. The simplest explanation is that it all started with a frequent typo, according to Google.

Searches for 'Superb Owl' spike during the #Superbowl each year pic.twitter.com/TZaG3bvmSD

— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) February 5, 2017

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But the most obvious explanation is that football fans,...

‘Judgment at Nuremberg,’ Martin Luther King Day documentaries, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’: Library of Congress’ Packard Theater January 2014 movies (photo: Maximilian Schell in ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’) Judgment at Nuremberg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Roger & Me, Pulp Fiction, and Ella Cinders, five National Film Registry 2013 additions will be screened at the LoC’s Packard Campus Theater in January 2014. Directed by the invariably well-intentioned — at times heavy-handedly so — Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a surprisingly effective dramatization of the Nazi War Trials. The generally first-rate cast includes Best Actor Academy Award winner Maximilian Schell, Best Actor nominee Spencer Tracy, Best Supporting Actor nominee Montgomery Clift (who reportedly worked for no fee), Best Supporting Actress nominee Judy Garland, Richard Widmark, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, and a pre-Star Trek William Shatner. Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) earned Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis Oscars, in...

Toronto -- Sundance Channel on Monday finally got round protectionist barriers to launch in Canada under a licensing agreement with Rainbow Media Holdings.

Sundance Channel Canada broke out of the gates here with a screening of Quebec director Robert Lepage's 2000 indie feature "Possible Worlds," which starred Tilda Swinton and Sean McCann.

To circumvent barriers to entry for the U.S. service, Canadian broadcaster Corus Entertainment rebranded its former Drive-In Classics cable channel as a Canadianized Sundance Channel with a schedule built around six programming blocks of genre-focused movies and TV series.

The Sundance Channel, which launched in 1996, in 2001 was denied entry into the Canadian market by the Crtc on grounds it would compete with existing Canadian movie channels.