Jan Rubeš
Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor. Born in Czechoslovakia, he graduated in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague. Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member of the Canadian Opera Company, he achieved recognition for his roles, as Boris in "Boris Godunov", Schigolch in "Lulu" and as Mephisto in "Faust". As well, he served as the company's director of touring and program development. Branching out into radio and, eventually, TV, he wrote and hosted from 1975-83 TVOntario's "Guess What?" and acted in many TV dramas, later receiving the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.145 |
| Birthday | 1920-06-06 |
| Place of Birth | Volyně, Czechoslovakia |
| Also Known As | Jan Rubes, |
1994
The Birds II: Land's End
3.972/54
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more...
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The Birds II: Land's End
1994
D2: The Mighty Ducks
6.211/651
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Duck...
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D2: The Mighty Ducks
1981
The Amateur
5.368/19
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...
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The Amateur
1985
Witness
7.1/1875
While protecting an Amish boy—the sole witness to a brutal murder—and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his...
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Witness
1985
One Magic Christmas
5.88/117
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gid...
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One Magic Christmas
1992
Devlin
6/4
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
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Devlin
1990
The Amityville Curse
4.021/121
After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of their closest friends to help renovate. Immediately uneasy...
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The Amityville Curse
2005
Our Fathers
6.5/11
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of...
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Our Fathers
1998
Music from Another Room
5.676/71
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl h...
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Music from Another Room
1995
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
5.694/18
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen h...
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Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
2000
The Christmas Secret
5.933/15
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas...
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The Christmas Secret
1994
Mesmer
6.025/20
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal mag...
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Mesmer
1987
Dead of Winter
6.033/120
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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Dead of Winter
1989
The Experts
4.635/49
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don'...
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The Experts
1977
Deadly Harvest
4.714/7
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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Deadly Harvest
1988
The Kiss
5.736/53
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to...
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The Kiss
2004
Daniel and the Superdogs
6.8/5
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog...
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Daniel and the Superdogs
2000
Believe
5.477/22
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives h...
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Believe
1989
Cold Front
5.125/8
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
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Cold Front
1999
What Katy Did
7/4
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on l...
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What Katy Did
1988
Blood Relations
4.417/12
A trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife... Dying for...
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Blood Relations
1988
Something About Love
6.875/4
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he...
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Something About Love
1988
No Blame
8/1
Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant an...
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No Blame
1992
The Witches of Eastwick
6/1
An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes...
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The Witches of Eastwick
1993
On My Own
5.8/5
Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in th...
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On My Own
1997
Sarabande
6.5/2
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels...
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Sarabande
1998
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
5/2
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1989
Blind Fear
5.25/4
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
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Blind Fear
1995
Roommates
5.823/31
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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Roommates
1985
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
5.667/3
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1990
Divided Loyalties
8/1
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks. During the time of the American Revolution, Britain faces insurrection in its American colonies. The Iroq...
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Divided Loyalties
1998
The White Raven
4/6
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second l...
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The White Raven
1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
6.088/148
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emot...
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1985
Charlie Grant's War
8/2
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
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Charlie Grant's War
1988
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
6/7
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing fami...
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
1991
Class Action
6.333/174
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...
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Class Action
2001
Anthrax
4.75/4
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the bla...
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Anthrax
1963
The Incredible Journey
6.644/118
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
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The Incredible Journey
1986
The Marriage Bed
8.5/2
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at h...
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The Marriage Bed
1991
Deceived
5.816/114
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a c...
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Deceived
1981
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
5/6
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to finan...
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1990
Descending Angel
5.5/6
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murder...
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Descending Angel
1990
Courage Mountain
5.893/15
At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.
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Courage Mountain
1994
Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
0/0
Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
1985
Murder in Space
5.333/6
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...
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Murder in Space
1996
Never Too Late
5.5/4
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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Never Too Late
1997
Flood: A River's Rampage
5.318/11
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit li...
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Flood: A River's Rampage
1981
Mr. Patman
4.667/6
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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Mr. Patman
1999
Nightmare Man
8/1
After recovering from a near-fatal wound, a cop develops the ability to see crime scenes through psychic flashes.
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Nightmare Man
1975
Lions for Breakfast
8/2
A man, a dog, and two boys travel together by bus, including a tour through a safari park.
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Lions for Breakfast
2002
The Burial Society
6/7
In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates the mysterious world of the Chevrah Kadisha...
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The Burial Society
1990
F-E-D-A
0/0
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F-E-D-A
1994
Boozecan
6.5/2
The owner of an after-hours bar dreams of opening a legitimate establishment.
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