Jeff Wincott Movies
Lead actor, onscreen from the '80s. ~ All Movie Guide- 1980
This weekly Canadian series could be classified as a continuing drama, though each episode was a self-contained story despite its connection to previous and future installments. Set in Toronto during WWII, the series' focus was on the Lowe family, headed by general practitioner Dr. Arthur Lowe (Gerard Parkes) and his Jewish-refugee wife Anna (Kim Yaroshevskaya), a former nurse. The Lowes had two children: daughter Terry (Wendy Crewson) who worked in a defense plant, and who found solace in the arms of news correspondent Bruce McLeod (Bruce Savage) after her husband was killed in the war; and son Sidney (Peter Spence), a air corps pilot who spent much of the duration in POW camp, but who returned after the war with a pregnant British wife in tow. Sideline characters included the family's "surrogate son," Anna's Polish nephew Jakob; and Dr. Lowe's nurse, Marge, who was replaced in the doctor's office by Arthur's wife Anna after signing up with the Red Cross. An outgrowth of a drama-workshop project developed by series co-creator Jim Purdy, the weekly, 60-minute Home Fires was seen from November 9, 1980 to November 28, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gerald Parkes, Kim Yaroshevskaya, (more)
This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre -- which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) -- stars that film's lead, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to her death from an abandoned schoolhouse. The quartet of kids promised to keep their complicity in the accident a secret. Now it's their prom night and they've got the jitters because they have recently been receiving phone calls and notes from an ominous, unknown individual claiming to have witnessed the girl's death and vowing revenge. At the prom, the four become fatal victims one by one of a mysterious, axe-wielding, masked, and hooded stalker. The many possibilities of the murderer's identity include Kim, who is the little dead girl's sister, her school-principal father (Leslie Nielsen), or her disc-jockey brother, Alex (Michael Tough). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, (more)
