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Hugh Thompson

Hugh Thompson

Acting

Biography

Hugh Thompson is a Canadian stage and screen actor known for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111, Black Harbour and Forgive Me. Thompson won the Gemini Award for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111. He was nominated for an ACTRA Award and a Canadian Screen Award for his work on Forgive Me. For his theatre work, Thompson was honored by the Robert Merritt Awards for his performances in Whale Riding Weather in 2013 for The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 2012, for Kingfisher Days in 2018, and was nominated for his work in Jacob's Wake in 2004 and Some Blow Flutes in 2019. His other film credits have included Noise, Whole New Thing, Poor Boy's Game, Copperhead, Splinters and Stage Mother.

Known For

Heritage Minutes
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Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

Heritage Minutes

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