Jackie Burroughs

Jackie Burroughs

1939-02-02 Lancashire, England, UK 63 Credits

Biography

Jacqueline Burroughs (February 2, 1939 – September 22, 2010) was an English-born Canadian actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jackie Burroughs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Small Town Murder Songs

Small Town Murder Songs

2010

as Olive

5.4
Acting

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local...

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

2010

as Mother Goose

7.1
Acting

Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missing. She leaves home to discover what that is.

Deck the Halls

Deck the Halls

2006

as Mrs. Ryor

5.6
Acting

Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be...

First Snow

First Snow

2006

as Maggie

6.1
Acting

A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

Martha Behind Bars

Martha Behind Bars

2005

as Big Martha

2.0
Acting

Dramatized film of Martha Stewart's recent trial, and her subsequent five-month prison sentence.

Bailey's Billion$

Bailey's Billion$

2005

as Constance Pennington

5.8
Acting

Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billi...

King's Ransom

King's Ransom

2005

as Granny

4.7
Acting

Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other p...

Snow

Snow

2004

as Lorna

7.1
Acting

Nick Snowden is reluctantly taking over the family business and with only three days before the big night, one of Nick's younger reindeer is stolen fr...

The Republic Of Love

The Republic Of Love

2004

as Betty

4.9
Acting

A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from th...

Going the Distance

Going the Distance

2004

as Mother Libby

5.5
Acting

Nick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lechero...

Cavedweller

Cavedweller

2004

as Grandma Windsor

5.9
Acting

A traumatic event sends a musician back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abus...

Rhinoceros Eyes

Rhinoceros Eyes

2004

as Mrs. Walnut

5.9
Acting

Rhinoceros Eyes is a fantastical coming-of-age story revolving around Chep, a young, reclusive prop-house employee who falls in love with a detail-obs...

Willard

Willard

2003

as Mrs. Stiles

6.1
Acting

Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry crea...

A Guy Thing

A Guy Thing

2003

as Aunt Budge

5.9
Acting

Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked wh...

On Their Knees

2001

as Flora

2.0
Acting

Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not...

Lost and Delirious

Lost and Delirious

2001

as Fay Vaughn

6.8
Acting

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that h...

An Avonlea Christmas

An Avonlea Christmas

1998

as Hetty King

7.4
Acting

An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indomitable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hetty King. When she suddenly collapses ...

Last Night

Last Night

1998

as The Runner

6.6
Acting

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Evidence of Blood

Evidence of Blood

1998

as Granny Dollar

6.5
Acting

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.

Platinum

Platinum

1997

2.0
Acting

An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal.

Elvis Meets Nixon

Elvis Meets Nixon

1997

as Dodger

7.0
Acting

A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

Bleeders

Bleeders

1997

as Lexie

4.4
Acting

A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although ...

Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village

Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village

1997

as Morag (voice)

5.2
Acting

Morag the Tulga Witch seeks revenge on her old enemy Logray, shaman of the Ewoks, who holds the magic Sunstar while she possesses it's darker half, th...

Night Owl

Night Owl

1993

as Dr. Matthews

2.3
Acting

New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; s...

Careful

Careful

1992

as Frau Teacher

6.0
Acting

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher

1992

as Narrator

Acting

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting o...

Distress Signals

Distress Signals

1991

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.

Whispers

Whispers

1990

as Mrs. Yancey

3.6
Acting

A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of ...

The Midday Sun

The Midday Sun

1990

as Lilian

Acting

Maggie is an ordinary Canadian girl with the best of intentions who has signed on to work in a Catholic mission in Zimbabwe. With an ample supply of e...

Road to Avonlea: The Movie

1990

9.0
Acting

After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While ...

Final Notice

Final Notice

1989

5.0
Acting

Detective Harry Stoner has only a few clues. A year ago someone mutilated the nude photos found in the city library's art books. And shortly after, a ...

Food of the Gods II

Food of the Gods II

1989

as Dr. Kate Travis

4.3
Acting

A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much bloo...

A Winter Tan

A Winter Tan

1988

as Maryse Holder

1.0
Acting

Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial cond...

A Winter Tan

A Winter Tan

1988

Director, Screenplay

1.0
Directing Writing

Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial cond...

Taking Care of Terrific

Taking Care of Terrific

1988

as Mrs. Forbes

Acting

14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered ...

Ewoks 1: Morag's Revenge

Ewoks 1: Morag's Revenge

1988

as Morag (voice)

Acting

Features "The Haunted Village", "The Cries of the Trees", "Rampage of the Phlogs" and "Sunstar vs. Shadowstone".

Ewoks 2: The Gupins and the Jindas

Ewoks 2: The Gupins and the Jindas

1988

as Morag (voice)

Acting

Features "To Save Deej", "The Land of the Gupins", "The Traveling Jindas" and "The Curse of the Jindas".

Ewoks 3: Wicket the Hero

Ewoks 3: Wicket the Hero

1988

as Morag (voice)

Acting

Features "Wicket's Wagon", "The Tree of Light", "Asha" and "Blue Harvest".

John and the Missus

John and the Missus

1987

as Missus

6.0
Acting

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stu...

A Judgment in Stone

A Judgment in Stone

1986

as Joan Smith

3.0
Acting

An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy...

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

1985

as Mrs. Amelia Evans

8.1
Acting

At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. Bu...

The Undergrads

The Undergrads

1985

as Nancy Galik

3.5
Acting

An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his gr...

The Care Bears Movie

The Care Bears Movie

1985

as Spirit (voice)

6.0
Acting

The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician's apprentice whose evil spel...

Neon, an Electric Memoir

1984

as Gloria Raposo

Acting

The film is a pop culture history of neon as told by Gloria Raposo, a show girl in love with all the tubes of colored light that illuminate the theate...

The Surrogate

The Surrogate

1984

as Woman at Anouk's

4.5
Acting

Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions ...

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

1984

as Emmaline Ozmondo Fingal

2.7
Acting

A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

The Wars

The Wars

1983

as Miss Davenport

4.0
Acting

Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his ...

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

1983

as Vera Smith

7.0
Acting

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which lea...

The Grey Fox

The Grey Fox

1982

as Kate

6.9
Acting

Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison. A genial and charming old...

The Intruder

The Intruder

1981

as Eleanor

6.0
Acting

An entertainer arrives to put on a show in a small town. It turns out that he has mystical powers that give each person a glowing aura, and forces the...

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

1981

as Katherine (voice)

6.5
Acting

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

The Kidnapping of the President

The Kidnapping of the President

1980

as Woman Agent

4.6
Acting

A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic...

Out of Our Fathers' House

Out of Our Fathers' House

1978

as Maria Mitchell

Acting

Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton and labor organizer "Mother" Mary Jones...

Gertrude & Alice in Passing

Gertrude & Alice in Passing

1978

as Gertrude Stein

Acting

This experiment in point of view, narrative structure, and time attempts to reproduce cinematically Gertude Stein's notion of a "continuous present." ...

125 Rooms of Comfort

125 Rooms of Comfort

1974

Acting

The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay and transvestite former musician who has been institutionalized in an asylum due to mental illness. In...

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

1974

as Carla

7.9
Acting

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Monkeys in the Attic

Monkeys in the Attic

1974

as Wanda

3.2
Acting

Two artsy/hippie couples sharing a townhouse play head-games with each other and with a pizza-delivery driver.

Running Time

Running Time

1974

as The Old Lady

Acting

This feature film is an exotic romp through the ’60s in song and dance. A fantasy that pokes fun not only at some hallowed institutions but at itself ...

A Fan's Notes

A Fan's Notes

1972

as Betty Blind

5.5
Acting

A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children

1970

as Jane

Acting

A hip psychiatrist teams up with an ex-addict to combat drug addiction in a small town in this pilot for "The Psychiatrist."

The Ernie Game

The Ernie Game

1968

as Gail

5.0
Acting

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their pare...

Bill's Hat

Bill's Hat

1967

Acting

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’...

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

1966

as Gail

Acting

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film...