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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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Small Town Murder Songs
2010
as Olive
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
2010
as Mother Goose
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
2006
as Mrs. Ryor
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
2006
as Maggie
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

Martha Behind Bars
2005
as Big Martha
Dramatized film of Martha Stewart's recent trial, and her subsequent five-month prison sentence.

Bailey's Billion$
2005
as Constance Pennington
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
2005
as Granny
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
2004
as Lorna
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
2004
as Betty
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
2004
as Mother Libby
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
2004
as Grandma Windsor
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
2004
as Mrs. Walnut
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
2003
as Mrs. Stiles
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
2003
as Aunt Budge
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
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
2001
as Fay Vaughn
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
1998
as Hetty King
An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indomitable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hetty King. When she suddenly collapses ...

Last Night
1998
as The Runner
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
1998
as Granny Dollar
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.

Platinum
1997
An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal.

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Dodger
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

Bleeders
1997
as Lexie
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
1997
as Morag (voice)
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
1993
as Dr. Matthews
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
1992
as Frau Teacher
The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher
1992
as Narrator
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
1991
as Self - Narrator (voice)
American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.

Whispers
1990
as Mrs. Yancey
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
1990
as Lilian
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
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
1989
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
1989
as Dr. Kate Travis
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
1988
as Maryse Holder
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
1988
Director, Screenplay
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
1988
as Mrs. Forbes
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
1988
as Morag (voice)
Features "The Haunted Village", "The Cries of the Trees", "Rampage of the Phlogs" and "Sunstar vs. Shadowstone".

Ewoks 2: The Gupins and the Jindas
1988
as Morag (voice)
Features "To Save Deej", "The Land of the Gupins", "The Traveling Jindas" and "The Curse of the Jindas".

Ewoks 3: Wicket the Hero
1988
as Morag (voice)
Features "Wicket's Wagon", "The Tree of Light", "Asha" and "Blue Harvest".

John and the Missus
1987
as Missus
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
1986
as Joan Smith
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
1985
as Mrs. Amelia Evans
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
1985
as Nancy Galik
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
1985
as Spirit (voice)
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
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
1984
as Woman at Anouk's
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
1984
as Emmaline Ozmondo Fingal
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

The Wars
1983
as Miss Davenport
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
1983
as Vera Smith
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
1982
as Kate
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
1981
as Eleanor
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
1981
as Katherine (voice)
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
1980
as Woman Agent
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
1978
as Maria Mitchell
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
1978
as Gertrude Stein
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
1974
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
1974
as Carla
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Monkeys in the Attic
1974
as Wanda
Two artsy/hippie couples sharing a townhouse play head-games with each other and with a pizza-delivery driver.

Running Time
1974
as The Old Lady
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
1972
as Betty Blind
A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
1970
as Jane
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
1968
as Gail
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
1967
"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
1966
as Gail
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...