Toronto, Ontario
September 22, 2010
Jackie Burroughs was born when all of England and most of Europe dreaded the possibility of war and desperately hoped for peace. She was just eight-months-old when war broke out. Although far removed from London and the south coast where German bombers and rockets did their worst damage, Lancashire was bombed during the war. As recently as August 2010 an unexploded shell was found by workman digging a trench. Burroughs obviously survived, living through the war and growing up under the privations of a harsh rationing system that began shortly after the outbreak of the war and continued until July 4, 1954. But by then she had escaped, her family having left England like so many others, to come to Canada. They arrived in Toronto in 1952.
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The image above was scanned from an original German press kit for A Winter Tan in the Northernstars Collection. The poster for A Winter Tan was scanned from an original in the Northernstars Collection.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail (1966)
The Purse (1966)
The Ernie Game (1967)
Duclima (1969)
The Psychiatrist: God Bless The Children (TV-1970)
Eat Anything (1971)
Running Time (1974)
Monkeys in the Attic (1974)
125 Rooms of Comfort (1974)
My Pleasure Is My Business (1975)
Twelve and a Half Cents (1977)
Chairman of the Board (TV-1980)
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Heavy Metal (voice, 1981)
The Intruder (1981)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Gentle Sinners (1983)
Chautauqua Girl (1983)
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (TV-1983)
The Wars (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
All the Years (1984)
The Surrogate (1984)
Seduced (TV-1985)
Anne of Green Gables (TV-1985)
The Care Bear Movie (voice, 1985)
The Undergrads (TV-1985)
A Judgment in Stone (1986)
John and the Missus (1986)
Taking Care of Terrific (TV-1987)
A Winter Tan (1987)
I Vant to be Alone (TV-1988)
Carnival of Shadows (TV-1989)
The Midday Sun (1989)
Food of the Gods II (1989)
Final Notice (TV-1989)
Whispers (1989)
Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels (1991)
Careful (1992)
Night Owl (TV-1993)
Wolfseit (aka, The Age of Wolves, 1995)
How Dinosaurs Learned To Fly (narrator, 1995)
Platinum (TV-1997)
Bleeders (1997)
Elvis Meets Nixon (TV-1997)
Platinum (TV-1997)
Last Night (1998)
Evidence of Blood (TV-1998)
Happy Christmas, Miss King (TV-1998)
Have Mercy (1999)
Washed Up (2000)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
On Their Knees (2001)
Night`s Noontime (2002)
A Guy Thing (2003)
Willard (2003)
Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
The Republic of Love (2003)
The Winning Season (TV-2004)
Cavedweller (2004)
Going the Distance (2004)
The Limb Salesman (2004)
Snow (TV-2005)
Bailey’s Billion$ (2005)
Fever Pitch (2005)
King’s Ransom (2005)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Leo (2005)
Martha Behind Bars (TV-2005)
The Sentinel (2006)
Deck the Halls (2006)
First Snow (2007)
Skip Tracer (TV-2008)
Into the Labyrinth (2008)
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (voice, VR-2010)
Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
TV Series – Cast:
The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970)
Ewoks (voice, 1985)
Evergreen (1985, mini-series)
Road to Avonlea (1989-1996)
More Tales of the City (1998, mini-series)
Angela Anaconda (voice, 1999)
Cover Me (1999, mini-series)
Further Tales of the City (2001, mini-series)
Walter Ego (2005)
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