Murray Westgate

Murray Westgate

Like most young men at the time with the outbreak of World War Two, Murray Westgate signed up to serve his country. He joined the Canadian navy and was posted to Halifax where he was trained as a wireless operator. On his discharge in 1945, he heard that a repertory company was being formed on the west coast and so he became a member of Vancouver`s first professional theatre company, Everyman Theatre, which had been formed in 1946 by Sydney Risk. A touring company resulted and Westgate and a group of young actors toured the West. He then joined the CBC in Vancouver and was cast in radio dramas for which the CBC Vancouver studios were famous. In 1949 he moved to Toronto where his voice was soon heard in many CBC network radio productions out of the Toronto studios, among them the long-running Sunday series which began as Stage 44, directed by Andrew Allan, and the Ford Television Theatre, produced by Allan Savage. Westgate won an ACTRA Award in 1979 for his work on the made-for-television movie, Tyler. He is probably best remembered by a certain age group for being the spokesman for Imperial Oil, appearing in commercials for 17 years, especially when they were a major sponsor of Hockey Night In Canada on the CBC. Westgate died at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

  • Title: Murray Westgate
  • Popularity: 0.577
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1918-04-16
  • Place of Birth: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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  • Also Known As: Arthur Murray Westgate
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Murray Westgate Movies

  • 1991
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    Scanners II: The New Order

    Scanners II: The New Order

    5.2 1991 HD

    A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John...

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  • 1972
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    The House Without a Christmas Tree

    The House Without a Christmas Tree

    7.2 1972 HD

    A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and...

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  • 1979
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    Crossbar

    Crossbar

    4.5 1979 HD

    The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a...

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  • 1984
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    A Matter of Sex

    A Matter of Sex

    7.5 1984 HD

    Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing...

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  • 1980
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    The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog

    The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog

    5.7 1980 HD

    The story of a champion Eskimo sled dog named Kavik who survives a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska and is found and cared for by a young boy named...

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  • 1974
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    Sunday in the Country

    Sunday in the Country

    6.4 1974 HD

    Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is...

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  • 1977
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    Rituals

    Rituals

    6.115 1977 HD

    Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.

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  • 1977
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    Tell Me My Name

    Tell Me My Name

    1 1977 HD

    Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption...

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  • 1982
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    Shock-Trauma

    Shock-Trauma

    1 1982 HD

    Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his...

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  • 1980
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    F.D.R.: The Last Year

    F.D.R.: The Last Year

    7.5 1980 HD

    Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day...

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  • 1981
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    Happy Birthday to Me

    Happy Birthday to Me

    6.062 1981 HD

    Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take...

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  • 1984
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    Heavenly Bodies

    Heavenly Bodies

    5.6 1984 HD

    A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.

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  • 1979
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    Torn Between Two Lovers

    Torn Between Two Lovers

    6.5 1979 HD

    Diane is happily married. But, one day while travelling she meets a dashing architect. With some relief, she parts ways with him at the airport, her...

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  • 1980
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    Fish Hawk

    Fish Hawk

    6.5 1980 HD

    A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on...

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  • 1979
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    Running

    Running

    6.8 1979 HD

    An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.

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  • 1973
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    Class of '44

    Class of '44

    5.9 1973 HD

    During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school...

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  • 1974
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    Last Bride Of Salem

    Last Bride Of Salem

    6 1974 HD

    A woman tries to protect her family from supernatural forces who are trying to take control.

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  • 1973
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    She Cried Murder

    She Cried Murder

    6.2 1973 HD

    Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the...

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  • 1982
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    Honeyboy

    Honeyboy

    1 1982 HD

    Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not...

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  • 1980
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    The Kidnapping of the President

    The Kidnapping of the President

    4.6 1980 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer

    5.2 1973 HD

    Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after another - including attending their own funeral...

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  • 1973
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    The Borrowers

    The Borrowers

    6 1973 HD

    An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.

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  • 1982
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    Knight Rider

    Knight Rider

    7.552 1982 HD

    Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a...

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