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March 23, 1943 (age 81) Union City, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, screenwriter, producer. Spouse. Martha Gibson. Louis Del Grande (born March 23, 1943) is a Canadian-American television writer and actor. He is best known for starring in the Canadian mystery/comedy series Seeing Things .
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- March 23, 1943 (age 80), Union City, New Jersey, U.S.
Actor. Writer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:04. The Second Time Around (2016) More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Louis Del Grande was born in 1943 in Union City, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Scanners (1981), Seeing Things (1981) and Speed Zone (1989). Born 1943. Add photos, demo reels.
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Louis Del Grande (born March 23, 1943) is a Canadian-American television writer and actor. He is best known for starring in the Canadian mystery/comedy series Seeing Things.
Jul 15, 2014 · July 15, 20146:52 PM. Actor Louis Del Grande with his famous exploding head. Still from YouTube. When I wrote a history of fake movie blood last fall, there was at least one effect I never...
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Born in NJ; raised in Union City, NJ; married Martha Gibson (an actress); children: three. Career:Actor, writer, and producer. Member:Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. Awards, Honors: Gemini awards (with others), Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, best comedy series, 1986 and 1987, best performance by a lead actor i...
Film Appearances:
Frederick, Monkeys in the Attic,Ambassador Film Distributors, 1974. (Uncredited) Howie, Second Wind,Ambassador Film Distributors, 1976, Health and Entertainment Corporation of America, 1980. Mr. Shapiro, Atlantic City,Paramount, 1980. First scanner, Scanners (also known as Telepathy 2000), Avco–Embassy, 1981. Surgeon, Happy Birthday to Me,Columbia, 1981. Clete, Of Unknown Origin,Warner Bros., 1983. Mr. Benson, Speed Zone! (also known as Cannonball Fever), Orion, 1989. The prime minister, Buri...
Television Appearances; Series:
Louis Ciccone, Seeing Things,CBC, 1981–87, also broadcast on PBS.
Television Appearances; Movies:
Richard, Home to Stay,CBS, 1978. Clarence, The FamilyChannel, 1990. Sanity Clause,1990. What Are Families For?,1993. Chuckie English, Sugartime,HBO, 1995. Markie, North Shore Fish,Showtime, 1997. Let Me Call You Sweetheart (also known as Mary Higgins Clark's "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"), The FamilyChannel, 1997. Frank Stonehouse, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,ABC, 1998. Sean the bartender, Family of Cops III,CBS, 1999.
Teleplays; with Others; Series:
Seeing Things,CBC, 1981–87, also broadcast on PBS.
Teleplays; Movies:
Sanity Clause,1990.
Jul 15, 2014 · There’s a clinical, forensic approach in these films, which carries over into Scanners—the exploding-head effect occurs in what seems to be an academic setting, during a lecture delivered by a “psychic anomaly” (Louis Del Grande) to a roomful of executives, scientists, and experts. It’s prefaced by a warning: “I must remind you that ...
Jan 14, 2021 · Scanners – exploding head. The exploding head — the iconic image most associated with the film — was a plaster and gelatin duplicate of the head of actor Louis Del Grande that was filled ...
