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Bruce Boa

Actor | * 07/10/1930 († 73, 04/17/2004) | Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most recognizable film role is in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as Carlist General Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash, plain-speaking American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad". ()
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Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Crime

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The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture L ...

The Empire Strikes Back

PG

1980 | 4.2/5 | 2h 4min
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. ...

Full Metal Jacket

R

1987 | 4.1/5 | 1h 57min
Drama, War
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James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who ...

Octopussy

PG

1983 | 3.1/5 | 2h 11min
Adventure, Action, Thriller
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SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers d ...

Screamers

R

1995 | 3.1/5 | 1h 48min
Horror, Science Fiction
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Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Ja ...

Department S

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1969 | 2.6/5 | 50min per episode
Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
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Movies with Bruce Boa as Actor(45)

as Amassador Kerens2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as Secretary Green1995 Screamers
as Mr. Anderson1993 For the Moment
as Bishop1993 The Neighbor
as Al Podgis1992 Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
as Clay Avery1991 White Light
as Bartlet1990 The Serpent of Death
as George Jackson1990 The Wreck on the Highway
as Pearse1989 The Forgotten
as Guard Supervisor1989 Slipstream
as Corrigan1989 Murder Story
as Byron Deckermensky1988 Hawks
as Donald Regan1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik
as Sheriff Jack Haynes1987 Three Wishes for Jamie
as Channel President1987 The Vision
as Poge Colonel1987 Full Metal Jacket
as McHenry1985 Gulag
as U.S. Advisor1985 Water
1985 Claudia
as Policeman1985 Return to Oz
as Henry Maturin1984 The Razor's Edge
as Surgeon1984 Scream for Help
as U.S. General1983 Octopussy
as Mr. Macy1982 A Woman Called Golda
as Jerome1981 Ragtime
as General Carlist Rieekan1980 The Empire Strikes Back
as Morgan Stanfield1980 A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
as Reporter1980 Silver Dream Racer
1979 One Fine Day
1979 Unidentified Flying Oddball
as Colonel1979 The London Connection
as Jump Master1979 A Man Called Intrepid
as Ed1977 Come Back, Little Sheba
as Thorn's Aide1976 The Omen
1975 Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
1974 Who?
1974 The Cherry Picker
as Professor Friedland1974 Who Killed Lamb?
as Commentator (voice)1973 Between the Anvil and the Hammer
as Nolan1970 Mister Jerico
as Detective1969 The Adding Machine
1968 The Franchise Trail
1965 Ballade vom roten Mohn
as Freddie1964 Stop-over Forever
as Roy1960 Man in the Moon

TV Shows/Series with Bruce Boa as Actor(33)

as Amassador Kerens1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Young Rocky1992 As Time Goes By
as Ambassador Kerens1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Nick Roosevelt1989 The Nightmare Years
as Hunnicutt1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Robert Hudson1985 Howards' Way
as Coltrane1985 Dempsey and Makepeace
as Don Luigi1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as Wallace Carlisle1982 Remington Steele
as Colonel Beadle1981 Astronauts
as Mr Groober1979 Tales of the Unexpected
1979 Hart to Hart
1978 Lillie
1976 Yanks Go Home
1976 The New Avengers
as Mr. Harry Hamilton1975 Fawlty Towers
as Hanley1973 Thriller
1972 Crown Court
as Captain Franks1971 The Onedin Line
as Freeling Poignton1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1969 Special Branch
1969 Counterstrike
as American Colonel1968 The Champions
1967 Man in a Suitcase
as Bill Douglas1965 The Troubleshooters
1965 Out of the Unknown
1963 Espionage
1962 Out of This World
as Mark1962 The Saint
as Jack Williams1962 The Saint
as Dr. Baird1962 Studio Four
1962 Z-Cars
1961 The Avengers

Full Name: Bruce Boa
Citizenship: Canada
Born: Thursday, 07/10 1930 (July) in Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
Died: Saturday, 04/17 2004 (April) in Surrey (aged: 73)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Educated at: Western University
Siblings: Marion Woodman, Fraser Boa
Other names for Bruce Boa (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Andrew Bruce Boa"
Bruce Boa frequently works together with these people:
Julian Glover (12x, Actor)
John Carson (11x, Actor)
Christopher Benjamin (10x, Actor)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (10x, Actor)
Peter Jeffrey (10x, Actor)
Vernon Dobtcheff (9x, Actor)
Derek Newark (9x, Actor)
Ed Bishop (9x, Actor)
Ray Austin (9x, Crew)
George A. Cooper (9x, Actor)
Geoffrey Chater (9x, Actor)
George Lucas (5x, Crew)
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