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Norm Berketa is a Actor Canadien born on 23 august 1963
Norm Berketa (born 23 August 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian character actor and voice actor based in Ottawa.
He is best known for his acting roles in television and films such as H20, Beyond Borders, Lost Junction, Big Wolf on Campus, Secret Agent Man and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. More recently he has done voice-overs for animation such as Toad Patrol, Hoze Houndz and Zeroman.
Prior to acting, Berketa was interested in music in the entertainment industry and started-out playing drums and guitar in rock bands Al's Garage and Silent Q respectively. After a successful summer with Silent Q, the band re-structured and became The Initiatives.
After a short while Berketa began his solo music endeavor by purchasing some analog recording equipment and building an analog studio. To date he has over 300 original songs to his credit, and he has fully converted his studio to digital.
Eight years later, he left of retail management in 1996 and began doing dinner theatre and radio in Ottawa. In August 1998, he secured his first TV role and has been acting ever since.
Berketa currently lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.
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Norman Mikeal Berketa was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1963, but came to Ottawa in 1969.He is best known for his acting roles in television and films such as H20, Beyond Borders, Lost Junction, Big Wolf on Campus, Secret Agent Man and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. More recently he has done voice-overs for animation such as Toad Patrol, Hoze Houndz and Zeroman.
Prior to acting, Berketa was interested in music in the entertainment industry and started-out playing drums and guitar in rock bands Al's Garage and Silent Q respectively. After a successful summer with Silent Q, the band re-structured and became The Initiatives.
After a short while Berketa began his solo music endeavor by purchasing some analog recording equipment and building an analog studio. To date he has over 300 original songs to his credit, and he has fully converted his studio to digital.
Eight years later, he left of retail management in 1996 and began doing dinner theatre and radio in Ottawa. In August 1998, he secured his first TV role and has been acting ever since.
Berketa currently lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.
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, 1h23Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Peinture
Actors Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly, Alain Goulem, Stephen McHattie, Paul Braunstein, Jon McLaren
Rating57%
Lars est un peintre danois en panne d'inspiration. Son manager l'envoie au fin fond du Canada pour enseigner l'art dans une école afin qu'il retrouve sa créativité. Il rencontre Lesley et afin de lui plaire, il accepte d'héberger Eddie, un élève muet et retardé. Après quelque temps de cohabitation, les deux hommes développent une amitié. Mais Lars se rend vite compte, que son pensionnaire souffre de somnambulisme et commet des atrocités pendant la nuit. Il se rend compte que ces faits lui redonne sa créativité et se remet à peindre.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
, 1h30Origin Canada
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Robert Englund, Trevor Matthews, Rachel Skarsten, David Fox, Daniel Kash, James A. Woods
Roles Man in Hardware Store
Rating58%
Le film met en scène Jack, jeune plombier dont la famille s'est fait décimer par un monstre dans sa jeunesse. Alors qu'il aide le professeur Crowley à réparer sa tuyauterie, un démon se réveille dans la maison et ne tarde pas à prendre possession du professeur.
I Me Wed (2007)
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Erica Durance, Paul Popowich, Cara Pifko, Janet-Laine Green, Vlasta Vrána, Meaghan Rath
Rating49%
When Isabel Darden, a successful, attractive 30-year-old woman, grows tired of people asking her "when are you going to get married?," she decides to honor the person she loves the most by tying the knot with herself. But then she meets a man and falls in love. When the man, Collin, finds out, he wants her to put a stop to it and save it for his and her wedding someday in the future. Although she kind of wants to, she can't since she is already noticed by the media and inspiring women all over the world. This is the essential conflict of the entire film - what should she do? It is awful. But at the end when she is about to get married, she explains to everyone about how she wanted a simple ceremony in the park with a sundress. Then she runs out of the room and then comes back with casual clothes instead of the wedding dress that was given to her for free.
My Daughter's Secret (2007)
, 1h34Directed by Douglas Jackson
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Nina Dobrev, Catherine Mary Stewart, Steve Byers, Meaghan Rath, Sophie Gendron, Norm Berketa
Roles Albert
Rating44%
Justine est une adolescente de 17 ans, très amoureuse de Brent. Sa mère, Denise, lui interdit de le fréquenter mais elle passe outre cette interdiction et se retrouve un soir, malgré elle, mêlée au braquage de la bijouterie dans laquelle travaille sa mère, à la suite d'une idée de Reggie, le frère de Brent. Les jours suivants, Denise constate un changement de comportement chez sa fille, ne sachant pas qu'elle lui cache ce lourd secret. Quant à Justine, elle ne sait pas si elle doit dénoncer son petit-ami, avouant par la même occasion son rôle de complice dans le braquage, ou bien continuer de se taire, afin que Brent ne soit pas envoyé en prison...
Beyond Borders (2003)
, 2h7Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Theresa Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich, Yorick van Wageningen
Roles Police Officer
Rating64%
While attending a fund-raising gala, Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie), a naive, married American socialite living in England, witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder – a renegade humanitarian, Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen). His plea made on behalf of impoverished children under his care turns Sarah's life upside down. Attracted to Nick and his cause, she impulsively abandons her job at an art gallery and sheltered life in England to work alongside him in his effort to aid the refugee camps. She travels to Ethiopia.
Lost Junction (2003)
Directed by Peter Masterson
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Neve Campbell, Jake Busey, Charles Edwin Powell, Billy Burke, David Gow, Michel Perron
Roles Mr. Thompson
Rating55%
A hitchhiking drifter (Billy Burke) has his life irrevocably changed when he meets a seductive young woman (Neve Campbell) who lures him into disposing of the body of her husband.
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
, 2h4Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Politic
Themes Spy films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Philip Baker Hall, Alan Bates, Michael Byrne
Roles American Scientist
Rating64%
In 2002, a Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field within the Golan Heights, and sells it to a South African arms dealer named Olson (Feore). Olson recognizes it as an Israeli nuclear weapon that was lost when the A-4 Skyhawk carrying it was shot down during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He later sells it to a secretive far-right cabal seeking to impose a white supremacist world order, led by Austrian billionaire and neo-Nazi Richard Dressler (Bates). Dressler's aim is to transform Europe into a united fascist superstate. He intends to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both.
The Score (2001)
, 2h4Directed by Robert De Niro, Frank Oz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Paul Soles
Rating67%
After nearly being caught on a routine burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) decides the time has finally come to retire. Nick's flight attendant girlfriend, Diane (Angela Bassett), encourages this decision, promising to fully commit to their relationship if he does indeed go straight. Nick, however, is lured into taking one final score by his fence Max (Marlon Brando). The job, worth a $4 million payoff to Nick, is to steal a sceptre, which is discovered to be a French national treasure. It was hidden in the leg of an antique piano and smuggled illegally into Canada, stored in the ultra-secure basement of the Montréal Customs House after accidentally being uncovered.
No Ordinary Baby (2001)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bridget Fonda, Mary Beth Hurt, Valerie Mahaffey, Philip Bosco, Adam LeFevre, Arnold Pinnock
Roles Michael O'Donnell
Rating51%
La femme d'un couple plus très jeune s'est fait inséminée dans un laboratoire dédié. C'est l'ADN de leur fille décédée qui a été utilisé. Mais une journaliste mise au courant par une fuite provenant d'une personne du laboratoire, va divulguer l'information et provoquer la polémique autour de ce clonage humain.