Thomas King

Thomas King

Writing
1943-04-24
Sacramento, California, USA

Biography

Thomas King is an American-Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about North America's First Nations.

Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles

#1Heritage Minutes

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Tommy Prince

7.3 / 10
Documentary

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

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#2Private Eyes

Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes as Thomas King

7.3 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

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#3Inconvenient Indian

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Narrator (voice)

1.0 / 10
Documentary

Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Latimer will take viewers on a journey into the mind of one of the world’s foremost Indigenous intellectuals, and one of our greatest storytellers: Thomas King.

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#4Medicine River

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Lester

7.5 / 10
ComedyDramaTV Movie

When photographer Will returns home for his mother's funeral he gets more than he bargained for from a strange cast of characters on the reservation.

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