Jackie Burroughs

Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs (February 2, 1939 – September 22, 2010) was an English-born Canadian actress.

Life and career

Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

's Stratford Festival. Her film credits included The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone (film)

The Dead Zone is a 1983 horror-thriller film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film stars Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Tom Skerritt...

(1982), The Grey Fox

The Grey Fox (film)

The Grey Fox is a 1982 Canadian film written by John Hunter and directed by Phillip Borsos. It is based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged Canada's first train robbery on September 10, 1904. The film stars Richard Farnsworth as Miner...

(1982), and a voice-over stint in the legendary animated anthology Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal (film)

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian fantasy-animated film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine....

(1981), while her TV-series résumé includes the roles of Mrs. Amelia Evans in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)

Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...

(1985) and Hetty King in Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...

(1990). In 1987, Jackie Burroughs produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in A Winter Tan

A Winter Tan

A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder....

, a film based on the letters of Maryse Holder, published in 1979 as the book Give Sorrow Words – Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico. She won a Genie award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for the film. She won several Genies and Geminis during her career. Her first award was the 1969 Canadian Film Award

Canadian Film Award

The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually except in 1974 when Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation that year....

 for best actress, for starring in the non-feature short film Duclima.

Burroughs played the voice of The Spirit in 1985's The Care Bears Movie

The Care Bears Movie

The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated film, the second feature production from the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films based directly on a toy line, it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions, the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, orphanage owners...

. She also played teacher Nancy Galik in The Undergrads (1985) opposite Art Carney

Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....

.

She was perhaps best known to American audiences for her portrayal of the fictional character, Hetty King, in the CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 series Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...

from 1990 to 1996. The series was based on the works of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE , called "Maud" by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success...

 and produced by Sullivan Entertainment. She also played Mother Mucca in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City

Tales of the City

Tales of the City refers to a series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in...

and Further Tales of the City. Burroughs again played a mother role in 2003's Willard

Willard (2003 film)

Willard is a 2003 horror film loosely based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert and a remake of the 1971 film of the same name...

.

She appeared in the 2006 film The Sentinel

The Sentinel (2006 film)

The Sentinel is a 2006 action thriller film about a veteran United States Secret Service bodyguard who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins...

. She also appeared in the Smallville

Smallville (TV series)

Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...

season one episode "Hourglass" as the elderly prophetess Cassandra Carver.

Personal life

Burroughs was married to Zalman Yanovsky, co-founder (with John Sebastian

John Sebastian

John Benson Sebastian Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000...

) of The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful is an American pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of "Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name...

; they separated in 1968. They had one daughter, Zoe (a restaurant owner and author in Kingston).

Death

Burroughs died at her home in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 on September 22, 2010, aged 71, after suffering from stomach cancer

Stomach cancer

Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
1966	The Purse		Short
1966	Wojeck Wojeck Wojeck is a Canadian dramatic television series, which aired on the CBC from 1966 to 1968. It was the first successful drama series on English Canadian television....	Heroin Addict	Episode: "All Aboard for Candyland"
1967	The Ernie Game The Ernie Game The Ernie Game is a 1967 Canadian drama film directed by Don Owen.Called "One of the most innovative examples of personal cinema to come from English Canada in the Sixties" by the Cinematheque Ontario, The Ernie Game was part of a proposed trio of works intended to celebrate the Canadian Centennial...	Gail
1970	The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour		TV series
1970	The Psychiatrist The Psychiatrist (TV series) The Psychiatrist is an American television series about a young psychiatrist with unorthodox methods of helping his patients. Roy Thinnes played the title role of Dr. James Whitman. Luther Adler co-starred as Dr. Bernard Altman, the older psychiatrist with whom Whitman worked...	Jane	Episode: "God Bless the Children"
1971	Eat Anything
1972	Norman Corwin Presents		Episode: "The Discovery"
1974	Running Time	The old lady
1974	Monkeys in the Attic	Wanda
1974	125 Rooms of Comfort	Bobbie Kidd
1975	My Pleasure is My Business	Old lady at pool (uncredited)
1977	Twelve and a Half Cents	Mother
1978	Great Performances Great Performances Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service public television since 1972...	Maria Mitchell	Episode: "Out of Our Father's House"
1980	Chairman of the Board		TV movie
1980	The Kidnapping of the President The Kidnapping of the President The Kidnapping of the President is a 1980 political thriller film made by Presidential Films and Sefel Films and distributed by Crown International Pictures. It was produced and directed by George Mendeluk and co-produced by John Ryan from a screenplay by Richard Murphy and Charles Templeton,...	Woman Agent
1981	Chairman of the Board	Prof. Hannah Cohen	TV series
1981	Heavy Metal Heavy Metal (film) Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian fantasy-animated film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine....	Katherine (voice)	Segment: "Den"
1981	The Intruder	Eleanor
1982	The Grey Fox	Katherine 'Kate' Flynn
1983	Gentle Sinners	Mrs. Smith
1983	Chautauqua Girl	Mrs. Ferguson
1983	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank Overdrawn at the Memory Bank Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was a 1983 television movie. It was produced by Canada’s RSL Productions in Toronto. Financing was provided by WNET/PBS New Jersey, which had hoped to create an entire science fiction series adapting famous works, but due to lack of funding this was the last of three...	Emmaline Ozmondo Fingal	TV movie
1983	The Wars The Wars The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977.-Plot overview:...	Miss Davenport
1983	The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (film) The Dead Zone is a 1983 horror-thriller film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film stars Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Tom Skerritt...	Vera Smith
1984	All the Years		Short
1984	The Surrogate The Surrogate (1984 film) The Surrogate is a 1984 Canadian thriller film starring Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Shannon Tweed, and Jackie Burroughs. The film was written by Don Carmody and Robert Geoffrion, produced by Don Carmody and John Dunning, executively produced by André Fleury and André Link and directed by Don Carmody...	Woman at Anouk's
1985	Evergreen	Dorothy	TV miniseries
1985	Seduced	Mrs. Riordan	TV movie
1985	The Care Bears Movie The Care Bears Movie The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated film, the second feature production from the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films based directly on a toy line, it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions, the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, orphanage owners...	The Spirit (voice)
1985	The Undergrads	Nancy Galik
1985	The All New Ewoks	Morag the Tulgah Witch (voice)	3 episodes
1985	Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...	Mrs. Amelia Evans	TV movie
1986	A Judgment in Stone	Joan Smith
1987	Taking Care of Terrific	Mrs. Forbes	TV movie
1987	A Winter Tan A Winter Tan A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder....	Maryse Holder
1987	John and the Missus John and the Missus John and the Missus is a 1986 Canadian drama film. The film was directed by and starred Gordon Pinsent who wrote the screenplay from his 1974 novel of the same name.- Plot :...	Missus
1988	I Vant to be Alone		TV short
1989	Carnival of Shadows		TV movie
1989	The Twilight Zone	Jean Reed	Episode: "Many, Many Monkeys Many, Many Monkeys "Many, Many Monkeys" is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone, first broadcast in 1989. The episode has an unusual history: it was written in 1964 for the final season of the show's original black-and-white run by producer William Froug, but though CBS bought the script, they chose... "
1989	Food of the Gods II Food of the Gods II Food of the Gods II, sometimes referred to as Gnaw: Food of the Gods II as well as Food of the Gods part 2, is a 1989 film that is a very loose sequel to the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film based on H.G. Wells' novel, The Food of the Gods. It is a sequel in name only, as its plot bears no relation to the...	Dr. Kate Travis
1989	Final Notice		TV movie
1990	Whispers	Mrs. Yancey
1990–1996	Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...	Hetty King	90 episodes
1991	Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels	Elizabeth Smart
1992	Careful	Frau Teacher
1993	Night Owl Night Owl (film) Night Owl, a 1993 vampire film shot in New York's Alphabet City and directed by Jeffrey Arsenault, starred John Leguizamo and James Raftery as Jake, a brooding vampire/squatter who picks up women in nightclubs and while having sex with them, slices their necks with a matte knife and drinks their...	Dr. Matthews	TV movie
1995	How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly	Narrator (voice)	Short
1995	Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years	Ozza Starks	Episode: "The Hanging"
1997	O Canada O Canada (TV series) O Canada was an animated television anthology series, broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network.Shown mainly on Sunday nights at 12:00 midnight ET, O Canada featured a selection of animated shorts from Canada, mostly from the archives of the National Film Board of Canada.The title of the...	Voices	TV series
1997	Bleeders Bleeders (film) Bleeders is a horror movie released in 1997, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear".-Plot:John and Kathleen Strauss are a couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. Along the way, they encounter Dr. Marlowe , who is intrigued by the case...	Lexie
1997	Elvis Meets Nixon Elvis Meets Nixon Elvis Meets Nixon is a 1997 film purporting to tell the true story of Elvis Presley meeting then President Richard Nixon on December 21, 1970.- Plot :...	Dodger
1997	Due South Due South Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...	Gladys Caunce	Episode: "Eclipse"
1997	Platinum	Sir Ian Ball-Worthington	TV movie
1998	More Tales of the City	Mona "Mother Mucca" Ramsey	TV miniseries
1998	Heritage Minute Heritage Minute Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies...	Additional Cast	Episode: "Rural Teacher"
1998	Evidence of Blood	Granny Dollar	TV movie
1998	Last Night	The Runner
1998	Happy Christmas, Miss King	Hetty King	TV movie
1999	Cover Me	Caitlin Crawford	TV miniseries
1999	Have Mercy	Lulu
1999	Angela Anaconda Angela Anaconda Angela Anaconda is a Canadian cutout animation television series that aired on the channels Teletoon and Fox Family. It centers on the adventures of an eight-year-old girl named Angela who lives in the fictional town of Tapwater Springs, has wacky brothers, weird friends, and hates a snobbish...		TV series
2000	Washed Up	Tosca
2001	Lost and Delirious Lost and Delirious Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...	Fay Vaughn
2001	Further Tales of the City	Mona "Mother Mucca" Ramsey	TV miniseries
2001	On Their Knees	Flora
2001	Smallville Smallville Smallville is the hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. While growing up in Smallville, the young Clark Kent attended Smallville High with best friends Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross...	Cassandra Carver	Episode: "Hourglass"
2002	The Pilot's Wife The Pilot's Wife The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent...	Julia (uncredited)	TV movie
2002	Night's Noontime	Queen Victoria	Short
2003	Just Cause Just Cause (TV series) Just Cause is an award-winning Canadian legal drama television series produced by Mind's Eye Entertainment. Filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia but the series is set in San Francisco, California.-Plot:...	Lily Zimmer	Episode: "Death's Details"
2003	A Guy Thing A Guy Thing - Plot :Karen and Paul are about get married. However, after his bachelor party, Paul wakes up next to Becky , a dancer at the party. Assuming they slept together, Paul rushes Becky out of his apartment and hopes never to see her again. He tries to cover up the connection for the few days before...	Aunt Budge
2003	The Industry Made in Canada Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....	Helga Lemper	Episode: "Beaver Creek Valentine"
2003	Mystery Ink	True Crimes Performer	TV series
2003	Willard Willard (2003 film) Willard is a 2003 horror film loosely based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert and a remake of the 1971 film of the same name...	Mrs. Stiles
2003	Dead Like Me Dead Like Me Dead Like Me was an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons...	Florence	Episode: "Reaping Havoc"
2003	Rhinoceros Eyes	Mrs. Walnut
2003	The Republic of Love The Republic of Love The Republic of Love is a 2003 Canada/United Kingdom romantic comedy film drama directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based on the novel of the same name by Carol Shields and starring Bruce Greenwood and Emilia Fox. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003...	Betty
2004	The Eleventh Hour	Arlene Garwood	Episode: "Georgia"
2004	The Winning Season	Mrs. Young	TV movie
2004	Cavedweller	Grandma Windsor
2004	Going the Distance	Mother Libby
2004	Re-Generation	Grandmother
2004	Snow Snow (2004 film) Snow is a Christmas-themed film starring Tom Cavanagh and Ashley Williams that premiered in 2004 on the ABC television network, and was also shown on the ABC Family cable network later the same year...	Lorna	TV movie
2005	Bailey's Billion$ Bailey's Billion$ Bailey's Billion$ is a 2005 Canadian movie starring Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim Curry and Jon Lovitz.-Plot:Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billion-dollar fortune...	Constance Pennington
2005	Walter Ego Walter Ego Walter Ego was a Canadian television sitcom pilot, which aired on CBC Television on January 3, 2005.The show starred Peter Keleghan as cartoonist Walter Davis, whose friends and family often provide fodder for his successful comic strip...		TV series
2005	Fever Pitch Fever Pitch (2005 film) Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...	Mrs. Warren
2005	Leo	Felicity	Short
2005	Martha Behind Bars	Big Martha	TV movie
2005	Slings and Arrows Slings and Arrows Slings and Arrows is a Canadian TV series set at the fictional New Burbage Festival, a Shakespearean festival similar to the real-world Stratford Festival...	Moira	Episode: "Season's End" Episode: "Fallow Time"
2005	King's Ransom King's Ransom King's Ransom is a 2005 comedy film, directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd and written by Wayne Conley, who was a writer for Kenan & Kel.-Plot:Malcolm King is a wealthy, selfish, obnoxious businessman who is about to divorce his wife Renee...	Grandma
2006	The Sentinel The Sentinel (2006 film) The Sentinel is a 2006 action thriller film about a veteran United States Secret Service bodyguard who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins...	Mrs. Miller (uncredited)
2006	Deck the Halls Deck the Halls (film) Deck the Halls is a 2006 family comedy film set during the Christmas season in Massachusetts. It stars Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, and Kristin Chenoweth and is directed by John Whitesell.- Plot :...	Mrs. Ryor
2006	First Snow	Maggie
2008	Skip Tracer	Florence	TV movie
2008	Into the Labyrinth	Ariadne
2009	Sophie Sophie (TV series) Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...	Aunt Sheil	Episode: "Stolen Kisses"
2010	Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	(voice)	Video
2010	Small Town Murder Songs Small Town Murder Songs Small Town Murder Songs is a 2010 Canadian crime-thriller directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival September 14, 2010...	Olive

External links

(A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group)

• Images of Jackie Burroughs from the Toronto Telegram fonds at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University