A Bear Named Winnie

A Bear Named Winnie

90 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 12, 2004

Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.

A Bear Named Winnie

90 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 12, 2004

A Bear Named Winnie
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Power, Original Pictures
Original title A Bear Named Winnie
Directors John Kent Harrison
Writers Simon Vaughan, John Kent Harrison, John Goldsmith

Cast

Gil Bellows

as Colonel Barrett

Stephen Fry

as Protheroe

David Suchet

as General Hallholland

Jonathon Young

as Macray

Aaron Ashmore

as Corporal Randy Taylor

Ted Atherton

as Captain Elliot

Robert Gauvin

as Sgt. Major Picard

Joshua Ballard

as Timmy

Miriam Smith

as Timmy's Mother

Arne MacPherson

as Wallace

Nathan Valente

as Evans

Stan Lesk

as George

Chris Sigurdson

as Major Crawford

Carson Nattrass

as Captain Osbourn

Jon Ted Wynne

as Conductor

Robert Huculak

as Company Captain

Mark Burgess

as Father

Glen Thompson

as Dispatch Rider

Rebecca Gibson

as Nurse

Emma Campbell

as Mrs. McGuiness

Chrislyn Austin

as Muriel

Dave Leader

as Cowboy Wrangler

Michael Fassbender

as Harry Colebourn