Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.
Full Cast of Jake and The Kid
Gabrielle Rose
Violet Bowdery
Michael Hogan
Gate
Andrew Airlie
Frank Walker
Jay Brazeau
Professor Claudius T. Winesinger
Chad Krowchuk
Tim Walker , Jackie Whitbread
Tom Cavanagh
Paul Krause
Susan Hogan
Esther
Patricia Harras
Julia Osborne (widowed mother)
Allison Hossack
Donna
William S. Taylor
Clarence 'Big Cat'
Rebecca Jenkins
Singer
Kyle Mitchell
Bus Boy(uncredited)
Nicholas Lea
Tony Edwards
Dean McDermott
Daniel Osborne , Daniel Osborne (Ben's Father)
Stuart Margolin
Ted Templeton
Graham Greene
Chief Fly Like an Arrow
Hrothgar Mathews
The Major
Frank C. Turner
Otto
James MacDonald
Louis
David LeReaney
George Solway
Jonathon Young
Troy
Crew of Jake and The Kid
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