André Morell

André Morell

Born: August 20, 1909
Died: November 28, 1978
in Saint Pancras, London, England, UK
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André Morell (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978; sometimes credited as Andre Morell) was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's well-known horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968).

His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing a "commanding presence with a rich, responsive voice... whether in the classical or modern theatre he was authoritative and dependable."

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André Morell: Best of British
Title: André Morell: Best of British
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary about actor André Morell.
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The First Great Train Robbery
Title: The First Great Train Robbery
Character: Judge
Released: December 14, 1978
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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The Lord of the Rings
Title: The Lord of the Rings
Character: Elrond (voice)
Released: November 15, 1978
Type: Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
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Title: Life of Shakespeare
Character: Edward Alleyn
Released: June 13, 1978
Type: TV
Biography of William Shakespeare.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Brigadier Stadden
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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The Slipper and the Rose
Title: The Slipper and the Rose
Character: Bride's Father
Released: March 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the prince is determined to find and marry her.
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The Message
Title: The Message
Character: Abu-Talib
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.
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Barry Lyndon
Title: Barry Lyndon
Character: Lord Gustavos Adolphus Wendover
Released: December 18, 1975
Type: Movie
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Le Père Antonius
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Pope Joan
Title: Pope Joan
Character: Emperor Louis
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
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The Man and the Snake
Title: The Man and the Snake
Character: Dr. Druring
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues
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10 Rillington Place
Title: 10 Rillington Place
Character: Judge Lewis
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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Hell's Angel
Title: Hell's Angel
Character: Sir Geoffrey Wolf
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Cicero
Released: June 4, 1970
Type: Movie
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
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Title: Special Branch
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
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Title: The Caesars
Character: Tiberius
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Major Williams
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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The Vengeance of She
Title: The Vengeance of She
Character: Kassim
Released: April 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She, who must be obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, where she is destined to become queen.
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Dark of the Sun
Title: Dark of the Sun
Character: Bussier
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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The Mummy's Shroud
Title: The Mummy's Shroud
Character: Sir Basil Walden
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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The Wrong Box
Title: The Wrong Box
Character: Club Butler
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Title: Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Character: Marshal Tavannes
Released: February 26, 1966
Type: Movie
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
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Judith
Title: Judith
Character: Haim
Released: January 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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The Plague of the Zombies
Title: The Plague of the Zombies
Character: Sir James Forbes
Released: January 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
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The Siege of Manchester
Title: The Siege of Manchester
Character: Richard Heyrick
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
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She
Title: She
Character: Haumeid
Released: April 18, 1965
Type: Movie
The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Robert Stuart
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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The Moon-Spinners
Title: The Moon-Spinners
Character: Yacht Captain
Released: July 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
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Woman of Straw
Title: Woman of Straw
Character: Judge
Released: April 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Sir Desmond Shaw
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Bernhard Raxel
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Cash on Demand
Title: Cash on Demand
Character: Colonel Gore Hepburn
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
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The Shadow of the Cat
Title: The Shadow of the Cat
Character: Walter Venable
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: Danger Man
Released: September 11, 1960
Type: TV
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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Trouble in the Sky
Title: Trouble in the Sky
Character: Capt. Edward Manningham
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
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Title: International Detective
Character: Howard Conway
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Sextus
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Doctor Watson
Released: May 4, 1959
Type: Movie
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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The Giant Behemoth
Title: The Giant Behemoth
Character: Prof. James Bickford
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Gen. Guenther Hautmann
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Quatermass and the Pit
Character: Professor Bernard Quatermass
Released: December 22, 1958
Type: TV
A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
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The Camp on Blood Island
Title: The Camp on Blood Island
Character: Col. Lambert
Released: April 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Paris Holiday
Title: Paris Holiday
Character: American Ambassador
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
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Diamond Safari
Title: Diamond Safari
Character: Williamson
Released: February 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Col. Green
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Character: Commissioner Breckner
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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Zarak
Title: Zarak
Character: Maj. Atherton
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Governor
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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The Baby and the Battleship
Title: The Baby and the Battleship
Character: Marshal
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
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The Black Tent
Title: The Black Tent
Character: Sheik Salem ben Yussef
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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The Man Who Never Was
Title: The Man Who Never Was
Character: Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Released: April 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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They Can't Hang Me
Title: They Can't Hang Me
Character: Robert Isaac Pitt
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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Summertime
Title: Summertime
Character: Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Chief Inspector Blake
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but unfortunately, things quickly get out of hand.
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Three Cases of Murder
Title: Three Cases of Murder
Character: Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: O'Brien
Released: December 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
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The Black Knight
Title: The Black Knight
Character: Sir Ontzlake
Released: August 26, 1954
Type: Movie
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
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His Majesty O'Keefe
Title: His Majesty O'Keefe
Character: Alfred Tetins
Released: January 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
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Stolen Face
Title: Stolen Face
Character: David
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
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Tall Headlines
Title: Tall Headlines
Character: George Rackham
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Supt. Folland
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Dr. "Willie" Marshall
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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Seven Days to Noon
Title: Seven Days to Noon
Character: Superintendent G.W. Folland
Released: October 30, 1950
Type: Movie
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
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Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Dr. Lennox
Released: October 10, 1950
Type: Movie
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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So Long at the Fair
Title: So Long at the Fair
Character: Doctor Hart
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Inspector Byard
Released: February 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Madeleine
Title: Madeleine
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: February 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: Counsel
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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Title: Sunday Night Theatre
Character: O'Brien
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: TV
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Hindley Earnshaw
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.
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Health in Our Time
Title: Health in Our Time
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.
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Unpublished Story
Title: Unpublished Story
Character: Marchand
Released: August 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Charles Klein
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
Character: Victor
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Le Bret
Released: October 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic drama of the 17th-century Gascon swordsman, poet, and philosopher, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990). Secretly and passionately in love with beautiful Roxane, Cyrano, who is embarrassed by his elongated nose, is shocked to find out that she has fallen head-over-heels in love with the handsome but superficial recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, Christian de Neuvillette. As a result, convinced that he stands no chance against the handsome but tongue-tied suitor, Cyrano steps aside and becomes Christian's tutor in the delicate matters of love, composing poems and ardent letters to help him woo Roxane.
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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Mr. Wickham
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie