Geoffrey Keen

Geoffrey Keen

Born: August 21, 1916
Died: November 3, 2005
in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Geoffrey Keen (21 August 1916 – 3 November 2005) was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films.

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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Title: Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Character: General Pugh
Released: November 11, 2008
Type: Movie
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced for his Wonderful World of Color weekly TV show and aired February 1964. Filled with action, drama and suspense, it follows the adventures of Dr. Christopher Syn - brave priest by day, righter of wrongs by night. And, for the first time, presented in Widescreen format on DVD.
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The Exotic Locations of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Title: The Exotic Locations of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Character: Sir Frederick Gray (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A tour of the exotic locations of The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Minister of Defence (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Title: Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Character: Minister of Defence (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is Not Enough. His final movie before he died on 19 December 1999.
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The Living Daylights
Title: The Living Daylights
Character: Minister of Defence
Released: June 29, 1987
Type: Movie
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
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A View to a Kill
Title: A View to a Kill
Character: Minister of Defence
Released: May 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
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Octopussy
Title: Octopussy
Character: Minister of Defence
Released: June 5, 1983
Type: Movie
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Title: Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Character: British Ambassador
Released: July 16, 1981
Type: Movie
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
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For Your Eyes Only
Title: For Your Eyes Only
Character: Sir Frederick Gray
Released: June 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
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Title: Lady Killers
Character: Mr. Fulton
Released: July 20, 1980
Type: TV
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
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The Masqueraders
Title: The Masqueraders
Character: Thaddeus Krane
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
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Licensed to Love and Kill
Title: Licensed to Love and Kill
Character: Stockwell
Released: August 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.
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Moonraker
Title: Moonraker
Character: Sir Frederick Gray
Released: June 26, 1979
Type: Movie
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: Sir Charles Meadley
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Holocaust 2000
Title: Holocaust 2000
Character: Gynecologist
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
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No. 1 of the Secret Service
Title: No. 1 of the Secret Service
Character: Rockwell
Released: October 31, 1977
Type: Movie
No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Title: The Spy Who Loved Me
Character: Sir Frederick Gray
Released: July 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Title: The Venturers
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: TV
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
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Title: QB VII
Character: Magistrate Griffin
Released: April 29, 1974
Type: TV
A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
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Living Free
Title: Living Free
Character: Kendall
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
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Doomwatch
Title: Doomwatch
Character: Sir Henry Leyton
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
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Title: Justice
Character: George Maxwell
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Thaddeus Krane
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Title: Sacco & Vanzetti
Character: Judge Webster Thayer
Released: March 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: John Pym
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Title: Taste the Blood of Dracula
Character: William Hargood
Released: May 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
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Thunderbird 6
Title: Thunderbird 6
Character: James Glenn (voice)
Released: August 3, 1968
Type: Movie
The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
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Berserk!
Title: Berserk!
Character: Commissioner Dalby
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
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Born Free
Title: Born Free
Character: Kendall
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: Medical Professor
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Heroes of Telemark
Title: The Heroes of Telemark
Character: General Bolt
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
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Title: The Troubleshooters
Character: Brian Stead
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: TV
The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.
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Title: The Man In Room 17
Character: Robert Grimes
Released: June 11, 1965
Type: TV
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: General Pugh
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Torpedo Bay
Title: Torpedo Bay
Character: Hodges
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Title: The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Character: William Gladstone
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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Return to Sender
Title: Return to Sender
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that a particularly brilliant barrister will lead the prosecution against him he sets out to undermine the credibility of the barrister.
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The Mind Benders
Title: The Mind Benders
Character: Calder
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
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The Cracksman
Title: The Cracksman
Character: Magistrate
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
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Title: The Saint
Character: Hobart Quennel
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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Title: Man of the World
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: TV
Man of the World was an ATV drama series, distributed by ITC Entertainment. The show ran in the United Kingdom in 1962 and 1963 for 20 one-hour episodes in monochrome. The series stars Craig Stevens as Michael Strait, a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung place as Iraq, Indo-China, and Algiers. Tracy Reed co-stars in the first season.
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Live Now - Pay Later
Title: Live Now - Pay Later
Character: Reggie Corby
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.
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The Spiral Road
Title: The Spiral Road
Character: Willem Wattereus
Released: August 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
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The Inspector
Title: The Inspector
Character: Bartels
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Yokel
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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A Matter of WHO
Title: A Matter of WHO
Character: Foster
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Sir John
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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Spare the Rod
Title: Spare the Rod
Character: Arthur Gregory
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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No Love for Johnnie
Title: No Love for Johnnie
Character: The Prime Minister - Reginald Stevens
Released: February 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
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The Malpas Mystery
Title: The Malpas Mystery
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
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The Angry Silence
Title: The Angry Silence
Character: Davis
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (A.C.N.S.)
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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The Dover Road Mystery
Title: The Dover Road Mystery
Character: Superintendent Graham
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.
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Devil's Bait
Title: Devil's Bait
Character: Joe Frisby
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Gaston
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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Deadly Record
Title: Deadly Record
Character: Supt. Ambrose
Released: June 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Title: Horrors of the Black Museum
Character: Supt. Graham
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Prison Governor
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Nowhere to Go
Title: Nowhere to Go
Character: Inspector Scott
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
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The Birthday Present
Title: The Birthday Present
Character: Colonel Wilson
Released: October 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
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The Scamp
Title: The Scamp
Character: Headmaster
Released: October 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Town on Trial
Title: Town on Trial
Character: Charles Dixon
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Examiner
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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Fortune Is a Woman
Title: Fortune Is a Woman
Character: Michael Abercrombie aka Young Abercrombie
Released: March 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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The Secret Place
Title: The Secret Place
Character: Mr. Haywood
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
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The Spanish Gardener
Title: The Spanish Gardener
Character: Dr Harvey
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
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House of Secrets
Title: House of Secrets
Character: Col. Burleigh, CIA
Released: October 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
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Loser Takes All
Title: Loser Takes All
Character: Reception Clerk
Released: September 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Rev Mr. Purefoy
Released: September 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
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Yield to the Night
Title: Yield to the Night
Character: Prison Chaplain
Released: June 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Chief Superintendent Jim Malcolm
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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The Man Who Never Was
Title: The Man Who Never Was
Character: Gen. Nye
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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A Town Like Alice
Title: A Town Like Alice
Character: Solicitor
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Storm Over the Nile
Title: Storm Over the Nile
Character: Dr. Sutton
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
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Portrait of Alison
Title: Portrait of Alison
Character: Inspector Colby
Released: November 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Hornbeam
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: John Armitage
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: Det. Supt. Harvey
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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The Glass Cage
Title: The Glass Cage
Character: Harry Stanton
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
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Passage Home
Title: Passage Home
Character: Ernie der Bootsmann
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
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Carrington V.C.
Title: Carrington V.C.
Character: President
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
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The Divided Heart
Title: The Divided Heart
Character: Marks
Released: November 9, 1954
Type: Movie
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: General Pugh
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: The Supervisor
Released: July 14, 1954
Type: Movie
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Dean
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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The 'Maggie'
Title: The 'Maggie'
Character: Campbell
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
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Face the Music
Title: Face the Music
Character: Maurie Green
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Mr. Lucifer (voice)
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Killearn
Released: October 26, 1953
Type: Movie
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Sergeant Major
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Genevieve
Title: Genevieve
Character: Policeman
Released: May 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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Turn the Key Softly
Title: Turn the Key Softly
Character: Mr Gregory
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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The Long Memory
Title: The Long Memory
Character: Craig
Released: January 23, 1953
Type: Movie
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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Lady in the Fog
Title: Lady in the Fog
Character: Christopher Hampden
Released: October 13, 1952
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
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Angels One Five
Title: Angels One Five
Character: Company Sergeant Major
Released: March 19, 1952
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
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Hunted
Title: Hunted
Character: Detective Inspector Deakin
Released: March 17, 1952
Type: Movie
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: Morellos
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: William Gladstone
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Title: Cry, the Beloved Country
Character: Father Vincent
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Morgan Williams
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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Green Grow the Rushes
Title: Green Grow the Rushes
Character: Spencer Prudhoe
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
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Cheer the Brave
Title: Cheer the Brave
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her clutches.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Police Inspector
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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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Israel Hands
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Bolger
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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The Third Man
Title: The Third Man
Character: British Military Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
Character: Pinker
Released: February 21, 1949
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Sergeant Todd
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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The Fallen Idol
Title: The Fallen Idol
Character: Detective Davis
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
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Riders of the New Forest
Title: Riders of the New Forest
Character: Mr. Rivers
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Two children attempt to tame a wild New forest pony in this jolly kids' adventure. When they befriend local farm hand, Davy, the children begin to suspect he may be a horse thief.
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Odd Man Out
Title: Odd Man Out
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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The New Lot
Title: The New Lot
Character: Corporal
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.