Leslie Phillips

Leslie Phillips

Born: April 20, 1924
Died: November 7, 2022
in Tottenham, London, England, UK
Leslie Samuel Phillips CBE (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor, director, producer and author. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. In his later career, Phillips took on dramatic parts including a BAFTA-nominated role alongside Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in several of the Harry Potter films.

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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Title: Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Character: Himself
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.
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After Death
Title: After Death
Character: Jerimiah Jones
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Following the sudden death of their last surviving parent - their Dad, two brothers and two sisters return to the family home after many years to face each other, face facts and face the future. But what do they know of the past?
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Late Bloomers
Title: Late Bloomers
Character: Leo
Released: July 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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Title: Drama Trails
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Britain's Ugliest Models
Title: Britain's Ugliest Models
Character: Himself (Narrator)
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
This exclusive look into the leaders in alternative modeling allows you to explore the weird and wonderful characters that suggest you don't have to be bafflingly beautiful to be a model.
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Title: The Week We Went To War
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Katherine Jenkins and Michael Aspel celebrate the heroes of the Home Front.
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Is Anybody There?
Title: Is Anybody There?
Character: Reg
Released: April 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Title: Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong
Character: Himself - Voiceover
Released: February 1, 2008
Type: TV
Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong was an entertainment show on Channel 4, presented by Alan Carr. During the first series, voice-over commentary in between rounds on the scores is provided by Leslie Phillips. From Series 2, the announcer is Peter Dickson. Season was released onto DVD in 2008. Due to the success of Alan Carr: Chatty Man it has been announced that the show would not return for a third series.
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Venus
Title: Venus
Character: Ian
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
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Colour Me Kubrick
Title: Colour Me Kubrick
Character: Freddie
Released: October 6, 2005
Type: Movie
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Title: The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Sir Philip Starke
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Title: Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Character: Lord W'ruff
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
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Millions
Title: Millions
Character: Himself
Released: April 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
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Collusion
Title: Collusion
Character: Herbert Ames
Released: September 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Jack Littlemore's in art security, but he's already in enough trouble – then an old friend comes out of his past and threatens to finish him off completely.
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Title: The Last Detective
Character: Alistair Robertson
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: TV
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Character: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
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Thunderpants
Title: Thunderpants
Character: Judge
Released: May 24, 2002
Type: Movie
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
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Title: Outside the Rules
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
A child is missing and a woman is accused of her murder and that of four other children. A forensic psychiatrist is charged with finding out the truth.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Character: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: November 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Character: Wilson
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the midst of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the wicked Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Gervase Crouchback
Released: January 2, 2001
Type: TV
Sword of Honour is a two-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semi-autobiographical World War II trilogy that aired Channel 4 in 2001. It centers on Guy Crouchback's, played by Daniel Craig, heroic quest to fight for a deep moral cause and to reclaim his manhood after a shattering divorce from the society beauty Virginia Troy.
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Sword of Honour
Title: Sword of Honour
Released: January 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.
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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Title: Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Character: Prince Hugely Suave
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
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Take a Girl Like You
Title: Take a Girl Like You
Character: Lord Archie Edgerstone
Released: November 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The film centres on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set.
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Title: Take a Girl Like You
Released: November 26, 2000
Type: TV
When gorgeous Jenny Bunn meets the predatory womanizer Patrick Standish, a battle of lust versus wits begins. His tactics to maneuver her into the bedroom only harden her resolve to keep him at arm's length. Adapted from Kingsley Amis's classic novel by award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, this story recalls a provincial England as well as the jazz and strip clubs of late 1950s Soho.
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Title: Monarch of the Glen
Character: Louis Grimshaw
Released: February 27, 2000
Type: TV
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
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Saving Grace
Title: Saving Grace
Character: Vicar Gerald Perey
Released: January 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Character: Felim
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.
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Title: It's Only TV But I Like It
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 1999
Type: TV
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What's a Carry On?
Title: What's a Carry On?
Released: December 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
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Title: The Heaven and Earth Show
Released: September 6, 1998
Type: TV
The Heaven and Earth Show was a BBC television programme that aired on Sunday mornings from 10am to 11am on BBC One. The show ran for nine years between 1998 and 2007, looking at spiritual and moral issues. Over the years it had numerous presenters, and its final presenter was Gloria Hunniford.
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The Jackal
Title: The Jackal
Character: Woolburton
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Title: Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Character: Lincoln Bradley
Released: July 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Sydney Fisher
Released: June 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her childhood crush Neville, a talent agent holding a gala night.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Godfrey Teal
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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August
Title: August
Character: Professor Alexander Blathwaite
Released: August 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
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Title: Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Character: Mr. Greenfly (voice)
Released: April 2, 1996
Type: TV
Dennis and Gnasher is an animated British TV series based on characters from The Beano comic, It features the daily adventures of the rebellious schoolboy Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Character: James Westropp
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Der Blinde
Title: Der Blinde
Character: Sir John
Released: March 5, 1996
Type: Movie
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.
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Das Karussell des Todes
Title: Das Karussell des Todes
Character: Sir John
Released: February 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Lady Osborne's gardener becomes the victim of a burglar when he catches him in the Lady's house. Soon more mysterious murders occur and Inspectors Higgins and Lane suspect a connection between the victims and the Lady's long-dead husband.
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Die Katze von Kensington
Title: Die Katze von Kensington
Character: Sir John
Released: February 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring.
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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: George, Lord Canterville
Released: January 27, 1996
Type: Movie
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
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Two Golden Balls
Title: Two Golden Balls
Character: Viscount Osgood
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
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Title: Love on a Branch Line
Character: Lord Flamborough
Released: June 12, 1994
Type: TV
Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.
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Title: The House of Windsor
Character: Lord Montague Bermondsey
Released: May 15, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Honey for Tea
Character: Sir Dickie Hobhouse
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: TV
Honey for Tea is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 in 1994. Starring Felicity Kendal, it was written by Michael Aitkens. The series was poorly received at the time, receiving a particularly scathing review from Victor Lewis-Smith in the London Evening Standard.
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Bermuda Grace
Title: Bermuda Grace
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
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The Changeling
Title: The Changeling
Character: Vermandero
Released: December 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man she loves, she persuades the love-struck henchman De Flores to murder her fiance, but does not anticipate the tragic consequences of her actions.
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Royal Celebration
Title: Royal Celebration
Character: Johnny
Released: September 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
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Carry On Columbus
Title: Carry On Columbus
Character: King Ferdinand
Released: October 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
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Thacker
Title: Thacker
Character: George Thacker
Released: April 20, 1992
Type: Movie
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Denzil Witty
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Trials of Oz
Title: The Trials of Oz
Character: Judge Michael Argyle
Released: November 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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Title: Performance
Character: Vermandero
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Title: Performance
Character: Judge Michael Argyle
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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King Ralph
Title: King Ralph
Character: Gordon Halliwell
Released: February 15, 1991
Type: Movie
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Wing Commander Boyle
Released: December 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Lord Chief Justice Lane
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Title: Plunder
Released: March 5, 1990
Type: TV
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Oxford
Title: Oxford
Character: Dean
Released: February 22, 1990
Type: Movie
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his back to enroll in a poetry course. Meanwhile, Hannah Van Hosenstratt comes from New Orleans for the course and is tricked into believing she has a place by the dean, but the professor has other ideas.
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Mountains of the Moon
Title: Mountains of the Moon
Character: Mr. Arundell
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
Title: GLC: The Carnage Continues
Character: Sir Horace Cutler
Released: February 5, 1990
Type: Movie
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
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Title: Summer's Lease
Character: William Fosdyke
Released: November 1, 1989
Type: TV
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Mycroft Amberson
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Lord Astor
Released: March 3, 1989
Type: Movie
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
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Empire of the Sun
Title: Empire of the Sun
Character: Maxton
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Justin Whittaker
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Major Eddie Turpin
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Out of Africa
Title: Out of Africa
Character: Sir Joseph
Released: December 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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Title: Super Gran
Character: P.O.W.
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: TV
Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Sir Horace Cutler
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Dean
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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That's Carry On!
Title: That's Carry On!
Character: Various Characters
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
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Spanish Fly
Title: Spanish Fly
Character: Mike Scott
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: Movie
British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.
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Not Now, Comrade
Title: Not Now, Comrade
Character: Commander Rimmington
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not least London stripper Barbara, with whom he decides to take refuge!
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Title: Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Character: Minister
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
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Title: Casanova '73
Character: Henry Newhouse
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: TV
Casanova '73 was a short-lived British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1973. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and starred Leslie Phillips as Henry Newhouse.
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Not Now Darling
Title: Not Now Darling
Character: Gilbert Bodley
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Dickie (segment "Gluttony")
Released: November 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
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Doctor in Trouble
Title: Doctor in Trouble
Character: Doctor Anthony Burke
Released: June 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.
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Some Will, Some Won't
Title: Some Will, Some Won't
Character: Simon Russell
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
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Maroc 7
Title: Maroc 7
Character: Raymond Lowe
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
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Title: Blandings Castle
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: TV
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Doctor in Clover
Title: Doctor in Clover
Character: Dr Gaston Grimsdyke
Released: March 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
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The Gong Game
Title: The Gong Game
Character: Clive Breeze
Released: December 11, 1965
Type: Movie
Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big trouble.
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You Must Be Joking
Title: You Must Be Joking
Character: Young Husband
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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Father Came Too!
Title: Father Came Too!
Character: Roddy Chipfield
Released: February 11, 1964
Type: Movie
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
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Title: Our Man At St Mark's
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: TV
Trials and tribulations of the priest of Felgate village.
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The Fast Lady
Title: The Fast Lady
Character: Freddie
Released: December 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: RAF Officer Mac
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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In the Doghouse
Title: In the Doghouse
Character: Jimmy Fox-Upton
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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Crooks Anonymous
Title: Crooks Anonymous
Character: Dandy Forsdyke
Released: March 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Mervyn Hughes
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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Very Important Person
Title: Very Important Person
Character: Jimmy Cooper
Released: April 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
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A Weekend with Lulu
Title: A Weekend with Lulu
Character: Timothy Gray
Released: April 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
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No Kidding
Title: No Kidding
Character: David Robinson
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
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Watch Your Stern
Title: Watch Your Stern
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Bill Fanshawe
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: Movie
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Dr Tony Burke
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
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Carry On Constable
Title: Carry On Constable
Character: P.C. Tom Potter
Released: February 22, 1960
Type: Movie
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.
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Inn for Trouble
Title: Inn for Trouble
Character: John Belcher
Released: January 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
Title: Ferdinand I King of Naples
Character: Giornalista inglese
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
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Please Turn Over
Title: Please Turn Over
Character: Dr. Henry Manners
Released: December 17, 1959
Type: Movie
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
Title: The Night We Dropped a Clanger
Character: Squadron Leader Thomas
Released: October 10, 1959
Type: Movie
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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Carry On Teacher
Title: Carry On Teacher
Character: Alistair Grigg
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!
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The Angry Hills
Title: The Angry Hills
Character: Ray Taylor
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
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Carry On Nurse
Title: Carry On Nurse
Character: Jack Bell
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
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The Man Who Liked Funerals
Title: The Man Who Liked Funerals
Character: Simon Hurd
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.
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The Navy Lark
Title: The Navy Lark
Character: Lt. Pouter
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
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This Other Eden
Title: This Other Eden
Character: Crispin Brown
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.
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I Was Monty's Double
Title: I Was Monty's Double
Character: Major Tennant
Released: October 21, 1958
Type: Movie
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Sparrow
Released: September 14, 1958
Type: TV
British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns himself invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so, while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys.
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The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Receptionist
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: Hon. Richard Lumb
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?
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Les Girls
Title: Les Girls
Character: Sir Gerald Wren
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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High Flight
Title: High Flight
Character: Blake
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
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The Smallest Show on Earth
Title: The Smallest Show on Earth
Character: Robin Carter
Released: April 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
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Brothers in Law
Title: Brothers in Law
Character: Shop Assistant
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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The Gamma People
Title: The Gamma People
Character: Howard Meade
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
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Title: Wire Service
Character: Keynes
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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Title: The Errol Flynn Theatre
Character: Venning
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Errol Flynn Theatre is a short-lived anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would also play the lead in every fourth show. His then-wife Patrice Wymore and son Sean also made appearances. It was shot in England at Bray Studios but was made for the American market.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: Charlton
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: Clive Breeze
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Count de Waldern
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Herbert
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir William
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Wat Longfellow
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Character: Robjohns
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
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As Long as They're Happy
Title: As Long as They're Happy
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
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The Limping Man
Title: The Limping Man
Character: Detective Cameron
Released: December 11, 1953
Type: Movie
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: Boy Student
Released: September 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
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The Sound Barrier
Title: The Sound Barrier
Character: Controller
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Character: Harry
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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The Woman with No Name
Title: The Woman with No Name
Character: 1st Sapper officer
Released: October 31, 1950
Type: Movie
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: Stacey's Fireman
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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The Thief of Bagdad
Title: The Thief of Bagdad
Character: Urchin in Bagdad Market (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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The Proud Valley
Title: The Proud Valley
Character: Minor Role
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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The Mikado
Title: The Mikado
Character: Boy
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.
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The Four Feathers
Title: The Four Feathers
Character: Boy Doffing Cap at Parade
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Lassie from Lancashire
Title: Lassie from Lancashire
Character: Bit Part
Released: August 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
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Hotel Caledonia
Title: Hotel Caledonia
Character: The Narrator
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows the journey of inconsequential loser, Norman Tickle, his best friend, and a bunch of backpackers to work the summer season at an isolated Scottish hotel and their horrific gastronomic encounters with the owners.