Patrick Holt

Patrick Holt

Born: January 31, 1912
Died: October 12, 1993
in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Movies for Patrick Holt...

Playing Away
Title: Playing Away
Character: The Colonel
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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The Whistle Blower
Title: The Whistle Blower
Character: Irate Driver
Released: November 21, 1986
Type: Movie
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
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Priest of Love
Title: Priest of Love
Character: Arthur Lawrence
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Barker
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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Flashpoint Africa
Title: Flashpoint Africa
Character: Mr. Barraclough
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.
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Title: Lillie
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Skyjacker
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Title: The Eagle of the Ninth
Character: Aquila
Released: September 4, 1977
Type: TV
In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Title: Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Character: Peterson
Released: May 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
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Title: Poldark
Character: Benjamin Penvenen
Released: October 5, 1975
Type: TV
Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.
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Title: Survivors
Character: Doctor
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: TV
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
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Diamonds on Wheels
Title: Diamonds on Wheels
Released: August 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally.
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Title: Warship
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: TV
Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero.
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Title: War and Peace
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as Pierre Bezuhov (a role for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA); Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova; Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky; and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families. The twenty-part serial was the vision of producer David Conroy whose principle aim was to transfer the rich characterisation and incident from Tolstoy's greatest novel to a television drama. Scripted by Jack Pulman and directed by John Davies, Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Design BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences which were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
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Man Charged
Title: Man Charged
Character: Gerrard Beynon
Released: October 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Title: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Character: Ammon
Released: October 25, 1970
Type: Movie
An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: Captain Lundsford
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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No Blade of Grass
Title: No Blade of Grass
Character: David Custance
Released: June 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.
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The Magic Christian
Title: The Magic Christian
Character: Duke in Sotheby's
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
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The Desperados
Title: The Desperados
Character: Haller
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
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Hammerhead
Title: Hammerhead
Character: Huntzinger
Released: September 11, 1968
Type: Movie
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
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Title: Father, Dear Father
Character: Bill Mossman
Released: May 5, 1968
Type: TV
Patrick Glover is a divorced thriller novelist attempting to raise and keep the peace between his two teenage daughters.
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Title: The Three Musketeers
Released: November 13, 1966
Type: TV
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Title: The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.
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Genghis Khan
Title: Genghis Khan
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Girl in the Headlines
Title: Girl in the Headlines
Character: Walbrook
Released: November 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
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Night of the Prowler
Title: Night of the Prowler
Character: Robert Langton
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
An avaricious, ambitious fellow, desiring to hold the reins for a major auto company, must frame someone for murder before he can get what he wants. He chooses a reformed embezzler who works for the company.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Herbert Wheeler
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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Afternoon of a Nymph
Title: Afternoon of a Nymph
Character: Rogers
Released: September 30, 1962
Type: Movie
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
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Title: Out of This World
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: TV
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
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Serena
Title: Serena
Character: Inspector Gregory
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Lord Westbrook
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Supt. Carter
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Too Hot to Handle
Title: Too Hot to Handle
Character: Inspector West
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Max
Released: May 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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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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I Was Monty's Double
Title: I Was Monty's Double
Character: Col. Dawson
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: Ivanhoe
Character: Sir Guilbert
Released: January 5, 1958
Type: TV
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
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Murder Reported
Title: Murder Reported
Character: Bill Stevens
Released: April 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his daughter Amanda North with him to investigate. Fortunately, the girl has a real knack for investigative reporting and they make a good team. They even fall in love. They discover that the killer was the politician's rival.
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Fortune Is a Woman
Title: Fortune Is a Woman
Character: Fred Connor
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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There's Always a Thursday
Title: There's Always a Thursday
Character: Henry ("Harry") Middleton
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
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Suspended Alibi
Title: Suspended Alibi
Character: Paul Pearson
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.
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Suspended Alibi
Title: Suspended Alibi
Character: Inspector Keyes
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.
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The Girl in the Picture
Title: The Girl in the Picture
Character: Inspector Bliss
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.
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The Gelignite Gang
Title: The Gelignite Gang
Character: John Rutherford
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Paul
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Alias John Preston
Title: Alias John Preston
Character: Sylvia's Husband
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
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Stolen Assignment
Title: Stolen Assignment
Character: Henry Crossley
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: The Commander
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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Dead by Morning
Title: Dead by Morning
Character: Andrew Dax
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
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The Dark Avenger
Title: The Dark Avenger
Character: Sir Ellys
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: King Richard
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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The Unholy Four
Title: The Unholy Four
Character: Job Crandall
Released: September 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
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John Wesley
Title: John Wesley
Character: Thomas Maxfield
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
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Come Back Peter
Title: Come Back Peter
Character: John Neilson
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Michael Carteret
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Philip DeMalvoisin
Released: July 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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13 East Street
Title: 13 East Street
Character: Insp. Gerald Blake
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets caught and is sentenced to prison. Then he teams up with gang-member Joey to make their escape. Once in the gang, Blake identifies the boss, Larry, and most of the other thieves, but not the "inside man." As a big fur job looms closer, the detective's task is complicated by the playful but seductive advances of Judy, a dazzling blonde who happens also to be the jealous Larry's girl friend.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Sitter in Bath Studio
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Guilt Is My Shadow
Title: Guilt Is My Shadow
Character: Kit
Released: March 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Tigson
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Marry Me
Title: Marry Me
Character: Martin Roberts
Released: June 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Character: Sam Walters
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Ferguson
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Fly Away Peter
Title: Fly Away Peter
Character: John Nielson
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
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My Sister and I
Title: My Sister and I
Character: Roger Crisp
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.
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When The Bough Breaks
Title: When The Bough Breaks
Character: Robert Norman
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
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The October Man
Title: The October Man
Character: Harry Carden
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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The Master of Bankdam
Title: The Master of Bankdam
Character: Lemuel Pickersgill
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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Frieda
Title: Frieda
Character: Alan
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
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The Mark of Cain
Title: The Mark of Cain
Character: John Howard
Released: March 14, 1947
Type: Movie
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…
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Hungry Hill
Title: Hungry Hill
Character: Ward
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Holt
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Dangerous Comment
Title: Dangerous Comment
Character: Channing
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
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Sword of Honour
Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Lord Talmadge
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.