Barbara Murray

Barbara Murray

Born: September 27, 1929
Died: May 20, 2014
in London, England, UK
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Barbara Ann Murray (born 27 September 1929) is an English actress. She was married to the actor John Justin and had three daughters, but they divorced in 1964. Murray had a very busy career in the 1940s and '50s as a fresh-faced leading lady in many British films such as Passport to Pimlico (1949) and Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Film work continued into the 1960s (including a role in the Tony Hancock film The Punch and Judy Man) but she was to appear more frequently on television, and is possibly best known for her role as Lady Pamela Wilder in the 1960s drama series The Plane Makers (later renamed The Power Game). Her other TV credits include: The Escape of R.D.7, Danger Man, The Saint, Department S, Strange Report, The Pallisers, The Mackinnons, Doctor Who (in the serial Black Orchid), Albert and Victoria and The Bretts.

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The Harpist
Title: The Harpist
Released: April 20, 1999
Type: Movie
The Harpist is a 1999 British-German drama film directed by Hansjörg Thurn and starring Geraldine O'Rawe, Christien Anholt and Stephen McGann. Its plot concerns a young novelist who travels to Hamburg to see an Irish harpist with whom he has become obsessed.
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Title: Coach
Released: February 28, 1989
Type: TV
Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Vivien Guyett
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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The Rank Charm School
Title: The Rank Charm School
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Documentary about The Company of Youth, The Rank Organisation’s training school for aspirant film actors, nicknamed The Rank Charm School.
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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Title: Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Character: Lady Cranleigh
Released: March 2, 1982
Type: Movie
The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Title: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Character: Giovanna Antoniella
Released: May 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
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Heartbreak House
Title: Heartbreak House
Character: Lady Utterwood
Released: May 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge in dangerous flirtations, will anyone notice their drift to destruction?
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Lady Diana Battersley
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Tales from the Crypt
Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Enid Jason
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Lady Wiltshire
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Title: Jason King
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
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Up Pompeii
Title: Up Pompeii
Character: Ammonia
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
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The Ealing Comedies
Title: The Ealing Comedies
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
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Title: His And Hers
Released: June 23, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Albert and Victoria
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: TV
Albert and Victoria is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1971. Starring Alfred Marks, it was written by Reuben Ship. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. In Albert and Victoria, Marks plays Albert Hackett, a middle-class man in late 19th century England. He and his wife, Victoria, have nine children, and he is used to getting his own way.
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Some Will, Some Won't
Title: Some Will, Some Won't
Character: Lucille Grayson
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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Title: Department S
Character: Tania Andre
Released: September 9, 1969
Type: TV
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
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Title: The Caesars
Character: Caesonia
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
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Title: Never A Cross Word
Released: August 10, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Ooh La La!
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: TV
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.
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A Dandy in Aspic
Title: A Dandy in Aspic
Character: Miss Vogler
Released: April 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Lady Cranleigh
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Doctor in Distress
Title: Doctor in Distress
Character: Iris Merchant
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
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The Punch and Judy Man
Title: The Punch and Judy Man
Character: Lady Jane Caterham
Released: April 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
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Title: The Plane Makers
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: TV
The Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firken. ATV made three series for ITV between 1963 and 1965. It was succeeded by The Power Game, which ran for an additional three series from 1965 to 1969. Firkin continued as producer for the first two series, and David Reid took over for series 3.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Iris Lansing
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Denise Dumont
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Danger Man
Released: September 11, 1960
Type: TV
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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Operation Bullshine
Title: Operation Bullshine
Character: Pvt. Betty Brown
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
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A Cry from the Streets
Title: A Cry from the Streets
Character: Ann Fairlie
Released: August 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: Jean Lucas
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Kitty
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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The Teckman Mystery
Title: The Teckman Mystery
Character: Girl on Plane
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Patricia
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Death Goes to School
Title: Death Goes to School
Character: Miss Shepherd
Released: May 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: WPC Lucy Loggart
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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The Frightened Man
Title: The Frightened Man
Character: Amanda
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
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Another Man's Poison
Title: Another Man's Poison
Character: Chris Dale
Released: November 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.
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Mystery Junction
Title: Mystery Junction
Character: Pat Dawn
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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The Dark Man
Title: The Dark Man
Character: Carol Burns
Released: January 22, 1951
Type: Movie
A killer called 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to put Molly out of the way. Detective Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard investigates the murders.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Scrooge's Fiancée
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
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Tony Draws a Horse
Title: Tony Draws a Horse
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by their young son Tony.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Kitty Hurst
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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Passport to Pimlico
Title: Passport to Pimlico
Character: Shirley Pemberton
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Title: Don't Ever Leave Me
Character: Joan Robbins
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
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Poet's Pub
Title: Poet's Pub
Character: Nelly Bly
Released: July 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
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To the Public Danger
Title: To the Public Danger
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.