Derek Deadman

Derek Deadman

Born: March 11, 1940
Died: November 22, 2014
in Fulham, London, England, UK
Derek Deadman is a British actor. He appeared as Rankin in two episodes of the RAF sitcom Get Some In! in 1975 and 1978. He played Ringo in 39 of the 66 episodes of the TV series Never the Twain between 1981 and 1991, and appeared as the barman of The Leaky Cauldron, Tom, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He often appears as minor roles in British films. He also played a ruthless Sontaran Commander in the Doctor Who serial The Invasion of Time. He played the part of Robert in the film Time Bandits.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Character: Bartender in Leaky Cauldron
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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Honest
Title: Honest
Character: Night Watchman
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
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Title: Sooty & Co.
Released: September 6, 1993
Type: TV
Second incarnation of the childrens puppet show, picking up almost directly where "The Sooty show" left off Sooty, Sweep, Soo and little cousin Scampi continue their adventures with Matthew.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Title: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Character: Kneelock
Released: June 14, 1991
Type: Movie
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the evil sheriff's reign of terror.
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The Sign of Four
Title: The Sign of Four
Character: Williams
Released: March 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Title: Bread
Character: Robber's Mate (Jacko)
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: TV
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
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Lost In London
Title: Lost In London
Character: Deli Stall Owner
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Facing his parent's impending divorce and emotional upheaval, a young boy runs away and joins a gang of London street urchins who live by their wits, begging, and thievery.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
Title: National Lampoon's European Vacation
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 25, 1985
Type: Movie
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
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Morons from Outer Space
Title: Morons from Outer Space
Character: Man in Car
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Bill - Dept. of Works
Released: February 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
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Title: Super Gran
Character: Clint
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: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Williams
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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Never Say Never Again
Title: Never Say Never Again
Character: Shrublands Porter
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
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The Beggar's Opera
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Character: Drawer
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Handler
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
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Funny Money
Title: Funny Money
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, a talented pianist whose fingering is famous in the world of credit card crime. Their stormy relationship is hindered by hotel detective Keith Banks and assistant manager Diana Sharman. -- BFI synopsis from http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69480238
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Title: Never the Twain
Character: Ringo
Released: September 7, 1981
Type: TV
Never the Twain is a British sitcom that ran for eleven series from 7 September 1981 to 9 October 1991. It was created by Johnnie Mortimer, and was the only sitcom he ever created without his usual writing partner, Brian Cooke. Mortimer wrote the entirety of the first two series and four episodes out of six of the eighth, with the rest being mainly written by Vince Powell and John Kane. It starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers, and also starred Derek Deadman, Zara Nutley, Robin Kermode, Tacy Kneale, Julia Watson, Honor Blackman, Teddy Turner and Maria Charles. The title is taken from the Rudyard Kipling poem; The Ballad of East and West.
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Time Bandits
Title: Time Bandits
Character: Robert
Released: July 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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The Apple
Title: The Apple
Character: Bulldog
Released: November 21, 1980
Type: Movie
In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king -- and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he has his eye on two fresh-faced young singers, Alphie and Bibi, who score a hit at his WorldVision Song Festival and fall under the irresistible spell of fame, money, and temptation.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Character: Nicholas
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors begin busily hunting out a madman who's willing to do it, and they find Petruchio: a man who's come to wive it wealthily in Padua. And Petruchio marries Kate with a plan to tame her, while everybody else begins scheming to win Bianca's hand.
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Title: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Character: Nobby Flowers
Released: March 16, 1980
Type: Movie
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
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Porridge
Title: Porridge
Character: Cooper
Released: August 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
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The Knowledge
Title: The Knowledge
Character: Man in Dole Queue
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Big Sleep
Title: The Big Sleep
Character: Customer in Bookshop
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Title: Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Character: Stor
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: Movie
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is inaugurated President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the Sontarans take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor.
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Jabberwocky
Title: Jabberwocky
Character: Apprentice Armourer
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
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The Glitterball
Title: The Glitterball
Character: Ice Cream Man
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
When a group of small aliens accidentally abandons one of their own on Earth, adventurous kids Max and Pete stumble upon the "Glitterball" and attempt to return it to its mother ship. As the children learn more about the friendly alien and its magical powers, they must protect their new companion from an army corporal and a small-time thief who are both hunting the extraterrestrial for their own cruel purposes.
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Queen Kong
Title: Queen Kong
Character: Cockney (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Curry
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
Title: Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
Character: Haddocks
Released: December 27, 1974
Type: Movie
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.
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Title: Frankenstein: The True Story
Character: 1st Seaman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1973
Type: TV
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
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The Darwin Adventure
Title: The Darwin Adventure
Character: Man #2
Released: September 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
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The Canterbury Tales
Title: The Canterbury Tales
Character: The Pardoner
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Stor
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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Title: The Sooty Show
Character: Himself
Released: January 16, 1955
Type: TV
The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.