Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Born: December 10, 1960
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has won three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Branagh has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for Henry V and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamlet.

He has also starred in the television series Fortunes of War (1987), Shackleton (2002), and Wallander (2008–2016) and in the films Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), as SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and as Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He won an International Emmy Award for Wallander and a Primetime Emmy Award for Conspiracy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for My Week with Marilyn.

Branagh directed and starred in the romantic thriller Dead Again (1991), the horror film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). He directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in the mystery drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). He also directed such films as Swan Song (1992), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the Marvel superhero film Thor (2011), and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Cinderella (2015),

He narrated numerous documentary series, including Cold War (1998), Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), The Ballad of Big Al (2001), Walking with Beasts (2001), Walking with Monsters (2005), and World War 1 in Colour (2005).

Movies for Kenneth Branagh...

Title: BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Character: Abijah Fowler (voice)
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: TV
Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.
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A Haunting in Venice
Title: A Haunting in Venice
Character: Hercule Poirot
Released: September 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
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Oppenheimer
Title: Oppenheimer
Character: Niels Bohr
Released: July 19, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Title: Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
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Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain
Title: Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2022
Type: Movie
In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its complexity at the heart of the American paradoxes: from Black activist, rebel soldier to gangster torn between violence and charity. Voted best actor of the 21st century by the New York Times a few months ago, Denzel Washington, 65, has risen to the top of American cinema. As an Actor, director and producer, he has shaken up a "color line" as immutable as it is subtle. Often identified with his characters, he reveals himself to be disconcerting and paradoxical. As if he were holding up a mirror to America in which all of its contradictions and failings were reflected. A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary career of the world-renowned African-American actor.
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Title: This England
Character: Boris Johnson
Released: September 28, 2022
Type: TV
Inside the halls of power, Boris Johnson grapples with Covid-19, Brexit, and a controversial personal and political life during his tumultuous first months as Prime Minister.
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Title: Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Character: Self - Director (archive footage)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Settle in with the likes of Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson, and as they divulge the secrets behind the creation of Thor: Love and Thunder. Through in-depth interviews with cast and crew, along with raw, unseen footage from the set and beyond, this documentary special pulls back the curtain on the God of Thunder’s fourth feature film.
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Death on the Nile
Title: Death on the Nile
Character: Hercule Poirot
Released: February 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
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Fireheart
Title: Fireheart
Character: Shawn Nolan (voice)
Released: January 16, 2022
Type: Movie
The film explores the world of firefighters in 1920s New York City and tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who will have to become a hero in order to save her city.
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Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet'
Title: Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of 'Tenet'
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 2020
Type: Movie
A look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan's Tenet.
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Tenet
Title: Tenet
Character: Andrei Sator
Released: August 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
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Lost Lives
Title: Lost Lives
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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All Is True
Title: All Is True
Character: William Shakespeare
Released: December 21, 2018
Type: Movie
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.
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Avengers: Infinity War
Title: Avengers: Infinity War
Character: Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Hercule Poirot
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: Movie
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Commander Bolton
Released: July 19, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Title: Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Character: Archie Rice
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
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Mindhorn
Title: Mindhorn
Character: Himself
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
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Title: Upstart Crow
Character: Colin/The Stranger
Released: May 9, 2016
Type: TV
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Title: Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Character: Leontes
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
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Title: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: TV
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell, and Jon Stewart are executive producers. Barry Julien and Denise Rehrig serve as co-executive producers.must watch
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Title: Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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Title: Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: TV
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Title: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Character: Viktor Cherevin
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Title: National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Character: Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army
Released: July 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
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Stars In Shorts
Title: Stars In Shorts
Character: Mark Snow
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more.
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London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Title: London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
Character: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Released: July 27, 2012
Type: Movie
The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event. The Opening Ceremony reflected the key themes and priorities of the London 2012 Games, based on sport, inspiration, youth and urban transformation. It was a Ceremony 'for everyone' and celebrated contributions the UK has made to the world through innovation and revolution, as well as the creativity and exuberance of British people.
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Title: Honest Trailers
Character: Hercules Poirot (archive footage)
Released: February 13, 2012
Type: TV
Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These are the hilarious trailers the producers don't want you to see...
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My Week with Marilyn
Title: My Week with Marilyn
Character: Sir Laurence Olivier
Released: November 23, 2011
Type: Movie
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
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Discovering Hamlet
Title: Discovering Hamlet
Character: Hamlet (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
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Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Title: Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Character: Himself
Released: September 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A strong and fast-paced overview piece that looks at the picture's set design, the inspirations from various versions of the comic, costume construction, and filming locations.
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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Title: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.
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Prodigal
Title: Prodigal
Character: Mark Snow
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A father seeks to rescue his daughter from two organizations intent on acquiring her "special" abilities.
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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Title: With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Character: Self
Released: July 24, 2010
Type: Movie
At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics, Stan Lee has co-created over 500 legendary pop culture characters including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk. Stan continues to create new material and entertain fans of all ages with fantastic stories and characters in all areas of entertainment. With Great Power: the Stan Lee Story, explores the vivid life and imagination of Stan Lee, from the early days of his Depression-era upbringing through the Marvel Age of Comics and beyond! The film uncovers original transcripts, illustrations, photographs and stories of Lee's fascinating journey from his early years at Timely Comics and World War Two, the comic book industry's censorship battle of the 1950's led by Dr. Fredric Wertham, the dawn of Marvel Comics and the legendary characters Stan co-created, to his current company POW! Entertainment.
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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Title: A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2009
Type: Movie
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
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A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Title: A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Title: 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 2, 2009
Type: Movie
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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The Boat That Rocked
Title: The Boat That Rocked
Character: Dormandy
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
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Valkyrie
Title: Valkyrie
Character: Henning von Tresckow
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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Title: Wallander
Character: Kurt Wallander
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: TV
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
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Title: Wallander
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: TV
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
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Title: 10 Days to War
Character: Colonel Tim Collins
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
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Alien Love Triangle
Title: Alien Love Triangle
Character: Steven Chesterman
Released: March 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Physics lecturer Steven Chesterman finally realizes his long cherished dream of perfecting a teleportation device and rushes home to tell his wife, Alice. But she has news of her own - she's a male alien disguised as a human female. Then Elizabeth arrives, another alien who is to escort Alice back to the planet Nulark.
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Sleuth
Title: Sleuth
Character: Other Man on T.V.
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
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Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Title: Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out was a one-off, one-hour documentary/biography about Stephen Fry released in 2007 by the BBC, celebrating Stephen Fry's fiftieth birthday.
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Title: James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Character: Himself
Released: July 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: El hormiguero
Character: Self
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: self
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
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Title: Walking with Monsters
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 5, 2005
Type: TV
A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh and using state-of-the-art visual effects, this prequel to Walking with Dinosaurs shows nearly 300 million years of Paleozoic history, from the Cambrian Period (530 million years ago) to the Early Triassic Period (248 million years ago).
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Walking with Monsters
Title: Walking with Monsters
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Many people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to the acclaimed "Walking with Dinosaurs" puts viewers in the midst of a host of strange creatures that inhabited the earth millions of years before the dinosaurs ever existed.Starting from the Cambrian Period (530 MYA) and ending at the Early Triassic Period (248 MYA), Walking With Monsters shows the life and death struggles of the fantastic creatures that existed before the dinosaurs.
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Warm Springs
Title: Warm Springs
Character: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Released: April 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Title: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
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Five Children and It
Title: Five Children and It
Character: Uncle Albert
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Title: The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2004
Type: Movie
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Title: Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.
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Title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.
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Title: World War 1 in Colour
Character: Narrator
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: TV
Documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh consisting of colourised footage from World War I.
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Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Title: Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character: Himself / Narrator
Released: April 15, 2003
Type: Movie
This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of 100's whittled down to the eventual three girls and follows them through workshops and into the difficult shoot.
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Title: Real Time with Bill Maher
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 2003
Type: TV
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Character: Gilderoy Lockhart
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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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Title: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Character: Peter McGowan
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
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The Tramp and the Dictator
Title: The Tramp and the Dictator
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Title: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character: A. O. Neville
Released: February 4, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: TV
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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The Beasts Within
Title: The Beasts Within
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 28, 2001
Type: Movie
A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to the extinction of large mammals during the Ice Age.
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Triumph of the Beasts
Title: Triumph of the Beasts
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A deeper look at the science behind Walking with Beasts (2001)
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Title: Walking with Beasts
Character: Narrator
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: TV
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts explores how life on earth first began. Using real footage, the series goes inside the body of our monster ancestors. For the first time, morphing technology is used to reveal how our ancestors evolved.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Heydrich
Released: May 19, 2001
Type: Movie
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Schneider's 2nd Stage
Title: Schneider's 2nd Stage
Character: Joseph Barnett
Released: March 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Which way lies madness? A man named Joe drives his Land Rover into a remote field. The purpose of his trip is obscure. Is he scouting a location? Has he been sent by someone to check out the area? His cell phone rings and a stranger's voice tells him to look in the back of his car. He does, and discovers the dead body of a young girl who's gone missing. The voice on the phone tells him he's been set up, that no one will believe him, and that he'd better follow instructions and bury the body. As he complies, his headaches worsen. Is there any way out for Joe?
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Title: Big Al
Character: Narrator
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: TV
145 million years ago an adolescent Allosaurus lay down to die in a dried up river bed. In 1991 scientists discovered his perfectly preserved body and nicknamed him Big Al. This is the story of this predatory dinosaur's life - how he grew from a tiny hatchling to the terror of the Jurassic plains, why his body was covered in so many wounds and how he ended up in the river bed. The second part tells the story of the extraordinary forensics, spectacular paleontological finds and intricate studies of Al's closest living relatives to unravel his intriguing life for the film.
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Title: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Character: Self / Narrator
Released: October 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Title: Love's Labour's Lost
Character: Berowne
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
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The Road to El Dorado
Title: The Road to El Dorado
Character: Miguel (voice)
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled inhabitants promptly begin to worship them as gods. The only question is, do they take the worshipful natives for all they're worth, or is there a bit more to El Dorado than riches?
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The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Title: The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Character: Narrator
Released: March 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these pre-historic behemoths but their behaviour as well for the BBC natural history documentary miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Title: Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
Character: Himself
Released: November 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Interviews with the actresses who are the character's assistants in the movie
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Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Title: Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
Character: Himself
Released: November 30, 1999
Type: Movie
A documentary taking a look at the giant spider and other "bad guy" weapons in the film
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The Periwig-Maker
Title: The Periwig-Maker
Character: Periwig-maker (voice)
Released: November 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker.
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IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Title: IMAX: Galapagos 3D
Character: Narrator
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Retrace the groundbreaking footsteps of Charles Darwin with a young scientist as she explores the biological diversity and unique geologic history of the Galapagos archipelago. Using the magic of IMAX® and IMAX® 3D technology, plunge 3,000 feet into underground lava tubes, soar over the peaks of 5,000 foot volcanoes and encounter an abundance of marine life.
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Title: Walking with Dinosaurs
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 4, 1999
Type: TV
Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects, the series set out to create the most accurate portrayal of prehistoric animals ever seen on the screen.
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Wild Wild West
Title: Wild Wild West
Character: Dr. Arliss Loveless
Released: June 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
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It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Title: It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
Character: Self
Released: June 29, 1999
Type: Movie
This is a promotional behind the scenes featurette that originally appeared on HBO. A lot of the usual interviews and behind-the-scenes clips, but enjoyably, there are a few shots that look at how the FX were filmed.
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The Theory of Flight
Title: The Theory of Flight
Character: Richard
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
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The Dance of Shiva
Title: The Dance of Shiva
Character: Colonel Evans
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
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Universal Horror
Title: Universal Horror
Character: Narrator
Released: October 8, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Title: Cold War
Released: September 19, 1998
Type: TV
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Celebrity
Title: Celebrity
Character: Lee Simon
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
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The Proposition
Title: The Proposition
Character: Father Michael McKinnon
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
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The Gingerbread Man
Title: The Gingerbread Man
Character: Rick Magruder
Released: January 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Title: Leute heute
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1997
Type: TV
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Prince Hamlet
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Looking for Richard
Title: Looking for Richard
Character: Self / Interview
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Iago
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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Shadow of a Gunman
Title: Shadow of a Gunman
Character: Donal Davoren
Released: October 7, 1995
Type: Movie
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
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Title: Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Released: October 1, 1995
Type: TV
The origin of European cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière to its flourishing as the pinnacle of film-making in the silent era and as a serious commercial contender against America.
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Anne Frank Remembered
Title: Anne Frank Remembered
Character: Narration (voice)
Released: June 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Title: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Character: Victor Frankenstein
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Title: It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thomas Edison's 1910 filmization to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 treatment, plus interviews with Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Roger Corman and others. Hosted by Roger Moore; narrated by Eli Wallach.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Benedick
Released: May 7, 1993
Type: Movie
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
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Swing Kids
Title: Swing Kids
Character: Herr Knopp, Gestapo
Released: March 5, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
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Peter's Friends
Title: Peter's Friends
Character: Andrew Benson
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
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Dead Again
Title: Dead Again
Character: Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
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Title: Performance
Character: Donal Davoren
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Discovering Hamlet
Title: Discovering Hamlet
Character: Himself / Hamlet
Released: January 7, 1990
Type: Movie
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein follow the company through four weeks of rehearsals, from the first read-throughs to opening night.
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Look Back in Anger
Title: Look Back in Anger
Character: Jimmy Porter
Released: December 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles). Cliff , an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Henry V
Released: October 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
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Title: Thompson
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: TV
Thompson is a 1988 British TV variety series hosted by actress Emma Thompson the show also starred Imelda Staunton, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Moore. The show featured musical numbers, as well as comedy skits and…
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Title: American Experience
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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Strange Interlude
Title: Strange Interlude
Character: Gordon Evans
Released: July 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique, in which the characters speak their inner thoughts to the audience.united
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A Month in the Country
Title: A Month in the Country
Character: James Soon
Released: December 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
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Title: Fortunes of War
Character: Guy Pringle
Released: October 11, 1987
Type: TV
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.
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High Season
Title: High Season
Character: Rick
Released: September 1, 1987
Type: Movie
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
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Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
Character: Oswald
Released: June 14, 1987
Type: Movie
The publication of Ghosts in 1881 caused an uproar and almost ruined Ibsen. It was banned across Europe and sales of his plays plummeted. Its themes of moral degradation, out-of-wedlock children, venereal disease, incest, infidelity and euthanasia, proved too shocking. The play remains shocking even for modern-day audiences. Captain Alving was a respected man in his community, and on the tenth anniversary of his death, Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in his honor. This effort however, is really an attempt by Mrs Alving to mask her hidden disgust with Captain Alving who in reality was a cheating, immoral philanderer who bequethed a deadly legacy to his son Oswald.
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Lorna
Title: Lorna
Character: Billy Martin
Released: June 2, 1987
Type: Movie
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
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The Lady's Not For Burning
Title: The Lady's Not For Burning
Character: Thomas Mendip
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.
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Coming Through
Title: Coming Through
Character: D.H. Lawrence
Released: December 27, 1985
Type: Movie
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
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A Coming to Terms for Billy
Title: A Coming to Terms for Billy
Character: Billy Martin
Released: February 21, 1984
Type: Movie
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.
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Title: The Boy in the Bush
Character: Jack Grant
Released: February 9, 1984
Type: TV
n the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia. When he arrives, he is met at the dock by Mr. George, who introduces him to his mother's relatives. Jack's life is to be full of adventures, including taming horses and fighting kangaroos. Jack also competes for the love of two cousins.
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A Matter of Choice for Billy
Title: A Matter of Choice for Billy
Character: Billy Martin
Released: May 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.
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To the Lighthouse
Title: To the Lighthouse
Character: Charles Tansley
Released: March 22, 1983
Type: Movie
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
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Easter 2016
Title: Easter 2016
Character: Student
Released: May 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
Title: Too Late to Talk to Billy
Character: Billy Martin
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.
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Chariots of Fire
Title: Chariots of Fire
Character: Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1981
Type: Movie
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Mayday
Title: Mayday
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie