Lennie James

Lennie James

Born: October 11, 1965
in Nottingham, England
Lennie James (born October 11, 1965) is an English actor and playwright known for his compelling performances across film, television, and theatre. Born in Nottingham, England, James has showcased his acting talent in diverse roles. He gained recognition for his performances in television series such as "Line of Duty" and "The Walking Dead," where his nuanced and intense portrayals stood out. James is also a prolific playwright, contributing to the stage with his writing skills. His ability to embody complex characters with depth and authenticity has earned him critical acclaim, establishing him as a respected and versatile figure in the entertainment industry.

Movies for Lennie James...

There There
Title: There There
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A series of hilarious, romantic, fateful encounters holds a mirror up to life in a distinctly twisted, modern world.
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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Title: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Character: Barnabas (voice)
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Peter Rabbit runs away from his human family when he learns they are going to portray him in a bad light in their book. Soon, he crosses paths with an older rabbit who ropes him into a heist.
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Title: Invincible
Character: Darkwing (voice)
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: TV
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.
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The Talk
Title: The Talk
Character: Self
Released: August 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Several well-known Black Britons share their poignant, funny and emotional experiences of the conversations parents have to help their children face racism.
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Title: Save Me
Character: Nelson "Nelly" Rowe
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: TV
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.
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The Girl on the Roof
Title: The Girl on the Roof
Character: Thief
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
A bullied young girl meets an unlikely savior.
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The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Title: The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Character: Morgan Jones / Sir Fred Livingston III (voice)
Released: October 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Seth Green and Matthew Senreich serve up hilarious Walking Dead-inspired satire in this special featuring the zany stop-motion animation of Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken.”
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Blade Runner 2049
Title: Blade Runner 2049
Character: Mister Cotton
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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Heroes Manufactured
Title: Heroes Manufactured
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary following Canadian artists and their ability to break into the comic book industry while dealing with fandom and the craze of comic book conventions in Canada.
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Double Play
Title: Double Play
Character: Chamon
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the events surrounding a game his father played which had major consequences for Ostrik’s youth. The dramatic poverty and colourful landscapes provide the background for the leads who represent Curaçao’s melting pot: a story of pride and humiliation, money and love, ambition and hope.
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Title: Fear the Walking Dead
Character: Morgan Jones
Released: August 23, 2015
Type: TV
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
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Title: Critical
Character: Glen Boyle
Released: February 24, 2015
Type: TV
The Major Trauma Centre is a state-of-the-art unit which treats only the most gravely ill or seriously injured. Whether that patient lives or dies is determined by knife-edge decisions and procedures, but can the diverse team of medical professionals knit together and rise to the challenge? Our team hold a life in their hands but in every case they face the agonisingly real fear that it could slip through their fingers.
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Get on Up
Title: Get on Up
Character: Joe Brown
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Swelter
Title: Swelter
Character: Bishop
Released: April 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Ten years after their casino heist, four escaped convicts trace their former partner to a desert town, where he is now a lawman with no memory of his criminal past.
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Title: Low Winter Sun
Character: Joe Geddes
Released: August 11, 2013
Type: TV
Seemingly the perfect crime, the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.
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Title: Run
Character: Richard
Released: July 15, 2013
Type: TV
Four gritty no-holds-barred human stories of the streets, all linked together in some respect.
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Title: Line of Duty
Character: Tony Gates
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: TV
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
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Lockout
Title: Lockout
Character: Harry Shaw
Released: April 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
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Title: Talking Dead
Character: Himself
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: TV
Host Chris Hardwick discusses episodes of the AMC television series The Walking Dead with guests, including celebrity fans, cast members, and crew from the series.
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Colombiana
Title: Colombiana
Character: Special Agent Ross
Released: July 27, 2011
Type: Movie
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
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Mob Rules
Title: Mob Rules
Character: C-Note
Released: May 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Time is running out for two elite criminals as they seek out revenge to get the money they are owed after a heist gone wrong, years ago. They’ve traveled across the country, tracked down their ex-partner and planned every detail of their attack. When they finally come face to face these two criminals will refuse to back down until they get what belongs to them.
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The Next Three Days
Title: The Next Three Days
Character: Lieutenant Nabulsi
Released: November 18, 2010
Type: Movie
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of murdering her boss. Her husband John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. When the strain of being separated from her husband and son gets to her, John decides to find a way to break her out.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Morgan Jones (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Morgan Jones
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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The Making of The Walking Dead
Title: The Making of The Walking Dead
Character: Self
Released: July 31, 2010
Type: Movie
The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead.
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Title: Human Target
Character: Baptiste
Released: January 15, 2010
Type: TV
It takes a brave, selfless man to make himself a "human target" in order to save the lives of those in danger. Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, Human Target is a full-throttle action drama centered on Christopher Chance, a unique private contractor/security expert/bodyguard hired to protect.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: 147
Released: November 15, 2009
Type: TV
The Prisoner is a 2009 television miniseries based on the 1960s TV series The Prisoner about a man who awakens in a mysterious, picturesque village from which there is no escape and wonders who made the village and why.
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Title: Three Rivers
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: TV
Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in the role of an infamous transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On November 30, 2009, after just eight episodes of the season had aired, CBS announced that Three Rivers had been pulled from their schedule with no plans to have it returned, and the series was later officially cancelled. However, the series later returned to the network on June 5, 2010 to burn off the remaining unaired episodes.
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Title: Archer
Character: Ibadan Peters (voice)
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
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Title: Hung
Character: Charlie
Released: June 28, 2009
Type: TV
Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-down house catches fire. Looking to take on a second job, Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes.
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Title: Lie to Me
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: TV
The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.
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Fallout
Title: Fallout
Character: DS Joe Stephens
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: Movie
A London policeman returns to the estate where he grew up to investigate the murder of a young boy. Adapted by the playwright from his 2002 play.
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Outlaw
Title: Outlaw
Character: Cedric Munroe
Released: March 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
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Title: The State Within
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: TV
Action-packed conspiracy thriller series about Sir Mark Brydon, British Ambassador to Washington, who finds himself at the centre of a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down Western governments.
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Title: The State Within
Character: Luke Gardner
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: TV
Action-packed conspiracy thriller series about Sir Mark Brydon, British Ambassador to Washington, who finds himself at the centre of a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down Western governments.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Robert Hawkins
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: TV
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
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Title: The Family Man
Released: March 23, 2006
Type: TV
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My Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet for a New Generation
Title: My Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet for a New Generation
Character: Narrator
Released: February 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Paterson was born and raised in the rough area of Harlesden, London and, since becoming an actor, has decided to return to his streets with the message of Shakespeare. Setting himself a target of four weeks to cast, rehearse and direct a West End production of Romeo & Juliet, Paterson plans to show the world that Harlesden is not what people assume and prove that Shakespeare can be brought to any place, any people and any time by using a cast of all first time actors. In the background director Baz Luhrmann looks on and offers Paterson advice on how to bring Shakespeare alive for modern actors and audiences.
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Title: ShakespeaRe-Told
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
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Born With Two Mothers
Title: Born With Two Mothers
Character: Errol Bridges
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: General Zateb Kazim
Released: April 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
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Title: Frances Tuesday
Character: Trent
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
A gangsters moll changes her identity to go on the run after becoming informant on her boyfriend, who is just about to be released from prison.
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Title: Buried
Character: Lee Kingley
Released: January 14, 2003
Type: TV
Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his family from a violent criminal. Critically well-received, the programme won the Best Drama Series category at the British Academy Television Awards in 2004.
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Title: Spooks
Character: David Newman
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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24 Hour Party People
Title: 24 Hour Party People
Character: Alan Erasmus
Released: February 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
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The Martins
Title: The Martins
Character: PC Alex
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
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Lucky Break
Title: Lucky Break
Character: Rudy
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
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The Announcement
Title: The Announcement
Character: Richard
Released: September 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings. That is, until Beth and Ross make an announcement. They tell those assembled that they have secretly married. The impact is not as simple as they had expected. We then track the events of the evening as the news affects each person in turn. Instead of the absolute approval Ross and Beth had hoped for, the news throws a harsh spotlight on everyone's relationship and notions of marriage. The film explores the confused attitudes of a generation whose model of love and romance is complex and demanding. The evening degenerates into a rash of revelations and discoveries about all of the friends, but most dramatically it unravels Ross and Beth's relationship in a way neither of them could have foreseen. This is no fairytale
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Snatch
Title: Snatch
Character: Sol
Released: September 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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The Miracle Maker
Title: The Miracle Maker
Character: Gaius Velius Quintilus (voice)
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
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Storm Damage
Title: Storm Damage
Character: Bonaface
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.
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Shockers:  Deja Vu
Title: Shockers: Deja Vu
Character: Mark
Released: October 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Psychological drama revolving around a couple caught in a living nightmare after the death of their young son in a car crash.
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Elephant Juice
Title: Elephant Juice
Character: Graham
Released: August 23, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends. It all comes out in the end.
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The Perfect Blue
Title: The Perfect Blue
Released: December 19, 1998
Type: Movie
When Sunny and Tom are reunited shortly before their respective weddings, the former lovers realize how much they still love each other. The pair must decide whether to turn their backs on the safe and sensible futures they had planned for themselves.
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Title: Cold Feet
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: TV
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
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Title: Undercover Heart
Character: Matt Lomas
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: TV
Undercover Heart is a 1998 BBC 1 drama series about an undercover vice squad detective, Tom Howarth (Steven Mackintosh), who goes missing while investigating the murder of a prostitute. His wife Lois (Daniela Nardini), and his best friend Matt (Lennie James), who are also detectives, set out to search for him, but end up falling in love with one another.
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Among Giants
Title: Among Giants
Character: Shovel
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Enjolras
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Lost in Space
Title: Lost in Space
Character: Jeb Walker
Released: April 3, 1998
Type: Movie
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.
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Title: Thief Takers
Released: January 25, 1996
Type: TV
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was a stand alone episode or sometimes spread over two episodes and continuing drama was provided by the depiction of the personal lives of the officers in the team and their families. Production comprised a pilot aired in 1995 followed by the commissioning of three series between 1996 and 1997.
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Title: Out of the Blue
Released: May 23, 1995
Type: TV
Out of the Blue follows a team of detectives at Brazen Gate CID through grisly murder cases, clashes with an already-divided community and through the dramas of their personal lives.
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Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts
Title: Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts
Character: Martin
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
When Martin, a young father, is left alone one weekend with his son, his memories of past rejection from his own father come to the surface. As he walks through this complicated history, Martin begins to doubt his own ability to love.
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Title: Comics
Character: Delroy Smith
Released: July 6, 1993
Type: TV
Johnny Lazar, a down-and-out American comedian who tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs and universities in England. But on his first night, Johnny is witness to a gangland murder and finds himself having to go on the run as he becomes the target of hit men who want to eliminate any chance of them being identified.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: DC Carl Tanner
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Title: Civvies
Character: Cliff Morgan
Released: February 20, 1991
Type: TV
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
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Chilling Out
Title: Chilling Out
Character: Lennie
Released: February 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Drama-documentary featuring a group of young Black actors exploring the experience and the spirit of being Black in Britain
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Between The Cracks
Title: Between The Cracks
Character: Lennie
Released: August 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Workshop production in which the performers tell their own stories.
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Title: Mr Loverman
Character: Barrington Jedidiah Walker
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Barry to his mates, is a seventy-four year old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s really going on: a secret, passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now facing the final chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their futures.
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The End
Title: The End
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A post-apocalyptic story about a rich family living in a salt mine converted into a luxurious home. The earth around them has apparently been destroyed, but their son has never seen the outside world. As a young girl appears at the entrance of the bunker, the balance of the family is threatened.
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Title: U.S. Attorney
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
U.S. Attorney is a drama pilot about a team of federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan.