Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

Born: June 30, 1963
in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock.

Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga.

Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016).

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Merchant Ivory
Title: Merchant Ivory
Character: Self
Released: November 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.
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Title: The Burning Girls
Character: Simon Harper
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
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Title: The Reunion
Character: Richard Degalais
Released: October 17, 2022
Type: TV
The story opens in the present day, at a high school reunion in the south of France where three former friends reconnect. They grew apart and lost touch, but they are still bound by a tragic secret tied to the disappearance of a high school girl who went missing 25 years ago in the region.
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Dalíland
Title: Dalíland
Character: Captain Moore
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
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Wolves of War
Title: Wolves of War
Character: Professor Hopper
Released: September 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Decorated British officer Jack Wallace must lead a band of Allied commandos across enemy lines to rescue Professor Hopper, an American scientist held hostage by the Nazis. With information that could turn the tide of war, these unlikely heroes must traverse enemy territory with an untrained US civilian, avoiding brutal Nazi mercenaries and non-stop bombing – with the fate of the war resting on their shoulders, the outcome of this mission will change the world forever; failure is not an option.
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Smyrna
Title: Smyrna
Character: George Horton
Released: December 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
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Title: McDonald & Dodds
Character: Gordon Elmwood
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: TV
Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership.
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Emma.
Title: Emma.
Character: Mr. Weston
Released: February 13, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
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Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Frederick
Released: November 17, 2019
Type: TV
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
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A Working Mom's Nightmare
Title: A Working Mom's Nightmare
Character: Eddie
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
To the outside world, Kathy is the very picture of a happy and fulfilled modern woman. She has a beautiful baby boy, a clever, handsome husband and a glamorous, high-powered job. But not everybody is fooled. Her colleague, Heja, knows the truth: the cracks in Kathy's marriage, her anxieties about motherhood, and her fear of failure at work. Heja is perfectly placed to destroy Kathy's life. And if she succeeds, she can claim the one thing she wants most...
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Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Title: Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A male lion cub is born into a powerful pride and quickly establishes his dominance over his siblings. But after a fight with his father, he is immediately banished from the pride. How will he cope with the brutal reality of the African savannah
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Title: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Character: Paulinus
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
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Special Couple
Title: Special Couple
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: Movie
When Gu Dabai gets involved in a huge crisis, he has to pretend to be his best friend's significant other, who is a legal UK citizen. While dealing with the immigration process, Gu meets his new neighbor, Hermione.
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Silencio
Title: Silencio
Character: Peter
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Silence in Mexico. Someone finds out the power the stone possesses and believes it is a power worth killing for.
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Swimming with Men
Title: Swimming with Men
Character: Luke
Released: July 6, 2018
Type: Movie
A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
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Title: Krypton
Character: Ter-El
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: TV
Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
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Native
Title: Native
Character: Cane
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
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Title: Riviera
Character: Gabriel Hirsch
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.
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Sacrifice
Title: Sacrifice
Character: Duncan Guthrie
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.
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Title: The Family
Character: John Warren
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: TV
This thriller follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. As the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his family, suspicions emerge — is he really who he says he is?
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Title: The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Character: Haply
Released: January 28, 2016
Type: TV
The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on short stories by H. G. Wells. The four-part series of 30-minute episodes was commissioned for broadcast by Sky Arts. The series is hosted by Ray Winstone as Wells.
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Title: Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Character: Himself
Released: January 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Mark Gatiss, who co-created "Sherlock" and plays Mycroft Holmes, discusses the show with Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, and others in the cast.
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Title: Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Character: DI Lestrade
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
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Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Character: Nicholas Whiteley
Released: October 19, 2015
Type: TV
Valentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect woman, wife and mother. But out of the blue, her husband announces he wants a divorce, and their children side with him. As their daughter is about to marry, circumstances repeatedly force the estranged spouses back together.
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Bone in the Throat
Title: Bone in the Throat
Character: Rupert
Released: March 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
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Title: 12 Monkeys
Character: Sebastian
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: TV
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
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Title: Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Character: Dragutin
Released: July 7, 2014
Type: TV
A fearless rogue soldier, a former general and the U.S. President become pawns in a deadly contest of wills on a global scale.
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Title: The Crimson Field
Released: April 6, 2014
Type: TV
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
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Salting the Battlefield
Title: Salting the Battlefield
Character: Stirling Rogers
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
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Turks & Caicos
Title: Turks & Caicos
Character: Stirling Rogers
Released: March 20, 2014
Type: Movie
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Title: Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Character: Greg Lestrade
Released: December 24, 2013
Type: Movie
John and Lestrade try to move on with their lives after Sherlock's apparent death. However, Anderson believes he is still alive.
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Title: The White Queen
Character: Thomas Stanley
Released: June 16, 2013
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
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Ultimate Tutankhamun
Title: Ultimate Tutankhamun
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 10, 2013
Type: Movie
This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest scientific evidence to build the ultimate picture of King Tutankhamun.
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Title: Secret State
Character: Felix Durrell
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: TV
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
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Seven Ages of Starlight
Title: Seven Ages of Starlight
Released: October 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Seven Ages of Starlight takes us on a journey through the life of stars Stars are at the heart of all life. Humans and all other life forms on our planet - from bacteria in the top of our atmosphere to the creatures in the darkest depths of our oceans - depend on our very own star, the sun. Much of the matter that makes up the known universe comes from stars and is put into motion by their enormous gravity. Even our planet and our bodies are made from stardust forged in the thermonuclear furnace of brightly burning stars.
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Fast Girls
Title: Fast Girls
Character: David Temple
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
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Underwater Okavango
Title: Underwater Okavango
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Putin, Russia and the West
Character: Narrator
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: TV
Putin, Russia and the West is a four-part British documentary television series first shown in January and February 2012 on BBC Two about the relationship between Vladimir Putin's Russia and the West. The series is produced by Norma Percy, whose previous series include The Death of Yugoslavia, Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace, and Iran and the West. The documentary was criticized by some dissidents for being an apology for Putin's regime.
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Predator Coast
Title: Predator Coast
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The southern coast of Africa features an array of battlefields as diverse as the predators who reign over them. In this concentrated mix of environments, lions rule the grasslands and leopards dominate the thick brush. Nile crocodiles and sharks rule the waters, while gannets control the skies. But all must bow to the power of the coastal plain's seasons: a ruthless cycle that has the power to give life and take it away. Enter these diverse domains and see how all creatures, hunters and hunted, must have a plan to survive the Predator Coast.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: James Lavender
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Scott & Bailey
Character: Nick Savage
Released: May 29, 2011
Type: TV
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.
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Title: Case Sensitive
Character: Mark Bretherick
Released: May 2, 2011
Type: TV
When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how watertight is the alibi of the apparently distraught husband Mark? Meanwhile, when Sally Thorne, a young working mother with a husband and two small children hears of the deaths, she is deeply shocked. Months before she’d met a man called Mark Bretherick at a hotel and they had a brief but passionate affair. Now, against the advice of her best friend, Esther, Sally feels the need to get in touch with Mark again to offer her sympathy.
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Made in Dagenham
Title: Made in Dagenham
Character: Peter Hopkins
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Title: Sherlock
Character: Self / DI Lestrade
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Title: Sherlock
Character: DI Greg Lestrade
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Title: Garrow's Law
Character: Sir Arthur Hill
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: TV
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
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The Good Times Are Killing Me
Title: The Good Times Are Killing Me
Character: Lexy
Released: September 13, 2009
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer finds herself in rehab where she befriends a couple of oddballs who help her crack an important case.
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Title: Law & Order: UK
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
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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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God on Trial
Title: God on Trial
Character: Mordechai
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: Movie
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
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Title: Midnight Man
Character: Daniel Cosgrave
Released: May 8, 2008
Type: TV
Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?
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Title: Son of the Dragon
Character: Prince of the North
Released: April 2, 2008
Type: TV
When the Royal Family decides to accept suitors for the hand of Princess Li Wei, a young thief who calls himself 'Devil Boy' decides to pose as a prince in order to swipe the crown jewels. To his surprise, he ends up genuinely falling in love with the young woman, placing himself and his faithful servant in the crosshairs of the dangerous Prince of the North.
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The Dinner Party
Title: The Dinner Party
Character: Roger
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neighbor, they soon discover the strict social hierarchies of village life.
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The Waiting Room
Title: The Waiting Room
Character: George
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.
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Death at a Funeral
Title: Death at a Funeral
Character: Robert
Released: August 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
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To Be First
Title: To Be First
Released: August 12, 2007
Type: Movie
The year is 1967 and the race is on to make medical history. Dr Christiaan Barnard, a brilliant and ambitious South African surgeon and three surgeons in America are attempting the impossible: the world's first human heart transplant. The Americans have trained and prepared together for this day for years, and Dr Barnaard is driven by a fierce determination to succeed. And succeed he does, giving Mr Washkowski an unbelievable extension of life, never before done, never before thought possible. This breakthrough in medical history, paved the way forward and made Dr Barnaard a legend.
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Clapham Junction
Title: Clapham Junction
Character: Robin Cape
Released: July 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
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Intervention
Title: Intervention
Character: Mark
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-eight days with one thing in common, addiction.
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V for Vendetta
Title: V for Vendetta
Character: Dominic Stone
Released: February 23, 2006
Type: Movie
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Title: A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Character: William Shakespeare
Released: November 22, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of “the young man” and “the dark lady” to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? This moving performance brings to life the gritty reality of Shakespeare’s England, bits of the Bard’s plays and poems, and the consummate poet and dramatist himself as it exposes these personages unseen but so keenly felt in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in his life. Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, and Zoë Wanamaker star. Contains mature themes and explicit language. Some content may be objectionable. Produced by the Open University.
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Title: ShakespeaRe-Told
Character: Shakespeare
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
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Rag Tale
Title: Rag Tale
Character: Eddy Taylor
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Riddell
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Linus (voice)
Released: June 21, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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Title: This World
Released: January 4, 2004
Type: TV
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Adrian Levene
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Title: Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Character: George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Released: November 16, 2003
Type: TV
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States depicting the reign of Charles II.
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Title: Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Released: November 16, 2003
Type: TV
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States depicting the reign of Charles II.
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Extreme Ops
Title: Extreme Ops
Character: Jeffrey
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
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Title: Spooks
Character: William Sampson
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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Title: The Forsyte Saga
Character: Young Jolyon Forsyte
Released: April 7, 2002
Type: TV
Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.
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Room to Rent
Title: Room to Rent
Character: Mark
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Colonel John Garrett
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Take a Girl Like You
Title: Take a Girl Like You
Character: Patrick Standish
Released: November 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The film centres on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set.
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Title: Take a Girl Like You
Character: Patrick Standish
Released: November 26, 2000
Type: TV
When gorgeous Jenny Bunn meets the predatory womanizer Patrick Standish, a battle of lust versus wits begins. His tactics to maneuver her into the bedroom only harden her resolve to keep him at arm's length. Adapted from Kingsley Amis's classic novel by award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, this story recalls a provincial England as well as the jazz and strip clubs of late 1950s Soho.
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Title: Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character: Joseph Lees
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
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All My Loved Ones
Title: All My Loved Ones
Character: Nicholas Winton
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
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Title: Cleopatra
Character: Octavian
Released: May 23, 1999
Type: TV
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.
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Title: The Blonde Bombshell
Character: Dennis Hamilton
Released: April 26, 1999
Type: TV
The biography of British 'Blonde Bombshell', Diana Dors.
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The Revengers' Comedies
Title: The Revengers' Comedies
Character: Oliver Knightly
Released: June 9, 1998
Type: Movie
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.
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Bent
Title: Bent
Character: Officer on Train
Released: November 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Character: Septimus Warren Smith
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Character: Arthur Huntington
Released: November 17, 1996
Type: TV
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham.
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Different for Girls
Title: Different for Girls
Character: Paul Prentice
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
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Intimate Relations
Title: Intimate Relations
Character: Harold
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brother. After a brief reunion, Harold finds a room for rent in the house of Mrs. Beasley, her meek husband and their teenage daughter, Joyce. It's clear that Harold has a troubled past, but his future is about to get more perilous yet. Despite the rosy surface, Harold soon finds himself in a tawdry sexual tug-of-war that won't end well.
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The Innocent Sleep
Title: The Innocent Sleep
Character: Alan Terry
Released: January 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, a man from Northern England who is homeless after the loss of his wife and job. One night while sleeping in a deserted building, Alan witnesses the murder of a high-profile businessman. He attempts to leave the scene unnoticed, but the killers realize that someone has seen them commit the crime. He goes to the police only to discover that one of the killers is leading the case. To stay alive, Alan recruits the help of Billie Hayman, an American journalist, to cover his story.
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The Madness of King George
Title: The Madness of King George
Character: Greville
Released: December 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
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Open Fire
Title: Open Fire
Character: David Martin
Released: November 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.
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Doomsday Gun
Title: Doomsday Gun
Character: Jones
Released: July 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.
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Royal Celebration
Title: Royal Celebration
Character: Neil
Released: September 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
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Title: Harry
Character: Dominic Collier
Released: September 18, 1993
Type: TV
Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. Harry Salter is the ruthless owner of a news agency in Darlington who will resort to any under-hand means or exploit anyone in order to get a story that he can sell to a newspaper. He is assisted at his agency by Alice, his secretary/PA, and Snappy, his photographer.
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Una questione privata
Title: Una questione privata
Character: Milton
Released: July 16, 1993
Type: Movie
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Damage
Title: Damage
Character: Martyn Fleming
Released: December 2, 1992
Type: Movie
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
Title: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Character: Philip Herriton
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
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The Sheltering Desert
Title: The Sheltering Desert
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.
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The Children
Title: The Children
Character: Gerald Ormerod
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
Title: The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character: Axel von dem Bussche
Released: January 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
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A Handful of Dust
Title: A Handful of Dust
Character: John Beaver
Released: June 24, 1988
Type: Movie
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.
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Title: Fortunes of War
Character: Simon Boulderstone
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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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Alec Scudder
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice, a young man in early 20th-century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Billy
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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A Room with a View
Title: A Room with a View
Character: Freddy Honeychurch
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Tonio
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
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St. Ursula's in Danger
Title: St. Ursula's in Danger
Character: Teddt
Released: December 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Play by Peter Glidewell, based on the school stories of Angela Brazil. Sequel to Schoolgirl Chums (1982).
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Good and Bad at Games
Title: Good and Bad at Games
Released: December 18, 1983
Type: Movie
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge
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Mona
Title: Mona
Character: Jim Atkins
Released: August 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: Prefect
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Seacole
Title: Seacole
Character: Major Harvey
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The biopic of Mary Seacole, a Scottish-Jamaican nurse and heroine during the Crimean War.
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What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Title: What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Short Documentary by Nic Young
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Title: Burning Girls
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Reverend Jack Brooks is a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. She and her daughter Flo arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.