John Standing

John Standing

Born: August 16, 1934
in London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934) is an English actor and baronet who is known as John Standing. He is the stepson of John Clements.

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The Great Escaper
Title: The Great Escaper
Character: Arthur
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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May… I Have This Dance?
Title: May… I Have This Dance?
Character: Narrator
Released: January 18, 2020
Type: Movie
The Backstory of the Original Dancing Queen... as told by Sir John Standing.
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A Family Affair
Title: A Family Affair
Character: Bernard
Released: June 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman makes a powerful connection with a surprising stranger on her 30th birthday.
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Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Title: Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Character: Additional Voices
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of Britain's most celebrated film producers, Alexander Korda, signed Churchill up as a screenwriter and historical advisor. It was the start of a unique collaboration. Churchill provided script notes for Korda's productions and penned an epic screenplay. When war broke out, their collaboration took on national importance. Korda was sent on a mission to Hollywood to help bring America into the war, with positive results. With access to previously undiscovered documents, this film documentary examines that mission and a friendship that underpinned a unique, creative partnership.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Butler
Released: May 28, 2018
Type: Movie
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: George Watford
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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The Happy Prince
Title: The Happy Prince
Character: Dr. Tucker
Released: April 12, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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The Hippopotamus
Title: The Hippopotamus
Character: Podmore
Released: March 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Imbert-Terry
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Churchill's Secret
Title: Churchill's Secret
Character: Lord Camrose
Released: February 29, 2016
Type: Movie
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Queen & Country
Title: Queen & Country
Character: Grandfather George
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
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The Last Resort
Title: The Last Resort
Character: Mr. Carpenter (voice)
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
At their isolated hotel in the Canadian Rockies, a pair of teenage twin girls need to get over themselves and work together in order to defeat the most horrifying threat they have ever faced: their four-year-old sister.
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Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
Character: Lord George Meriot
Released: December 23, 2012
Type: TV
Rebecca Kendall has it all: a stunning house, two wonderful daughters and a handsome, loving husband. When Richard dies in a plane crash, Rebecca slowly learns the full extent of her husband’s lies and deceit.
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Title: Borgia
Released: October 10, 2011
Type: TV
The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Jon Arryn
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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The Shadow in the North
Title: The Shadow in the North
Character: Webster Garland
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.
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Consenting Adults
Title: Consenting Adults
Character: Lord Goddard
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
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The Contractor
Title: The Contractor
Character: Sir Anthony
Released: July 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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I Want Candy
Title: I Want Candy
Character: Michael de Vere
Released: March 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, wannabe producer Joe and his talented but neurotic director friend Baggy head to London to sell what they know is a script made of gold.
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Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Voice of Francis Youlgreave
Released: March 11, 2007
Type: TV
Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past.
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Rabbit Fever
Title: Rabbit Fever
Character: Ally's dad
Released: September 22, 2006
Type: Movie
The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the Rabbit is becoming the new addiction; women who start using often find they simply cannot stop. RABBIT FEVER is the first film to follow the trials and tribulations of a group of Rabbit Addicts as they attempt to kick their Rabbit habit.
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Scoop
Title: Scoop
Character: Garden Party Guest
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Title: The Line of Beauty
Character: Lord Kessler
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: TV
Crawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a young, gay man, from the euphoria of falling in love to the tragedy of AIDS. A story of love, class, sex and money.
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V for Vendetta
Title: V for Vendetta
Character: Bishop Lilliman
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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Lassie
Title: Lassie
Character: French
Released: December 16, 2005
Type: Movie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
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Animal
Title: Animal
Character: Dean Frydman
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: Movie
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression. To achieve faster results he performs illegal tests on the convicted mass murderer Iparrah. But when Thomas one day gets caught, he injects the unauthorized test agent itself. This turns out to have unexpected effects ...
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A Good Woman
Title: A Good Woman
Character: Dumby
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."
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Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Dr. Sam Maitland
Released: June 13, 2004
Type: TV
Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching for the fabled King Solomon's Mines--a destination of legendary riches from which no soul has ever returned alive.
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Shoreditch
Title: Shoreditch
Character: Jenson Thackery
Released: November 28, 2003
Type: Movie
London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a place where gangsters and aristocrats, home office gents, and loose women can kick back and relax. Thomas' job is to keep everything running smoothly. But when he starts having an affair with singer Butterfly (Joely Richardson), this carefully balanced world disintegrates into blackmail, drugs, and suicide.
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Title: Keen Eddie
Released: June 3, 2003
Type: TV
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The soundtrack and incidental music for the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital. Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets scored the rest of the series.
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The Real Jane Austen
Title: The Real Jane Austen
Character: Mr. Austen
Released: December 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. Location shots of her homes in Steventon and Chawton and extracts from adaptations of her work are also featured.
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The Gathering Storm
Title: The Gathering Storm
Character: Lord Moyne
Released: April 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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The Falklands Play
Title: The Falklands Play
Character: Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
Released: April 10, 2002
Type: Movie
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.
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Pandaemonium
Title: Pandaemonium
Character: Rev Holland
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
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Title: In Deep
Character: Ritchie
Released: February 19, 2001
Type: TV
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
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Queen's Messenger
Title: Queen's Messenger
Released: February 5, 2001
Type: Movie
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life
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Title: Love in a Cold Climate
Character: Lord Montdore
Released: February 4, 2001
Type: TV
Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.
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The Calling
Title: The Calling
Character: Jack Plummer
Released: December 21, 2000
Type: Movie
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist
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Longitude
Title: Longitude
Character: Capt. Proctor
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Mad Cows
Title: Mad Cows
Character: Politician
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
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Rogue Trader
Title: Rogue Trader
Character: Peter Baring
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
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8 ½ Women
Title: 8 ½ Women
Character: Philip Emmenthal
Released: May 22, 1999
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect. The women each have a gimmick (one is a nun, another a kabuki performer, etc.). Philip soon becomes dominated by his favourite of the concubines, Palmira, who has no interest in Storey as a lover, despite what their contract might stipulate. Philip dies, the concubines' contracts expire, and Storey is left alone with Giulietta (the titular "½", played by Fujiwara) and of course the money and the houses.
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Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Archbishop
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.
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Title: The Vice
Released: January 4, 1999
Type: TV
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police force's vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences. Most episodes end in such a way where the main villain is caught but often not in a 'naturally' concluded way that you would expect with other TV dramas, and often ending an episode with more questions unanswered than answered. The small dedicated team is led by Detective Inspector Pat Chappel who struggles to manage the balance between his home life and his work life - as do the other members of the team. Working in the seedy underworld leads to a continual dilemma for the team - the tension between the Vice Squad and the vice-related crimes that they investigate runs throughout the series and gives the show a rich viewing experience. The programme often blurs the line of the team staying on the right side of the law, as almost every member of the team at different points submits briefly or permanently to the temptations of either sex, drugs, money or honey traps. Sometimes with drastic consequences.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Little
Character: Gilbert Embleton
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
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Title: A Dance to the Music of Time
Character: Nicholas Jenkins (older)
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: TV
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Character: Richard Dalloway
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: Lexx
Character: Count Dracul
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Charles Rust
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Will Tunstall
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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The Woman In White
Title: The Woman In White
Character: Mr. Gilmore
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
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Title: Gulliver's Travels
Character: Admiral Bolgolam
Released: February 4, 1996
Type: TV
Dr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence - and tells them the story of his travels.
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Title: The Choir
Character: Bishop Robert Young
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: TV
Based on Joanna Trollope's novel. Explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school.
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Riders
Title: Riders
Character: Malise Gordon
Released: May 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the "Pin Up of Penscombe" has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now comes to a showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
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Chaplin
Title: Chaplin
Character: Butler
Released: December 17, 1992
Type: Movie
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
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Title: Old Boy Network
Released: February 16, 1992
Type: TV
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The Count of Solar
Title: The Count of Solar
Character: Coudray
Released: February 2, 1992
Type: Movie
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Title: Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Character: Whitfield
Released: January 19, 1992
Type: Movie
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
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Title: Eerie, Indiana
Character: Professor Nigel Zirchon
Released: September 15, 1991
Type: TV
Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.
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Night of the Fox
Title: Night of the Fox
Character: Alan Stacey
Released: November 27, 1990
Type: Movie
An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British SOE agent impersonating an SD officer.
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Title: Paddington Bear
Character: Mr. Brown
Released: December 2, 1989
Type: TV
Paddington Bear was the second television adaptation of the children's animated series and made by Hanna-Barbera. This series was traditional two-dimensional animated and featured veteran voice actor Charlie Adler as Paddington and Tim Curry as Mr. Curry. The character of an American boy named David, Jonathan and Judy Brown's cousin was added to the stories in order to sell the concept to US networks.
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The Endless Game
Title: The Endless Game
Character: Belfrage
Released: August 20, 1989
Type: Movie
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
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Dark Holiday
Title: Dark Holiday
Character: Charnaud
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: Movie
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Colonnel Toby Luttrell
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Murphy's Law
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: TV
Murphy's Law was an American television series that starred George Segal and Maggie Han, loosely based on the Trace novels by Warren Murphy.
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Flapjack Floozie
Title: Flapjack Floozie
Character: Dr. Kipper
Released: June 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.
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Nightflyers
Title: Nightflyers
Character: Michael D'Brannin
Released: October 23, 1987
Type: Movie
A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
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Visitors
Title: Visitors
Character: Jack
Released: February 22, 1987
Type: Movie
This was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its origins in Potter's 1983 play "Sufficient Carbohydrate," about two middle-aged executives, one English, one American, who both work for the same multinational food company. Together, they vacation with their wives on a Greek island. In the TV adaptation, British businessman Jack becomes bitter as he faces the prospect of seeing his family company taken over by an American corporation. On a holiday at an Italian villa with his new manager, Eddie, he begins to stir up antagonism prompting Eddie's son Clayton to fantasize a murderous outcome.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Nigel Morris
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Title: Lime Street
Character: Edward Wingate
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: TV
Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.
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The Biko Inquest
Title: The Biko Inquest
Character: Van Rensburg
Released: November 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
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Title: Hunter
Character: George Franklin
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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To Catch a King
Title: To Catch a King
Character: The Duke of Windsor
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
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Privates on Parade
Title: Privates on Parade
Character: Captain Sholto Savory
Released: March 18, 1983
Type: Movie
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
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Invitation to the Wedding
Title: Invitation to the Wedding
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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The Elephant Man
Title: The Elephant Man
Character: Dr. Fox
Released: October 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Finley
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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Title: The Other 'Arf
Released: May 30, 1980
Type: TV
The Other 'Arf is a British television ITV sitcom series broadcast from 1980 to 1984. It stars John Standing as upper class Conservative politician Charles Latimer, MP, who begins a relationship with working class cockney Lorraine Watts. The series was produced by ATV, and was screened by ITV.
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Title: Shillingbury Tales
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: TV
Shillingbury Tales was a British television sitcom comedy-drama series made by ATV for ITV and broadcast 1980-81. Comprising a single feature length pilot and six one-hour episodes, the series deals with life in an idealised fictional English village and stars Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Nigel Lambert, Jack Douglas, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Cribbins and Trevor Howard. It was preceded by a feature length pilot episode The Shillingbury Blowers starring Trevor Howard, broadcast 6 January 1980 The series was written by Francis Essex and directed by Val Guest. Unusually for a British situation-comedy at that time it was recorded entirely on location on 16mm film and consequently there was no laughter track. Much of the filming took place in the village of Aldbury in Hertfordshire. The show ended when ATV lost their licence to broadcast and their replacement Central declined to continue production of the series. The series was broadcast in a number of countries around Europe.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Character: Sam Collins
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: TV
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: TV
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Title: The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Character: Charles Fairbrother
Released: January 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
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The Legacy
Title: The Legacy
Character: Jason Mountolive
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: Movie
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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Title: Beryl Reid
Released: December 12, 1977
Type: TV
Beryl Reid performs her favourite comedy sketches and scenes, featuring some of her own famous characters, with special guests.
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The Eagle Has Landed
Title: The Eagle Has Landed
Character: Father Verecker
Released: December 24, 1976
Type: Movie
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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Rogue Male
Title: Rogue Male
Character: Major Quive-Smith
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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Title: Space: 1999
Character: Pasc
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Ehrlich
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Au Pair Girls
Title: Au Pair Girls
Character: Buster
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Lord Amberley
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Zee and Co.
Title: Zee and Co.
Character: Gordon
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
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All the Right Noises
Title: All the Right Noises
Character: Bernie
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old…
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Wine of India
Title: Wine of India
Character: Russ
Released: April 15, 1970
Type: Movie
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
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Charley's Aunt
Title: Charley's Aunt
Character: Jack Chesney
Released: November 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.
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Title: The First Churchills
Character: Sidney Godolphin
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: TV
The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.
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A Touch of Love
Title: A Touch of Love
Character: Roger
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Lord Radchester
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Torture Garden
Title: Torture Garden
Character: Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
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Walk Don't Run
Title: Walk Don't Run
Character: Julius D. Haversack
Released: June 29, 1966
Type: Movie
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
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The Psychopath
Title: The Psychopath
Character: Mark Von Sturm
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
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King Rat
Title: King Rat
Character: Daven
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Sharp at Four
Title: Sharp at Four
Character: Sutcliffe
Released: January 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
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Hot Enough for June
Title: Hot Enough for June
Character: Men's Room Attendant
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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The Iron Maiden
Title: The Iron Maiden
Character: Humphrey Gore-Brown
Released: June 7, 1963
Type: Movie
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
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The Wild and the Willing
Title: The Wild and the Willing
Character: Arthur
Released: October 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....
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Title: The Saint
Character: Gendarme
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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A Pair of Briefs
Title: A Pair of Briefs
Character: Hubert Shannon
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Can You Hear Me?
Title: Can You Hear Me?
Character: Ben
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A supernatural romance set during World War I.