Barrie Rutter

Barrie Rutter

Born: December 12, 1946
in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Barrie Thomas Rutter OBE is an English actor and the founder and artistic director of the Northern Broadsides theatre company based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Movies for Barrie Rutter...

Title: The Royal
Character: John Briers
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Fat Friends
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: TV
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four of the cast, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman, went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mr. Maskell
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Saint: The Brazilian Connection
Title: The Saint: The Brazilian Connection
Character: Sammy
Released: September 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Sleuth Simon Templar ties a London baby's kidnapping to a black-market baby ring based in Brazil.
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Countdown to War
Title: Countdown to War
Character: Mussolini
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Title: Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Character: Inspector
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
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Way Upstream
Title: Way Upstream
Character: Keith
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Ted Miller
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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The Oresteia
Title: The Oresteia
Character: Herald
Released: October 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play. Directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, this is an all-male performance with masks.
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Title: Astronauts
Character: David Ackroyd
Released: October 26, 1981
Type: TV
Astronauts was a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1981. It was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, two of The Goodies. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who wrote Porridge, were script editors. It was made for the ITV network by ATV, which became Central midway through the production run.
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Bavarian Night
Title: Bavarian Night
Character: Godfrey Rigg
Released: March 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
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Silver Dream Racer
Title: Silver Dream Racer
Character: Privateer
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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Title: Minder
Character: Reg
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Porridge
Title: Porridge
Character: Oakes
Released: August 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
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Title: Queenie's Castle
Character: Douglas Fairbanks Shepherd
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: TV
The lives and, often illegal, activities of the residents of a tower block in early 1970s Leeds, West Yorkshire, with the brassy matriarch, Queenie Shepherd, ruling the roost over her neighbours.
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The World in a Room
Title: The World in a Room
Character: Harry Steffans
Released: June 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Peter
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."