Pete Murray

Pete Murray

Movies for Pete Murray...

Top of the Pops: Secrets & Scandals
Title: Top of the Pops: Secrets & Scandals
Character: Self
Released: August 10, 2022
Type: Movie
The dark side of the long-running music show, exploring the ruthless tactics of promoters and the demands of big name stars, the artists that admitted to performing drunk on-air, and how one presenter hosted the show drugged.
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Eurovision Secrets & Scandals
Title: Eurovision Secrets & Scandals
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2022
Type: Movie
A revelatory documentary uncovering amazing stories about what really goes on behind the scenes at Eurovision. With contributions from former winner Cheryl Baker, former loser Andy Abraham and former host Jan Leeming.
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Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills?
Title: Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills?
Character: Himself
Released: August 1, 2018
Type: Movie
A real-life murder mystery about the life and untimely death of a national boxing hero, who is often described as Britain's first sporting celebrity. Set in 1960s Soho, the film delves into the world of UK and US organised crime, with gangland figures such as the Krays, boxing, gambling, police corruption and a string of brutal unsolved murders that would become synonymous with the name Freddie Mills. With access to eight hours of previously unseen home movies, this is an intimate portrayal of a man who rose from the humble surroundings of the fairground boxing booth to become world light-heavyweight champion and became a household name appearing on television and in films. But it all ended on 25 July 1965, when he was found shot dead in the back seat of his car.
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Title: Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of the British pop charts from their beginnings on the 50s through the heyday of the 70s and 80s to their re-emergence in a digital world.
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The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Title: The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Character: Narrator
Released: February 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career, often controversial, which spanned the period from the mid-50s to the rise of the Beatles in the 60s. At the end of his life he was suffering from paranoid delusions that people were watching him through walls. Alan Lewens' film charts an Ortonesque tale of post-war Britain.
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Title: Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: TV
Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.
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Title: Chasing Rainbows - A Nation and Its Music
Released: September 14, 1986
Type: TV
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The Rank Charm School
Title: The Rank Charm School
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Documentary about The Company of Youth, The Rank Organisation’s training school for aspirant film actors, nicknamed The Rank Charm School.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Title: Second Time Around
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: TV
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Radio Wonderful
Title: Radio Wonderful
Released: June 6, 1973
Type: Movie
This documentary is about the first five years of BBC Radio 1 and contains interviews with the disc jockeys and other folk who were involved in the station's inception. It also contains footage from the previous pirate radio era as a means of explaining why Radio 1 came about.
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Simon Simon
Title: Simon Simon
Character: Fireman
Released: June 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of trouble. Lots of celebrity appearances.
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Under the Table You Must Go
Title: Under the Table You Must Go
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A trip around the clubs, pubs and discotheques in London, England.
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Otley
Title: Otley
Character: DJ (voice)
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Title: Mum's Boys
Released: April 3, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Top of the Pops
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: TV
The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.
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Title: Top of the Pops
Character: Presenter
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: TV
The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.
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Design for Loving
Title: Design for Loving
Character: Lord Stanford
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Follows a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model.
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Call Me Captain
Title: Call Me Captain
Character: Narrator
Released: July 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Norfolk Broads tourist film promotes the pleasures of boating.
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Escort for Hire
Title: Escort for Hire
Character: Buzz Jenkins
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Philippe
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Peeping Tom
Title: Peeping Tom
Character: Young Man Embracing Girl (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
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A Taste of Money
Title: A Taste of Money
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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6.5 Special
Title: 6.5 Special
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.
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Title: Six-Five Special
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: TV
The Six-Five Special is a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain.
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The Poltergeist
Title: The Poltergeist
Character: Bobby Ashley
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
British television horror movie from 1950.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Lieutenant Keith
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Tony Dakers
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Captain Boycott
Title: Captain Boycott
Character: Young Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Smuggler
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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Hungry Hill
Title: Hungry Hill
Character: Lieutenant Fox
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Juan (as Peter Murray)
Released: June 3, 1946
Type: Movie
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
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Time Flies
Title: Time Flies
Character: Chick, Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?