Richard Thorp

Richard Thorp

Born: January 2, 1932
Died: May 22, 2013
in Purley, Surrey, England, UK

Movies for Richard Thorp...

Title: The Alphabet Game
Released: August 5, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Emmerdale
Character: Alan Turner
Released: October 16, 1972
Type: TV
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Mr. Gordon
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."
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Title: Festival
Character: Fred
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: TV
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
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The Iron Maiden
Title: The Iron Maiden
Character: Harry Markham
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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Lancelot and Guinevere
Title: Lancelot and Guinevere
Character: Sir Gareth
Released: June 2, 1963
Type: Movie
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Reg
Released: March 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
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The £20,000 Kiss
Title: The £20,000 Kiss
Character: John Durran
Released: December 31, 1962
Type: Movie
An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
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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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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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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: David
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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There's Always a Thursday
Title: There's Always a Thursday
Character: Dennis Potter
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
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Title: Emergency – Ward 10
Released: February 19, 1957
Type: TV
Emergency – Ward 10 is a British television series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like The Grove Family, a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, Emergency – Ward 10 is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir Humphrey
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Squadron Leader H. E. Maudslay, D.F.C.
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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Title: Life with the Lyons
Released: February 11, 1955
Type: TV
Life with the Lyons is a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s.
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Melody in the Dark
Title: Melody in the Dark
Character: Dick
Released: July 25, 1949
Type: Movie
When an actress inherits a spooky old house and uses it for rehearsals with her theatre company, they are troubled with "ghosts."