John Neville

John Neville

Born: May 2, 1925
Died: November 19, 2011
in Willesden, London, England, UK
John Neville, OBE, CM was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada with his family in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen".

He was appointed to the Order of Canada, that nation's highest civilian honor, in 2006.

According to publicists at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neville died "peacefully surrounded by family" on 19 November 2011, aged 86. Neville suffered with Alzheimer's disease in his latter years. He is survived by his wife, Caroline (née Hopper), and their six children.

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Movies for John Neville...

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Title: The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Character: Self - 'Baron Munchausen'
Released: April 8, 2008
Type: Movie
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away from the truth, even when it comes to himself, and so this documentary is self-effacing and refreshingly frank. The documentary details not only the battles Gilliam had with Columbia in getting the film finished and released, but also the imagination and innovation that went into the production.
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Separate Lies
Title: Separate Lies
Character: Lord Rawston
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
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Hollywood North
Title: Hollywood North
Character: Henry Neville
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: Movie
The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
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White Knuckles
Title: White Knuckles
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
"White Knuckles" is acclaimed auteur Leo Scherman's first feature film. It's a darkly comic thriller about a young man who poisons his dimwitted brother for a huge inheritance in order to settle his debt with the Russian mafia.
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The Statement
Title: The Statement
Character: Old Man
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Control Factor
Title: Control Factor
Character: Director
Released: January 18, 2003
Type: Movie
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
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Moving Malcolm
Title: Moving Malcolm
Character: Malcolm Woodward
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Depressed after being dumped by his actress fiance', a man tries to win her back by agreeing to help her elderly British father move while she films a low-budget movie overseas.
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Title: The Eleventh Hour
Released: November 26, 2002
Type: TV
The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005. The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour. Unhappy with the newsmagazine's shrinking audience, the network has brought in a new executive producer, Kennedy Marsh, to reorient the show in a more ratings-driven tabloid journalism direction. The tension between the ratings imperative and the more traditional journalistic ethics of the show's senior staff is the primary conflict that drives the show, but storylines also include the team's efforts to get the stories that will make it to air each week. The Eleventh Hour was produced by Alliance Atlantis, Canada's largest film and television production house. It aired in the U.S. on Sleuth, under the title Bury the Lead, to distinguish it from a CBS series with a similar name.
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Spider
Title: Spider
Character: Terrence
Released: November 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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Between Strangers
Title: Between Strangers
Character: Orson Stewart
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
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Sea and Stars
Title: Sea and Stars
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Life of an ordinary fisherman changes when a young mai-mai fish sees him and falls in love!... Set to original music by composer Gavin Bryars, the film tells a romantic story of the transforming power of love - even without a happy ending.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Marmeladov, Sonia's alcoholic father
Released: June 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
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Time of the Wolf
Title: Time of the Wolf
Character: Preacher
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A boy is orphaned and his only surviving relatives, an ageing aunt and uncle, somewhat reluctantly, take him in. The aunt, still traumatised by the death by drowning, years earlier, of her own two sons, has little idea how to handle the boy. As if, losing his parents and not really feeling welcome in his new home, were not enough, the boy is bullied at school. He seeks sanctuary from all of his troubles in the open air, in the company of wolves and particularly in the presence of a young wolf whose life he has saved.
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Trudeau
Title: Trudeau
Character: British High Commissioner
Released: March 31, 2002
Type: Movie
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
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The Stork Derby
Title: The Stork Derby
Character: Mr. Cummingham
Released: January 8, 2002
Type: Movie
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression
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Gahan Wilson's The Kid
Title: Gahan Wilson's The Kid
Character: Banquo
Released: October 30, 2001
Type: Movie
The stellar drawing style of illustrator Grahan Wilson – world renowned cartoonist for the New Yorker – comes to life in this off-beat story about growing up. Based in the comic strip “Nuts”, Gahan Wilson’s The Kid is an edgy, irreverent and primetime exploration of childhood. From know-it-all parents to annoying teachers and peer pressuring friends, this animated Showtime special offers a flashback to those times when being a kid was a real drag. As the star of the show says: “They ought to pass a law that you’re not allowed to go though childhood until you’re a fully grown adult.”
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Harvard Man
Title: Harvard Man
Character: Dr. Reese
Released: August 1, 2001
Type: Movie
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.
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Custody of the Heart
Title: Custody of the Heart
Character: Judge H. Chadwick
Released: August 28, 2000
Type: Movie
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Character: Gustave Sors
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
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Water Damage
Title: Water Damage
Character: Jock Beale
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides to go, taking his remaining son with him. When they arrive, they find that only two other people had been invited and a new nightmare is about to begin.
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Goodbye Lover
Title: Goodbye Lover
Character: Bradley
Released: April 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
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The Duke
Title: The Duke
Character: The Duke
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.
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Title: Rolie Polie Olie
Character: Klanky Klaus (voice)
Released: October 4, 1998
Type: TV
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.
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Urban Legend
Title: Urban Legend
Character: Dean Adams
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
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Johnny 2.0
Title: Johnny 2.0
Character: Mr. Bosch
Released: September 12, 1998
Type: Movie
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. He's been created to track down the real Dr. Dalton who has disappeared, taking with him Azine's most devastating discovery as well as the key to disarming Johnny's genetic time-bomb. Johnny is captured, however he finds an ally among the rebels in Nikki Holland, leading him to the real Dr. Dalton, who reveals secrets about Azine, Donahue and the mysterious Mr. Bosch that are far more shocking than anything they ever expected. This futuristic thriller takes the concept of genetic engineering to a whole new level, and into a frightening world that may be just over the horizon.
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The X Files
Title: The X Files
Character: The Well-Manicured Man
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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Title: Silver Surfer
Character: Eternity (voice)
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: TV
The adventures of the cosmic wanderer as he seeks his lost home after rebelling from his master.
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Title: Emily of New Moon
Character: Uncle Malcolm
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: TV
Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The series consisted of three seasons of thirteen episodes and one season of seven episodes, for a total of forty-six. The executive producers were Micheline Charest, Michael Donovan, and Ronald Weinberg. The series starred Martha MacIsaac as the titular orphan Emily Starr. Susan Clark and Sheila McCarthy played Emily's aunts Elizabeth and Laura, who had taken on the responsibility of raising Emily following her father's death, and Stephen McHattie played her cousin Jimmy. Susan Clark left the series after the first season when her character, Elizabeth, was killed off. Recurring cast included Chip Ciupka as Mr. Carpenter, Peter Donaldson as Ian Bowles, Richard Donat as Dr. Burnley, Kris Lemche as Perry Miller, John Neville as Uncle Malcolm, Jessica Pellerin as Ilse Burnley, Shawn Roberts as Teddy Kent, and Linda Thorson as Cousin Isabel.
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Dinner at Fred's
Title: Dinner at Fred's
Character: Uncle Henrick
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday with a very different kind of family.
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Regeneration
Title: Regeneration
Character: Dr. Yealland
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
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The Fifth Element
Title: The Fifth Element
Character: General Staedert
Released: May 2, 1997
Type: Movie
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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Swann
Title: Swann
Character: Cruzzi
Released: March 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
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High School High
Title: High School High
Character: Thaddeus Clark
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Oscar Hammond
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Professor Follenfant
Released: March 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.
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The Song Spinner
Title: The Song Spinner
Character: Frilo, The Magnificent
Released: November 19, 1995
Type: Movie
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" prohibits noise of any kind, including music. Enter the exiled gypsy Zantalalia (Patti LuPone), who returns determined to pass her singing secrets on to ten-year-old Aurora (Meredith Henderson), an action that will get the girl in trouble with Captain Nizzle of the dreaded Noise Police. John Neville completes the cast of this colorful family fantasy.
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Dangerous Minds
Title: Dangerous Minds
Character: Waiter
Released: August 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. Laurence
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: Movie
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
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Message for Posterity
Title: Message for Posterity
Character: Sir David Browning
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
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The Road to Wellville
Title: The Road to Wellville
Character: Endymion Hart-Jones
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
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Baby's Day Out
Title: Baby's Day Out
Character: Mr. Andrews
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
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Title: Viper
Character: Leonard Price
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: TV
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
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Dieppe
Title: Dieppe
Character: Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Released: December 30, 1993
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
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Title: Stark
Character: De Quincy
Released: December 8, 1993
Type: TV
Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was an international co-production between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Well-Manicured Man
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Character: Dr. Cecil Chambers
Released: July 1, 1993
Type: Movie
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.
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Title: Class of '96
Character: Professor Hilton
Released: January 19, 1993
Type: TV
Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
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Johann's Gift to Christmas
Title: Johann's Gift to Christmas
Character: Viktor (voice)
Released: September 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol.
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Title: Performance
Character: Sir David Browning
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Title: Grand
Character: Desmond
Released: January 18, 1990
Type: TV
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Title: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Character: Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Title: In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Holodeck Isaac Newton
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Paradise Restored
Title: Paradise Restored
Character: John Milton
Released: November 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A fictionalised biography of the latter years of the poet, John Milton. Now an old man, blind and out of favour, Milton seeks to leave a plague-ravaged London and set-up home in the countryside.
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Title: The Protectors
Character: Charlie
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
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Title: Shirley's World
Released: April 7, 1972
Type: TV
Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor. Immediately after the ABC broadcasts ended, the seventeen-episode series was aired in its entirety on ITV in the United Kingdom.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Dr. Thorndyke
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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The Adventures of Gerard
Title: The Adventures of Gerard
Character: Duke of Wellington
Released: July 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
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Title: Shadows of Fear
Character: Pickering
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: TV
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
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Title: The First Churchills
Character: John Churchill
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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Stand by Your Screen
Title: Stand by Your Screen
Character: Christopher Gritter
Released: December 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.
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Shaggy Dog
Title: Shaggy Dog
Character: Wilkie
Released: November 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.
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Title: The Company of Five
Released: November 3, 1968
Type: TV
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George's Room
Title: George's Room
Character: The Man
Released: September 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband.
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A Study in Terror
Title: A Study in Terror
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
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Unearthly Stranger
Title: Unearthly Stranger
Character: Dr. Mark Davidson
Released: September 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Mr. Topaze
Title: Mr. Topaze
Character: Roger
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Oscar Wilde
Title: Oscar Wilde
Character: Lord Alfred Douglas
Released: May 29, 1960
Type: Movie
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.