Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Born: September 29, 1913
Died: January 7, 1988
in Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II. His first paid work was in the play Revolt in a Reformatory (1934), before he left RADA in 1935 to take small roles.

Although stories of his courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike, files held in the Public Record Office reveal that he had actually been discharged from the British Army in 1943 for mental instability and having a "psychopathic personality". The story, which surfaced in Terence Pettigrew's biography of the actor, published by Peter Owen in 2001, was initially denied by Howard's widow, actress Helen Cherry. Later, confronted with official records, she told the Daily Telegraph (24 June 2001) that his mother had claimed he was a holder of the Military Cross. She added that Howard had an honourable military record and "had nothing to be ashamed of".

Movies for Trevor Howard...

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Title: German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Character: Narrator (fragment version)
Released: January 6, 2017
Type: Movie
On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).
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The Dawning
Title: The Dawning
Character: Grandfather
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
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The Unholy
Title: The Unholy
Character: Father Silva
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
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White Mischief
Title: White Mischief
Character: Jack Soames
Released: November 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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Hand in Glove
Title: Hand in Glove
Character: Vicar
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself on the verge of madness after experiencing a vision of her lovers imminent death.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Maitland
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
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Title: Shaka Zulu
Character: Lord Charles Somerset
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: TV
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Dr Stirry
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Title: Peter the Great
Character: Sir Isaac Newton
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
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Time After Time
Title: Time After Time
Character: Brigadier Croshawe
Released: January 26, 1986
Type: Movie
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
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Title: Time for Murder
Character: Sir Daniel Penwarden
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: TV
Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.
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Dust
Title: Dust
Character: Father
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
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Memory of the Camps
Title: Memory of the Camps
Character: Narrator
Released: May 7, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film was made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. It was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on PBS FRONTLINE in 1985.
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God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Title: God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Character: Georg Friedrich Handel
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The story of the last years of Handel.
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title: Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Character: The King
Released: August 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
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The Bengal Lancers!
Title: The Bengal Lancers!
Character: Uncle George
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.
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Title: George Washington
Character: Lord Fairfax
Released: April 8, 1984
Type: TV
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.
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Title: Frontline
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 17, 1983
Type: TV
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Judge Broomfield
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Missionary
Title: The Missionary
Character: Lord Henry Ames
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Gustave Kummer
Released: July 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
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Inside the Third Reich
Title: Inside the Third Reich
Character: Prof. Heinrich Tessenow
Released: May 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
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Light Years Away
Title: Light Years Away
Character: Yoshka Poliakeff
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
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Title: Ludwig
Character: Richard Wagner
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: TV
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Staying On
Title: Staying On
Character: Col. Tusker Smalley
Released: December 28, 1980
Type: Movie
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
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Windwalker
Title: Windwalker
Character: Windwalker
Released: December 12, 1980
Type: Movie
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
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Superman II
Title: Superman II
Character: Krypton Elder (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who attempts to make himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Title: Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Character: Sir Henry Rawlinson
Released: November 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Jack Cartwright
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: Shillingbury Tales
Character: Dan 'Saltie' Wicklow
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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The Shillingbury Blowers
Title: The Shillingbury Blowers
Character: Saltie
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
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Flashpoint Africa
Title: Flashpoint Africa
Character: Program Controller
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Title: The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.
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Meteor
Title: Meteor
Character: Sir Michael Hughes
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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Hurricane
Title: Hurricane
Character: Father Malone
Released: April 12, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
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The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Title: The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Character: Riviere
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: Movie
British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: 1st Elder
Released: December 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Stevie
Title: Stevie
Character: The Man
Released: September 15, 1978
Type: Movie
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
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Title: Scorpion Tales
Character: Mavor
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: TV
Scorpion Tales was a British thriller television series, originally screened in 1978. Produced by ATV, the series was transmitted on the ITV network. It lasted just one season.
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Slavers
Title: Slavers
Character: Alec Mackenzie
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Title: The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Character: Sir Hector
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Title: The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Character: Capt. Foster Fyans
Released: December 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
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Title: Origins of the Mafia
Character: Don Consalvo Saccone
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: TV
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Title: The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Character: Squire Western
Released: August 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
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Aces High
Title: Aces High
Character: Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
Released: May 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
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Albino
Title: Albino
Character: Johannes
Released: March 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.
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Hennessy
Title: Hennessy
Character: Comdr. Rice
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte-Cristo
Character: Abbé Faria
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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Conduct Unbecoming
Title: Conduct Unbecoming
Character: Colonnello Benjamin Strang
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
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Persecution
Title: Persecution
Character: Paul Bellamy
Released: November 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
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11 Harrowhouse
Title: 11 Harrowhouse
Character: Clyde Massey
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Craze
Title: Craze
Character: Supt. Bellamy
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice.
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Who?
Title: Who?
Character: Colonel Azarin
Released: April 18, 1974
Type: Movie
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
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The Catholics
Title: The Catholics
Character: The Abbot
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Dr. Rank
Released: August 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.
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Ludwig
Title: Ludwig
Character: Richard Wagner
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
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The Offence
Title: The Offence
Character: Lieutenant Cartwright, Detective Superintendant
Released: January 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
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Pope Joan
Title: Pope Joan
Character: Pope Leo
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: William Cecil
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Lord Advocate
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
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Catch Me a Spy
Title: Catch Me a Spy
Character: Trevor Dawson
Released: September 6, 1971
Type: Movie
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
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The Night Visitor
Title: The Night Visitor
Character: Inspector
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
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Ryan's Daughter
Title: Ryan's Daughter
Character: Father Hugh Collins
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
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Twinky
Title: Twinky
Character: Twinky's Grandfather
Released: January 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
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Battle of Britain
Title: Battle of Britain
Character: Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Lord Cardigan
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
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Pretty Polly
Title: Pretty Polly
Character: Robert Hook
Released: October 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in India her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
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The Long Duel
Title: The Long Duel
Character: Freddie Young
Released: July 27, 1967
Type: Movie
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: Freddie Young (Distinguished Civilian)
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers
Title: Poppies Are Also Flowers
Character: Sam Lincoln
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Liquidator
Title: The Liquidator
Character: Mostyn
Released: November 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
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Eagle in a Cage
Title: Eagle in a Cage
Character: Napoleon
Released: October 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
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Morituri
Title: Morituri
Character: Colonel Statter
Released: August 24, 1965
Type: Movie
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
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Von Ryan's Express
Title: Von Ryan's Express
Character: Major Eric Fincham
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
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Operation Crossbow
Title: Operation Crossbow
Character: Professor Lindemann
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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Father Goose
Title: Father Goose
Character: Commander Frank Houghton
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
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Man in the Middle
Title: Man in the Middle
Character: Major Kensington
Released: January 27, 1964
Type: Movie
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Title: The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Ejlert Lövborg
Released: December 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Capt. William Bligh
Released: November 8, 1962
Type: Movie
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Lion
Title: The Lion
Character: John Bullit
Released: August 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
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Sons and Lovers
Title: Sons and Lovers
Character: Walter Morel
Released: August 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Moment of Danger
Title: Moment of Danger
Character: John Bain
Released: January 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.
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The Roots of Heaven
Title: The Roots of Heaven
Character: Morel
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Character: Dr. Derek Lester
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Capt. Chris Ford
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Manuela
Title: Manuela
Character: James Prothero
Released: July 18, 1957
Type: Movie
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Character: Frank McNally
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Denis Fallentin
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Run for the Sun
Title: Run for the Sun
Character: Browne
Released: July 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Captain Thompson
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Lovers' Net
Title: Lovers' Net
Character: L'Inspecteur Lewis
Released: January 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form of gorgeous widow Francoise Arnoul. Alas, it turns out that Arnoul has a sordid past of her own, leaving our hero sadder but wiser.
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The Stranger's Hand
Title: The Stranger's Hand
Character: Major Roger Court
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
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The Heart of the Matter
Title: The Heart of the Matter
Character: Harry Scobie
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
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Gift Horse
Title: Gift Horse
Character: Lt. Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Napoleon
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Outcast of the Islands
Title: Outcast of the Islands
Character: Peter Willems
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Title: Lady Godiva Rides Again
Character: Guest at Theater Accepting Program (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Maj. David Somers
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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Odette
Title: Odette
Character: Captain Peter Churchill
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
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Golden Salamander
Title: Golden Salamander
Character: David Redfern
Released: February 1, 1950
Type: Movie
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
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The Third Man
Title: The Third Man
Character: Major Calloway
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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The Passionate Friends
Title: The Passionate Friends
Character: Prof. Steven Stratton
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Vittorio
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Morel (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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So Well Remembered
Title: So Well Remembered
Character: Dr. Richard Whiteside
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: George Clement 'Clem' Morgan
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Green for Danger
Title: Green for Danger
Character: Dr. Barnes
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Lt. David Bayne
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: Dr. Alec Harvey
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
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The Way to the Stars
Title: The Way to the Stars
Character: Squadron Leader Carter
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Officer on Ship (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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Squaring the Circle
Title: Squaring the Circle
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Royal Air Force training film starring Trevor Howard as an RAF pilot. Focus of the film is on the importance of finding the right job for the right person in the RAF.