Lysette Anthony

Lysette Anthony

Born: September 26, 1963
in London, England, UK
Lysette Anne Chodzko, known professionally as Lysette Anthony, is an English actress and model. She is known for her roles in the film Husbands and Wives (1992), as Princess Lysssa in the 1983 fantasy epic Krull, the first season of the ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), the BBC1 sitcom Three Up, Two Down (1985-1989) and her role as Marnie Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2016–2022).

Anthony was born on September 26, 1963 in Marylebone, London, the only child of actor Michael Adam Anthony (né Chodzko), an actor from Jersey, and actress Bernadette Milnes. The couple later divorced. Anthony's French-born paternal grandfather, Alexander Victor Chodzko, was a mariner and journalist of Polish descent. Anthony's childhood was made difficult by her mother's manic depression and schizophrenia and she left home at 19. In 1980, at age 16, Anthony was heralded as the "Face of the Eighties" by photographer David Bailey. She was a successful model before she became known as an actress at the age of 20.

Anthony's film debut was in the 1983 fantasy film Krull, in which she played Princess Lyssa. She then went on to appear in a number of other films, including Husbands and Wives (1992), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and Tale of the Mummy (1998).

On television, Anthony has starred in a number of series, including Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), Three Up, Two Down (1985-1989), and Hollyoaks (2016–2022). She has also guest-starred in a number of other shows, including Doctor Who, The Bill, and Midsomer Murders.

Movies for Lysette Anthony...

Necronomicon
Title: Necronomicon
Character: Martha
Released: May 31, 2023
Type: Movie
From the mind of HP Lovecraft comes the story of a book made from human flesh and written by Aleister Crowley during his visit to the depths of hell
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Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
Title: Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
Character: Martha (archive footage)
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A writer of graphic novels who is given the task of writing a biography on the foremost occultist Aleister Crowley. Things start to go wrong when he discovers a rune inserted in Crowley's diary when visiting New Orleans.
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We Still Steal the Old Way
Title: We Still Steal the Old Way
Character: Lizzie
Released: January 9, 2017
Type: Movie
The explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way (2014). Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang is an aging criminal outfit who carry out a daring robbery, but are caught mid-heist. They are sentenced to do time in Britain's toughest prison. Once inside, they encounter their old nemesis Slick Vic Farrow (Billy Murray) who is intent on murdering the gang. The old-school criminals need to use all their wits to stage a daring escape, while dodging Slick Vic, and setting in motion a chain of events which leads to an explosive prison riot.
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Mob Handed
Title: Mob Handed
Character: The Solicitor
Released: May 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A beautiful journalist will stop at nothing to get revenge for her daughter's murder. With no help from corrupt cops she decides to take the law into her own hands and joins a vigilante gang of gangsters and football hooligans to track down the sick, sadistic killers and get her justice....
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We Still Kill the Old Way
Title: We Still Kill the Old Way
Character: Lizzie Davis
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
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Strippers vs. Werewolves
Title: Strippers vs. Werewolves
Character: Jilly
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.
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Title: Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
Released: December 1, 2008
Type: TV
Two teams of celebrities search for antique bargains and put them up for auction, with the help of two antiques experts.
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Manilla Envelopes
Title: Manilla Envelopes
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and reporters trying to get to the truth. It has never been released to DVD and has only ever had a limited theatrical screening in 2006.
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Farewell to Harry
Title: Farewell to Harry
Released: April 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.
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Title: Night and Day
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Night and Day is a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.
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Beneath Loch Ness
Title: Beneath Loch Ness
Character: Elizabeth
Released: July 6, 2001
Type: Movie
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
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Hotel!
Title: Hotel!
Character: Amanda Brown
Released: February 17, 2001
Type: Movie
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to by a host of wacky characters who obviously don't get out much.
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Depeche Mode: The Videos 86-98
Title: Depeche Mode: The Videos 86-98
Character: Woman (segment "I Feel You")
Released: September 28, 1998
Type: Movie
The Videos 86>98 is a music video compilation by Depeche Mode, featuring almost two dozen music videos directed by a variety of directors, released in 1998. It coincides with The Singles 86>98. The original movie was released on VHS and DVD. There was however a special edition, DVD only, called Videos 86>98 + (without "The", and with "+") released in 2002. The DVD was two discs, the first disc being identical to the only disc in the original DVD, while the second DVD contains bonus material not found in the original release.
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Title: Highlander: The Raven
Character: Debra Dow
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: TV
Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal. The series followed the character of Amanda, an Immortal who had a recurring role in Highlander: The Series. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Paris, France and was produced by Gaumont Télévision and Fireworks Media in association with Davis-Panzer Productions.
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Misbegotten
Title: Misbegotten
Character: Caitlan Bourke
Released: June 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Impatient to have a child, an infertile couple seeks help at a sperm bank and are thrilled when the procedure works. But their joy is cut short after they discover the donor is a psychopath willing to kill anyone who stands between him and his baby.
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Tale of the Mummy
Title: Tale of the Mummy
Character: Dr. Claire Mulrooney
Released: March 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
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Man of Her Dreams
Title: Man of Her Dreams
Character: Faith Moore
Released: November 18, 1997
Type: Movie
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Mimi Tranter
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Trilogy of Terror II
Title: Trilogy of Terror II
Character: Laura, Bobby's Mom / Dr. Simpson
Released: October 30, 1996
Type: Movie
Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.
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Dead Cold
Title: Dead Cold
Character: Alicia
Released: May 7, 1996
Type: Movie
When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, wife Alicia nurses him back to health. Four months later, the two depart for a second honeymoon in an idyllic setting in the mountains. They are snuggly ensconced in front of a crackling fire when Cale, a hunter who's ostensibly lost his sense of direction in the snow storm and nearly frozen to death, appears at their cabin door.
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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Title: Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portrayed in film and television.
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Title: Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Character: Lucy Westenra
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Character: Sarah Carver
Released: August 25, 1995
Type: Movie
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
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Affair Play
Title: Affair Play
Character: Lisa
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A merchant marries a woman who looks exactly like his former lover, who died because of him. But the man has a morbid jealousy, he sees a rival in every man. Then he asks an attractive man to seduce his wife for money.
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The Hard Truth
Title: The Hard Truth
Character: Lisa Kantrell
Released: November 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A suspended cop and his girlfriend blackmail an electronics expert into helping them break into the safe of the girlfriend's boss, a corrupt city councilman who's on the local mob's payroll.
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A Brilliant Disguise
Title: A Brilliant Disguise
Character: Michelle
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: Movie
A beautiful and talented woman with highly contrasting multiple personalities draws a hotshot sportswriter into a web of murders.
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Target of Suspicion
Title: Target of Suspicion
Character: Jennifer
Released: June 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Nick Matthews and his wife and business partner, Jennifer, are in Paris to close a deal with Charles, a Frenchman, to market their perfumes in France. Seduced by a beautiful model after returning her wallet that he finds in his hotel lobby, Nick is later accused of raping and murdering her. On the run from police to find the real killer with the help of a street-smart young French girl, he slowly discovers that no one is what they seemed.
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Save Me
Title: Save Me
Character: Ellie
Released: March 23, 1994
Type: Movie
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.
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Look Who's Talking Now!
Title: Look Who's Talking Now!
Character: Samantha LeBon
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
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The Hour of the Pig
Title: The Hour of the Pig
Character: Filette d'Auferre
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: Movie
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
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Face the Music
Title: Face the Music
Character: Julie Sanson
Released: June 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's fiance!
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Husbands and Wives
Title: Husbands and Wives
Character: Sam
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
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The Pleasure Principle
Title: The Pleasure Principle
Character: Charlotte
Released: January 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Part relationship drama and part sex comedy follows a middle-aged man who loves women and sex and can't stop cheating. He gets a divorce from his angry wife, but then cheats on his lovers. However, one of them decides to get even.
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Title: P.S. I Luv U
Released: September 15, 1991
Type: TV
P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing "PSI-LUVU" on a standard North American telephone.
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Switch
Title: Switch
Character: Liz
Released: May 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
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Title: Dark Shadows
Character: Angelíque
Released: January 13, 1991
Type: TV
Dark Shadows is a primetime television series which aired on NBC from January to March 1991. A re-imagining of the 1966–1971 ABC daytime gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, the revival was developed by Dan Curtis, creator of the original series.
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Title: Cluedo
Character: Miss Scarlett
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: TV
Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Title: A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Character: Mistral
Released: April 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Bobbi
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Campion
Character: Amanda Fitton
Released: January 22, 1989
Type: TV
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Veronica Cray
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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The Lady and the Highwayman
Title: The Lady and the Highwayman
Character: Lady Panthea Vyne
Released: December 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.
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Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Mary Jane Kelly
Released: October 11, 1988
Type: TV
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
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Without a Clue
Title: Without a Clue
Character: Impostor Leslie Giles
Released: May 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
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Looking for Eileen
Title: Looking for Eileen
Character: Marian Faber / Eileen W.
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: Movie
After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Princess Gilda
Released: May 15, 1987
Type: Movie
In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song "Clothes Make the Man". Ran 93 minutes on German TV.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Amanda
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Rachel Houston
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Sophy
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: TV
Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions.
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Title: Home to Roost
Character: Lucy
Released: April 19, 1985
Type: TV
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.
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Title: Three Up, Two Down
Character: Angie Tyler
Released: April 15, 1985
Type: TV
Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises from the fact that the mismatched Daphne and Sam are forced by circumstances to share the flat below that occupied by their children.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Rose Maylie
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
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L'étincelle
Title: L'étincelle
Character: Patricia
Released: February 29, 1984
Type: Movie
A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.
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Night Train to Murder
Title: Night Train to Murder
Character: Kathy Chalmers
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
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Title: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Character: Christa
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: TV
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
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Title: Princess Daisy
Character: Lady Sarah
Released: November 6, 1983
Type: TV
The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram. She fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. But then, her half-brother arrives on the scene, ready to blackmail and destroy her.
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Krull
Title: Krull
Character: Lyssa
Released: July 29, 1983
Type: Movie
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Title: Dombey and Son
Character: Florence Dombey
Released: January 16, 1983
Type: TV
Dombey and Son is a television mini-series produced by the BBC in 1983. It was based on the book Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It was adapted by James Andrew Hall and directed by Rodney Bennett.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Oliver's Mother
Released: March 23, 1982
Type: Movie
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Lady Rowena
Released: February 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.
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Title: Late Night with David Letterman
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: TV
Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien then filled the time slot. As of March 2, 2009, the slot has been filled by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It will be filled by Seth Meyers in the spring of 2014, after Fallon becomes host of The Tonight Show.
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Title: The Gentle Touch
Released: April 11, 1980
Type: TV
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
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The Telemachy
Title: The Telemachy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Telemachy is a journey of self-discovery inspired by Homer's Odyssey. It follows Telemachus, an Anglo-Greek boy who runs away from home in order to find his true father on the Greek island of Skiathos. Throughout the film we encounter characters with overlaying themes that remind us that everyone has a story to tell.