Thomas Heathcote

Thomas Heathcote

Born: September 9, 1917
Died: January 5, 1986

Movies for Thomas Heathcote...

Title: Paradise Postponed
Character: Tom Nowt
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
This British series, based on books by John Mortimer, follows the rise of Leslie Titmuss from humble beginnings in the 1950s to Tory cabinet minister in the 1980s. The rise of the slippery Titmuss is contrasted with the more modest progress of his neighbours, the intellectual Simcoxes and the aristocratic Fanners. Made by Eustom Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television for the ITV Network.
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The Shooting Party
Title: The Shooting Party
Character: Ogden
Released: February 1, 1985
Type: Movie
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
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Exploits at West Poley
Title: Exploits at West Poley
Character: Farmer Will Gant
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
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The Jigsaw Man
Title: The Jigsaw Man
Character: Gamekeeper
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
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Trial by Combat
Title: Trial by Combat
Character: Tramp
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
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Title: Sky
Released: April 7, 1975
Type: TV
Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14, 1975. A mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes, the eponymous Sky, finds himself on Earth. He uses his psychic powers for achieve his goal of ensuring a way back home. Sky finds the very world soul of Earth in the form of nature, only to reject him the way an immune system might an infection. In his quest to return home, he joins his destiny with that of three human children. The serial was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, also known for their scripts for Doctor Who and a fantasy television series for children, Into the Labyrinth. Although the series was kept on 2" videotape into the 1990s, during a transfer to film stock episodes 3 and 7 were damaged beyond repair. The series was finally released by Network DVD in May 2009, with the damaged segments replaced by inferior, but watchable, VHS copies of the episodes.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Friend
Released: January 21, 1974
Type: Movie
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
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Demons of the Mind
Title: Demons of the Mind
Character: Coachman
Released: November 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Paterson
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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Title: The Onedin Line
Character: Fletcher
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: TV
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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Title: Upstairs, Downstairs
Character: Clough
Released: October 10, 1971
Type: TV
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Title: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Character: 2nd Policeman
Released: May 18, 1971
Type: Movie
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Flavius
Released: June 4, 1970
Type: Movie
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
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A Day at the Beach
Title: A Day at the Beach
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.
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Quatermass and the Pit
Title: Quatermass and the Pit
Character: Vicar
Released: November 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Lobo Man
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Night of the Big Heat
Title: Night of the Big Heat
Character: Bob Hayward
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
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A Man for All Seasons
Title: A Man for All Seasons
Character: Boatman
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Det. Chief Supt. Charles Appleby
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: Alan Payne, Maintopman
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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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: Sergeant
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Village of the Damned
Title: Village of the Damned
Character: James Pawle
Released: June 16, 1960
Type: Movie
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Tread Softly Stranger
Title: Tread Softly Stranger
Character: Sgt. Lamb
Released: August 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Steward
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Title: Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Character: Mr. Monaghan
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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Tiger in the Smoke
Title: Tiger in the Smoke
Character: Rolly Gripper
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Tom - Barman
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Bracket
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Raoul
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Wilson
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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Above Us the Waves
Title: Above Us the Waves
Character: Hutchins
Released: March 29, 1955
Type: Movie
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
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The Stolen Airliner
Title: The Stolen Airliner
Character: Vint
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.
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The Seekers
Title: The Seekers
Character: Sgt. Paul
Released: June 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
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The Large Rope
Title: The Large Rope
Character: James Gore
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
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Blood Orange
Title: Blood Orange
Character: Detective Sgt. Jessup
Released: October 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
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The Red Beret
Title: The Red Beret
Character: Alf
Released: August 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: Wrestling Second
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Radar Operator
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Fred
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.