Anthony Bate

Anthony Bate

Born: August 31, 1927
Died: June 19, 2012
in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK

Movies for Anthony Bate...

Nowhere in Africa
Title: Nowhere in Africa
Character: Mr. Brindley
Released: December 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
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Happy Now
Title: Happy Now
Character: Judge
Released: August 20, 2001
Type: Movie
All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be coming back to haunt them. But can the daughter of Tina Trent, a local woman just returned from Alaska, be the same girl the two lads buried fourteen years earlier? Only local policeman Max Bracchi can solve the case with the help of a wrongly accused tramp, Tin Man.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Augustus Deverell
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Eminent Domain
Title: Eminent Domain
Character: Kowal
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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Countdown to War
Title: Countdown to War
Character: Simon
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Lord Pearson
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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Title: Game, Set, and Match
Character: Bret Renssalaer
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
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Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Title: Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Character: Edkuard Shevardnadze
Released: December 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
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Exploits at West Poley
Title: Exploits at West Poley
Character: The Man Who Has Failed
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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Give My Regards to Broad Street
Title: Give My Regards to Broad Street
Character: City Banker
Released: November 28, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.
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Nelly's Version
Title: Nelly's Version
Character: George
Released: June 9, 1983
Type: Movie
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: April 13, 1983
Type: TV
A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
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Title: Smiley's People
Character: Oliver Lacon
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: TV
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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A Woman Called Golda
Title: A Woman Called Golda
Character: Sir Stuart Ross
Released: April 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Clive Seymour
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: TV
Fanny by Gaslight is a British drama television series, which originally aired on the BBC between 24 September and 9 October 1981. It was an adaptation of the novel Fanny by Gaslight by Michael Sadleir, which had previously been adapted into a film, Man of Evil, in 1944. The series was adapted by Anthony Steven, directed by Peter Jefferies and produced by Joe Waters. Chloe Salaman plays the title role of Fanny Hooper, a young woman who is orphaned and faced with hardship in Victorian London.
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Psy-Warriors
Title: Psy-Warriors
Character: Warren
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Title: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Character: Soranzo
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
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The Network
Title: The Network
Character: Roland Jeffries
Released: December 20, 1979
Type: Movie
What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
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Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Character: Oliver Lacon
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: TV
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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Title: An Englishman's Castle
Character: Harmer
Released: June 5, 1978
Type: TV
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
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The Seagull
Title: The Seagull
Character: Dr. Dorn
Released: February 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Title: Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Character: Kim Philby
Released: May 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
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Beasts: During Barty's Party
Title: Beasts: During Barty's Party
Character: Roger Truscott
Released: October 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
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Title: Beasts
Character: Roger Truscott
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: TV
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
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Double Echo
Title: Double Echo
Character: Dr Raeburn
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
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Ghost Story
Title: Ghost Story
Character: Doctor Borden
Released: March 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
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Beyond Our Means
Title: Beyond Our Means
Character: Oliver Forsyth
Released: September 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert
Released: January 4, 1970
Type: TV
Ivanhoe was a BBC television series from 1970. The script was by Alexander Baron, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. The director was David Maloney. It was shown on the Sunday tea-time slot on BBC1, which for several years showed fairly faithful adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. It was later shown on US television. It consisted of five 50-minute episodes. It is not widely remembered nowadays, but is remembered favourably by some who do remember it, as one of the better BBC Sunday adaptations, and possibly more accessible to a late 20th-century audience than Scott's original novel.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Tom Kelly
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Charles Ian Grady
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Moonlight on the Highway
Title: Moonlight on the Highway
Released: April 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Pederson
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Harry Fletcher
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Insp. Javert
Released: October 22, 1967
Type: TV
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Doctor Kirk
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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Davey Jones' Locker
Title: Davey Jones' Locker
Character: Lieutenant Commander Jim Matthews
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.
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Act of Murder
Title: Act of Murder
Character: Ralph Longman
Released: September 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
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Stop-over Forever
Title: Stop-over Forever
Character: Trevor Graham
Released: May 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.
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Title: First Night
Character: Holmes
Released: September 22, 1963
Type: TV
A series of contemporary television dramas by new writers.
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The Set Up
Title: The Set Up
Character: Ray Underwood
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
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A Prize of Arms
Title: A Prize of Arms
Character: Sergeant Reeves
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Dr. Sardon
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Martin Irelock
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Christopher Waites
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Tilsto
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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The Big Boys
Title: The Big Boys
Character: Larry Argent
Released: August 28, 1961
Type: Movie
BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.
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The Man in the Back Seat
Title: The Man in the Back Seat
Character: AA Patrol Man (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Earle
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Payroll
Title: Payroll
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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The Big Day
Title: The Big Day
Character: Driver
Released: July 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
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Snowball
Title: Snowball
Character: Policeman
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: PC Bert Scott
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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The Collection
Title: The Collection
Character: James
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.