Brian Coburn

Brian Coburn

Born: December 15, 1936
Died: December 28, 1989
in Scotland, UK
Brian Coburn was born on December 15, 1936 in Scotland as Brian Francis Coburn. He was an actor, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Octopussy (1983) and Amor y muerte: La última noche de Boris Grushenko (1975). He was married to Julia Breck. He died on December 28, 1989 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England.

Movies for Brian Coburn...

Title: Campion
Character: Thomas Beverbridge
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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Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video
Title: Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video
Character: Alan
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jone star in festive special about a family with a video camera. Christmas usually means a little over-indulgence, but to the Aldershot family it is an orgy of hitherto uncharted proportions.
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Knockback: 1
Title: Knockback: 1
Character: Prisoner
Released: January 27, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Davros
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Exploits at West Poley
Title: Exploits at West Poley
Character: Bearded Man
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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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: Friar Vosper
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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Title: Six Centuries of Verse
Character: Himself - Reader
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: TV
Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and emotional impact of English-language poetry, from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.
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Title: Robin of Sherwood
Character: Alehouse Keeper
Released: April 28, 1984
Type: TV
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
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Lassiter
Title: Lassiter
Released: February 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.
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The Master of Ballantrae
Title: The Master of Ballantrae
Character: John Mountain
Released: January 31, 1984
Type: Movie
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Octopussy
Title: Octopussy
Character: South American V.I.P.
Released: June 5, 1983
Type: Movie
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
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Baal
Title: Baal
Character: 1st Woodcutter
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A high society party is where the end begins.
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Title: Gulliver in Lilliput
Character: Soldier
Released: January 3, 1982
Type: TV
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.
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Bread or Blood
Title: Bread or Blood
Character: Big Joe
Released: April 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century
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The Day Christ Died
Title: The Day Christ Died
Character: James
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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Title: The Legend of King Arthur
Character: Uther Pendragon
Released: October 7, 1979
Type: TV
This 8-part drama brings high romance, low treachery and magical adventure via a host of legendary characters: wise old Merlin, brave Sir Lancelot, King Arthur, ruler of all Britain and master of the Knights of the Round Table, the beguiling Queen Guinevere and her nemesis Morgan la Fay. Dark Ages wizard Merlin (Robert Eddison), weary of the barbarism around him, creates a new order of enlightenment and justice with a youthful Arthur (Andrew Burt) at its head. Merlin gifts Arthur with the magic legendary sword Excalibur to help him defeat the nobles who oppose his rule. But Arthur must also beware his half-sister Morgan (Maureen O'Brien), a sorceress who has sworn to kill him to avenge her father's death. As Morgan intensifies her plans to get revenge, she uses magic to draw Lancelot (David Robb) and Guinevere (Felicity Dean) into a passionate affair. But it is the still more traitorous Mordred (Steve Hodson) who will fatally halt Arthur's rule.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Messala
Released: February 11, 1979
Type: Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
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The Comedy of Errors
Title: The Comedy of Errors
Character: The Duke
Released: October 17, 1978
Type: Movie
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Henri
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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Trial by Combat
Title: Trial by Combat
Character: Lofty
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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Love and Death
Title: Love and Death
Character: Dimitri
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: The Scotsman
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Carry On Dick
Title: Carry On Dick
Character: Scottish Highwayman
Released: February 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village...
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Title: Roberts Robots
Character: Katie
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: TV
Robert Sommerby is a brilliant but eccentric inventor who lives in the country with his Aunt Millie and a number of humanoid robots. One, Katie ( KT ), talks like a child and has a propensity for walking through doors without opening them.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: Foreman
Released: August 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.
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Title: The Black Arrow
Character: Lord William
Released: April 12, 1972
Type: TV
Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow tells the tale of Richard Shelton, a knight who avenges the death of his father during the War of the Roses. Richard is surrounded by enemies, some of whom he considers his most trusted companions.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: Huntly
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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Fiddler on the Roof
Title: Fiddler on the Roof
Character: Berl
Released: November 3, 1971
Type: Movie
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
Title: The Year of the Sex Olympics
Character: Custard Pie Expert
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
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The Last Invasion
Title: The Last Invasion
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings
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The Return of Mr. Moto
Title: The Return of Mr. Moto
Character: Magda
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Dickie
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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The Fishing Match
Title: The Fishing Match
Character: Cherry Brandy Man
Released: August 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.