Robert Lang

Robert Lang

Born: September 24, 1934
Died: November 6, 2004
in Bristol, England, UK
Robert Lang was a British an actor of stage and screen, best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and the 1977-1978 BBC TV series 1990. He was married to the actress Ann Bell.

Movies for Robert Lang...

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Title: Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Character: Mr. Osborne
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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Title: The Forsyte Saga
Released: April 7, 2002
Type: TV
Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.
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Trust
Title: Trust
Character: Nathan Anderson
Released: August 15, 2000
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life.
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Title: Nancherrow
Released: April 4, 1999
Type: TV
When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will eventually take over from her.
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Nancherrow
Title: Nancherrow
Character: Jerry Pinch
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
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Title: Mosley
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: February 12, 1998
Type: TV
Sir Oswald Mosley was a man who should have ranked with the heroes of the century... Instead his personal life and public career ended in disgrace and Mosley is now remembered as the leader of a dictatorial populist movement in the decade before WWII.
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Title: The Jasper Carrott Trial
Released: November 24, 1997
Type: TV
Jasper Carrott defends his record as a comedian in front of an audience jury in this highlights series
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Wilde
Title: Wilde
Character: C.O. Humphreys
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Woody Pope
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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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Government Minister
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Protopopov
Released: March 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Character: Lord Hibbott - Wedding Two
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Genghis Cohn
Title: Genghis Cohn
Character: Police Chief
Released: March 2, 1994
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.
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Title: Anna Lee
Character: David Lambert
Released: February 27, 1994
Type: TV
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. These were broadcast in the U.S. on the A&E cable network. The title role was played by Imogen Stubbs. Music was by Anne Dudley with theme song "Sister, Sister" and some additional songs by Luciana Caporaso. Considerable alterations were made from the original books so that sometimes they seem to share only their titles. According to actor Ken Stott's webpage:
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Title: The Return of the Borrowers
Character: Mr. Platter
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: K's Uncle
Released: June 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
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Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
Title: Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
Released: January 9, 1993
Type: Movie
A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Colonel Barber
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Old Boy Network
Released: February 16, 1992
Type: TV
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Detective Superintendant Ibison
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Character: King Miraz
Released: November 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
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Title: Confessional
Character: Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: TV
A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him.
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Beyond The Pale
Title: Beyond The Pale
Character: Strafe
Released: August 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.
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Title: Campion
Character: John Barnabas
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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The Dog It Was That Died
Title: The Dog It Was That Died
Character: Arion
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
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Title: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character: King Miraz
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.
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Title: A Gentleman's Club
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
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Hawks
Title: Hawks
Character: Walter Bancroft
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Chief Superintendent Dewar
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Title: Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Chorus
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
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Daylight Robbery
Title: Daylight Robbery
Character: Bank Manager
Released: July 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Ambassador Grant
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
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Title: Theatre Night
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: TV
A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan
Character: Lord Augustus Lorton
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: TV
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.
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Runners
Title: Runners
Character: Wilkins
Released: August 18, 1983
Type: Movie
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Major Darwin
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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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Albany
Released: April 3, 1983
Type: Movie
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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Title: The Brack Report
Character: Harold Harlan
Released: April 6, 1982
Type: TV
After an earthquake causes some damage to a nuclear power station, one of the chief nuclear physicists, Paul Brack, starts to investigate the safety procedures and policies of the station. He is dismayed to discover that there is a lack of real safety processes at the station, and quits his job in disgust. His disillusionment puts a strain on his relationship with his wife, Pat, a fellow researcher and academic. Through a mutual friend, Brack meets and begins to work for energy consultant Harold Harlan, with hopes that Harlan can highlight the issue of nuclear safety, and explore alternative energy sources. Unfortunately Harlan has his own plans for how he can use Brack.
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Title: Tenko
Character: Teddy Forster-Brown
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: TV
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
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Donkeys' Years
Title: Donkeys' Years
Character: David Buckle
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Arthur
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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The First Great Train Robbery
Title: The First Great Train Robbery
Character: Sharp
Released: December 14, 1978
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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The Medusa Touch
Title: The Medusa Touch
Character: Pennington
Released: April 13, 1978
Type: Movie
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Last Wishes
Title: Last Wishes
Character: Plunkett
Released: February 8, 1978
Type: Movie
An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live i n her house - now it seems they will be homeless.
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Title: 1990
Character: Herbert Skardon
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: TV
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
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Title: Raffles
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: TV
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".
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Title: The New Avengers
Character: Felix Kane
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Rogue Male
Title: Rogue Male
Character: Jessel
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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Shout at the Devil
Title: Shout at the Devil
Character: Captain Henry
Released: April 12, 1976
Type: Movie
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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The Stick Insect
Title: The Stick Insect
Character: Robert
Released: August 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect.
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Title: Notorious Woman
Released: November 3, 1974
Type: TV
The incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored with a particular focus on her romance with the famed musician Frédéric Chopin.
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I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Title: I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Character: The Man
Released: March 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could be able to identify the killer, but the killer also knows her face and knows he needs to silence the witness...
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Night Watch
Title: Night Watch
Character: Appleby
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: Jack Summers
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Title: Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Character: Edward Morris
Released: June 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.
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Title: Thriller
Character: The Man
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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And No One Could Save Her
Title: And No One Could Save Her
Character: Beck
Released: February 21, 1973
Type: Movie
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: The Commodore
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
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Savage Messiah
Title: Savage Messiah
Character: Major Boyle
Released: June 27, 1972
Type: Movie
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Bernard Sutton
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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The Bargain Hunters
Title: The Bargain Hunters
Character: Arthur Jones
Released: August 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Tom and Cynthia buy a £20 painting and suddenly believe it to be valuable.
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Deathday
Title: Deathday
Character: Adam Crosse
Released: May 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho
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The House That Dripped Blood
Title: The House That Dripped Blood
Character: Psychiatrist (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
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A Walk with Love and Death
Title: A Walk with Love and Death
Character: Pilgrim Leader
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia, and the couple begin a romance amid the intense conflict. As the struggle between peasants and noblemen rages on, Heron and Claudia take shelter at a monastery -- but even their newfound love can't completely keep the horrors of war at bay.
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The Dance of Death
Title: The Dance of Death
Character: Kurt
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizoid who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.
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Twenty-Nine
Title: Twenty-Nine
Character: Peter
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: The Suspect
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Interlude
Title: Interlude
Character: Humphrey Turnbull
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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Compensation Alice
Title: Compensation Alice
Character: Wilf
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
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Title: Ironside
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Waiter
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Roderigo
Released: December 15, 1965
Type: Movie
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Catch Us If You Can
Title: Catch Us If You Can
Character: Whiting, Columnist
Released: July 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
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Olivier Talks About Othello
Title: Olivier Talks About Othello
Character: Archive Footage
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
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The Cherry on the Top
Title: The Cherry on the Top
Character: Bill
Released: September 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.
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Uncle Vanya
Title: Uncle Vanya
Character: Yefim
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
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West 11
Title: West 11
Character: Football Supporter
Released: October 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
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The Secret Thread
Title: The Secret Thread
Character: Gus
Released: January 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A writer, Arnold Reed, goes back to his former boyhood home in the East End, and there, finding it about to be torn down, he revisits his attic room, and stumbles on evidence of the operations of dealers in illegal traffic. He breaks his ankle and has to hide from the criminals, one of whom is a murderer.
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Title: An Age of Kings
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: TV
A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.