Alan Howard

Alan Howard

Born: August 5, 1937
Died: February 14, 2015
in London, England, UK
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Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, (5 August 1937–14 February 2015) was an English actor known for his roles on stage, television and film.

He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Character: The Ring (voice)
Released: December 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.
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Title: Death in Holy Orders
Character: Father Sebastian Morell
Released: August 23, 2003
Type: TV
Detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of a young ordinand who died in mysterious circumstances.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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David Copperfield
Title: David Copperfield
Character: Mr. Spenlow
Released: December 25, 2001
Type: Movie
After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Character: The Ring (voice)
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Owen August
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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The Secret Rapture
Title: The Secret Rapture
Character: Tom French
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
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Da Vinci's War
Title: Da Vinci's War
Character: Governor
Released: May 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A veteran and his war buddies hunt for the killer of the veteran's sister.
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Anna Lee: Headcase
Title: Anna Lee: Headcase
Character: Mr. Hahn
Released: January 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl
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Title: Witchcraft
Character: Alan Oakfield
Released: December 14, 1992
Type: TV
The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.
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Dakota Road
Title: Dakota Road
Character: Alan Brandon
Released: July 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the local U.S. Air Base to escape the guilt and hypocrisy of everyday life. But her dreams of glamour and excitement are shattered when she is seduced by a pilot, setting in motion a chain of events...
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The Price of the Bride
Title: The Price of the Bride
Character: Sam McCready
Released: December 8, 1990
Type: Movie
After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but also making sure he isn't a 'plant' to uncover secrets from us. All of this is complicated when it is suspected that another man is the real agent, and the defector but a decoy.
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A Little Piece of Sunshine
Title: A Little Piece of Sunshine
Character: Sam McCready
Released: November 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
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Antigone/Rites of Passion
Title: Antigone/Rites of Passion
Character: Haemon & Polynices (voice)
Released: October 31, 1990
Type: Movie
This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
Title: Death Has A Bad Reputation
Character: Sam McCready
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
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A Casualty of War
Title: A Casualty of War
Character: Sam McCready
Released: December 2, 1989
Type: Movie
David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage for one last job. The mission - foiling a Libyan plot to supply the IRA with a massive shipment of high-tech weapons in order to wreak revenge upon the UK for their support and co-operation with the US during the 1986 bombing of Libya and the attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi .
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Michael
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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Strapless
Title: Strapless
Character: Mr. Cooper
Released: May 14, 1989
Type: Movie
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
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The Return of the Musketeers
Title: The Return of the Musketeers
Character: Oliver Cromwell
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Benedict Farley / Hugo Cornworthy
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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Just Another Secret
Title: Just Another Secret
Character: Sam McCready
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
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The Dog It Was That Died
Title: The Dog It Was That Died
Character: Purvis
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: A Perfect Spy
Character: Jack Brotherhood
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: TV
The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.
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Life Story
Title: Life Story
Character: Maurice Wilkins
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
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Title: Unnatural Causes
Character: Grahame
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: TV
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.
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Poppyland
Title: Poppyland
Character: Clement Scott
Released: January 13, 1985
Type: Movie
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
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Oxford Blues
Title: Oxford Blues
Character: Simon Rutledge
Released: August 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
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Title: Playing Shakespeare
Released: July 29, 1984
Type: TV
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: The Duke of Holdernesse
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Character: Coriolanus
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
Title: An Audience with Mel Brooks
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Royal Flash
Title: Royal Flash
Character: Duchy Chamberlain
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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The Way of the World
Title: The Way of the World
Character: Mirabell
Released: March 5, 1975
Type: Movie
In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant.
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Title: Notorious Woman
Character: Prosper Merimée
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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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Title: Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Character: Reverend Mort
Released: September 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
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The Heroes of Telemark
Title: The Heroes of Telemark
Character: Oli
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
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The Americanization of Emily
Title: The Americanization of Emily
Character: Port Ensign
Released: October 27, 1964
Type: Movie
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Parliamentary Private Secretary
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
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Victim
Title: Victim
Character: Frank
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.