Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill

Born: December 17, 1944
in Manchester, England, UK
Born in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor. Known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King.

Movies for Bernard Hill...

The Moor
Title: The Moor
Character: Thornley
Released: August 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Character: Oscar Smith
Released: June 24, 2023
Type: Movie
An aging woman is given the chance to be young again and right her past but is faced with a dilemma when her husband declines to join her.
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Segunda oportunidad
Title: Segunda oportunidad
Character: Peter
Released: November 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Title: Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Character: Richard
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; their encounter will affect each other’s lives irrevocably.
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Inside CERN
Title: Inside CERN
Character: Narrator
Released: August 10, 2016
Type: Movie
BBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. An enigmatic bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that could change our understanding of how the universe works.
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Golden Years
Title: Golden Years
Character: Arthur
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
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Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Title: Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Character: Narrator
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.
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North v South
Title: North v South
Character: John Claridge
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necessity to avoid apocalypse, with each side keeping tabs on the other’s capability. Such a precarious false harmony could not last forever. Now someone has crossed the line, and there’s no going back. An illicit love affair smolders, breaking taboo and threatening catastrophe at the smallest mistake. It is a romance of purest, unadulterated love, yet so forbidden that its discovery would wreak total carnage. The story is told through vignettes of strikingly original characters, with intertwining subplots that echo the complexity of life in the dog-eat-dog criminal underworld.
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Title: Unforgotten
Character: Father Robert Greaves
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: TV
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
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Title: India's Frontier Railways
Character: Narrator - (Voice)
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: TV
Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecting families, cultures and history.
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Title: Wolf Hall
Character: Duke of Norfolk
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: TV
Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Title: Hope and Wire
Character: Len Russell
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: TV
Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story". They didn't need any extra drama, Christchurch survivors know that.
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Title: From There to Here
Character: Samuel
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: TV
From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have.
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Reflections on Titanic
Title: Reflections on Titanic
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: Movie
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew speak on setting the sinking of the ship against a classic romance. The feature also examines casting and the young couple headlining the film, DiCaprio's and Winslet's on-set friendship and their differing acting styles, the expansive sets and filming locations, the authenticity of the recreated ship, James Cameron's work and dedication, and budgeting. And many more aspects of the film are overviewed.
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Outpost 11
Title: Outpost 11
Character: Cranleigh
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, Outpost 11 is the story of three soldiers manning a remote listening post in the Arctic Circle. One day the warning light goes off unexpectedly and their world is plunged in to chaos. Albert, Mason and Graham must fight the isolation, madness and arctic spiders to survive. Think 'The Thing' plus 'How I Ended this Summer' mixed with 'Videodrome.'
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ParaNorman
Title: ParaNorman
Character: Judge Hopkins (voice)
Released: August 3, 2012
Type: Movie
In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.
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Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Title: Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Character: Captain EJ Smith
Released: April 8, 2012
Type: Movie
James Cameron brings together some the world's leading Titanic experts, including engineers, naval architects, artists and historians, to solve the lingering mysteries of why and how the 'unsinkable' ship sank.
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Titanic: Case Closed
Title: Titanic: Case Closed
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Kid
Title: The Kid
Character: Uncle David
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.
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Canoe Man
Title: Canoe Man
Character: John Darwin
Released: March 30, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
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Title: Indian Hill Railways
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: February 14, 2010
Type: TV
From the Himalayas in the north to the Nilgiris in the south - for a hundred years these little trains have climbed through the clouds and into the wonderful world of Indian hill railways.
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Valkyrie
Title: Valkyrie
Character: General - Desert Sequence
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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Franklyn
Title: Franklyn
Character: Esser
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.
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Title: Sunshine
Character: George Crosby
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: TV
Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the series.
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Title: Wild China
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: May 11, 2008
Type: TV
The dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes.
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Title: Fairy Tales
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Exodus charts the decline of the Protestant population from Derry’s Cityside - which saw up to one in five of the City’s population leave their homes over a thirty year period. Directed and produced by Vinny Cunningham and John Peto, Exodus is the final film in the three part trilogy that commenced with Battle of the Bogside and No Go: Free Derry.
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Bombay Railway
Title: Bombay Railway
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
As a sequel to BBC Four's acclaimed Monsoon Railway, this two-part observational documentary looks at the incredible organisation that is the Bombay Railway, with stories of the people who keep the trains running 24 hours a day, those who survive because of it - and those who die on it.
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Titus: The Gorilla King
Title: Titus: The Gorilla King
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made contact with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She opened up a window on to their secret lives. Forty years on, this film reveals the complete and dramatic life story of one individual animal. Titus's father was murdered by poachers in front of his very eyes. His mother abandoned him in the subsequent chaos. His family disintegrated. He should have died. But we reveal how Titus survived against all the odds. Titus's present day trials and tribulations take the viewer back in time to reveal key moments in Titus's history. Using testament from eyewitnesses, the film relives one individual mountain gorilla's extraordinary battle for survival.
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Save Angel Hope
Title: Save Angel Hope
Character: Oscar Kurz
Released: October 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Con artists profit from a charity campaign to raise money for a fictitious hospital.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Pharoah Mann
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes on his father, Pharaoh, and leads a radical campaign to liberate the people of Dreamland.
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Title: Bombay Railway
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: July 18, 2007
Type: TV
A sequel to the BBC's acclaimed Monsoon Railway. A two-part documentary looks at the incredible organisation that is the Bombay Railway, with stories of the people who keep the trains running 24 hours a day, those who survive because of it - and those who die on it.
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The Heart of the Earth
Title: The Heart of the Earth
Character: Sr. Crown
Released: March 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.
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Title: Five Days
Character: Gerard Hopkirk
Released: January 23, 2007
Type: TV
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Title: JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: Movie
JFK enjoyed a number of sexual liaisons that could have ended his political career, but his brother Bobby always managed to keep the truth from the press. This explosive documentary focuses on four women who could have ended JFK’s presidency, and the deal the brothers made with J Edgar Hoover to stay in power.
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Joy Division
Title: Joy Division
Character: Dennis
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
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No Go: The Free Derry Story
Title: No Go: The Free Derry Story
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of the Battle of the Bogside. As they entered the city the troops were confronted with a ring of barricades surrounding the Bogside area and manned by the rioters, presenting them with an instant dilemma – to attempt to remove the barricades and provoke a confrontation, or to leave the barricades intact and allow the Bogside to remain beyond official law & order?
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Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Title: Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster on 19 December 1981. The eight-man crew of the RNLB Solomon Browne, the lifeboat from the Penlee station in Mousehole, Cornwall, put to sea in an exceptionally severe gale to rescue the five-man crew of the MV Union Star, a cargo ship whose engines had failed two miles off the coast and which was in danger of being swept onto the rocks. The Solomon Browne was initially able to rescue the captain's family and one of the crew from Union Star but, as they attempted to rescue the captain and the remaining crewmate, radio contact with the Solomon Browne was lost and both crews perished.
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Ocean Odyssey
Title: Ocean Odyssey
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 24, 2006
Type: Movie
The largest predator on the planet, the sperm whale, is your host for an amazing exploration of the final frontier – the world at the bottom of the ocean. From the makers of the Walking With series comes this incredible marine tour, in which you'll witness a rarely seen world of hidden mountain ranges, majestic canyons, volcanoes and the beautiful and often deadly creatures that inhabit the deep sea.
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Title: Surviving Disaster
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: January 10, 2006
Type: TV
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
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Title: Surviving Disaster
Released: January 10, 2006
Type: TV
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
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The Last Tommy
Title: The Last Tommy
Character: Narrator
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Britain's last First World War veterans recall their time serving on the Western Front;
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A Very Social Secretary
Title: A Very Social Secretary
Character: David Blunkett
Released: October 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Title: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Character: King William III
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
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Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Title: Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
Title: Beatles Biggest Secrets
Character: Narrator
Released: December 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Featuring new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of the world's greatest pop group with explosive revelations about the extraordinary lives of Liverpool's favorite sons. From the band's formation and early exposure to the gritty world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in the dingy strip clubs of Hamburg, Germany, the program then travels forward through the Beatles' careers with shocking surprises about their relationships with each other, their women and their inner circle. Filled with interviews from friends, relatives, colleagues and former girlfriends as well as rare film footage and original artwork by artist Klaus Voormann, this is the first fully rounded Beatles portrait to appear on DVD. This is the Beatles at their best -- and their worst!
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Title: Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2004
Type: TV
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by Jonathan Miller for the BBC and tracing the history of atheism.
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Wimbledon
Title: Wimbledon
Character: Edward Colt
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: Movie
British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
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Title: The Grid
Released: July 19, 2004
Type: TV
A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell that is operating on a global level.
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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: Théoden
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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Gothika
Title: Gothika
Character: Phil Parsons
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband—but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
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Title: One Life
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: TV
One life is a BBC ONE's documentary programme. Each episode is a high quality and compelling film which reflects life in contemporary Britain.
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Title: The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Character: John Joe
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Character: Théoden
Released: December 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
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The Scorpion King
Title: The Scorpion King
Character: Philos
Released: April 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.
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Going Off Big Time
Title: Going Off Big Time
Character: Murray
Released: September 21, 2000
Type: Movie
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
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Eisenstein
Title: Eisenstein
Character: The voice of Stalin
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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A Question of Faith
Title: A Question of Faith
Character: Frederick
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.
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The Criminal
Title: The Criminal
Character: Det. Insp. Walker
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct and frank in answer to his nervousness. During the night, someone breaks into his flat and cuts her throat. He runs into the arms of the police, who dismiss his story, but release him while they search for the weapon. He investigates the crime, and over the next few days, meets a knowing pornographer, hit men, and other schemers. As dead bodies pile up wherever he goes, the police are soon looking for him with guns drawn. As he discovers secrets about a shadowy corporation, the police close in. Can he find someone to trust?
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Egeus
Released: May 14, 1999
Type: Movie
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Title: The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Character: Susan's Father
Released: April 29, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Abel Magwitch
Released: April 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
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True Crime
Title: True Crime
Character: Warden Luther Plunkitt
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
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Titanic: Secrets Revealed
Title: Titanic: Secrets Revealed
Character: Host
Released: March 30, 1998
Type: Movie
What happened after the Titanic went down? Secrets has been revealed.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: Edward Smith
Released: November 18, 1997
Type: Movie
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Edward Tulliver
Released: October 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: The Engine Driver
Released: October 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
Title: The Ghost and the Darkness
Character: Dr. David Hawthorne
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Title: The Gambling Man
Character: Frank nickle
Released: February 26, 1995
Type: TV
Based on one of Catherine Cookson's most beloved works which revolves around slick cardplayer Rory Connor (played by Robson Green), a rags-to-riches gambler faced with a life-changing decision. Never one to shy away from high stakes, Rory is in the game of his life when he's asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother. Directed by Norman Stone, it also stars Bernard Hill, Sylvestra Le Touzel and Sammy Johnson.
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Madagascar Skin
Title: Madagascar Skin
Character: Flint
Released: January 26, 1995
Type: Movie
This is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can't seem to fit into his local bar scene. Flint is a crusty, older, and seemingly straight man with a questionable background. They meet on a gorgeous coastline, and evolve from distrust to deep love.
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Speaking In Tongues
Title: Speaking In Tongues
Released: July 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
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Title: Once Upon A Time In The North
Character: Len Tollit
Released: May 3, 1994
Type: TV
Whimsical tales of the Tollit family, who live in the picturesque Northern town of Sutton Moor. The husband, Len, is a soft-hearted, well-meaning chap who holds strong views on certain subjects and is fiercely proud of his working-class roots. But his determination to prove himself the equal of those who may consider themselves his betters often leads to confrontation and infuriates his wife, Pat. They have two children, the pre-teen Sean and the sexually-maturing Siobhan, who, at 15, is at that 'awkward age'. Living in the granny flat in their yard is Mr Bebbington, who had been Len's late mother's boyfriend but has remained with them for six months since her death. Pat constantly cajoles Len into getting Bebbington out but he is quite content to let him stay and treats him as one of the family. Len's brother, Morris, who lives nearby, is a spiritual man who comes across as half-hippy and half-witted.
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Dirtysomething
Title: Dirtysomething
Character: Larry
Released: April 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of giving up the alternative 'crustie' liftestyle of no fixed abode and travelling to settle down.
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Skallagrigg
Title: Skallagrigg
Character: John
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
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Olly's Prison
Title: Olly's Prison
Character: Mike
Released: May 1, 1993
Type: Movie
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. The play moves through the prison of the mind, to that of the outside world in a search that leads to a tragedy.
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The Art of Tripping
Title: The Art of Tripping
Released: February 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug experiences have been on the minds of great writers, poets and thinkers.
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Title: Lipstick on Your Collar
Character: Uncle Fred
Released: February 21, 1993
Type: TV
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
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Shepherd on the Rock
Title: Shepherd on the Rock
Character: Tam Ferrier
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A developer tries to take over a Scottish shepherd's land.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Bottom (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Title: Between the Lines
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Title: HBO First Look
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: TV
HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.
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Double X: The Name of the Game
Title: Double X: The Name of the Game
Character: Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
Released: June 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion being meted out by gang leader, Ignatius Smith Clutten decides to quit. But he realizes the gang would sooner see him killed than quitting. After stealing some documents incriminating Smith and his boss, Edward Ross, Clutten then puts his family in hiding and goes on the run...but his daughter has been kidnapped by the gang and a hitman has been hired and is close to finding Clutten.
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The Law Lord
Title: The Law Lord
Character: Martin Allport
Released: March 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard
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Shoot the Revolution
Title: Shoot the Revolution
Character: Octavian Barbu
Released: December 16, 1990
Type: Movie
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?
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From Moscow to Pietushki
Title: From Moscow to Pietushki
Character: Readings (voice)
Released: April 4, 1990
Type: Movie
A look at Benedict Yerofeyev, the elusive author of the Russian underground classic From Moscow to Pietushki, who has existed on the fringes of Soviet society for most of his life.
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Mountains of the Moon
Title: Mountains of the Moon
Character: Dr. Livingstone
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
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Shirley Valentine
Title: Shirley Valentine
Character: Joe Bradshaw
Released: August 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
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Drowning by Numbers
Title: Drowning by Numbers
Character: Madgett
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
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Bellman and True
Title: Bellman and True
Character: Hiller
Released: November 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.
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Boy Soldier
Title: Boy Soldier
Character: Officer
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Title: Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Messenger
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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No Surrender
Title: No Surrender
Character: Bernard
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
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Restless Natives
Title: Restless Natives
Character: Will's father
Released: June 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.
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The Burston Rebellion
Title: The Burston Rebellion
Character: Tom Higdon
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.
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Title: Screen Two
Character: John
Released: January 6, 1985
Type: TV
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
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Squaring the Circle
Title: Squaring the Circle
Character: Lech Walesa
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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The Bounty
Title: The Bounty
Character: William Cole
Released: May 4, 1984
Type: Movie
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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The Chain
Title: The Chain
Character: Nick
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Title: Natural World
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Runners
Title: Runners
Character: Trevor Field
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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The Tragedy of Richard III
Title: The Tragedy of Richard III
Character: First Murderer
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
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Henry VI Part 3
Title: Henry VI Part 3
Character: Duke of York
Released: January 16, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 2
Title: Henry VI Part 2
Character: Duke of York
Released: January 9, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 1
Title: Henry VI Part 1
Character: Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Sergeant Putnam
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Title: Boys from the Blackstuff
Character: Yosser Hughes
Released: October 10, 1982
Type: TV
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
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A Turn for the Worse
Title: A Turn for the Worse
Character: Simon Simpson
Released: April 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian. Simpson believes the boy has talent and starts to groom him for 'stardom'.
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Say No to Strangers
Title: Say No to Strangers
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
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Title: Fox
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: TV
Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections. The series was written by Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.
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Fox
Title: Fox
Character: Vin Fox
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: Movie
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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The Black Stuff
Title: The Black Stuff
Character: Yosser Hughes
Released: January 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Title: Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Character: Mick
Released: December 5, 1978
Type: Movie
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
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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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She Fell Among Thieves
Title: She Fell Among Thieves
Character: Carson
Released: March 1, 1978
Type: Movie
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
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The Spongers
Title: The Spongers
Character: Sullivan
Released: January 24, 1978
Type: Movie
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
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Professional Foul
Title: Professional Foul
Character: Broadbent
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
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Daft Mam Blues
Title: Daft Mam Blues
Character: Billy
Released: May 17, 1977
Type: Movie
As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
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Our Flesh and Blood
Title: Our Flesh and Blood
Character: Bernard Blincoe
Released: January 18, 1977
Type: Movie
TV play by Mike Stott. Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Syph
Released: November 11, 1976
Type: Movie
An educational film about the perils associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The drama is interspersed with scenes of a medical adviser directly addressing the camera giving advice and information about STDs.
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Housewives' Choice
Title: Housewives' Choice
Character: Eric
Released: October 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, kindly, respectable lady.
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Title: I, Claudius
Character: Gratus
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Trial by Combat
Title: Trial by Combat
Character: Blind Freddie
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: Village Hall
Character: Policeman
Released: July 16, 1974
Type: TV
Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely set in a village hall, with each episode highlighting a different use to which the space is put by local people. Writers include Jack Rosenthal and the actor Kenneth Cope.
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Hard Labour
Title: Hard Labour
Character: Edward Thornley
Released: March 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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The Crumblegiant
Title: The Crumblegiant
Character: Narrator
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An old woman remembers a childhood episode. The past becomes intermingled with the present. The Past becomes intermingled with the present. Past demons are recalled then banished in her imagination meanwhile the outside world goes on oblivious.