Bernard Gallagher

Bernard Gallagher

Born: January 1, 1929
Died: November 27, 2016
in Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Bernard Gallagher was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England in 1929. He was an actor, best known for his role as Ewart Plimmer, the leading character in the first three series of the long running BBC drama Casualty, as Jonathan Fry, QC in Crown Court, and Bill Molesley in Downton Abbey. He died in November 2016 aged 87.

Movies for Bernard Gallagher...

Title: Together
Character: Ern
Released: October 6, 2015
Type: TV
When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good first impressions, arrange first dates and hold a relationship together, seem to unravel.
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The Trip
Title: The Trip
Character: Steve's Dad
Released: April 24, 2011
Type: Movie
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Bill Molesley
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Alf Wilkinson
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Bad Girls
Character: Judge Hardy
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
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Photographing Fairies
Title: Photographing Fairies
Character: Doctor
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets
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Title: Touching Evil
Character: Chief Supt Beecham
Released: April 29, 1997
Type: TV
Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Vernon Surtees
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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Title: Wycliffe
Character: Vic Garland
Released: July 24, 1994
Type: TV
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane. Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.
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Title: Cadfael
Character: Gervase Bonel
Released: May 29, 1994
Type: TV
Cadfael is the name given to the TV series of The Cadfael Chronicles adaptations produced by British television company ITV Central between 1994 and 1998. The series was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK, and starred Sir Derek Jacobi as the medieval detective.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Arthur Bannerman
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Graham Weston
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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First and Last
Title: First and Last
Character: Man on Beach
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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Countdown to War
Title: Countdown to War
Character: Greenwood
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Title: The New Statesman
Character: Chief Whip
Released: September 13, 1987
Type: TV
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Ewart Plimmer
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Frankie and Johnnie
Title: Frankie and Johnnie
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: Movie
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
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Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Title: Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Character: George
Released: October 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.
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Under the Hammer
Title: Under the Hammer
Character: Jim
Released: March 27, 1984
Type: Movie
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Huberhoff
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Red Monarch
Title: Red Monarch
Character: Vovka
Released: June 16, 1983
Type: Movie
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
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Title: Objects of Affection
Character: Harold
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: TV
A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.
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Title: Tenko
Character: Mr. Courtenay
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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Title: Bergerac
Character: Col. Measures
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Last Night Another Dissident...
Title: Last Night Another Dissident...
Character: Stephanov
Released: July 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.
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The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Title: The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Character: Mr. Trolley
Released: November 11, 1980
Type: Movie
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
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The Imitation Game
Title: The Imitation Game
Released: April 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.
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Casting the Runes
Title: Casting the Runes
Character: Derek Gayton
Released: April 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves
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Red Shift
Title: Red Shift
Character: Tom's Father
Released: January 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
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The Safety Net
Title: The Safety Net
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Minister
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Title: The Eagle of the Ninth
Character: Drusillus
Released: September 4, 1977
Type: TV
In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.
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Love on a Gunboat
Title: Love on a Gunboat
Character: Mr. Biffen
Released: January 4, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
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Title: Bill Brand
Character: Walter Marland
Released: June 7, 1976
Type: TV
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Jack Point
Title: Jack Point
Character: Faulkner
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production. Rowland Matthews has always been the main star, but he is getting on, and the young Clive Bates is a strong rival.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Jonathan Fry QC
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.