John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

Born: April 5, 1912
Died: November 15, 1983
in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK
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John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.

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Movies for John Le Mesurier...

Title: Dad's Army: The Animations
Character: Sergeant Arthur Wilson
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: TV
Lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings.
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Title: Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
Character: Sgt. Wilson
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: TV
A new series of animated Dad's Army (1968) episodes, created using archive audio recordings of original (now lost) early television episodes.
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John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely
Title: John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely
Character: Himself
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Michael Palin, Clive Dunn and Ian Lavender are among those who contribute to this candid portrait of actor John Le Mesurier.
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
Title: Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Sgt. Arthur Wilson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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Facelift
Title: Facelift
Character: Bruce
Released: April 21, 1984
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Title: The Passionate Pilgrim
Character: The Narrator
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A pilgrim attempts to gain entry to a castle by any means possible, to get to a beautiful maiden, but the lord of the castle will go to in order to stop him
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Father Mowbray
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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Title: Hi-de-Hi!
Character: Hugo Buxton
Released: February 19, 1981
Type: TV
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Title: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Character: Perkins
Released: August 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
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The Shillingbury Blowers
Title: The Shillingbury Blowers
Character: Council Chairman
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
Title: Unidentified Flying Oddball
Character: Sir Gawain
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Title: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Character: Dr. Deere
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
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What's Up Nurse
Title: What's Up Nurse
Character: Dr. Ogden
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients.
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Title: Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Character: Sir Archibald MacGregor
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Marley's Ghost
Released: December 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Title: Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Character: Col. Bromley-Pickering
Released: April 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
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Jabberwocky
Title: Jabberwocky
Character: Passelewe
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
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Title: Ripping Yarns
Character: Col. Runciman
Released: January 7, 1976
Type: TV
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
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Title: Bod
Character: Narrator
Released: December 23, 1975
Type: TV
Classic BBC children's animated television series about the adventures of a little boy who lives in a town with his friends Aunt Flo, P.C. Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow, also featuring Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band.
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Title: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Character: Lord Redcliff
Released: December 14, 1975
Type: Movie
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
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The Flight Fund
Title: The Flight Fund
Character: Uncle Edward
Released: July 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Defeats and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.
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Three for All
Title: Three for All
Character: Mr. Gibbons
Released: May 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Title: Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Character: Robert Crowther
Released: December 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: Stephen
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Title: Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Character: Inspector Radlett
Released: August 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
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Title: Black and Blue
Released: August 14, 1973
Type: TV
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted of 6 episodes of 50–60 minutes duration, each episode was a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection between them was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the last episode airing on 18 September 1973. The play Secrets was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the mastertape by its producer, Mark Shivas.
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File It Under Fear
Title: File It Under Fear
Character: Mr. Stubbs
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
File It Under Fear takes place in an outwardly normal rural British community. The tranquility is shattered by a series of brutal murders, all of them occurring in the library.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Stubbs
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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Title: Crown Court
Character: Reginald Standish
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.
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The Alf Garnett Saga
Title: The Alf Garnett Saga
Character: Frewin
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife, rebellious daughter and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband.
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Au Pair Girls
Title: Au Pair Girls
Character: Mr. Wainwright
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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Traitor
Title: Traitor
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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Title: Jason King
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
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Dad's Army
Title: Dad's Army
Character: Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
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Title: A Class by Himself
Released: January 14, 1971
Type: TV
A Class by Himself was a British sitcom, which aired from 1971 to 1972. The half-hour series was made by Harlech Television and starred John Le Mesurier of Dad's Army fame as Lord Bleasham.
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Title: The Goodies
Character: Uncle Tom
Released: November 8, 1970
Type: TV
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
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Title: The Goodies
Released: November 8, 1970
Type: TV
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
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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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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Title: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Character: Pelham
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
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Doctor in Trouble
Title: Doctor in Trouble
Character: Purser
Released: June 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.
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The Magic Christian
Title: The Magic Christian
Character: Sir John
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Title: The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Character: Judge Grayson
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
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The Italian Job
Title: The Italian Job
Character: Governor
Released: June 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
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Midas Run
Title: Midas Run
Character: Wells
Released: May 7, 1969
Type: Movie
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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Title: Dad's Army
Character: Sergeant Arthur Wilson
Released: July 31, 1968
Type: TV
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
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Salt & Pepper
Title: Salt & Pepper
Character: Col. Woodstock
Released: July 3, 1968
Type: Movie
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?
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The Cuckoo Patrol
Title: The Cuckoo Patrol
Character: Gibbs
Released: July 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: M's Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
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The Inn Way Out
Title: The Inn Way Out
Character: Pub Bore
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes.
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Mister Ten Per Cent
Title: Mister Ten Per Cent
Character: Jocelyn Macauley
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, at a time when he wants to stage a flop.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: Mr. X
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Cliff Richard and the Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it. The Shadows look for the bomb to return it.
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Title: George And The Dragon
Released: November 19, 1966
Type: TV
George and the Dragon is a British situation comedy made by ATV for the ITV network which was transmitted in four series comprising 26 episodes between 19 November 1966 and 31 October 1968. The regular cast is Sid James, Peggy Mount, John Le Mesurier and Keith Marsh and was written by Harry Driver and Vince Powell. Shaun O'Riordan was the director, while Alan Tarrant was the main producer.
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Eye of the Devil
Title: Eye of the Devil
Character: Dr. Monnet
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Religious Sandwich Man
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Title: Adam Adamant Lives!
Released: June 23, 1966
Type: TV
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.
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The Wrong Box
Title: The Wrong Box
Character: Doctor Slattery
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Our Man in Marrakesh
Title: Our Man in Marrakesh
Character: George Lillywhite
Released: May 5, 1966
Type: Movie
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
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Macready's Gala
Title: Macready's Gala
Character: Canon Dunwoodie
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
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Where the Spies Are
Title: Where the Spies Are
Character: Mc Gillivray
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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The Early Bird
Title: The Early Bird
Character: Colonel Foster
Released: November 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
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The Liquidator
Title: The Liquidator
Character: Chekhov
Released: November 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
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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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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Title: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Character: French Painter
Released: June 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
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Title: Pardon the Expression
Character: Sir Charles Dobson
Released: June 2, 1965
Type: TV
Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.
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War-Gods of the Deep
Title: War-Gods of the Deep
Character: Rev. Jonathan Ives
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Character: Sir Robert
Released: April 13, 1965
Type: Movie
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Tea Party
Title: Tea Party
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … . Why does Sisson feel that there must be something wrong with his eyes, although he knows that he can see clearly and his eye doctor has assured him that his vision is perfect? He forces his secretary to tie a chiffon scarf over his eyes, and then he is able to make a pass at her, in response to one of her many come-ons. Ordinary events assume a sinister tinge. Sisson's two sons, giving him the deadpan treatment that little boys have been inflicting on their elders from time immemorial, seem as eerie as characters out of a ghost story. Always the questions remain. Is there a conspiracy against Sisson. Wikipedia
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The Bone Yard
Title: The Bone Yard
Character: Superintendent Melchior
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station.
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The Moon-Spinners
Title: The Moon-Spinners
Character: Anthony Gamble
Released: July 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
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Never Put It in Writing
Title: Never Put It in Writing
Character: Adams
Released: April 27, 1964
Type: Movie
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Hot Enough for June
Title: Hot Enough for June
Character: Roger Allsop
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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The Pink Panther
Title: The Pink Panther
Character: Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
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Long Past Glory
Title: Long Past Glory
Character: Harry
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.
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In the Cool of the Day
Title: In the Cool of the Day
Character: Dr. Arraman
Released: May 29, 1963
Type: Movie
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
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We Joined the Navy
Title: We Joined the Navy
Character: George Dewberry Sr.
Released: May 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
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The Mouse on the Moon
Title: The Mouse on the Moon
Character: British Delegate
Released: May 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
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The Punch and Judy Man
Title: The Punch and Judy Man
Character: The Sandman
Released: April 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Title: The Wrong Arm of the Law
Character: Assistant Commissioner
Released: March 17, 1963
Type: Movie
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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The Main Attraction
Title: The Main Attraction
Character: Bozo
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
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Title: Dial RIX
Released: September 12, 1962
Type: TV
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Jigsaw
Title: Jigsaw
Character: Mr Simpson
Released: August 21, 1962
Type: Movie
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
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Go to Blazes
Title: Go to Blazes
Character: Fisherman
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
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Village of Daughters
Title: Village of Daughters
Character: Don Calogere
Released: March 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.
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Flat Two
Title: Flat Two
Released: February 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been murdered before they got there. The police soon arrive, tipped off in advance.
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Only Two Can Play
Title: Only Two Can Play
Character: Salter
Released: January 19, 1962
Type: Movie
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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Title: The Morecambe & Wise Show
Character: Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: TV
The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made Two of a Kind since 1961. The series was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the largest in British television history. After their 1977 Christmas special, retaining its title, the show moved over to ITV.
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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: Hixon
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Invasion Quartet
Title: Invasion Quartet
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.
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Don't Bother to Knock
Title: Don't Bother to Knock
Character: Father
Released: May 28, 1961
Type: Movie
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
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Very Important Person
Title: Very Important Person
Character: Piggott, Escape Officer
Released: April 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
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Mr. Topaze
Title: Mr. Topaze
Character: Blackmailer
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Character: Office manager
Released: March 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
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Five Golden Hours
Title: Five Golden Hours
Character: Dr. Alfiera
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Title: The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Character: Minister of Education
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
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The Bulldog Breed
Title: The Bulldog Breed
Character: Prosecuting counsel
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
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The Night We Got the Bird
Title: The Night We Got the Bird
Character: Clerk of the Court
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Title: The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Character: Green
Released: September 4, 1960
Type: Movie
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Dr Mincing
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
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Never Let Go
Title: Never Let Go
Character: Pennington
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
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Dead Lucky
Title: Dead Lucky
Character: Inspector Corcoran
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
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School for Scoundrels
Title: School for Scoundrels
Character: Head Waiter
Released: March 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Released: March 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.
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A Touch of Larceny
Title: A Touch of Larceny
Character: Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Character: Attorney
Released: November 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Monsieur Iamprou
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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I'm All Right Jack
Title: I'm All Right Jack
Character: Waters
Released: August 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Title: Shake Hands with the Devil
Character: British General
Released: June 24, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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Jack the Ripper
Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Dr. Tranter
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Barrymore
Released: May 4, 1959
Type: Movie
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Title: Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Character: Grand Duke Alexis
Released: March 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Magistrate
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
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The Lady is a Square
Title: The Lady is a Square
Character: Fergusson
Released: February 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
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Operation Amsterdam
Title: Operation Amsterdam
Character: Colonel Janssen
Released: January 12, 1959
Type: Movie
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
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The Captain's Table
Title: The Captain's Table
Character: Sir Angus
Released: January 6, 1959
Type: Movie
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
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Desert Mice
Title: Desert Mice
Character: Staff Colonel
Released: January 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.
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Follow a Star
Title: Follow a Star
Character: Birkett
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
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I Was Monty's Double
Title: I Was Monty's Double
Character: Adjutant RAPC
Released: October 21, 1958
Type: Movie
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Duke of Burgundy
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Blood of the Vampire
Title: Blood of the Vampire
Character: Chief Justice
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
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Man with a Gun
Title: Man with a Gun
Character: Harry Drayson
Released: August 11, 1958
Type: Movie
A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
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The Moonraker
Title: The Moonraker
Character: Cromwell
Released: August 2, 1958
Type: Movie
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Mr. Brent
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves in an effort to clear his name. In order to trap the wily criminals, Adams pretends that he's still bereft of his vision.
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Law and Disorder
Title: Law and Disorder
Character: Sir Humphrey Pomfret
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
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Another Time, Another Place
Title: Another Time, Another Place
Character: Dr. Aldridge
Released: May 2, 1958
Type: Movie
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Barrister
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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Happy Is the Bride
Title: Happy Is the Bride
Character: Chaytor
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Judge
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
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High Flight
Title: High Flight
Character: Commandant
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
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These Dangerous Years
Title: These Dangerous Years
Character: Commanding Officer
Released: July 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
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The Admirable Crichton
Title: The Admirable Crichton
Released: June 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Monte Mortimer
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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Brothers in Law
Title: Brothers in Law
Character: His Honour Judge Ryman
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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The Battle of the River Plate
Title: The Battle of the River Plate
Character: Reverend George Groves - Padre, HMS Exeter
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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The Baby and the Battleship
Title: The Baby and the Battleship
Character: The Marshal’s Aide
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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Josephine and Men
Title: Josephine and Men
Character: Registrar
Released: November 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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A Time to Kill
Title: A Time to Kill
Character: Phinneas Tilliard
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
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Police Dog
Title: Police Dog
Character: Inspector
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.
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Make Me an Offer!
Title: Make Me an Offer!
Character: Mr. Toshack
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
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Stranger from Venus
Title: Stranger from Venus
Character: Official
Released: August 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
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Dangerous Cargo
Title: Dangerous Cargo
Character: Luigi
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
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Black 13
Title: Black 13
Character: Inspector
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: Col. Gargoyle
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
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The Blue Parrot
Title: The Blue Parrot
Character: Henry Carson
Released: October 1, 1953
Type: Movie
'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.
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The Drayton Case
Title: The Drayton Case
Character: Divisional Superintendent Henley
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
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Title: Scotland Yard
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company’s Merton Park Studios in South Wimbledon, these half-hour thrillers – based on real-life cases from the vaults of London’s Metropolitan Police headquarters – were a successful regular feature in cinemas over nearly a decade from the early 1950s onwards. Like sister series Scales of Justice, Scotland Yard is introduced by celebrated writer and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and presents case after intriguing case, with many solved onscreen by the redoubtable Inspector Duggan (played by Australian-born Russell Napier).
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Blind Man's Bluff
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Lefty Jones
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Stephen
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: The Railway Children
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: TV
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Dark Interval
Title: Dark Interval
Character: Cedric, the butler
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
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A Matter of Murder
Title: A Matter of Murder
Character: Ginter
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.
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Old Mother Riley's New Venture
Title: Old Mother Riley's New Venture
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
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Escape from Broadmoor
Title: Escape from Broadmoor
Character: Pendicot
Released: November 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
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Death in the Hand
Title: Death in the Hand
Character: Jack Mottram
Released: March 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
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Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
Title: Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
Character: Mr. Elvin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.