Joe Belcher

Joe Belcher

Born: August 29, 1928
Died: August 16, 2006
in Berkshire, England, UK
He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Practice (1985) and Village Hall (1974).

Movies for Joe Belcher...

Title: Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Character: Arnold Wittle
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: TV
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mr. Diprose
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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Scab
Title: Scab
Character: Grandad Billy
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
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Link
Title: Link
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
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Blue Money
Title: Blue Money
Character: Older Butcher
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
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Threads
Title: Threads
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: September 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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The Dresser
Title: The Dresser
Character: Arthur
Released: December 6, 1983
Type: Movie
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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England's Greens and Peasant Land
Title: England's Greens and Peasant Land
Character: Arthur
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
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An American Werewolf in London
Title: An American Werewolf in London
Character: Truck Driver
Released: August 21, 1981
Type: Movie
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
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Life for Christine
Title: Life for Christine
Character: Policeman
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Shift worker
Released: January 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.
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Title: Minder
Character: Operator
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Dracula
Title: Dracula
Character: Tom Hindley
Released: July 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Dan Cooper
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Mr. Thwaites
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Spend Spend Spend
Title: Spend Spend Spend
Character: Viv's Father
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Character: Gaffer
Released: January 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
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Keep an Eye on Albert
Title: Keep an Eye on Albert
Character: Sid
Released: November 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
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Sunset Across the Bay
Title: Sunset Across the Bay
Character: Workman
Released: February 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
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The Lonely Man's Lover
Title: The Lonely Man's Lover
Character: Auctioneer
Released: January 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Poet Daniel Tasker moves to a small Yorkshire village, where he perturbs and disturbs the locals, except for Lizzie, who has feelings awakened in her that change her life.