Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings

Born: May 10, 1957
in Essex, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.

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Title: The New Look
Character: Raymond Dior
Released: February 13, 2024
Type: TV
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
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Title: Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Character: James Arbuthnot
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: TV
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
Title: Your Christmas or Mine 2
Character: Humphrey
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
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Your Christmas or Mine?
Title: Your Christmas or Mine?
Character: Humphrey
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
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The Forgiven
Title: The Forgiven
Character: Lord Swanthorne
Released: July 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
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Title: The Undeclared War
Character: David Neal
Released: June 30, 2022
Type: TV
In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.
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Operation Mincemeat
Title: Operation Mincemeat
Character: John Masterman
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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Title: This Is Going to Hurt
Character: Mr. Lockhart
Released: February 8, 2022
Type: TV
The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Munich: The Edge of War
Title: Munich: The Edge of War
Character: Sir Horace Wilson
Released: January 6, 2022
Type: Movie
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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Title: Small Axe
Character: Judge Clarke
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: TV
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.
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Title: Gold Digger
Character: Ted Day
Released: November 12, 2019
Type: TV
Gold Digger tells the story of wealthy 60 year old Julia as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. As this six part series progresses the impact their unconventional relationship has on her family is explored and the secrets of their past are revealed. Has Julia finally found the happiness she's always deserved? Or is Benjamin really the gold digger they think he is?
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National Theatre Live: Hansard
Title: National Theatre Live: Hansard
Character: Robin Hesketh
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.
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Title: A Very English Scandal
Character: Peter Bessell
Released: May 20, 2018
Type: TV
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
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Title: The Crown
Character: David, Duke of Windsor
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Denial
Title: Denial
Character: Sir Charles Gray
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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Title: Victoria
Character: King Leopold
Released: August 28, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.
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Churchill's Secret
Title: Churchill's Secret
Character: Anthony Eden
Released: February 29, 2016
Type: Movie
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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The Lady in the Van
Title: The Lady in the Van
Character: Alan Bennett
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
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Title: Unforgotten
Character: Dr Tim Finch
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: TV
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
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Castles in the Sky
Title: Castles in the Sky
Character: Henry Tizard
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: Movie
England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Title: National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Character: Henry Higgins
Released: November 2, 2013
Type: Movie
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
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Trap for Cinderella
Title: Trap for Cinderella
Character: Chance
Released: July 12, 2013
Type: Movie
A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: Lord Ashford
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: The Professor
Released: March 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
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Dickens in London
Title: Dickens in London
Character: Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
Released: February 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio drama written by Michael Eaton and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
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We'll Take Manhattan
Title: We'll Take Manhattan
Character: John Parsons
Released: January 26, 2012
Type: Movie
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Title: National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Character: Mikhail Bulgakov
Released: December 1, 2011
Type: Movie
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Title: Silk
Character: Alan Cowdrey
Released: February 22, 2011
Type: TV
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Title: National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Character: Henry / Benjamin Britten
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
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On Expenses
Title: On Expenses
Released: February 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Title: The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Character: Timothy Geithner
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.
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Title: Whitechapel
Character: Anderson
Released: February 2, 2009
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Captain Kell
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.
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The Disappeared
Title: The Disappeared
Character: Adrian Ballan
Released: August 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
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Hancock & Joan
Title: Hancock & Joan
Character: John Le Mesurier
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
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Title: 10 Days to War
Character: Vincent
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
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Title: Fairy Tales
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.
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Title: Cranford
Character: Reverend Hutton
Released: November 18, 2007
Type: TV
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Title: The Restaurant
Released: August 29, 2007
Type: TV
Nine couples compete for the opportunity to go into business with chef Raymond Blanc.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Rev. Conor Hawes
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Title: The State Within
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: TV
Action-packed conspiracy thriller series about Sir Mark Brydon, British Ambassador to Washington, who finds himself at the centre of a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down Western governments.
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Babel
Title: Babel
Character: Ken Clifford
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
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The Queen
Title: The Queen
Character: Charles III of the United Kingdom
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
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Riot at the Rite
Title: Riot at the Rite
Character: Sergei Diaghilev
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
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A Very Social Secretary
Title: A Very Social Secretary
Character: Alastair Campbell
Released: October 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Character: Horatio
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
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Five Children and It
Title: Five Children and It
Character: Father
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
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Title: London
Character: Stephen Spender
Released: May 7, 2004
Type: TV
London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Professor Blake
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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The Four Feathers
Title: The Four Feathers
Character: Colonel Hamilton
Released: September 8, 2002
Type: Movie
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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Title: Spooks
Character: James Allan
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: James Andrews
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Too Much Sun
Released: October 20, 2000
Type: TV
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Title: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Character: The Butler
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the Governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.
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The Hunley
Title: The Hunley
Character: Lt. Alexander
Released: July 11, 1999
Type: Movie
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
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Title: Liberty!
Character: King George III
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: TV
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
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The Wings of the Dove
Title: The Wings of the Dove
Character: Lord Mark
Released: September 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Theseus / Oberon
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.
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Title: Hard Times
Character: Bitzer
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Bitzer
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Dread Poets' Society
Title: Dread Poets' Society
Character: Byron
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!
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Title: Ashenden
Released: November 17, 1991
Type: TV
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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War Requiem
Title: War Requiem
Character: Blinded Soldier
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: Movie
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice.
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Title: The Franchise Affair
Character: Nevil Bennet
Released: September 25, 1988
Type: TV
A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she described, she identifies it and the mother and daughter who live there. They call in a lawyer, who has only days to find evidence that will break the girl's story.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Victor Preece
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Smiley's People
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: TV
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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Title: A Very Royal Scandal
Character: Sir Edward Young
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Follow Emily Maitlis' professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew, in which he explained his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein