Martin Compston

Martin Compston

Born: May 8, 1984
in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland
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Martin Compston (born 8 May 1984) is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer. He is perhaps most notable for his role as Liam in Sweet Sixteen, and for his role as Ewan Brodie in Monarch of the Glen.

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Title: Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2024
Type: TV
Best buds Martin Compston and Phil MacHugh are back on the road enjoying a fling in the fjords. They visit Scotland's Scandi neighbour for death metal, reindeers, vikings and more.
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Title: The Real Line of Duty
Character: Narrator
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: TV
The hit BBC drama Line Of Duty told the story of a fictional anti-corruption police unit. Now for the first time, senior police officers behind the real life sting operations re-open the casebooks to reveal the methods used to uncover corruption and secure convictions. Narrated by Martin Compston, The Real Line Of Duty uncovers the wider story of the Metropolitan Police turned the torch on their own.
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Choose Irvine Welsh.
Title: Choose Irvine Welsh.
Character: Self
Released: August 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Irvine Welsh in his own words, with Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle and others paying tribute
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Title: The Rig
Character: Fulmer Hamilton
Released: January 6, 2023
Type: TV
When the crew of the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast, is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the outside world. As the rig is hit by massive tremors, the crew endeavor to discover what’s driving the unknown force. But a major accident forces them to ask questions about who they can really trust.
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Title: Mayflies
Character: Jimmy Collins
Released: December 28, 2022
Type: TV
A friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news.
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Title: Martin Compston's Scottish Fling
Character: Presenter
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: TV
Proud Greenock lad Martin is coming home. He joins his mate Phil MacHugh on a riotous road trip showcasing the spirit of modern Scotland through its people and places.
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Title: Our House
Character: Bram Lawson
Released: March 7, 2022
Type: TV
Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
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Title: Vigil
Character: Craig Burke
Released: August 29, 2021
Type: TV
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
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Title: The Nest
Character: Dan
Released: March 22, 2020
Type: TV
Happy couple Dan and Emily live in a huge house just outside Glasgow and want for nothing, save a baby of their own. Through a chance encounter they meet Kaya, an 18-year-old from the other side of the city, whose life is as precarious as theirs is comfortable. When Kaya agrees to carry their baby, it feels like they were meant to meet, but was it really by chance?
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Title: Traces
Character: Daniel MacAfee
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: TV
Set against the stunning Scottish landscape in and around Dundee, three compelling female characters — Emma Hedges, Prof. Sarah Gordon and Prof. Kathy Torrance — join forces to uncover the truth about an unsolved murder case that's very close to home.
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Broony - Captain. Leader. Legend
Title: Broony - Captain. Leader. Legend
Character: Narrator
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Scott Brown arrived at Celtic in 2007 as a raw midfield talent and in the 12 years since he has become a modern-day club legend. This documentary charts the evolution of a Hoops icon who speaks candidly about his time in Paradise, where he has won 19 trophies, including 17 as captain, the birth of 'The Broony', the battles, the laughs, The Invincibles and so much more. Narrated by Award-winning actor, Martin Compston and featuring tributes and anecdotes from current and former players and managers as well as Celtic fanatic, Sir Rod Stewart, plus exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, "Broony" sweeps us through the early years right up to the moment when Scott Brown became the first Scottish player in domestic football history to lead a team to the Trinity - The Treble Treble!
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The Aftermath
Title: The Aftermath
Character: Burnham
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
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Mary Queen of Scots
Title: Mary Queen of Scots
Character: Earl of Bothwell
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
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Backstage At Live Aid
Title: Backstage At Live Aid
Character: Midge Ure
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Live Aid was not only “the day rock’n’roll changed the world,” it was also the source of countless backstage music industry rumors. These are the stories of what went on behind the scenes on that unforgettable summer’s afternoon in 1985 as egos clash, hair is sprayed, double denim is completely acceptable and Bob Geldof and long-time personal assistant Marsha Hunt struggle to keep control of the most famous faces of the 80s.
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The Hunter's Prayer
Title: The Hunter's Prayer
Character: Metzger
Released: June 8, 2017
Type: Movie
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
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Title: Urban Myths
Character: Midge Ure
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: TV
Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...
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Title: In Plain Sight
Character: Peter Manuel
Released: December 7, 2016
Type: TV
Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
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Title: Victoria
Character: Dr. Traill
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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The Legend of Barney Thomson
Title: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Character: Chris
Released: July 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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Scottish Mussel
Title: Scottish Mussel
Character: Ritchie
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can't resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth's heart...
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Still Game: The Story So Far
Title: Still Game: The Story So Far
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and super fans. Including a look at some favourite moments.
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Title: The Great Train Robbery
Character: Roy James
Released: December 18, 2013
Type: TV
8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid?
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Filth
Title: Filth
Character: Graeme Gorman
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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Title: The Ice Cream Girls
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: TV
In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged with the murder. Fast-forward to modern day. Happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother Rachel. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind… the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?
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The Wee Man
Title: The Wee Man
Character: Paul Ferris
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Edwin Havelock
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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Title: Line of Duty
Character: DS Steve Arnott
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: TV
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
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Piggy
Title: Piggy
Character: Joe
Released: May 3, 2012
Type: Movie
London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax.
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Strippers vs. Werewolves
Title: Strippers vs. Werewolves
Character: Scott
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.
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Sister
Title: Sister
Character: Mike
Released: April 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
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When the Lights Went Out
Title: When the Lights Went Out
Character: Mr. Price
Released: January 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.
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How to Stop Being a Loser
Title: How to Stop Being a Loser
Character: Adam
Released: November 18, 2011
Type: Movie
James is useless with women, but his luck changes under the tutelage of pick-up artist, Ampersand. As James learns the art of seduction he begins to wonder about Ampersand’s intentions and questions what would truly make him happy in life.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Dexter Allen
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Four
Title: Four
Character: Lover
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The plan: Kidnap your wife's lover. Take him to a remote warehouse. Hurt him a little. Scare him a lot. Keep your hands clean – hire a detective for the dirty work. Simple? There's no such thing as simple.
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7lives
Title: 7lives
Character: Rory
Released: September 18, 2011
Type: Movie
A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his way home one night he gets attacked and falls into a parallel world where he lives 6 other lives including a Rock-Star, A homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked him. These lives help him to re-evaluate his priorities and values but in order to get home he must face some of his deepest fears and desires. Will he make it home or is the grass greener on the other side?
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Ghosted
Title: Ghosted
Character: Paul
Released: June 24, 2011
Type: Movie
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the clutches of the wing beast, Clay.
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Paris/Sexy
Title: Paris/Sexy
Character: Seamus
Released: October 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Greer is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Like some curious fabled creature she lives in a remote, rundown woodland farmhouse with her Dad, Ivan, a former gamekeeper whose mind has been ravaged by chronic mental illness. Father and daughter are suspected and ostracized by the nearby village. Greer spends her working days tending to elderly, failing residents of the local care-home and the rest of her time looking after her dad. But despite her loving devotion to Ivan, Greer imagines life beyond the narrow confines of her own and is troubled by the heavy burden she bears. Greer romanticises about a life lived in colour. The impossibly glamorous Francoise and Seamus crash into the care-home to visit his mother. Greer is entranced. They seem to epitomize everything she's dreamt of: beauty, success, sophistication and access to the world in all its glory. She attaches herself to them, flattered by their awareness of her and enraptured by the atmosphere of decadence they inhabit.
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Donkeys
Title: Donkeys
Character: Stevie Blantyre
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
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SoulBoy
Title: SoulBoy
Character: Joe McCain
Released: June 4, 2010
Type: Movie
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
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Pimp
Title: Pimp
Character: Zeb
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
A week in the life of Woody; a Soho pimp, as seen through the eyes of concealed documentary cameras: A week which spirals brutally out of control.
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Title: Five Daughters
Character: John
Released: April 25, 2010
Type: TV
The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Title: The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Character: Danny
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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The Damned United
Title: The Damned United
Character: John O'Hare
Released: March 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
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Red Mist
Title: Red Mist
Character: Sean
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
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Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Character: Joshua
Released: March 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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Red Road
Title: Red Road
Character: Stevie
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Title: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Character: Mike O'Shea
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
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True North
Title: True North
Character: Sean
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: Movie
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
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Wild Country
Title: Wild Country
Character: Lee
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Kelly and Lee find an abandoned baby in an old castle and have to fight a wolflike beast that has been killing their hiking friends, one by one.
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Carry on Ken
Title: Carry on Ken
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.
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Tickets
Title: Tickets
Character: Jamesy
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Alfred Pollock
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)
Title: Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)
Character: Jed
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he's deeply in love with. Shortly after they decide to get married and live together happily ever after her cat, who she has a weird affection for, dies. The girlfriend falls into depression which could (strangely enough) lead to her death and the only way to give her a purpose to live and save her is to tell her the meaning of life.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Jeffrey Carpenter
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Sweet Sixteen
Title: Sweet Sixteen
Character: Liam
Released: September 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
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Title: Monarch of the Glen
Character: Ewan Brodie
Released: February 27, 2000
Type: TV
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: DS Jason Ross
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Matty Howell
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Fear
Character: Martyn
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children. At first, the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns out to be the start of something far more intimidating.