Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw

Born: October 14, 1980
in Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whishaw is best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, his roles in the television series Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour and London Spy; and film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Bright Star (2009), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015) and Suffragette (2015). He has also played the role of Q in the James Bond films starting with Skyfall (2012), and was the voice of Paddington Bear in the 2014 film, Paddington.

Movies for Ben Whishaw...

Paddington in Peru
Title: Paddington in Peru
Character: Paddington Brown (voice)
Released: November 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
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Bad Behaviour
Title: Bad Behaviour
Character: Elon Bello
Released: November 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
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Passages
Title: Passages
Character: Martin
Released: June 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
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Good Boy
Title: Good Boy
Character: Danny
Released: June 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A son and mother's attempt to rob a bank is scuppered by bizarre manifestations from their past.
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Women Talking
Title: Women Talking
Character: August
Released: December 23, 2022
Type: Movie
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Ungentle
Title: Ungentle
Character: Narrator
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A film exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.
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Title: This Is Going to Hurt
Character: Dr Adam Kay
Released: February 8, 2022
Type: TV
The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Designing Bond
Title: Designing Bond
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challenges and trials of conceiving and making the remarkable sets and costumes for the iconic Bond franchise.
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No Time to Die
Title: No Time to Die
Character: Q
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
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Being James Bond
Title: Being James Bond
Character: Q (archive footage)
Released: August 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
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Miss Fortunate
Title: Miss Fortunate
Character: Humourless Man
Released: March 27, 2021
Type: Movie
If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself.
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Surge
Title: Surge
Character: Joseph
Released: June 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.
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Title: The Adventures of Paddington
Character: Paddington (voice)
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
Journey to London for heart-warming adventures with beloved British bear Paddington in this CG-animated series, which centres on a younger Paddington as he writes letters to Aunt Lucy celebrating the new things he has discovered through the day’s exciting activities.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Title: The Personal History of David Copperfield
Character: Uriah Heep
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
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Little Joe
Title: Little Joe
Character: Chris
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
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O Holy Ghost
Title: O Holy Ghost
Character: Charmaine
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
A mixture of rapture and disenchantment, O HOLY GHOST follows the inner experiences of two believers at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum.
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Mary Poppins Returns
Title: Mary Poppins Returns
Character: Michael Banks
Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
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Palo Santo
Title: Palo Santo
Character: Palo Santo Hologram
Released: July 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Palo Santo, a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society. Olly, along with the final humans, is recruited to perform in a series of bizarre erotic cabarets, for an artificial master known only as The Showman.
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Title: A Very English Scandal
Character: Norman Scott
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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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Title: National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Character: Marcus Brutus
Released: March 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
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His Picture In Little
Title: His Picture In Little
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.
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Paddington 2
Title: Paddington 2
Character: Paddington Brown (voice)
Released: November 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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Family Happiness
Title: Family Happiness
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A story about small cruelties, adult bullying, and the power of a brothers unconditional love for his complex little sister.
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Title: Queers.
Character: Perce
Released: July 31, 2017
Type: TV
A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.
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A Hologram for the King
Title: A Hologram for the King
Character: Dave
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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In the Heart of the Sea
Title: In the Heart of the Sea
Character: Herman Melville
Released: December 3, 2015
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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The Danish Girl
Title: The Danish Girl
Character: Henrik Sandahl
Released: November 27, 2015
Type: Movie
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Title: London Spy
Character: Danny
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Spectre
Title: Spectre
Character: Q
Released: October 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Suffragette
Title: Suffragette
Character: Sonny Watts
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
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The Lobster
Title: The Lobster
Character: Limping Man
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
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Unity
Title: Unity
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
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Paddington
Title: Paddington
Character: Paddington (voice)
Released: November 24, 2014
Type: Movie
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
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Days and Nights
Title: Days and Nights
Character: Eric
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
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Lilting
Title: Lilting
Character: Richard
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
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The Muse
Title: The Muse
Character: Edward
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Legend has it that if a human man falls in love with a mermaid she will grow legs; legs that will, if she so desires, carry her far, far away from the very man she cast her watery spell upon... But what becomes of the human man, when her spell remains but she is gone? Edward Dunstan (Ben Whishaw) is a photographer and filmmaker obsessed by his muse (Kristen McMenamy). Blinded by his all-consuming passion and perfectionism, he was unable to see her as she was and so, she has left him. All that remains are his photographs and film of her that he has running on a loop. Only now does he understand what she endured. There is nothing left for him but to become both artist and muse…
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Title: Fargo
Character: Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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Beat
Title: Beat
Character: Man
Released: October 16, 2013
Type: Movie
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
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The Zero Theorem
Title: The Zero Theorem
Character: Doctor 3
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
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Teenage
Title: Teenage
Character: British Boy (voice)
Released: April 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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Cloud Atlas
Title: Cloud Atlas
Character: Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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Skyfall
Title: Skyfall
Character: Q
Released: October 24, 2012
Type: Movie
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: King Richard
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Title: Playhouse Presents
Character: Ezra
Released: April 12, 2012
Type: TV
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
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Title: The Hour
Character: Freddie Lyon
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Ariel
Released: September 11, 2010
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
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Bright Star
Title: Bright Star
Character: John Keats
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
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Love Hate
Title: Love Hate
Character: Tom
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
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Brideshead Revisited
Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Sebastian Flyte
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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Title: Criminal Justice
Character: Ben Coulter
Released: June 30, 2008
Type: TV
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
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I'm Not There
Title: I'm Not There
Character: Arthur
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
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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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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Title: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Character: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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Stoned
Title: Stoned
Character: Keith Richards
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
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Title: Nathan Barley
Character: Pingu
Released: February 11, 2005
Type: TV
Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Charlie Condou and Claire Keelan. The series of six weekly episodes began broadcasting on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4. Described by his creator as a "meaningless strutting cadaver-in-waiting", the character originated on Brooker's TVGoHome – a website parodying television listings – as the focus of a fly-on-the-wall documentary called Cunt.
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Enduring Love
Title: Enduring Love
Character: Spud
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
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Layer Cake
Title: Layer Cake
Character: Sidney
Released: September 30, 2004
Type: Movie
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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The Booze Cruise
Title: The Booze Cruise
Character: Daniel
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
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Spiritual Rampage
Title: Spiritual Rampage
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Two boys go to a park to look for girls. Unusually, one of them is doing it for Lord Krishna.
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Character: Bruno
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Little Joe
Released: June 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A teenage boy finds all around him has sexual overtones as he lives a teenage life of drugs and masturbation.
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My Brother Tom
Title: My Brother Tom
Character: Tom
Released: November 16, 2001
Type: Movie
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.
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Title: Other People's Children
Character: Sully
Released: September 10, 2000
Type: TV
Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of how three women and two men deal with new marriages and the consequences of the new spouses or partners having to deal with their partner's children of different ages from previous marriages.
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The Escort
Title: The Escort
Character: Jay
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.
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The Trench
Title: The Trench
Character: Pte. James Deamis
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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Title: Black Doves
Character: Sam Young
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
When a spy's secret lover is killed, an assassin is assigned to protect her life as she investigates the murder. Together they uncover a vast interconnected conspiracy that leads them to question the cost of their moral choices.
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All Signs of Death
Title: All Signs of Death
Character: Web
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.
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Peter Hujar’s Day
Title: Peter Hujar’s Day
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda in December of 1974 in New York City.
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Limonov: The Ballad
Title: Limonov: The Ballad
Character: Eduard Limonov
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.