Richard Dillane

Richard Dillane

Born: October 15, 1964
in London, England, United Kingdom
Richard Dillane (born 1964) is a British actor. He appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander, based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.

Movies for Richard Dillane...

Title: The Diplomat
Character: Tom Libby
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: TV
In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future.
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Title: Stonehouse
Character: Mackenzie
Released: January 2, 2023
Type: TV
Drama following the life and times of disgraced Labour politician John Stonehouse, a high-flying minister under Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s government vanished from the beach of a large luxury hotel in Florida in Nov. 1974, leaving a neatly folded pile of clothes as he swam into the sea, intent on faking his own death.
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Title: Star Wars: Andor
Character: Davo Sculdun
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
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Munich: The Edge of War
Title: Munich: The Edge of War
Character: Colonel Menzies
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: Dalgliesh
Character: Stephen Courtney-Briggs
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: TV
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Henry Gaunt
Released: August 26, 2021
Type: Movie
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo gangsters.
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The Forgotten Battle
Title: The Forgotten Battle
Character: Sinclair
Released: June 5, 2021
Type: Movie
November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.
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Title: Young Wallander
Character: Hemberg
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: TV
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
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Title: West of Liberty
Character: Ron Harriman
Released: November 24, 2019
Type: TV
Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
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Title: Giri/Haji
Character: Brian
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: TV
Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.
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The Last Vermeer
Title: The Last Vermeer
Character: Colonel Jenkins
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
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Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: David Arron
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: TV
Months after a crushing breakup, a man receives a mysterious package that opens a portal to the past -- and gives him a chance to win back his ex.
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Title: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Character: Patrick Wayne
Released: July 28, 2019
Type: TV
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.
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Mother's Day
Title: Mother's Day
Character: Dr Tarring
Released: September 3, 2018
Type: Movie
On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.
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Title: The Last Post
Character: Harvey Tilbrook
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: TV
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
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Title: The White Princess
Character: Thomas Stanley
Released: April 16, 2017
Type: TV
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
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Against the Law
Title: Against the Law
Character: Prosecutor Roberts
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: Movie
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.
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Title: The Crown
Character: King George V
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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Title: Berlin Station
Character: Gerald Ellman
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: TV
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
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Title: The Last Kingdom
Character: Ludeca
Released: October 10, 2015
Type: TV
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
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Title: Wolf Hall
Character: Duke of Suffolk
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: TV
Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Altar
Title: Altar
Character: Greg
Released: December 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
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Title: Outlander
Character: Captain Raines
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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United Passions
Title: United Passions
Character: Larsen
Released: June 19, 2014
Type: Movie
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Robert Greene
Released: October 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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Dead in Tombstone
Title: Dead in Tombstone
Character: Jack Sutter
Released: October 1, 2013
Type: Movie
An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal with the devil, Hernandez returns from the dead to take his revenge.
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Title: Atlantis
Character: Palos
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: TV
A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the city of Atlantis. Aided by his two new friends, Pythagoras and Hercules, Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery, and salvation, which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa, come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead.
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Title: Peaky Blinders
Character: General Curran
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: TV
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: Leo Richardson
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Sir Charles Hakeworth
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Argo
Title: Argo
Character: OSS Officer Nicholls
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
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The Dinosaur Project
Title: The Dinosaur Project
Character: Marchant
Released: August 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Mr. Scarisbrick
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Vera
Character: Will Peyton
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Oranges and Sunshine
Title: Oranges and Sunshine
Character: Merv Humphreys
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
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Mad Sad & Bad
Title: Mad Sad & Bad
Character: Roger
Released: July 31, 2009
Type: Movie
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
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The Dark Knight
Title: The Dark Knight
Character: Acting Commissioner
Released: July 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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The Edge of Love
Title: The Edge of Love
Character: Lt Col David Talbot Rice
Released: June 20, 2008
Type: Movie
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Theodore Platt
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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Interview with a Poltergeist
Title: Interview with a Poltergeist
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
In August 1977, strange things started to happen in a quiet north London suburb. This unusual, terrifying activity lasted several months and became known as the Enfield Poltergeist. Among those who witnessed this apparently paranormal activity were journalists and the police. Some of the evidence is controversial. But 30 years on it remains the best-documented and most puzzling case of its kind, and may be the first time that a spirit voice has been captured on tape.
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One Hundredth of a Second
Title: One Hundredth of a Second
Character: Connor
Released: August 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Kate is a talented photojournalist. She risks her life to deliver powerful images to the waiting world until a photograph of a Girl changes her life forever.
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The Real Sopranos
Title: The Real Sopranos
Character: Narrator
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
This movie shows the connections between the TV series 'The Sopranos' and a real-life New Jersey Mob. The story of the rise and fall of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family
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Tristan & Isolde
Title: Tristan & Isolde
Character: Aragon
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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Title: Space Race
Character: Wernher von Braun
Released: September 14, 2005
Type: TV
The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Carter
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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The Jacket
Title: The Jacket
Character: Captain Medley
Released: March 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
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Space Race
Title: Space Race
Character: Werner Von Braun
Released: January 24, 2005
Type: Movie
The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Julius Caesar
Released: March 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Graham Poole
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Lawrence Delvin
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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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Title: George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Character: John Cross
Released: November 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
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Title: Adventure Inc.
Character: Michael Drake
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: TV
From his base in the Florida Keys, Judson Cross has assembled a team of young renegades, each with their own extraordinary skills and willing to risk it all for the love of adventure.
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Title: Spooks
Character: John Richardson
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: Ricardo Rivelli
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Doc Martin
Title: Doc Martin
Character: Tim
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Doc Martin tells the tale of Martin Clunes' character in the film, in the months leading up to the Saving Grace story. Martin Bamford is a heart-broken London obstetrician, in a jealous rage after he finds out that his wife has been sleeping with three of his buddies. He escapes to a small Cornish fishing village, which he grows surprisingly attached to, and is extremely reluctant to return with his cheating wife when she comes to pick him up. Although he has only been looking for a week's R & R, Dr Bamford stumbles across a network of secrets in the village of Port Isaac, and finds himself embroiled in the most exciting scandal the village has seen for centuries.
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Seeing Red
Title: Seeing Red
Character: Steve
Released: March 19, 2000
Type: Movie
Coral Atkins, a British soap star of the 1970s, becomes deeply affected by the plight of children from troubled homes. Against considerable odds, Coral harnesses her celebrity to launch a crusade to establish her own home to care for the children. Based on the memoirs of Coral Atkins.
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Wing Commander
Title: Wing Commander
Character: Lt. Hunter
Released: March 11, 1999
Type: Movie
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
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Emmerdale: Revenge
Title: Emmerdale: Revenge
Character: D.S. Dan Campbell
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Roy is a little too quick to accept Pollard's generous offer of a trip to London. It soon becomes clear they both have ulterior motives. Just what shady deal is Pollard cooking up this time, and who is the mystery man Roy is obsessed with finding? Meanwhile Kathy intends to enjoy her prize weekend away but her wild plans are hampered when she finds herself chaperoned by the well-meaning Marlon. Will he let her appreciate the bright city lights to the full or will he stifle the aroma of romance which lingers in the air? A relaxing weekend of fun becomes a matter of life and death as they are drawn into an intriguing web of deceit and extreme danger. Suddenly life in Yorkshire begins to seem little more than a distant and happy memory as ghosts from the past haunt the present and death lurks around every corner.
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Title: Cold Feet
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: TV
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
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Solomon
Title: Solomon
Character: Jeroboam
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: Movie
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Oliver Ordish
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Terry
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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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Major Summerhayes
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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Title: Casualty
Character: Anthony Sharman
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: Casualty
Character: Sean Anderson
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.