Nicholas Selby

Nicholas Selby

Born: September 13, 1925
Died: September 14, 2010
in Holborn, London, England, UK

Movies for Nicholas Selby...

Stiff Upper Lips
Title: Stiff Upper Lips
Character: Don 1
Released: June 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
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Mr White Goes To Westminster
Title: Mr White Goes To Westminster
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.
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Title: Our Friends in the North
Character: Sir Edward Jones
Released: January 15, 1996
Type: TV
An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.
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The Affair
Title: The Affair
Character: Mr. Leyland
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: Movie
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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The Madness of King George
Title: The Madness of King George
Character: Speaker
Released: December 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
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Message for Posterity
Title: Message for Posterity
Character: 2nd Conservative MP
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
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Title: House of Cards
Character: Lord Billsborough
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: TV
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Uncle George
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mr Johnstone
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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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: Von Jagow
Released: September 5, 1985
Type: Movie
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
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In the Secret State
Title: In the Secret State
Character: Sir Gerald Dangerfield
Released: March 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Doctor
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Duncan
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Superintendent Miller
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Title: Elizabeth R
Character: Sir Walter Raleigh
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: TV
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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A Walk in the Sea
Title: A Walk in the Sea
Character: Licensee
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.
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The Wars of the Roses
Title: The Wars of the Roses
Character: Duke of Winchester
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Bailey
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Process Server
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.