David Morrissey

David Morrissey

Born: June 21, 1964
in Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011.

As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities.

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Slingshot
Title: Slingshot
Character: Sam Napier
Released: August 23, 2024
Type: Movie
An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan.
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Title: Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Character: Self - Guest
Released: February 29, 2024
Type: TV
Hosted by the brilliant Rob Beckett alongside his team captains – TV fanatic Josh Widdicombe, and a lady who frankly is TV, Alison Hammond – the show is a hilarious celebration of the small screen and the shows we love (and some we don’t).
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The Walking Dead: The Return
Title: The Walking Dead: The Return
Character: The Governor (archive footage)
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Stars of "The Walking Dead," Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, walk down memory lane and visit iconic locations where pivotal moments between their characters, Rick and Michonne, were filmed.
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Title: The Long Shadow
Character: ACC George Oldfield
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
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Title: The Long Shadow
Character: DCS George Oldfield
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
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Title: Gods of Tennis
Character: Narrator
Released: June 4, 2023
Type: TV
Rebels, rockstars, revolutionaries. On court, they were legends. Off court, they challenged the world. Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, King, Navratilova, Evert - the golden age of tennis.
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Title: Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
Character: Narrator
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: TV
The inside story of Erdogan’s astonishing rise to power. With first-hand testimony from former president Abdullah Gul, former prime ministers, deputy PMs, party chiefs, opposition figures, analysts and journalists, this two-part series is a gripping and detailed account of the many battles Erdogan has had to fight along the way.
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Title: Britain's Notorious Prisons
Character: Narrator
Released: January 12, 2023
Type: TV
Britain's Notorious Prisons reveals the reality of life behind the walls of two of the UK's most infamous prisons, Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs. Manchester's Strangeways and London's Wormwood Scrubs have housed some of the country's most dangerous convicts, including serial killers, rapists and paedophiles.
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Dampyr
Title: Dampyr
Character: Gorka
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
In war-torn Balkans, bogus monster hunter Harlan Draka is hired by soldiers who happen to be under attack by an army of actual vampires, uncovering the hidden truth about his past in the process: he is half-human and half-vampire... a Dampyr.
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Title: Ellie & Natasia
Character: Dentist
Released: June 21, 2022
Type: TV
Surreal sketch show from triple threats Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou. Expect bizarre characters, excellent guest stars and a song about snakes.
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Title: Sherwood
Character: DCS Ian St Clair
Released: June 13, 2022
Type: TV
Two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before.
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The Colour Room
Title: The Colour Room
Character: Fred Ridgeway
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff roares to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
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Title: Between the Covers
Released: October 9, 2020
Type: TV
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.
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Title: The Singapore Grip
Character: Walter Blackett
Released: September 13, 2020
Type: TV
In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.
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Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Title: Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
Character: Self / Narrator
Released: August 3, 2020
Type: Movie
The extraordinary story of how Jürgen Klopp became the savior of Liverpool Football Club and one of the most admired football managers in the world.
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Klopp: The Inside Story
Title: Klopp: The Inside Story
Character: Narrator
Released: August 3, 2020
Type: Movie
This is the extraordinary story of Jürgen Klopp and his journey from being unknown to the savior of Liverpool Football Club. We see how he becomes one of Germany's greatest exports and one of the most loved managers in the world.
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A Separate Peace
Title: A Separate Peace
Character: John Brown
Released: May 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in a private nursing home, The smooth running of the home and the peace of mind of its staff is disrupted by the arrival of a patient, John Brown. He is warm, charming and can easily pay for his room... the only problem is that he is perfectly healthy. All he wants is to get away from the outside world.
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Title: Good Omens
Character: Captain Vincent
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: TV
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.
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Two Tribes
Title: Two Tribes
Character: Self
Released: March 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Two Tribes explores the dichotomy between the searing highs of Liverpool and Everton football club and Liverpool’s socio-economic decline in a city where football and politics are so inextricably linked.
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Title: The City and the City
Character: Tyador Borlú
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: TV
When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from Ul Qoma, a city that shares a dangerous and volatile relationship with Besźel, and this case will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Title: National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Character: Mark Antony
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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Title: The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Character: Self - Guest
Released: March 6, 2018
Type: TV
Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.
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Title: Britannia
Character: General Aulus Plautius
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: TV
An epic drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army – determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.
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Title: Lion Country: Night and Day
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 5, 2017
Type: TV
In one of the most remote and brutal wildernesses in Africa, three dynasties of lions are poised on the edge of collapse.
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The Ones Below
Title: The Ones Below
Character: Jon
Released: March 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
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National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Title: National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Character: Harry
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: Movie
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.
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The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Title: The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.
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Ronaldo
Title: Ronaldo
Character: Dramatic VO (voice)
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it’s like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.
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Title: Rock 'n' Roll America
Character: Narrator
Released: July 3, 2015
Type: TV
A three-part series tracing the history of American rock 'n' roll music from the 1950s onwards.
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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Title: Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Character: Narrator
Released: March 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Drugs, undercover stings and smuggled AK-47s – were US government enforcement agencies bound up in the business of Mexican gangs?
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Title: The Missing
Character: Sam Webster
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: TV
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
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Title: The Driver
Character: Vince McKee
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: TV
The Driver tells the story of Vince who, following a family mystery, blames himself and his inadequacies and, out of this crisis, he accepts an offer to start driving for a criminal gang.
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Title: Extant
Character: Tobias Shepherd
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: TV
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Martin
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: The 7.39
Character: Carl Matthews
Released: January 6, 2014
Type: TV
Carl Matthews commutes by train to London where he works in a property management office under a boss who is pressuring him to dismiss an employee. He has a kind and supportive wife Maggie and two teenage children who he feels do not appreciate him. One morning he complains to a woman called Sally that she has taken his seat on the train. He later apologises to her and they start chatting, a relationship develops and she reveals that she is divorced but about to marry again, although scenes with her fiancée suggest she is going cold on the idea. She works at a health club and Carl joins it so that he can see more of her. They fall in love and one evening when the train is not running they spend the night together at a hotel. The second part of the drama deals with the repercussions of their affair.
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Doctor Who Explained
Title: Doctor Who Explained
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A BBC America documentary explores the mysterious and two-hearted alien who is the Doctor with exclusive interviews with cast members from the show's 50-year history.
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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Title: The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A short documentary celebrating the tenth year of The Walking Dead. Features the creators of the comics and tv show discussing the cultural phenomenon The Walking Dead.
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Welcome to the Punch
Title: Welcome to the Punch
Character: Thomas Geiger
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: Earl of Northumberland
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Title: True Love
Character: Adrian
Released: June 17, 2012
Type: TV
A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Bill Norman
Released: February 6, 2012
Type: Movie
At eleven years old Joe Norman is told by his dying father that he is an alien hiding on earth. Joe believes him. He grows up to be a die-hard fan-boy working in a comic shop. When he falls for down-to-earth Maria, a fellow sci-fi fan, he is inspired to lead a more normal social existence. Until intergalactic bounty hunters track Joe down at his new office and the couple soon learn the dangerous truth about who Joe really is.
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London's Burning
Title: London's Burning
Character: Borough Commander
Released: December 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the 2011 London riots, focusing pre-dominantly on events that occured in and around Clapham and incorporating actual footage from CCTV cameras, civilians and journalists
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Blitz
Title: Blitz
Character: Dunlop
Released: May 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
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Title: The Field of Blood
Character: Murray Devlin
Released: May 8, 2011
Type: TV
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Macbeth
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Counted among his greatest tragedies, Shakespeare’s unsettling combination of warring soldiers and ‘weird sisters’ is brought to life in this post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Scottish play. This production, directed by Gemma Bodinetz and starring David Morrissey in the title role, was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.
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Title: South Riding
Character: Robert Carne
Released: February 20, 2011
Type: TV
The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.
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Gee Gee
Title: Gee Gee
Character: Michael
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Gee Gee follows the unsettling effect of drunken and riotous new-comer Gee-Gee on his neighbours in a fashionable block of flats. The closely-knit, respectable community finally force the trouble-maker to move, but one of them - the previously happy and respectable Michael - shows alarming signs of infection...
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Around The World In 60 Mins
Title: Around The World In 60 Mins
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
This film takes the viewer on a unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. When Yuri Gagarin was blasted into space he became the first human to get a proper look at where we live. The Earth is blue he exclaimed, how amazing! Suddenly our perspective on the world had changed forever. We thought we were going to explore the universe, yet the most extraordinary thing we discovered was our own home planet, the Earth. So what would you see during just one orbit of the earth?
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Philip Blake
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Thorne: Scaredycat
Title: Thorne: Scaredycat
Character: DI Tom Thorne
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Two women have been murdered within hours of one another near St. Pancras station, but in quite different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, DI Thorne realizes two serial killers may be at work in a macabre partnership
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Title: Thorne
Character: Tom Thorne
Released: October 10, 2010
Type: TV
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. It stars David Morrissey who plays the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne created by crime writer Mark Billingham. The supporting cast includes Aidan Gillen, Eddie Marsan and Natascha McElhone.
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Cooked
Title: Cooked
Character: (voice)
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Cooked tells the story of the unlikely love triangle that sparks between a walrus a seal and a lobster in an arctic sauna.
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Centurion
Title: Centurion
Character: Bothos
Released: February 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
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Mrs Mandela
Title: Mrs Mandela
Character: Theunis Swanepoel
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
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Nowhere Boy
Title: Nowhere Boy
Character: Bobby Dykins
Released: December 25, 2009
Type: Movie
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years in Liverpool and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood.
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Title: Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Character: Himself
Released: August 20, 2009
Type: TV
Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show, featuring exclusive interviews with key actors offering unique insights on the classic moments.
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U Be Dead
Title: U Be Dead
Character: Dr. Jan Falkowski
Released: July 5, 2009
Type: Movie
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
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Is Anybody There?
Title: Is Anybody There?
Character: Dad
Released: April 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Title: Red Riding
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: TV
Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s: a world of paranoia, corruption and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders.
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Title: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Character: Maurice Jobson
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Title: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Character: Maurice Jobson
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Title: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Character: Maurice Jobson
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Title: Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Character: Jackson Lake
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?
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Title: Meet The Immigrants
Released: April 14, 2008
Type: TV
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Title: The Other Boleyn Girl
Character: Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Released: February 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
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Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Colonel Brandon
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: TV
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?
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The Water Horse
Title: The Water Horse
Character: Captain Thomas Hamilton
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
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Title: Meadowlands
Released: June 17, 2007
Type: TV
The Brogan family enters a witness protection program and are moved to a bucolic neighborhood to begin a new life, but they soon realize that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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The Reaping
Title: The Reaping
Character: Doug
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
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Title: Five Days
Character: DI Mal Craig
Released: January 23, 2007
Type: TV
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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Taking Liberties
Title: Taking Liberties
Character: Narration
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Taking Liberties Since 1997is a documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK on 8th June 2007. The director, Chris Atkins, said on 1 May that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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Viva Blackpool
Title: Viva Blackpool
Character: Ripley Holden
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Ripley is now an ordained minister and owner of the Chapel of Love. He's on a search for the prize that will bring him untold riches - the Jules Rimet trophy. But when glamorous Kitty De-Luxe is jilted at his altar, Ripley falls hopelessly in love.
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Basic Instinct 2
Title: Basic Instinct 2
Character: Michael Glass
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
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Stoned
Title: Stoned
Character: Tom Keylock
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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Derailed
Title: Derailed
Character: Sam Griffin
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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The Year London Blew Up
Title: The Year London Blew Up
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Jackson Lake
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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Title: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
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Title: Blackpool
Character: Ripley Holden
Released: November 11, 2004
Type: TV
Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.
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Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
Title: Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
Character: Self-Narrator(voice)
Released: September 19, 2004
Type: Movie
During a busy rush-hour morning, Tokyo's elaborate underground Metro system is packed with commuters. All are unaware that it is about to become ground zero for an attempted mass murder. The attackers, members of Aum Shinrykio -or Aum the Supreme Truth- a Japanese religious cult lead by Shoko Asahara, release the nerve agent Sarin in five separate train cars.
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Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Title: Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
Character: Narrator
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
This movie covers the final hour leading up to the Columbine High Massacre. On April 20, 1999, two boys from Columbine High School in Colorado embarked on a massacre and killed 12 students, one teacher, and injured 21 other students, before turning the guns on themselves.
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Title: Zero Hour
Character: Narrator
Released: August 29, 2004
Type: TV
Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world.
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Title: This World
Released: January 4, 2004
Type: TV
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
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Disaster at Chernobyl
Title: Disaster at Chernobyl
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of April 26, 1986.
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Title: 9mm: Guns and Gangs
Character: Narrator
Released: December 14, 2003
Type: TV
A profile of the 9mm automatic pistol, a universally popular weapon used by armed police and counter-terrorist forces, and often seen in action films.
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The Deal
Title: The Deal
Character: Gordon Brown
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: Movie
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.
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Title: State of Play
Character: Stephen Collins
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: TV
The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.
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This Little Life
Title: This Little Life
Character: Richie MacGregor
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Title: Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for politicians - a mistrust evidenced in the turnout at the 2001 general election, which was the lowest for more than 80 years. In this documentary, Michael Cockerell talks to figures including Edwina Currie, Max Clifford, Geoffrey Robinson and Neil Hamilton in an effort to see if spin, sleaze and ministerial failure is to blame, or whether the media's sneering political coverage is most at fault.
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Out of Control
Title: Out of Control
Character: Mike
Released: August 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.
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Title: Murder
Character: Dave Dewston
Released: May 29, 2002
Type: TV
Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.
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Murder
Title: Murder
Character: Dave Dewston
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.
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Title: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character: Self - Guest
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: TV
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.
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Title: Linda Green
Character: Pete
Released: October 30, 2001
Type: TV
Linda's a Manchester girl, born and bred. She's in her early 30s and the friends she has now are the same friends she's had since primary school. By day she potters around in Craven Lane Motors selling cars and flirting with mechanics. But when night time comes around she can usually be found singing her heart out on stage at the Lee Lane Social Club. Her best friend Michelle may be settled and happy with her boyfriend and kids, but Linda's single and loving it. She may not have found Mr Right just yet, but she's having a whale of a time while she's looking.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Character: Captain Günther Weber
Released: April 18, 2001
Type: Movie
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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Born Romantic
Title: Born Romantic
Character: Fergus
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
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Some Voices
Title: Some Voices
Character: Pete
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
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Title: Clocking Off
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: TV
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.
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The Suicide Club
Title: The Suicide Club
Character: Henry Joyce
Released: January 13, 2000
Type: Movie
A man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club's only female member.
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Fanny & Elvis
Title: Fanny & Elvis
Character: Rob
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.
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Title: Pure Wickedness
Character: Frank Healy
Released: September 14, 1999
Type: TV
A highly respectable middle-class married woman watches a window cleaner fill his bucket at her kitchen sink and has a sudden urge to rip off his shirt. They make love right there - the mad, bad, no-chance- to-breathe and when-can-we-do-it-next kind of sex. And both she and her windows end up with a special sparkle. then there is trouble. Big trouble. For this is an up-till-then contented doctor's wife, a devoted mother with her own career as an optician. She doesn't DO adultery, especially not with a working class bloke who drinks too much, thinks too little and has a wife and four children, one of whom is her daughter's best pal.
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Hilary and Jackie
Title: Hilary and Jackie
Character: Kiffer Finzi
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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Title: Our Mutual Friend
Character: Bradley Headstone
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: TV
Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that links them with another world.
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The Commissioner
Title: The Commissioner
Character: Murray Lomax
Released: February 22, 1998
Type: Movie
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.
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Title: Holding On
Character: Shaun
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
The interaction between a diverse range of characters—including a bulimic restaurant critic and a highly strung tax inspector—in modern-day London.
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The One That Got Away
Title: The One That Got Away
Character: Andy "Mac" McNab
Released: February 18, 1996
Type: Movie
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
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Title: Soccer AM
Released: August 12, 1995
Type: TV
Soccer AM is a British Saturday-morning football-based comedy/talk show, predominantly based around the Premier League. Originally presented by Jane Hoffen, Gary Stevens and Russ Williams, they lasted just a year before Helen Chamberlain and Tim Lovejoy replaced them, where Lovejoy served for over a decade. He has since been replaced by Andy Goldstein and, more recently, Max Rushden. The show has been aired on Sky Sports 2 each Saturday morning of the football season since 1995 from 7:00am or 9:00am to noon originally and currently between 10:00am and 12:00pm. In early 2009, the 500th episode was broadcast. Although the show is filmed live from 2010 it has been broadcast on a momentary delay due to bad language and/or inappropriate content from certain guests. The show's current sponsor is Procter & Gamble through their Head & Shoulders brand. The show was previously sponsored by Frijj, a brand of milkshake, after Dairy Crest signed a £2 million sponsorship deal. Parts of the show have remained since the beginning, whilst new items have been introduced each season. In that respect, it is almost the same every week, the difference being new football footage and comedy skits. Every week sees a new group of celebrity guests, generally featuring at least one footballer who is free on the Saturday, and a mix of musicians, TV personalities, and other sportsmen.
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Title: Out of the Blue
Released: May 23, 1995
Type: TV
Out of the Blue follows a team of detectives at Brazen Gate CID through grisly murder cases, clashes with an already-divided community and through the dramas of their personal lives.
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Title: Devil's Advocate
Character: Matthew Salt
Released: January 4, 1995
Type: TV
A young British nanny, Clare Rigby, is accused of arson and the attempted murder of the child she looked after. Incarcerated in the San Stephano prison in Naples, desperate and alone, she turns to top advocate Alessandra Locatelli.
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Title: Finney
Character: Stephen Finney
Released: November 17, 1994
Type: TV
Finney is a 5-hour, 6-episode made-for-British television film that follows the struggle for power between various crime families in the North of England.
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Being Human
Title: Being Human
Character: Cyprion's Man
Released: May 6, 1994
Type: Movie
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Title: Framed
Character: Sgt. Larry Jackson
Released: November 27, 1992
Type: TV
Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a wife and children. Myers is an escaped criminal turned informer, presumed dead. But as Jackson discovers whilst holidaying in Spain, Myers is very much alive. He has reinvented himself as Phillip von Joel, handsome, dangerously charismatic and very wealthy. Extradited back to England after a nerve-wracking Scotland Yard Operation, von Joel agrees to a deal with the Police, He'll tell what he knows - but only if Jackson is his interrogator. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between the master criminal and his determined minder. Which comes first - duty or temptation?
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Black and Blue
Title: Black and Blue
Character: DC Norman Mills
Released: September 27, 1992
Type: Movie
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
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Title: Between the Lines
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Waterland
Title: Waterland
Character: Dick Crick
Released: August 21, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
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Clubland
Title: Clubland
Character: DC Judd
Released: August 28, 1991
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome Ajay, and the listening DC Judd realises he is onto a most unusual case
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Little John
Released: May 13, 1991
Type: Movie
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
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The Widowmaker
Title: The Widowmaker
Character: Rob
Released: December 29, 1990
Type: Movie
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a woman whose husband has been arrested after going on a killing rampage and the reaction of her local community. It was produced In the United Kingdom by Central Independent Television for the ITV Network and aired on 29 December 1990. It received a nomination for Best Single Drama at the 1991 BAFTA Awards.
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Available Light
Title: Available Light
Character: Marcus
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: John Arbuthnot
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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Drowning by Numbers
Title: Drowning by Numbers
Character: Bellamy
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
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Out of Town
Title: Out of Town
Character: The Traveller
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A man walking on a country road gets his foot stuck in a hole. But why will nobody stop to help?
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Cause célèbre
Title: Cause célèbre
Character: George Bowman
Released: August 23, 1987
Type: Movie
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the murder may have been of crime of passion perpetrated by the jealous lover only half her age, Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) confesses to the murder of her husband and is soon brought to trial. Despite the fact that Alma is already being deemed guilty by the general public for her adulterous indiscretion alone, her lawyer, star attorney T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), remains convinced that his client will eventually be cleared of all charges.
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Title: One Summer
Released: August 7, 1983
Type: TV
One Summer is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It stars David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16 year old Liverpool boys from broken homes who escape from their lives by running away to Wales one summer. It also starred James Hazeldine and Ian Hart. The series was shown in five 50-minute episodes on Channel 4 from 7 August to 4 September 1983. It was later repeated on ITV in April 1985.
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Title: Daddy Issues
Character: Malcolm
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
It follows the story of hard-partying Gemma, who lives for the weekend when she gets down to let down her hair in Manchester. But after a brief encounter on an airplane during a vacation to Portugal leaves her pregnant, Gemma finds her life turned upside down.
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Title: Prime Target
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks, is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on the mathematician’s behavior. Together they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.