James Cairncross

James Cairncross

Born: December 21, 1915
Died: December 17, 2009
in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK

Movies for James Cairncross...

The Fool
Title: The Fool
Character: Mr. Trott
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: John Bray
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Dr. Jagerman
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Title: Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Character: Rogo at Charitable Institution
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Coroner
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: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Briggs
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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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Polonius
Released: November 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
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Doctor Who: The Krotons
Title: Doctor Who: The Krotons
Character: Beta
Released: January 18, 1969
Type: Movie
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Title: Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Character: Lemaitre
Released: September 12, 1964
Type: Movie
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Parson Supple
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Character: Mr Jones
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as a prized athlete.