Richard Todd

Richard Todd

Born: June 11, 1919
Died: December 3, 2009
in Dublin, Ireland
Richard Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier.

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Title: The Royal
Character: Hugh Hirst
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: TV
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Charles Edmonton
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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No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Title: No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Released: July 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Beautiful Lies
Title: Beautiful Lies
Character: H.G. Wells
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: Movie
August 1941: HG Wells confronts George Orwell, who has just published a scathing attack on him. As wartime London endures the Blitz, they speculate on life and death, truth and propaganda.
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Title: Virtual Murder
Released: July 24, 1992
Type: TV
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbeat personal assistant and lover, while Inspector Cadogan is their police contact and Professor Owen Griffiths is Cornelius's head of department.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Harold Beecham
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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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Title: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Character: Lord Roberts
Released: February 19, 1992
Type: Movie
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Olympus Force: The Key
Title: Olympus Force: The Key
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.
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Jenny's War
Title: Jenny's War
Character: Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Released: October 25, 1985
Type: Movie
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
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Title: The Last Place on Earth
Character: Mr. Barnes
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: TV
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole. The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant. Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.
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House of the Long Shadows
Title: House of the Long Shadows
Character: Sam Allyson
Released: June 17, 1983
Type: Movie
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
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Doctor Who: Kinda
Title: Doctor Who: Kinda
Character: Sanders
Released: February 9, 1982
Type: Movie
The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a race of apparent savages, however: a mysterious people with strange powers which have mentally unbalanced the members of the expedition. To make matters worse, an ancient enemy of the natives known as the Mara is intent upon revenge, and latches onto Tegan's mind as its bridgehead to victory.
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Home Before Midnight
Title: Home Before Midnight
Character: Geoffrey Steele
Released: October 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
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The Big Sleep
Title: The Big Sleep
Character: Commander Barker
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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No. 1 of the Secret Service
Title: No. 1 of the Secret Service
Character: Arthur Loveday
Released: October 31, 1977
Type: Movie
No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).
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Um Homem e o Cinema
Title: Um Homem e o Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.
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Bloodbath
Title: Bloodbath
Character: Terence
Released: November 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
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The Next Scream You Hear
Title: The Next Scream You Hear
Character: George Tulliver
Released: July 6, 1974
Type: Movie
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story. Is someone trying to frame Mr. Peel? Peel asks private detective Matthew Earp to investigate.
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Title: Boy Dominic
Character: Capt. Richard Bulman
Released: March 24, 1974
Type: TV
The adventures of a 12-year-old boy's struggles in Victorian Yorkshire, after his father, Captain Charles Bulman, is lost, presumed drowned off the coast of Africa.
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Title: Thriller
Character: George Tulliver
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Walter
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
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Dorian Gray
Title: Dorian Gray
Character: Basil Hallward
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.
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Subterfuge
Title: Subterfuge
Character: Col. Victor Redmayne
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for England, has changed his mind about transferring away so that he can spend more time with her and their young son. He has grown cold and distant towards her; she thinks it 's because of the secretiveness of his work. Meanwhile, an American spy comes to England and is induced to help the British "team" with an undercover spy ring. When this spy ring is over turned the "bugs" that crawl out from under its rock shocks everyone!
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The Love-Ins
Title: The Love-Ins
Character: Dr. Jonathan Barnett
Released: July 26, 1967
Type: Movie
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Title: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Character: Darrell
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
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Operation Crossbow
Title: Operation Crossbow
Character: Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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Coast of Skeletons
Title: Coast of Skeletons
Character: Harry Sanders
Released: March 19, 1965
Type: Movie
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
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Death Drums Along the River
Title: Death Drums Along the River
Character: Inspector Harry Sanders
Released: December 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Sanders
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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The Very Edge
Title: The Very Edge
Character: Geoffrey Lawrence
Released: April 30, 1963
Type: Movie
Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Maj. John Howard
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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The Boys
Title: The Boys
Character: Victor Webster
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
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The Hellions
Title: The Hellions
Character: Sam Hargis
Released: November 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
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Don't Bother to Knock
Title: Don't Bother to Knock
Character: Bill Ferguson
Released: May 28, 1961
Type: Movie
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
Title: The Long and the Short and the Tall
Character: Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Released: February 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface
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Never Let Go
Title: Never Let Go
Character: John Cummings
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
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Danger Within
Title: Danger Within
Character: Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Released: February 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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Intent to Kill
Title: Intent to Kill
Character: Dr. Bob McLaurin
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
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The Naked Earth
Title: The Naked Earth
Character: Danny
Released: February 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Title: Chase a Crooked Shadow
Character: Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Released: January 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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Saint Joan
Title: Saint Joan
Character: Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Title: Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Character: Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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D-Day the Sixth of June
Title: D-Day the Sixth of June
Character: Lt. Col. John Wynter
Released: May 29, 1956
Type: Movie
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Title: Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Character: Comte Axel von Fersen
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
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The Virgin Queen
Title: The Virgin Queen
Character: Sir Walter Raleigh
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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A Man Called Peter
Title: A Man Called Peter
Character: The Rev. Peter Marshall
Released: March 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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The Secrets of the Bed
Title: The Secrets of the Bed
Character: Capitaine Davidson
Released: May 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Rob Roy MacGregor
Released: February 27, 1954
Type: Movie
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Heathcliff
Released: December 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: Charles Brandon
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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Venetian Bird
Title: Venetian Bird
Character: Edward Mercer
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Title: 24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Character: the young man
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Title: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Character: Robin Hood
Released: May 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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Elstree Story
Title: Elstree Story
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including Hitchcock’s Blackmail, the first feature-length British talkie ever shown – with early appearances by some of cinema’s greatest stars; it is a most memorable and evocative journey through the years.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Richard Trevelyan
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Robert Hart
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Jonathan Cooper
Released: February 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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The Interrupted Journey
Title: The Interrupted Journey
Character: John North
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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The Hasty Heart
Title: The Hasty Heart
Character: Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Character: Herbert Edward Logan
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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A Yank at Oxford
Title: A Yank at Oxford
Character: Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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The Gap
Title: The Gap
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
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Good Morning, Boys!
Title: Good Morning, Boys!
Character: Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.