David Gant

David Gant

Born: January 1, 1943
David Gant (born 1943) is a Scottish actor and model.

Formerly a banker, Gant changed careers at age 30 to study dramatic art at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Graduating in 1974, he has found roles in theatre, film and television.

His credits include Coriolanus at Chichester Festival Theatre, and the films Victor/Victoria (1982), The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), Gandhi (1982), Brazil (1985), Chaplin (1992), Restoration (1995), Braveheart (1995), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Lagaan (2001) and Jonathan Creek: The Sinner and the Sandman (2014). He also voiced Oswald of Carim in the 2011 video game Dark Souls and Lord Aldia in the sequel, Dark Souls II, more specifically its special edition rerelease Scholar of the First Sin. Gant is an Associate and Licentiate of the London College of Music. Gant was the voice actor of Emperor Iedolas Aldercapt in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. For the Christmas 2016 period he plays the sheriff in the Theatre Royal Norwich production of Jack and the Beanstalk.

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Title: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Character: Casino Croupier (archive footage)
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, “The Swan”, “The Rat Catcher”, and “Poison”.
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Title: The Gentlemen
Character: Lord Bassington Smythe
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: TV
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
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Remains
Title: Remains
Character: Oscar Chapman
Released: February 19, 2024
Type: Movie
A Windrush migrant is employed as a servant on an estate, presumably to look after master and manor, including a collection of colonial artefacts, but soon discovers he was actually procured to be part of its most prized possessions.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Title: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Character: Casino Croupier
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
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Title: The Witcher: Blood Origin
Character: Elderly Refugee
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: TV
More than a thousand years before the world of The Witcher, seven outcasts in the elven world unite in a blood quest against an unstoppable power.
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The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Title: The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Character: W.T. Kirkpatrick
Released: November 7, 2021
Type: Movie
A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
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Title: Miracle Workers
Character: The Oracle
Released: February 12, 2019
Type: TV
The first season of this comedy anthology is set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two low-level angels must convince their boss to save humanity. They bet him they can pull off their most impossible miracle yet: help two humans fall in love.
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Snowflake
Title: Snowflake
Character: Caleb
Released: September 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently all written by a clueless dentist.
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The Fitzroy
Title: The Fitzroy
Character: Mr. Thompson
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The Fitzroy is a live action black comedy set in an alternative post-apocalyptic 1950s. The world is covered in poisonous gas, and the last place for a traditional seaside holiday is The Fitzroy hotel, an abandoned submarine just off the coast of England. The film centers on Bernard, the hotel's bellboy, cook, maintenance man and general dogsbody, as he faces a constant battle to keep the decaying hotel airtight and afloat. But when he falls in love with a murderous guest, he is thrown into a mad day of lies, backstabbing and chaos. As Bernard struggles to hide her murders from the other guests and suspicious authorities, his world literally begins to sink around him.
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In the Ruins
Title: In the Ruins
Character: Dr. Faber
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
When Ayden arrives at a deserted church in the forest, he meets the strange Doctor Faber who offers him some food, if Ayden promises to provide the next meal. While both men are having a BBQ, a young girl enters the church, searching for her sister. Dr. Faber offers her some food, if she promises to provide the next meal.
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The Bad Education Movie
Title: The Bad Education Movie
Character: Mick
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
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The Last Picture
Title: The Last Picture
Character: Ambrosius Gant
Released: July 25, 2015
Type: Movie
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I like
Title: I like
Character: Blind Photographer
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A horror thriller directed by Michael David Pate.
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Title: Outlander
Character: The Sin Eater
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Claude Chabrol
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Outpost: Black Sun
Title: Outpost: Black Sun
Character: Klausener
Released: April 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
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Title: Sherlock
Character: Mr. Szikora
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Beyond Remedy
Title: Beyond Remedy
Character: Gingrich
Released: October 12, 2009
Type: Movie
An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.
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Slave
Title: Slave
Character: Mohamed Azis
Released: August 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Darryn Welch's explosive thriller SLAVE follows young American couple Georgie (Natassia Malthe) and David (Sam Page) as they visit David's father Robert's stunning Spanish villa, hoping to get his blessing on their marriage. The relationship between the father and son is strained at best, not helped by the dark skeletons of Robert's criminal past. When left to their own devices the couple embark on a hedonistic night out, with seedy nightclub owner Marlon (a cameo by 'king of hedonism' Howard Marks) offering the full VIP treatment. Georgie and David are separated for a brief moment, but in that brief moment their lives are changed forever... and David is set on a course to uncover some troubling family truths.
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The Devil's Chair
Title: The Devil's Chair
Character: Dr. Willard
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair
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Experiment
Title: Experiment
Character: Walker
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
A young woman, Anna, walks the streets of a foreign city. Her mind full of pain. No memory of who she is. and plagued by nightmarish visions. Then she meets Morgan, a man who also has no memory. Forced to trust each other, the two feel a mysterious connection. A strong powerful feeling that bonds the two together Unknown to them their every action is being guided by unseen forces from the dark underground shadows of the city. Anna and Morgan are part of a frightening experiment that will have a terrifying and shocking conclusion. There is no escape in this dark psychological thriller
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Wish You Were Here
Title: Wish You Were Here
Character: Mohamed Aziz
Released: February 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A man desperately searches for his girlfriend on the Costa del Sol.
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Fallen
Title: Fallen
Character: Michael Richard Blaine
Released: November 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to lose his memory and uncovers some shocking truths.
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Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
Title: Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
Character: Professor Philips
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.
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Two Brothers
Title: Two Brothers
Character: Auctioneer
Released: April 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
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The Computer Virus
Title: The Computer Virus
Character: Office Boss
Released: January 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A love-sick computer programmer unleashes a devastating computer virus on his colleagues. The charming but deadly animated virus goes on to conquer the world, destroying first language then cosmic order.
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Seeing Double
Title: Seeing Double
Character: Victor
Released: April 11, 2003
Type: Movie
When the members of S Club complain about how tough it is to stay on top, they find themselves replaced by lookalikes... or are they?
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Oh Marbella!
Title: Oh Marbella!
Character: Harvey
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
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Title: Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
Character: Alexander Cameron
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: TV
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
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Title: MythQuest
Character: Merlin / Gorgos
Released: August 1, 2001
Type: TV
While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who wants to destroy the world by constantly changing the famous myths.
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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Title: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Character: Maj. Warren
Released: June 15, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Title: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Character: The Duke of Bedford
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's diminished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
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G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Title: G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Character: Photographer
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
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The Red Violin
Title: The Red Violin
Character: Conductor (Oxford)
Released: September 10, 1998
Type: Movie
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Dangerous Beauty
Title: Dangerous Beauty
Character: Bolognetti
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
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Title: The Legend of the Lost Keys
Character: Professor Humphrey Waters
Released: January 12, 1998
Type: TV
The Legend of the lost keys is an educational BBC Look and Read production, which was first aired on BBC Two on 12 January 1998, and has been shown regularly ever since.
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Title: The Peter Principle
Character: Geoffrey Parkes
Released: June 2, 1997
Type: TV
The Peter Principle is a BBC television show about the Aldbridge Branch of the fictional County & Provincial Bank. It originally aired in the late 1990s and is now a part of the PBS program lineup at some PBS stations, which call it The Boss. The program takes its name from the Peter Principle, that In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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The Garden of Redemption
Title: The Garden of Redemption
Character: Gypsy
Released: May 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Eric Ipswich
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Brandon Monkford
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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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mr. Brocklehurst
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Felix Dexter in Douglas
Title: Felix Dexter in Douglas
Character: New Age Therapist
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
An encounter with a traveller changes the life of an ill-fated barrister who is on his way to meet his girlfriend's parents.
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Restoration
Title: Restoration
Character: Chaffinch
Released: December 29, 1995
Type: Movie
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Chief Justice/Executioner
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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The Summer House
Title: The Summer House
Character: Gallery Owner
Released: December 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
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Chaplin
Title: Chaplin
Character: London Maitre d'
Released: December 17, 1992
Type: Movie
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Title: Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Character: Broker
Released: November 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Doctor
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Chief Commander
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Interview Official
Released: February 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
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A Pattern of Roses
Title: A Pattern of Roses
Character: Headmaster
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Daniels
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Title: The Draughtsman's Contract
Character: Seymour
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Fouquet
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
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Moonlighting
Title: Moonlighting
Character: Aquascutum Assistant
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
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Firefox
Title: Firefox
Character: KGB Official
Released: June 18, 1982
Type: Movie
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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Victor/Victoria
Title: Victor/Victoria
Character: Restaurant Manager
Released: April 25, 1982
Type: Movie
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
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The Chelsea Murders
Title: The Chelsea Murders
Character: Frank
Released: December 30, 1981
Type: Movie
When a barmaid and part-time model becomes a murderer's third victim in Chelsea, the only apparent links are to a local reporter, Mary, and three art graduates financing a film with local part-time jobs.