Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

Born: March 28, 1921
Died: May 8, 1999
in Hampstead, London, England, UK
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph.

Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring in the successful Doctor film series (1954–1963). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992.

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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Title: The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Title: Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more.
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Title: Talking Pictures
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: TV
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
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A Letter To True
Title: A Letter To True
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.
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The Private Dirk Bogarde
Title: The Private Dirk Bogarde
Character: Himself (Archive Footage)
Released: August 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Forwood, seen through home movies and excerpts from Bogarde's memoirs.
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
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Empire of the Censors
Title: Empire of the Censors
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 1995
Type: Movie
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
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Title: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1993
Type: TV
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
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Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
Title: Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1992
Type: Movie
A two-part interview in which Dirk Bogarde talks about his life and career.
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Daddy Nostalgia
Title: Daddy Nostalgia
Character: Daddy aka Tony Russell
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
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Picture of Europe
Title: Picture of Europe
Character: Self
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven
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The Vision
Title: The Vision
Character: James Marriner
Released: November 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.
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May We Borrow Your Husband?
Title: May We Borrow Your Husband?
Character: William Harris
Released: May 13, 1986
Type: Movie
An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a relationship between a young couple and two interior designers.
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Title: The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
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Schindler
Title: Schindler
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
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The Patricia Neal Story
Title: The Patricia Neal Story
Character: Roald Dahl
Released: December 8, 1981
Type: Movie
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
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Despair
Title: Despair
Character: Hermann Hermann
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
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A Bridge Too Far
Title: A Bridge Too Far
Character: Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
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Providence
Title: Providence
Character: Claude Langham
Released: January 25, 1977
Type: Movie
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Title: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.
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Permission to Kill
Title: Permission to Kill
Character: Alan Curtis
Released: November 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
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The Night Porter
Title: The Night Porter
Character: Maximilian Theo Aldorfer
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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The Serpent
Title: The Serpent
Character: Philip Boyle
Released: April 7, 1973
Type: Movie
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
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Death in Venice
Title: Death in Venice
Character: Gustav von Aschenbach
Released: March 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
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Visconti's Venice
Title: Visconti's Venice
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary produced during the original release of the film. The promotional piece features interviews with director Luchino Visconti and actor Dirk Bogarde as they discuss the filmmaking process involved in bringing Death in Venice to life.
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Upon This Rock
Title: Upon This Rock
Character: Bonnie Prince Charlie (voice)
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
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The Damned
Title: The Damned
Character: Frederick Bruckmann
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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The Epic That Never Was
Title: The Epic That Never Was
Character: Himself - Host / Narrator
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
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Justine
Title: Justine
Character: Pursewarden
Released: August 6, 1969
Type: Movie
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Stephen
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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The Fixer
Title: The Fixer
Character: Bibikov
Released: December 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Sebastian
Title: Sebastian
Character: Sebastian
Released: January 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
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Our Mother's House
Title: Our Mother's House
Character: Charlie Hook
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
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Accident
Title: Accident
Character: Stephen
Released: February 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
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Blithe Spirit
Title: Blithe Spirit
Character: Charles Condomine
Released: December 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
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El Rey en Londres
Title: El Rey en Londres
Released: October 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges
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Modesty Blaise
Title: Modesty Blaise
Character: Gabriel
Released: May 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
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Darling
Title: Darling
Character: Robert Gold
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
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The High Bright Sun
Title: The High Bright Sun
Character: Major McGuire
Released: November 1, 1964
Type: Movie
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
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King and Country
Title: King and Country
Character: Capt. Hargreaves
Released: September 5, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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Little Moon of Alban
Title: Little Moon of Alban
Character: Kenneth Boyd
Released: March 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WWI she finds herself caring for what she considers the enemy. Then she begins to fall in love with soldier Kenneth Boyd.
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Hot Enough for June
Title: Hot Enough for June
Character: Nicholas Whistler
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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The Servant
Title: The Servant
Character: Hugo Barrett
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…
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Doctor in Distress
Title: Doctor in Distress
Character: Dr Simon Sparrow
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
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We Joined the Navy
Title: We Joined the Navy
Character: Dr. Simon Sparrow (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
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I Could Go on Singing
Title: I Could Go on Singing
Character: David Donne
Released: March 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
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The Mind Benders
Title: The Mind Benders
Character: Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
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The Password Is Courage
Title: The Password Is Courage
Character: Sergant-Major Charles Coward
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
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H.M.S. Defiant
Title: H.M.S. Defiant
Character: Lieut. Scott-Padget
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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Victim
Title: Victim
Character: Melville Farr
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.
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The Singer Not the Song
Title: The Singer Not the Song
Character: Anacleto Comachi
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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Song Without End
Title: Song Without End
Character: Franz Liszt
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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The Angel Wore Red
Title: The Angel Wore Red
Character: Arturo Carrera
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
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Libel
Title: Libel
Character: Sir Mark Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
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The Doctor's Dilemma
Title: The Doctor's Dilemma
Character: Louis Dubedat
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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The Wind Cannot Read
Title: The Wind Cannot Read
Character: Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn
Released: June 10, 1958
Type: Movie
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Sydney Carton
Released: February 7, 1958
Type: Movie
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: Bruce Campbell
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Dr Simon Sparrow
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Title: Ill Met by Moonlight
Character: Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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The Spanish Gardener
Title: The Spanish Gardener
Character: Jose
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
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Cast a Dark Shadow
Title: Cast a Dark Shadow
Character: Edward "Teddy" Bare
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Dr. Simon Sparrow
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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Simba
Title: Simba
Character: Alan Howard
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
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The Sleeping Tiger
Title: The Sleeping Tiger
Character: Frank Clemmons
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Tony Howard
Released: June 20, 1954
Type: Movie
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Flt Sgt Mackay
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Simon Sparrow
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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They Who Dare
Title: They Who Dare
Character: Lieutenant Graham
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Desperate Moment
Title: Desperate Moment
Character: Simon Van Halder
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
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Appointment in London
Title: Appointment in London
Character: Tim Mason
Released: February 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Matt Sullivan
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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Penny Princess
Title: Penny Princess
Character: Tony Craig
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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Hunted
Title: Hunted
Character: Chris Lloyd
Released: March 17, 1952
Type: Movie
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Charles Condomine
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Blackmailed
Title: Blackmailed
Character: Stephen Mundy
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
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The Woman in Question
Title: The Woman in Question
Character: R.W. (Bob) Baker
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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So Long at the Fair
Title: So Long at the Fair
Character: George Hathaway
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: Tom Riley
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Alfie Rawlins
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: Charles Prohack
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Title: Once a Jolly Swagman
Character: Bill Fox
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: George Bland
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Esther Waters
Title: Esther Waters
Character: William Latch
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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The Case of Helvig Delbo
Title: The Case of Helvig Delbo
Released: July 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A true story of wartime espionage reconstructed for television by Robert Barr. In Denmark in 1943 twelve patriots who had been aiding Allied airmen to escape to Britain were rounded up by the Gestapo. British Intelligence Officers found one clue. It pointed to the traitor being a girl. With the aid of patriots from the Norwegian and Danish underground they tracked her down... and the flow of airmen escaping to Britain began again.
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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Power Without Glory
Title: Power Without Glory
Character: Cliff
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother.
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Rope
Title: Rope
Character: Charles Granillo
Released: January 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
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Come on George!
Title: Come on George!
Character: Extra
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins