Bryan Pringle

Bryan Pringle

Born: January 19, 1935
Died: May 15, 2002
in Glascote, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK

Movies for Bryan Pringle...

Title: My Uncle Silas
Character: Walter Hawthorn
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: TV
In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though 60 years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womanizer, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs. Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.
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Lover's Prayer
Title: Lover's Prayer
Character: Stepan
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
Character: Zachariah Sloat
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
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B. Monkey
Title: B. Monkey
Character: Goodchild
Released: July 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
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Title: Vanity Fair
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: TV
Becky Sharp is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost.
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The Day Grandad Went Blind
Title: The Day Grandad Went Blind
Character: Grandad
Released: September 2, 1998
Type: Movie
An elderly man with failing eyesight attends his brother funeral. He discovers a lottery ticket in his dead brothers possessions. Will his luck change or will fate deal a more spiteful blow.
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Title: A Dance to the Music of Time
Character: Smith
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: TV
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
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Title: A Prince Among Men
Character: Vince Hibbert
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: TV
A Prince Among Men is a somewhat unsuccessful British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1997 to 1998 lasting 12 episodes. It starred Chris Barrie as Gary Prince, a former international football star turned entrepreneur. The theme music was by Jamie Marshall.
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Title: Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Character: Father Gilbert
Released: July 18, 1997
Type: Movie
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
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Title: Soul Music
Character: Albert (voice)
Released: June 6, 1997
Type: TV
Soul Music is a seven-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 12 May 1997. It was the first film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel. The series soundtrack was also released on CD, but the disc is now out of production. The soundtrack is, however, now available through iTunes.
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Soul Music
Title: Soul Music
Character: Albert (voice)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
The young druid Imp y Celyn comes to Ankh-Morpork to become a famous musician, but a new guitar from a mysterious shop possesses him with a new kind of music - the Music with Rocks In. To make matters worse, Death, saddened by the death of his adopted daughter, has gone away to try and forget, and his granddaughter Susan suddenly has the family duty passed on to her.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Restoration
Title: Restoration
Character: Watchman
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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The Steal
Title: The Steal
Character: Cecil, Bank Doorman
Released: May 5, 1995
Type: Movie
A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though.
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Cruel Train
Title: Cruel Train
Character: Maurice Mussell
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he could continue having sexual access to her. The husband and wife kill him together, but are seen by a train driver, who also has problems of his own. The wife tries to divert suspicion by implicating another driver and befriending the witness, but it doesn't go that smoothly.
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Pleasure
Title: Pleasure
Character: Flaubert
Released: October 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
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Title: Once Upon A Time In The North
Character: Mr Bebbington
Released: May 3, 1994
Type: TV
Whimsical tales of the Tollit family, who live in the picturesque Northern town of Sutton Moor. The husband, Len, is a soft-hearted, well-meaning chap who holds strong views on certain subjects and is fiercely proud of his working-class roots. But his determination to prove himself the equal of those who may consider themselves his betters often leads to confrontation and infuriates his wife, Pat. They have two children, the pre-teen Sean and the sexually-maturing Siobhan, who, at 15, is at that 'awkward age'. Living in the granny flat in their yard is Mr Bebbington, who had been Len's late mother's boyfriend but has remained with them for six months since her death. Pat constantly cajoles Len into getting Bebbington out but he is quite content to let him stay and treats him as one of the family. Len's brother, Morris, who lives nearby, is a spiritual man who comes across as half-hippy and half-witted.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Jim Barraclough
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Olly's Prison
Title: Olly's Prison
Character: Barry
Released: May 1, 1993
Type: Movie
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. The play moves through the prison of the mind, to that of the outside world in a search that leads to a tragedy.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Fatha
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
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Roots
Title: Roots
Character: Stan Mann
Released: November 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voice and views.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ned
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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Title: So Haunt Me
Released: February 23, 1992
Type: TV
So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother. The show was produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC and originally aired from 1992 to 1994. Peter Rokeby loses his job as advertising copywriter, and resolves to become a freelance writer. Owing to this change in circumstances, he and his wife Sally move with their children into a more modest home in Meadow Road, Willesden. The family soon finds that the ghost of a previous owner, Yetta Feldman, still occupies the residence, and has been scaring occupants away for years. Yetta is a stereotypical interfering, middle-aged Jewish mother who died suddenly after choking on a chicken bone. While Sally can both see and speak to their ghost, Peter — much to his frustration — initially cannot. The family agrees to help Yetta find her grown-up daughter Carole. So Haunt Me aired on BBC1 as 18 half-hour episodes in three series and one special from 1992 to 1994. The show was created by Paul Mendelson. The Rokeby children David and Tammy were played by Jeremy Green and Laura Howard respectively. Neighbour Mr Bloom was played by David Graham.
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Title: Murder Most Horrid
Character: Mr. Franklin
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Felix Norman
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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American Friends
Title: American Friends
Character: Haskell
Released: March 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
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My Kingdom for a Horse
Title: My Kingdom for a Horse
Character: Len Deakin
Released: March 12, 1991
Type: Movie
Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces challenges, both personal and professional.
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Title: Performance
Character: Stan Mann
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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3 Men and a Little Lady
Title: 3 Men and a Little Lady
Character: Old Englishman
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.
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Crimestrike
Title: Crimestrike
Character: Super
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.
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A Night on the Tyne
Title: A Night on the Tyne
Character: Maurice
Released: July 12, 1989
Type: Movie
When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
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Getting It Right
Title: Getting It Right
Character: Mr. Lamb
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.
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Drowning by Numbers
Title: Drowning by Numbers
Character: Jake
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
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Title: The Storyteller
Character: Cook
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
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Consuming Passions
Title: Consuming Passions
Released: April 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
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What the Butler Saw
Title: What the Butler Saw
Character: Sergeant Match
Released: May 23, 1987
Type: Movie
White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Barker
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Ladies' Night
Title: Ladies' Night
Character: Bundock
Released: December 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.
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Title: Unnatural Causes
Character: Bundock
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: TV
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.
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Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Title: Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Character: Chorus
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.
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Title: Casualty
Character: George Tomlinson
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Haunted Honeymoon
Title: Haunted Honeymoon
Character: Pfister
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Malcolm Tandy
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Turtle Diary
Title: Turtle Diary
Character: Zoo Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Spiro
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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Bird Fancier
Title: Bird Fancier
Character: Mick
Released: January 15, 1985
Type: Movie
There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.
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This Office Life
Title: This Office Life
Character: Commissionaire
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: Movie
On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fund, paid holidays - and (apparently) nothing much doing between the hours of nine to five. Then his colleagues began to take an unhealthy interest in him. They asked questions he couldn't answer, and answered questions he hadn't asked. Only the lovely Pam made life bearable, but even she was not quite what she seemed....
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Dog Ends
Title: Dog Ends
Character: Henry
Released: July 17, 1984
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.
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Those Glory Glory Days
Title: Those Glory Glory Days
Character: Reg
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
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Title: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Character: Arthur Pringle
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: TV
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
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Bullshot
Title: Bullshot
Character: Waiter
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary. And, of course, win the heart of a jolly nice young lady.
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Bullshot
Title: Bullshot
Character: Wiater
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary. And, of course, win the heart of a jolly nice young lady.
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Title: The Bell
Character: Patchway
Released: January 13, 1982
Type: TV
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Towers of Babel
Title: Towers of Babel
Released: July 9, 1981
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.
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Title: The Good Companions
Character: Morton Mitcham
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: TV
Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on the ragged edges of show business. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Pistol
Released: December 23, 1979
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Fifth.
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Henry IV Part 2
Title: Henry IV Part 2
Character: Pistol
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
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On Giant's Shoulders
Title: On Giant's Shoulders
Character: Len Wiles
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Grimsdale
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Some Enchanted Evening
Title: Some Enchanted Evening
Character: Police Constable from Gateshead
Released: January 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Comedy in which a young Geordie, Peter, is put under pressure by his fiancee who wants him to name the wedding day. Enough pressure to make him consider jumping off the Tyne Bridge. Peter tells the story to a lass he meets at a club.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Case
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Jabberwocky
Title: Jabberwocky
Character: Guard at the Gate
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Mr Garland
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
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Title: Two's Company
Character: Sid
Released: September 6, 1975
Type: TV
Two's Company is a British television situation comedy series that ran from 1975-79. Produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV Network, the programme starred Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden.
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Title: The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
Character: Sergeant Flagg
Released: September 2, 1975
Type: TV
Earnest new recruit PC Penrose has left his home town and joined the force in the Yorkshire town of Slagcaster. He's young and naive but seasoned officer Sergeant Flagg takes him under his wing and shows him the ropes, though his methods can be a little unconventional.
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Title: Survivors
Character: Leonard Woollen
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: TV
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
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There Is a Happy Land
Title: There Is a Happy Land
Character: Uncle Mad
Released: May 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.
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Still Waters
Title: Still Waters
Character: Nelson
Released: January 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.
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The Boy Friend
Title: The Boy Friend
Character: Percy
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
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Detective Waiting
Title: Detective Waiting
Character: Arthur
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.
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Title: The Goodies
Released: November 8, 1970
Type: TV
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Henry
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Spring and Port Wine
Title: Spring and Port Wine
Character: Bowler 3
Released: October 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.
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Title: The Dustbinmen
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: TV
The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield, and Tim Wylton. The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute TV film "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted. This led to the sitcom which ran for three series between 1969 and 1970. Rosenthal wrote all of the episodes of the first two series.
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Diamonds for Breakfast
Title: Diamonds for Breakfast
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
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Berserk!
Title: Berserk!
Character: Constable Bradford
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
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How I Won the War
Title: How I Won the War
Character: Reporter
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Title: A Slight Case Of...
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: TV
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Always on Sunday
Title: Always on Sunday
Character: Pere Ubu
Released: June 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: John Stewart
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Donald Reading
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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The Diary of a Nobody
Title: The Diary of a Nobody
Character: Mr. Charles Pooter
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
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Title: Six
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: TV
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French Dressing
Title: French Dressing
Character: The Mayor
Released: April 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.
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Ring of Spies
Title: Ring of Spies
Character: Surveillance Man (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1964
Type: Movie
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Released: November 25, 1962
Type: TV
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Dance Hall MC (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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H.M.S. Defiant
Title: H.M.S. Defiant
Character: Sgt Kneebone
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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Title: Corrigan Blake
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: TV
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Top Deck
Title: Top Deck
Character: Man on bus
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A white bus conductress is attracted by one of her regular passengers, a black serviceman, but then tires of him.
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Spare the Rod
Title: Spare the Rod
Character: Drunken Father
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: PC Thomas (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Title: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Character: Jack
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: Arthur
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.