Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman

Born: April 13, 1966
in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician.

Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006, he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance. Most recently he played Patrick, a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire Dead Set, and suffers the most violent death in the series, being decapitated and disembowelled.

Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months: London-based romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love?; a bio-pic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood, Wild Romance; and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne. The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007. Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie, Death at a Funeral. He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremner, and Keeley Hawes. The movie was released by MGM in 2007.

Nyman is also a magician and the co-creator and co-writer of the Derren Brown TV shows Derren Brown - Mind Control and Trick of the Mind. He and Brown wrote "Russian Roulette", "Séance", and "Messiah", as well as three series of the "Trick of the Mind" series. He also co-wrote and co-directed four of Brown's stage shows, all of which have toured and played the West End. For "Something Wicked This Way Comes" they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. Their fourth show Enigma was also nominated for an Olivier Award.

Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me. He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on "Derren Brown: The Heist". He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown, Simon Mills, and Ben Caron.

In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House.

In February 2010 he co-wrote (with Jeremy Dyson), directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories.

In April 2011 he starred in a new British sitcom, Campus.

Movies for Andy Nyman...

Title: A Small Light
Character: Hermann Van Pels
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: TV
Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
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David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Title: David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Character: Self
Released: November 21, 2022
Type: Movie
The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.
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Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Title: Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?
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Jungle Cruise
Title: Jungle Cruise
Character: Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.
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The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
Title: The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
Released: May 19, 2021
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Judy
Title: Judy
Character: Dan
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Title: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Character: Nuts (voice)
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
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Title: The Capture
Character: Rowan Gill
Released: September 3, 2019
Type: TV
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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Title: Hanna
Character: Jacobs
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: TV
This thriller and coming-of-age drama follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is. Based on the 2011 Joe Wright film.
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Ghost Stories
Title: Ghost Stories
Character: Professor Goodman
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
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The Commuter
Title: The Commuter
Character: Tony
Released: January 11, 2018
Type: Movie
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Title: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Character: Jail Guard
Released: December 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
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Despicable Me 3
Title: Despicable Me 3
Character: Clive the Robot (voice)
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
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Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Title: Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Character: Nuts
Released: February 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Get ready for more outrageous inventiveness, sheepish shenanigans and panic in the pasture with Shaun the Sheep. In these episodes Bitzer makes the mistake of accepting Shaun's offer of help in the kitchen, Timmy decides to show the Farmer what it's like to be a sheep while the flock attempt to transform an outcast pig into the epitome of porcine sophistication.
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Title: Power Monkeys
Character: Gerry
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: TV
Following the success of their 2015 election comedy Ballot Monkeys, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Ballot Monkeys, Outnumbered, Drop the Dead Donkey) return to Channel 4 with a six-part satire lampooning the fictional communications and social media ‘experts’ on both sides of the EU referendum, as well as taking audiences a few doors down from the Kremlin and into the imagined world of Donald Trump’s campaign plane.
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National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Title: National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Character: Syd
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: Movie
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.
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Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Title: Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: November 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Shaun bluffs his dimwitted farmer master into bidding for three llamas at a county fair. Once they arrive, however, they cause such chaotic destructive mayhem that Shaun has to carefully remove them – high-speed chases, careful rooftop scrambles and dangerous falls ensue.
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Title: Unforgotten
Character: Dean Barton
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: TV
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
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Minions
Title: Minions
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
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Title: Ballot Monkeys
Character: Gerry
Released: April 21, 2015
Type: TV
Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign.
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Bone in the Throat
Title: Bone in the Throat
Character: Ronnie the Rug
Released: March 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
Title: Shaun the Sheep Movie
Character: Nuts (voice)
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
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The Eichmann Show
Title: The Eichmann Show
Character: David Landor
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
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Automata
Title: Automata
Character: Ellis
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
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Why Horror?
Title: Why Horror?
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
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Title: Peaky Blinders
Character: Winston Churchill
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: TV
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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Kick-Ass 2
Title: Kick-Ass 2
Character: The Tumor
Released: July 17, 2013
Type: Movie
After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.
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Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Title: Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Character: Himself
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Two decades after its unprecedented television broadcast, the cast, crew and fans of the notorious BBC 'Halloween Hoax' Ghostwatch look back at the show's unique production and legendary aftermath in this brand-new retrospective documentary. Includes never-before-seen material and interviews!
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The Glass Man
Title: The Glass Man
Character: Martin Pyrite
Released: August 26, 2011
Type: Movie
The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the current economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector with an offer that surely cannot be turned down.
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Title: Olly The Little White Van
Character: Bazza
Released: June 26, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Campus
Character: Jonty De Wolfe
Released: April 5, 2011
Type: TV
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director. It is set in the fictitious Kirke University and follows the lives of the staff, in particular the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat. Campus was first broadcast as a television pilot on Channel 4 on 6 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. A full series was later commissioned and commenced airing on 5 April 2011, with the first episode being a re-shoot and expanded version of the pilot. When first broadcast many critics claimed it was too similar to Green Wing and that much of the humour was offensive. However, others praised the show's dark humour and surrealism. Campus was cancelled after one series due to poor TV ratings. Over the course of the first series the average ratings were 554,000 viewers per episode, or 2.99% of the total audience, which is below the Channel 4 average.
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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Title: Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Character: Himself
Released: August 30, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.
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Black Death
Title: Black Death
Character: Dalywag
Released: June 7, 2010
Type: Movie
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
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Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Title: Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Character: Nuts
Released: February 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Another bunch of great woolly adventures for Shaun Blitzer, Shirley and the flock not to mention those troublesome pigs as they go looking for more sheep thrills. Shaun is a sheep who does not follow the flock. Curious, resourceful and fun-loving, his mix of enthusiasm and inexperience is often a recipe for trouble.
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Title: You Have Been Watching
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
Notoriously foul-mouthed television critic Charlie Brooker invites three of his friends round to sit in oversized chairs, watch television, and they all take the mick out of it. Each discussion ends with one or more questions to the panel, for which points are awarded. In the final quick-fire round, there are buzzers and a suitable (ie disconcertingly jaunty) game show noise. At the end, a winner is determined, and we reckon that's enough to make it a game show.
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The Tournament
Title: The Tournament
Character: Tech Eddie
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
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Title: Crooked House
Released: December 22, 2008
Type: TV
A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
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Title: Dead Set
Character: Patrick
Released: October 27, 2008
Type: TV
Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...
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Title: Chuggington
Released: September 29, 2008
Type: TV
Koko, Brewster and Wilson are three young, adventurous trainee "chuggers", learning about working on the railway in the town of Chuggington, with the help of the railway controller, Vee, the older engines, and their human friends.
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The Brothers Bloom
Title: The Brothers Bloom
Character: Charleston
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: Movie
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Death at a Funeral
Title: Death at a Funeral
Character: Howard
Released: August 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
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This Is What It Is
Title: This Is What It Is
Character: Chris
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Full of funny and acute observations This Is What It Is, is a candid and very personal account of love as seen from the male perspective.
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Are You Ready for Love?
Title: Are You Ready for Love?
Character: Barry Schneider
Released: December 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Wild Romance
Title: Wild Romance
Character: Leo Leitner
Released: November 9, 2006
Type: Movie
The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music.
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Severance
Title: Severance
Character: Gordon
Released: May 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Members of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in the woods, and he has a horrible fate in mind for each of the co-workers.
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Shut Up and Shoot Me
Title: Shut Up and Shoot Me
Character: Colin Frampton
Released: December 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
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Coney Island Baby
Title: Coney Island Baby
Character: Franko
Released: July 13, 2002
Type: Movie
After spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.
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Uprising
Title: Uprising
Character: Calel Wasser
Released: November 4, 2001
Type: Movie
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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Title: Big Brother's Little Brother
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2001
Type: TV
Each week, the housemate evicted from the Big Brother house the previous week traditionally spends another week on Big Brother's Little Brother, answering questions and taking part in Call BBLB along with other features. The show also boasts celebrity guests and experts who come in to discuss and analyse the remaining Big Brother housemates.
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Dead Babies
Title: Dead Babies
Released: September 7, 2000
Type: Movie
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
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The Criminal
Title: The Criminal
Character: Forensic Scientist 1
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct and frank in answer to his nervousness. During the night, someone breaks into his flat and cuts her throat. He runs into the arms of the police, who dismiss his story, but release him while they search for the weapon. He investigates the crime, and over the next few days, meets a knowing pornographer, hit men, and other schemers. As dead bodies pile up wherever he goes, the police are soon looking for him with guns drawn. As he discovers secrets about a shadowy corporation, the police close in. Can he find someone to trust?
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Title: The League of Gentlemen
Released: January 11, 1999
Type: TV
The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Rob Hallet
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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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Rob Hallett
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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The Woman in Black
Title: The Woman in Black
Character: Jackie
Released: December 24, 1989
Type: Movie
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
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Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: John
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
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That Christmas
Title: That Christmas
Character: Mr. Beccles (voice)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A series of entwined tales about love and loneliness, family and friends, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys!
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Title: Lockerbie
Character: Edwin Bollier
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Dr. Jim Swire tragically loses his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on December 21, 1988. Travelling across continents and political divides, Swire embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardizes his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system. As the truth shifts under Jim’s feet, his view of the world is left forever sullied.