Lee Montague

Lee Montague

Born: October 16, 1927
in Bow, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Montague (born 16 October 1927 in London) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television, usually playing tough guys.

Film credits include: Moulin Rouge, The Camp on Blood Island, The Savage Innocents, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

Television credits include: Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey and Makepeace, Casualty and Waking the Dead. In the sitcom Seconds Out he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay.

He also holds the distinction of being the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Montague, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Thomas Lovell
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Elmer Jeffard-Hendry
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Jekyll & Hyde
Title: Jekyll & Hyde
Character: Inspector Palmer
Released: January 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
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Countdown to War
Title: Countdown to War
Character: Hore-Belisha
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Madame Sousatzka
Title: Madame Sousatzka
Character: Vincent Pick
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Det. Chief. Inspector Lacey
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Leonato
Released: December 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Slavsky
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Kim
Title: Kim
Character: Kozelski
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
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Pope John Paul II
Title: Pope John Paul II
Character: Marshall Konev
Released: April 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
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Red Monarch
Title: Red Monarch
Character: Lee
Released: June 16, 1983
Type: Movie
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
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No Visible Scar
Title: No Visible Scar
Character: Interrogator
Released: November 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Inspector Dupont
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Inspector Maurice Dupont
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: The Chinese Detective
Released: April 30, 1981
Type: TV
Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Title: If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Character: Guvnor
Released: April 29, 1981
Type: Movie
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
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Title: Seconds Out
Released: January 6, 1981
Type: TV
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Silver Dream Racer
Title: Silver Dream Racer
Character: Jack Freeman
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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The London Connection
Title: The London Connection
Character: Vorg
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
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Title: Minder
Character: Lewis Nelson
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Minder
Character: Bassam Sayin
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Mr Storker
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: Feet First
Character: Harry Turnbull
Released: January 8, 1979
Type: TV
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Brass Target
Title: Brass Target
Character: Lucky Luciano
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
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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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The Legacy
Title: The Legacy
Character: Jacques Grandier
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: Movie
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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Title: Holocaust
Character: Uncle Sasha
Released: April 16, 1978
Type: TV
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Habbukuk
Released: March 27, 1977
Type: TV
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
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Title: Space: 1999
Character: Dorzak
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
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Judge the Bloody City
Title: Judge the Bloody City
Character: Avraham Grumberg
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Colly Kibber
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Regan
Title: Regan
Character: Arthur Dale
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
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Mahler
Title: Mahler
Character: Bernhard Mahler
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Title: The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Character: Charlie Green
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Title: Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Character: Pietro Di Bernardone
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
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Eagle in a Cage
Title: Eagle in a Cage
Character: Cipriani
Released: January 9, 1972
Type: Movie
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Title: Menace
Released: September 29, 1970
Type: TV
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The Spy Killer
Title: The Spy Killer
Character: Igor
Released: November 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
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Title: Department S
Character: Maurice Rafic
Released: September 9, 1969
Type: TV
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
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The Male Animal
Title: The Male Animal
Character: Joe Ferguson
Released: October 13, 1968
Type: Movie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
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Nobody Runs Forever
Title: Nobody Runs Forever
Character: Denzil
Released: August 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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How I Won the War
Title: How I Won the War
Character: Transom
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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Deadlier Than the Male
Title: Deadlier Than the Male
Character: Boxer
Released: February 12, 1967
Type: Movie
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
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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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You Must Be Joking
Title: You Must Be Joking
Character: Staff Sergeant Mansfield
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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A Tap on the Shoulder
Title: A Tap on the Shoulder
Character: Archibald Cooper
Released: January 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
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The Secret of Blood Island
Title: The Secret of Blood Island
Character: Levy
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
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The Horse Without a Head
Title: The Horse Without a Head
Character: Mallart
Released: March 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
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Five to One
Title: Five to One
Character: Larry Hart
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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The Secret Partner
Title: The Secret Partner
Character: D.I. Tom Henderson
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
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The Singer Not the Song
Title: The Singer Not the Song
Character: Pepe
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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The Savage Innocents
Title: The Savage Innocents
Character: Ittimargnek
Released: March 20, 1960
Type: Movie
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
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Foxhole in Cairo
Title: Foxhole in Cairo
Character: Aberle
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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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: Interpol Calling
Character: Dikalos
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Sgt. Farrow
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
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The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Title: The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Character: Harris Glass
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Heart of a Child
Title: Heart of a Child
Character: 2nd Soldier
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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The Camp on Blood Island
Title: The Camp on Blood Island
Character: Japanese Soldier
Released: April 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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The Silent Enemy
Title: The Silent Enemy
Character: Miguel's Mate
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
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The Secret Place
Title: The Secret Place
Character: Jeweller (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Mallart
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Another Sky
Title: Another Sky
Character: Michael
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Maurice Joyant
Released: December 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women