Oliver Tobias

Oliver Tobias

Born: August 6, 1947
in Zurich, Switzerland
Oliver Tobias is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director.

Movies for Oliver Tobias...

Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow
Title: Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Go back to the 1980s and discover the extraordinary true story of Cliff Twemlow! You’ve never heard of him… but polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor who was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK for a decade! Witness how this 20th-century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester. Shooting his feature films on clunky early pioneering video technology, G.B.H. (1983) was even branded a Video Nasty! A warmly hilarious portrait that will take you back to an era where literally anything could happen. And did!
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Dad's Army
Title: Dad's Army
Character: Canaris
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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Open My Eyes
Title: Open My Eyes
Character: Gunter Meinertzhagen
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The story follows the mysterious and sinister disappearance of a quantum physicist who is involved in a ground-breaking scientific discovery at CERN in Geneva.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Title: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Character: Self - Actor
Released: October 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
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Lord Montagu
Title: Lord Montagu
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: April 4, 2013
Type: Movie
As the youngest member in parliament and sole heir to his family's estate, Lord Montagu's life was rich and privileged. However, in 1954 he become the focus of a national scandal that changed his life forever and set him on course to be one of England's most controversial and iconic aristocrats.
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Eldorado
Title: Eldorado
Character: Dick Wheeler
Released: January 30, 2012
Type: Movie
The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.
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Title: Rewind The 60s
Released: November 15, 2010
Type: TV
It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and creativity that revolutionised our lives. To celebrate this amazing decade, Lulu presents Rewind the 60s - five entertaining programmes that explore all aspects of the 1960s: from where we lived, to what we ate, to how we dressed, and what we listened to. With the help of some very special guests, Lulu shows us how that extraordinary decade transformed Britain and the world forever – and how much fun it was to live through.
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Mozart in Turkey
Title: Mozart in Turkey
Character: Pasha Selim
Released: May 19, 2010
Type: Movie
British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbul's Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actors to film a lavish production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (aka The Abduction From The Harem), and this documentary offers a look at both the behind-the-scenes efforts to put the project on screen and extended highlights from the resulting production. Mozart in Turkey also touches on the opera's performance history and Mozart's life at the time it was composed.
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Hunkeler macht Sachen
Title: Hunkeler macht Sachen
Character: Thomas Garzoni
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Two dead with their earlobes slashed. Inspector Hunkeler believes that the brothel owner Garzoni is the culprit. However, his colleagues Madörin and Lüdi are researching the drug milieu. Then prosecutor Suter withdraws Commissioner Hunkeler from the case because of bias. Has Hunkeler grown old? The third film adaptation of a case with the Basel inspector Hunkeler based on the novel by Hansjörg Schneider.
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Flügel der Hoffnung
Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: Flügel der Hoffnung
Character: Roger Prentiss
Released: April 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Auf der Isle of Wight spielt sich heute ein besonders kompliziertes Familiendrama ab: Tom (Oliver Boysen) gerät zwischen seine neue Verlobte Sam und seine alte Liebe Virginia.
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Title: Mord in bester Gesellschaft
Character: Comisario Ricardo Costa-Cruz
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.
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Method
Title: Method
Character: Teddy
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
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Title: Unter weißen Segeln
Character: Yussuf Arazi
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: TV
Unter weißen Segeln is a German television series.
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Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria
Title: Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria
Character: Miguel Gonzales
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Leo Leitner tries to overcome his creative crisis on Gran Canaria. His lively roommate Bianca puts him on the trail of a real crime. The imprisoned millionaire fraudster Horst Rogner is said to have hidden his loot on the island. The money is being chased by prosecutor Anja Krüger, inspector Eva Kollek and police chief Miguel Gonzales. For Leitner, all three are suspects.
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Journey of a Lifetime - Europe and the Middle East
Title: Journey of a Lifetime - Europe and the Middle East
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime Series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
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Journey of a Lifetime - Australia to the Americas
Title: Journey of a Lifetime - Australia to the Americas
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
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Journey of a Lifetime - Africa and Asia
Title: Journey of a Lifetime - Africa and Asia
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
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Grizzly Falls
Title: Grizzly Falls
Character: Genet
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full of breathtaking excitement, harrowing danger and thrilling surprises.
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Alec to the Rescue!
Title: Alec to the Rescue!
Character: Professor James Richards
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Alec travels to Africa to be with his father.
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Diana & Me
Title: Diana & Me
Character: Self
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
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Title: Parkhotel Stern
Character: Leopold Wittenberg
Released: September 3, 1997
Type: TV
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Deadly Instincts
Title: Deadly Instincts
Character: Moore
Released: August 9, 1997
Type: Movie
It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
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The Brylcreem Boys
Title: The Brylcreem Boys
Character: Hans Jorg Wolff
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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Title: Klinik unter Palmen
Character: Dr. Rudolfo Garcia
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: TV
Klinik unter Palmen is a German television series.
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Savage Hearts
Title: Savage Hearts
Character: Ill-tempered Man
Released: May 20, 1995
Type: Movie
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dollars back.
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Vendetta
Title: Vendetta
Character: Da Piemonte
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wechselspiel der Liebe
Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: Wechselspiel der Liebe
Character: Hugh
Released: January 15, 1995
Type: Movie
The twin sisters Flora and Rose were separated after giving birth. The mother left the father to go to America. At the age of 22, the two girls met again by accident in London. It is a shock for both of them, since they believed until then that they had no siblings.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Character: Count Borodin
Released: October 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box. Luckily experienced Yankee-Hungarian treasure hunter and womanizer Nick Rostov gently forces his help upon her, although Jordan stubbornly risks dealing with his dodgy competitor Gudrun Kuper and her ruthless employer, count Borodin.
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Calliope
Title: Calliope
Character: Vikram Trott
Released: February 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A writer begins to discover that his femme fatale character has come to life in the real world.
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Nexus
Title: Nexus
Character: Tarn
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy in the tradition of Star Wars and Star Trek. Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a strange planet ruled over by a despotic ruler with magic powers. A young earth-man initiates a successful uprising.
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Title: Flash – Der Fotoreporter
Character: Flash
Released: July 6, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Donauprinzessin
Character: Rick Reimers
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Glückliche Reise
Character: Leibwächter Mathias
Released: January 6, 1992
Type: TV
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Firestar: First Contact
Title: Firestar: First Contact
Character: Captain Bremner
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: Cluedo
Character: Comte Henri de Beauchamp
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: TV
Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
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Title: Perfect Scoundrels
Character: Bite Lipton
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their money
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The Last Match
Title: The Last Match
Character: Cliff Gaylor
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of jail fail, his coach and teammates show up in full football gear and armed to the teeth, ready to free her by any means necessary.
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Title: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Character: Pasha Selim
Released: November 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Jack Vincent
Released: July 23, 1987
Type: TV
Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.
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Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
Title: Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
Character: Johann Strauss
Released: March 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
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Cobra Mission
Title: Cobra Mission
Character: Richard Wagner
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: Ladoux
Released: September 5, 1985
Type: Movie
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
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Title: Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: TV
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.
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Title: Robin of Sherwood
Character: Bertrand de Nivelle
Released: April 28, 1984
Type: TV
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Captain Croker
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: Kit Locksby
Released: April 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
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Title: Das Traumschiff
Character: Stefan Reinking
Released: November 22, 1981
Type: TV
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
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Title: Smuggler
Character: Jack Vincent
Released: April 5, 1981
Type: TV
Set during the Napoleonic wars of the early 1800s, Oliver Tobias stars as Jack Vincent, a swashbuckling ex-British naval captain turned smuggler. A strong-willed, independent man who lives by both his wits and the sword, Vincent is ably assisted by Sarah and petty thief Honesty Evans in his struggle to stay one step ahead of the Excise Men...
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Title: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Character: Foxy
Released: March 16, 1980
Type: Movie
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
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Arabian Adventure
Title: Arabian Adventure
Character: Prince Hasan
Released: July 8, 1979
Type: Movie
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
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The Stud
Title: The Stud
Character: Tony Blake
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
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Title: The Lost Islands
Released: April 18, 1977
Type: TV
The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Joel
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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Ein Glas Wasser
Title: Ein Glas Wasser
Character: Masham
Released: January 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Luke's Kingdom
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: TV
A family of British pioneers in 1829 Australia.
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Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead
Title: Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead
Character: Alan Smerdon
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman hears her fiancee's ghostly voice telling her to find him.
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King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Title: King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Character: King Arthur
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
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The God King
Title: The God King
Character: Migara
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Epic tale set in 5th century Sri Lanka, following the battle for the throne between Kassapa and his father King Dhatusena
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Title: Thriller
Character: Alan Smerdon
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: Arthur of the Britons
Character: Arthur
Released: December 6, 1972
Type: TV
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Title: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Character: Giovanni
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Annabella marries Soranzo. She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni — who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge.
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Arthur? Arthur!
Title: Arthur? Arthur!
Character: Peter 'Bobo' Jackson
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.