Alan Downer

Alan Downer

Born: September 12, 1930
Died: March 16, 1995
in Swansea, Wales, UK

Movies for Alan Downer...

Unreported Incident
Title: Unreported Incident
Character: Owen
Released: February 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
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Bellman and True
Title: Bellman and True
Character: Immigration Official
Released: November 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.
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Title: The New Statesman
Character: Minister
Released: September 13, 1987
Type: TV
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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Title: Howards' Way
Character: Laurie Meadows
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: TV
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.
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Title: A.D.
Character: Barnabas
Released: March 31, 1985
Type: TV
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
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Romance on the Orient Express
Title: Romance on the Orient Express
Character: Cabin Steward
Released: March 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Solomon
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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Operation Julie
Title: Operation Julie
Character: C.C.R. Templeton
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of £100M of LSD.
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Berzin
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Title: Widows
Character: Colin Soal
Released: March 16, 1983
Type: TV
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows--Dolly Rawlins, Shirley Miller, and Linda Pirelli--find their husbands' plans for the robbery and decide to stage it themselves.
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Title: Lady Killers
Character: Chief Inspector Dew
Released: July 20, 1980
Type: TV
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
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Casting the Runes
Title: Casting the Runes
Character: Peter
Released: April 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves
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The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Title: The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Character: Dvorak
Released: April 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.
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Come the Revolution
Title: Come the Revolution
Character: Chief Inspector
Released: October 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.
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A Choice of Evils
Title: A Choice of Evils
Character: Vogel's Secretary
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Sergeant Harcourt
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: L'inspecteur de police
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: John Sherwood
Released: February 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets there, he finds that not only does no one recognize him, but another man called Frank Bowers is living in his place.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Gendarme
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: PC
Released: September 19, 1958
Type: TV
'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 1964.