Robert Urquhart

Robert Urquhart

Born: October 16, 1921
Died: March 21, 1995
in Ullapool, Scotland, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.

He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947. He starred in many shows of the detective/special-agent type, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the 1965 episode of Danger Man titled "English Lady Takes Lodgers". He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion

His first film role was in 1952 in You're Only Young Twice. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.

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Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor
Title: Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor
Character: Dadda Whalby
Released: September 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.
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The Long Roads
Title: The Long Roads
Character: Peter McVurrich
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: Movie
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
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Testimony
Title: Testimony
Character: Journalist
Released: November 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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The Kitchen Toto
Title: The Kitchen Toto
Character: D.C. McKinnon
Released: April 29, 1988
Type: Movie
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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The Shutter Falls
Title: The Shutter Falls
Character: Minister
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
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Playing Away
Title: Playing Away
Character: Godfrey
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Title: Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Character: Paul Krempe (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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Restless Natives
Title: Restless Natives
Character: Baird
Released: June 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.
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Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Title: Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Character: Albrecht Hoffman
Released: February 17, 1985
Type: Movie
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
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Sharma and Beyond
Title: Sharma and Beyond
Released: May 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite author.
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Doria's Father
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
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Title: The Old Men at the Zoo
Character: Sir Robert Falcon
Released: September 15, 1983
Type: TV
An incompetently managed zoo becomes a metaphor for the state of Britain as a nuclear crisis looms over Europe.
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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Title: P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Character: Headmaster
Released: November 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in cricket, life couldn't be better.
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Quartering Commandant
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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The Dollar Bottom
Title: The Dollar Bottom
Character: Headmaster
Released: February 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Attorney General
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
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Children of the Full Moon
Title: Children of the Full Moon
Character: Harry
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A married couple, lost in the woods, stumbles across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
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Title: Hammer House of Horror
Character: Harry
Released: September 13, 1980
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
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Fox
Title: Fox
Character: Jerry
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: Movie
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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A Gift from Nessus
Title: A Gift from Nessus
Character: Sid Morton
Released: February 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.
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An Enemy of the People
Title: An Enemy of the People
Character: Tom Stockman
Released: February 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a direct response to the public's outcry over his earlier play Ghosts. Channeling his feelings into on Dr. Stockman, whose single voice of reason is drowned out by those with paranoid and ulterior interests, Ibsen had no qualms remarking on the irrational nature of the masses and the corrupt political systems which encourage them.
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Title: Quest of Eagles
Released: November 11, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Released: January 22, 1978
Type: TV
Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Thomas Darby
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Gator
Title: Gator
Character: 3rd Agent
Released: August 25, 1976
Type: Movie
After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.
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England, Summer, Sunday
Title: England, Summer, Sunday
Character: Morris
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A play from 1976
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Just Another Saturday
Title: Just Another Saturday
Released: July 5, 1975
Type: Movie
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
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Title: The Inheritors
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: The Aweful Mr. Goodall
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Playhouse
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: TV
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
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Title: Helen: A Woman of Today
Released: September 21, 1973
Type: TV
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The Reporters
Title: The Reporters
Character: Vic
Released: October 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
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Title: Pathfinders
Released: September 27, 1972
Type: TV
During the second world war, the Pathfinder squadrons of RAF Bomber Command were the elite. All volunteers, their dangerous task was to fly in advance of bombing raids over occupied Europe and Nazi Germany and "light up" the target with flares and incendiaries.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Auctioneer
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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The Looking Glass War
Title: The Looking Glass War
Character: Johnson
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
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Title: Department S
Character: Anthony James Harvey / Andrew Heywood
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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Title: The Champions
Character: Hemmings
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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The Syndicate
Title: The Syndicate
Character: George Brant
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium deposits. As their four-week window for digging starts to close, trouble soon starts amongst the group and there are some sinister 'accidents'... It is obvious that one of the party is trying to sabotage the expedition; but who?
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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The Break
Title: The Break
Character: Pearson
Released: July 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
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Murder at the Gallop
Title: Murder at the Gallop
Character: George Crossfield
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
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55 Days at Peking
Title: 55 Days at Peking
Character: Capt. Hanley
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Brian Quell
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: Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: TV
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
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Title: Jango
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: TV
Jango is a crime-comedy series produced in 1961 by Associated Rediffusion for British television. It starred Robert Urquhart in the lead role of Jango Smith, with Moira Redmond as Dee Smith, his wife. The show also featured performances by Peter Sallis and Brian Wilde.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Maxwell
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The Bulldog Breed
Title: The Bulldog Breed
Character: Cmdr. Clayton
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
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Danger Tomorrow
Title: Danger Tomorrow
Character: Bob
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman with extra-sensory perception has a vision of a murder.
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Foxhole in Cairo
Title: Foxhole in Cairo
Character: Major Wilson
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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Trouble with Eve
Title: Trouble with Eve
Released: March 1, 1960
Type: Movie
What happens when an attractive girl from Paris arrives in a sleepy riverside village.
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Title: International Detective
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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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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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Mike
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Title: The Curse of Frankenstein
Character: Paul Krempe
Released: May 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Title: Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Character: Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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The Tamer Tamed
Title: The Tamer Tamed
Character: Petruchio
Released: February 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Elaine Morgan’s imaginative sequel to The Taming of the Shrew.
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You Can't Escape
Title: You Can't Escape
Character: Peter Darwin
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
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The Dark Avenger
Title: The Dark Avenger
Character: Sir Philip
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").
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Isn't Life Wonderful!
Title: Isn't Life Wonderful!
Character: Frank, Charles' brother
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
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Golden Ivory
Title: Golden Ivory
Character: Jim Dobson
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Dr. Michael Flynn
Released: June 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
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Knights of the Round Table
Title: Knights of the Round Table
Character: Gawaine
Released: December 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
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The House of the Arrow
Title: The House of the Arrow
Character: Jim Frobisher
Released: August 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.
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Tread Softly
Title: Tread Softly
Character: Clifford Brett
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
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Paul Temple Returns
Title: Paul Temple Returns
Character: Slater
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
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You're Only Young Twice
Title: You're Only Young Twice
Character: Sheltie
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal as his new secretary so she jumps headlong into the role