Shane Briant

Shane Briant

Born: August 17, 1946
Died: May 27, 2021
in London, England, UK
Shane Briant was an English actor and novelist. Briant is best known for his roles in Hammer Films productions.

Since the early 1980s, much of Briant's acting work has been in Australian and New Zealand films and television. He has starred in 14 films in Australia and New Zealand

Movies for Shane Briant...

Mary: The Making of a Princess
Title: Mary: The Making of a Princess
Character: Prince Henrik
Released: November 15, 2015
Type: Movie
This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life-changing choices that led to one of Australia's and the world's most recognisable and romantic love stories.
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The Lovers
Title: The Lovers
Character: Governor of Bombay
Released: February 13, 2015
Type: Movie
The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
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Title: False Witness
Character: Winston Beale
Released: January 11, 2009
Type: TV
A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.
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The Diplomat
Title: The Diplomat
Character: Winston Beale
Released: January 11, 2009
Type: Movie
A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.
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The Children of Huang Shi
Title: The Children of Huang Shi
Character: Roger Appsley
Released: April 3, 2008
Type: Movie
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
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Title: Underbelly
Character: Inspector General Mitchell
Released: February 13, 2008
Type: TV
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
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Joanne Lees: Murder In The Outback
Title: Joanne Lees: Murder In The Outback
Character: Journalist
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media across two continents. With no body to speak of, reported 'sightings' of Peter, and revelations Joanne had cheated on her boyfriend, the public and media in both Britain and Australia refused to accept Joanne's innocence on face value. This is the story of one young woman's courage in the face of one of the most mysterious crimes in Australian history.
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Title: headLand
Character: Dr Hill
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
Headland is an Australian drama television series produced by the Seven Network which ran from 15 November 2005 to 21 January 2006. The Seven Network filmed 52 episodes in the first series. Production on the second series had begun before any episodes were aired. Set in a university, Headland premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 7.30pm. On 23 January 2006, the Seven Network officially announced that the series has been cancelled. The show aired on weekdays at 7.30pm in the United Kingdom on E4, re-formatted as half-hour episodes. E4 eventually dropped the show but episodes continued to be broadcast on Channel 4 at 12:30pm, this time in the original hour-long format.
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A Message from Fallujah
Title: A Message from Fallujah
Character: Gary Davis
Released: August 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.
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A Message from Fallujah
Title: A Message from Fallujah
Released: August 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.
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Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
Title: Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
Character: The Mongoose
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
In the final film in the Chameleon trilogy, the genetically-engineered agent Kam must thwart the plans of her evil twin brother.
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Airtight
Title: Airtight
Character: Harkfield
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
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Title: The Lost World
Character: Lionel Holt
Released: April 3, 1999
Type: TV
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Kaarvok
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Dr. Trayso Talnell
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Chameleon II: Death Match
Title: Chameleon II: Death Match
Character: Mongoose
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) government agent who is called into action when a criminal genius stages a daring raid, taking the clientele of an exclusive casino hostage.
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Title: Search for Treasure Island
Released: August 17, 1998
Type: TV
Seven people get shipwrecked on an island that turns out to be the famous "Treasure Island" from Robert L. Stevenson's famous novel. But the island is occupied by three tribes, each of them very dangerous. The shipwrecked have to fight for their lives and have to find a way to escape from the island.
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Tunnel Vision
Title: Tunnel Vision
Character: Inspector Bosey
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A pair of cops investigate a series of art-gallery related murders.
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Title: The Man from Snowy River
Character: Thomas Macalister
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: TV
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
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Title: Mission Top Secret
Character: Neville Savage
Released: November 8, 1993
Type: TV
12-year-old Jemma accidentally taps into a disused telecommunications satellite and finds she has audio-visual contact with other computers worldwide. With the help of electronics inventor, Sir Joshua Cranberry, she forms the Centauri Network, a worldwide crime fighting organisation of children who use their network to outwit a master villain, Neville Savage.
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Title: Bony
Character: Oaks
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.
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Till There Was You
Title: Till There Was You
Character: Rex
Released: July 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Frank Flynn is summonsed from New York by his brother Charlie to Vanuatu. He arrives only to find Charlie dead, and becomes involved with his late brother's partner, Viv, and Viv's unhappy wife, Anna.
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Mission: Top Secret
Title: Mission: Top Secret
Character: Savage
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Pilot movie for the TV-Series.
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Minnamurra
Title: Minnamurra
Character: Allenby
Released: August 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his romantic rival, a dashing but dangerous cattleman, but also with a villainous creditor who craves the land left to Bergen by her late father. By nature of its plotline and setting, Wrangler can't help but invite comparisons to the popular The Man From Snowy River. Still, the stars and director Ian Barry keep up the appearances of freshness and originality
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Title: Bodysurfer
Character: Miles
Released: August 9, 1989
Type: TV
Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward a state of maturity. He realises it is his last hope for reconstructing his fractured family
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Out of the Body
Title: Out of the Body
Character: Paul Mitz
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
Title: Grievous Bodily Harm
Character: Stephen Enderby
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Released: October 23, 1988
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 1966 TV series of the same name. The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape", Bob Johnson.
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Barracuda
Title: Barracuda
Character: Zoli Scoane
Released: April 4, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Nancy Wake
Character: Gestapo Major
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: TV
Nancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. This miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles. With Europe on the brink of war, they fall desperately in love and are married as Hitler begins his relentless march oh Holland and Belgium.
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The Lighthorsemen
Title: The Lighthorsemen
Character: Reichert
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?
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Comrades
Title: Comrades
Character: Official in New South Wales
Released: August 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
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Cassandra
Title: Cassandra
Character: Stephen
Released: May 12, 1987
Type: Movie
A young woman has eerie flashes of recovered memories of her brother committing a murder, despite her parents assurance that all is well.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Pierre
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Norman Sayers
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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Run Chrissie Run!
Title: Run Chrissie Run!
Character: Terrier
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The action moves along quickly, jumping over holes in the script, in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is sought by Riley, a lover from 17 years in the past. In turn, the IRA has sent two members after Riley because he shot an IRA soldier and must pay the consequences. The two IRA operatives looking for Riley come across a really nasty biker who wants vengeance on Eve for setting his car on fire -- and the three men finally track her and Chrissie to the wine-growing country of Barossa Valley. The final denouement is about to explode, as Riley also arrives on the scene. With under-par acting and a patchy plot, this film was never released theatrically.
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Title: Anzacs
Character: "Kaiser" Schmidt
Released: October 27, 1985
Type: TV
Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war.
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Shaker Run
Title: Shaker Run
Character: Paul Thoreau
Released: May 10, 1985
Type: Movie
With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben decides to double cross her own government by stealing the deadly formula to keep it out of the clutches of the military, whom she doesn't trust. To make her rendezvous with some confederates who promise to get her out of the country, she recruits daredevil driver Judd Pierson and his partner Casey Lee, who are down on their luck and take the job without knowing what they're getting into.
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Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
Title: Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
Released: December 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Holmes & Watson have one baffling clue to help them track down the crime of an American visitor in London.
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Murder Is Easy
Title: Murder Is Easy
Character: Dr. Thomas
Released: January 2, 1982
Type: Movie
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Sir Clifford Chatterley
Released: June 29, 1981
Type: Movie
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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Hawk the Slayer
Title: Hawk the Slayer
Character: Drogo
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
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The Flame Is Love
Title: The Flame Is Love
Character: Pierre
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke, encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist.
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Danton's Death
Title: Danton's Death
Character: Hérault-Séchelles
Released: April 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.
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The Naked Civil Servant
Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Norma
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Giles Nunn
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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Title: Notorious Woman
Released: November 3, 1974
Type: TV
The incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored with a particular focus on her romance with the famed musician Frédéric Chopin.
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Title: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Character: Paul Durward
Released: April 7, 1974
Type: Movie
When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Title: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Character: Simon Helder
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: Cox
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Dorian Gray
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
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Demons of the Mind
Title: Demons of the Mind
Character: Emil
Released: November 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Martin Heywood
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: Crown Court
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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Franklin's Farm
Title: Franklin's Farm
Character: Nicky
Released: September 19, 1972
Type: Movie
A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Ko
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Straight On Till Morning
Title: Straight On Till Morning
Character: Peter Clive
Released: July 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
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Von Richthofen and Brown
Title: Von Richthofen and Brown
Character: German Pilot
Released: June 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.
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Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein
Title: Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein
Character: Simon Helder
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1898, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Germany to investigate a strange case in the village of Darmstadt near castle Frankenstein.