Hugh Quarshie

Hugh Quarshie

Born: December 22, 1954
in Accra - Ghana
Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).

Movies for Hugh Quarshie...

Title: Maryland
Character: Pete
Released: May 22, 2023
Type: TV
Becca and her sister, Rosaline, have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant through time and circumstance. But when the body of an older woman is discovered at sunrise on Laxey Beach in the Isle of Man, it brings devastating news for the sisters.
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
Title: Book Club: The Next Chapter
Character: Ousmane
Released: May 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
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Title: Riches
Character: Stephen Richards
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: TV
Stephen Richards has built a cosmetics empire, but when he suffers a stroke, his family's secrets and lies rise to the surface and the future of his multi-million-pound company is at stake.
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The Son
Title: The Son
Character: Doctor Harris
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
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The Railway Children Return
Title: The Railway Children Return
Character: General Harrison
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
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Title: Stephen
Character: Neville Lawrence
Released: August 30, 2021
Type: TV
Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of Stephen.
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Skeletons of the Mary Rose
Title: Skeletons of the Mary Rose
Character: Narrator
Released: March 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A unique, cutting-edge scientific investigation reveals surprising new information about the crew of Henry VIII's favourite warship, redefining what we thought we knew about Tudor England.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Title: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Character: Mustafa Kama
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
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Title: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Character: Ekon Ameh
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: TV
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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Red Sparrow
Title: Red Sparrow
Character: Simon Benford
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Semo Oduwale
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Retribution
Title: Retribution
Character: DI Reed
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
A hardened debt-collector goes on a 24-hour rampage through London in an attempt to avenge the brutal attack on his teenage daughter.
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RSC Live: Othello
Title: RSC Live: Othello
Character: Othello
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride.
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Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City
Title: Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City
Character: Ric Griffin
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Catherine Tate's Nan makes life hard for Holby City surgeons and nurses when she is admitted to one of the hospital's wards.
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Title: White Heat
Character: Victor (present day)
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: TV
In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.
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Ghosted
Title: Ghosted
Released: June 24, 2011
Type: Movie
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the clutches of the wing beast, Clay.
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Title: Vera
Character: Dr. Leon Parmer
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Title: The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
Character: Narrator
Released: January 24, 2010
Type: TV
A BBC/Animal Planet co-production, the three-part series focuses on the landscape and wildlife of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.
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Title: Small Island
Character: Narrator
Released: December 6, 2009
Type: TV
Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
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A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific
Title: A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific
Character: Narrator
Released: August 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A loggerhead turtle journeys across the Pacific, meeting dolphins and whales, sharks and giant squids, and typhoons and fishermen along the way. She swims over deep canyons, and uses underwater mountain tops like motorway service stations. Blue whales thunder by like juggernauts, and sharks dance a beautiful midnight ballet around her. Pacific means peaceful, but it is clearly not. One minute she is under fire from marlin, the next swimming over a coral reef, with crocodiles as well as sharks.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Solomon
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2004
Type: TV
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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Conspiracy of Silence
Title: Conspiracy of Silence
Character: Fr. Joseph Ennis
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
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The PhanDom Menace
Title: The PhanDom Menace
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The PhanDom Menace presents the definitive look at the most devoted fans on the planet. Follow the lives of Australia's most passionate Star Wars fans as the moment they've waited 16 years for is suddenly upon them. See the amazing costumes, trivia soaked brains, vast collections and unconditional dedication that make these fans a breed apart. Be stunned by the shockwaves that echo through the Star Wars fan community at the dawn of its new prequel era.
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It Was an Accident
Title: It Was an Accident
Character: George Hurlock
Released: October 27, 2000
Type: Movie
An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Title: Jason and the Argonauts
Released: May 7, 2000
Type: TV
At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.
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Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Mustappa
Released: April 30, 2000
Type: TV
Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to stall the sultan with a series of fantastic stories to ease the tension and stall her impending execution.
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Title: Ape-Man
Character: Narrator
Released: February 22, 2000
Type: TV
Series exploring the origins of human life, from African beginnings to Ice Age artists.
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Title: BeastMaster
Released: October 9, 1999
Type: TV
BeastMaster is a Canadian television series that aired from 1999 to 2002. It was loosely based on a 1982 MGM film The Beastmaster. The series aired for three complete seasons. It is produced by Coote/Hayes Productions. The series was nominated for the Open Craft Award in the category of cinematography by the Australian Film Institute in 2000, and for the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, USA, in 2001. BeastMaster is currently running in syndication on Sci-Fi Channel in the USA, but not in any prime-time slots.
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To Walk with Lions
Title: To Walk with Lions
Character: Maxwell
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatized the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence. When drifter Tony Fitzjohn arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Character: Captain Panaka
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
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Wing Commander
Title: Wing Commander
Character: Lt. Obutu
Released: March 11, 1999
Type: Movie
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Title: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Character: Neville Lawrence
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
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Title: Holby City
Character: Ric Griffin
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
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Title: A Respectable Trade
Character: Caesar Peters
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: TV
A four-part drama, set against the background of the English slave trade and adapted by Philippa Gregory from her novel.
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Title: Melissa
Character: George Bond
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: TV
Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster, distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa. A sophisticated blonde PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy falls desperately in love with the exotic Melissa and she suggests they marry. But while they celebrate, dark events begin to take place. An elderly widower is ‘accidentally’ lost overboard. The bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in Cape Town. Then one of Melissa’s friends is brutally killed. The finger of suspicion falls on Guy – and when Melissa herself is killed, he is found bending over her bloodied corpse.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Jomo Mashaba
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: She's Out
Character: DCI Ron Craigh
Released: March 6, 1995
Type: TV
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds worth of diamonds that she stashed before she was sent down. The money will enable her to follow her dreams and start a new life. But her former cell mates have their own ideas...
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Solomon & Sheba
Title: Solomon & Sheba
Character: Nikaule's Father
Released: February 26, 1995
Type: Movie
In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Title: Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Character: Lieutenant Delaney
Released: May 13, 1993
Type: Movie
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At the same time the extremely boring Gregory Dawson,who is interested in serial killers,is building his own torture chamber and making a very mundane video diary about his life. However the two worlds are shortly about to collide.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Cassius (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Title: Virtual Murder
Released: July 24, 1992
Type: TV
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbeat personal assistant and lover, while Inspector Cadogan is their police contact and Professor Owen Griffiths is Cornelius's head of department.
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Title: Medics
Released: November 14, 1990
Type: TV
Medics was a British medical drama series first broadcast on ITV on 14 November 1990. The show ran for five series with a total of 40 episodes. The show came to end on 24 November 1995. It follows the everyday lives and loves, trials and tribulations of the doctors, nurses, patients and administrative staff of a large teaching hospital in the north-west of England near the city of Manchester.
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Nightbreed
Title: Nightbreed
Character: Detective Joyce
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, Boone decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates "us" from "them" and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian.
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Loving Hazel
Title: Loving Hazel
Character: Mike
Released: July 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.
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The Church
Title: The Church
Character: Father Gus
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance.
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Title: Behaving Badly
Released: February 20, 1989
Type: TV
Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD in 2005. The plot focuses on Bridget Mayor, a middle-aged housewife and part-time teacher who is forced to re-evaluate her life when her husband of twenty years abandons her for a younger woman.
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Title: Press Gang
Character: Inspector Hibbert
Released: January 16, 1989
Type: TV
The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.
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Title: A Gentleman's Club
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Computer (voice)
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Ric Griffin
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Gordon Hutchens
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Title: Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Character: Wallace
Released: August 6, 1986
Type: Movie
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
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Highlander
Title: Highlander
Character: Sunda Kastagir
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Inspector Rhodes
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Titus Andronicus
Title: Titus Andronicus
Character: Aaron
Released: April 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. According to Roman custom, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son to the Gods; having the deciding vote, he also chooses Saturninus as Emperor. Both acts have tragic consequences.
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Title: Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Character: Kenge Obe
Released: March 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Lieutenant Delaney
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Philostrate
Released: December 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.
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Title: Wolcott
Character: Dennis St George
Released: January 13, 1981
Type: TV
A black policeman is promoted to the CID and battles the drug trade in London's East End.
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The Knowledge
Title: The Knowledge
Character: Campion
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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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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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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Rapture
Title: Rapture
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Short film directed by Em Smith.