Mark Burns

Mark Burns

Born: March 30, 1936
Died: May 8, 2007
in Worcestershire, England, UK

Movies for Mark Burns...

Stardust
Title: Stardust
Character: New Bishop
Released: August 9, 2007
Type: Movie
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
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The Clandestine Marriage
Title: The Clandestine Marriage
Character: Capstick
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
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Savage Hearts
Title: Savage Hearts
Character: Doctor
Released: May 20, 1995
Type: Movie
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dollars back.
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Dirty Weekend
Title: Dirty Weekend
Character: Mr. Brown
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males
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Passport to Murder
Title: Passport to Murder
Character: Nathanial Hackett
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: Movie
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Jack Temple-Richards
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Bullseye!
Title: Bullseye!
Character: Nigel Holden
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.
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Destroying Angel
Title: Destroying Angel
Character: Reynold Turot
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A feuding but very wealthy married couple are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. The husband decides he wants to get rid of his wife, so hires a hitman. However his wife also has the same planned for her husband, seducing one of her many lovers into doing the job. Should these attempted murders not succeed, the husband will have to carry on being blackmailed by his wife for his incestuous affair with his 16 year old daughter. Since the daughter has her own lethal romantic agenda, things don't go quite as planned.
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The Surrogate
Title: The Surrogate
Character: Larry
Released: October 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he's seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. At the same time this is going on, the police are investigating a series of stabbings: as corpses pile up, we wonder if Frank's temper may be behind this; or perhaps it's Eric, a cross-dressing neighbor and friend of Lee's; it may even be the European woman, who keeps popping up with new fantasies.
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Champions
Title: Champions
Character: Thorne
Released: April 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: King Charles II
Released: April 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Freddie Smith
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Title: La Chanson du mal-aimé
Released: February 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Patrick Lister
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Home Before Midnight
Title: Home Before Midnight
Character: Harry Wilshire
Released: October 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
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The Bitch
Title: The Bitch
Character: Leonard Grant
Released: September 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
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Degree of Uncertainty
Title: Degree of Uncertainty
Character: Ramage
Released: March 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Mature student, divorcee and mother of three, Josie, finds the social pressures in and out of university more demanding than her academic studies.
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The Stud
Title: The Stud
Character: Leonard
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
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Title: Count Dracula
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: TV
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.
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Count Dracula
Title: Count Dracula
Character: Dr. John Seward
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: Movie
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Dieter Gundell
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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Title: The New Avengers
Character: Spence
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Largo retorno
Title: Largo retorno
Character: David Ortega
Released: November 12, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Maids
Title: The Maids
Character: Monsieur
Released: April 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
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Brannigan
Title: Brannigan
Character: Jennifer's Fiance (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
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Juggernaut
Title: Juggernaut
Character: Hollingworth
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
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House of the Living Dead
Title: House of the Living Dead
Character: Sir Michael Brattling / Dr. Breckinridge Brattling
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.
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Giordano Bruno
Title: Giordano Bruno
Character: Bellarmino
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
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Ludwig
Title: Ludwig
Character: Hans von Bülow
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
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A Time for Loving
Title: A Time for Loving
Character: Geoff
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
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Death in Venice
Title: Death in Venice
Character: Alfred
Released: March 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
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The Adventures of Gerard
Title: The Adventures of Gerard
Character: Col. Russell (Coldstream Guards)
Released: July 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
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The Virgin and the Gypsy
Title: The Virgin and the Gypsy
Character: Major Eastwood
Released: June 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
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A Day at the Beach
Title: A Day at the Beach
Character: Bernie
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Warren Iveson
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Captain Morris
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Title: I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Character: Michael Cornwall
Released: December 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Number Two's Assistant
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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The Jokers
Title: The Jokers
Character: Capt. Browning
Released: May 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
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Death Is a Woman
Title: Death Is a Woman
Character: Dennis Parbury
Released: February 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Narcotics agent Dennis goes undercover in the Mediterranean Islands to investigate a smuggling operation, and gains the confidence of a woman who works for the ringleader. But Dennis ends up arrested for murder when the crime boss turns up dead.
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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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Title: Redcap
Released: October 17, 1964
Type: TV
Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network. It starred John Thaw as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police and ran for two series and 26 episodes between 1964 and 1966, being about 50 minutes in a 60 minute time slot. Surprisingly for a 1960s ABC Weekend Television programme, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist.
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The System
Title: The System
Character: Michael
Released: April 12, 1964
Type: Movie
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it's not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.
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Take Me Over
Title: Take Me Over
Character: Bill
Released: July 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Campbell Carter, in the process of building a luxury hotel, is aggravated by the fact that he cannot acquire a coffee bar and adjoining antique shop owned by Sid Light and his younger brother Bill. Carter tries several unsuccessful tricks to further his own ends. Largely due to the fact that Carter's daughter Carole falls in love with Bill, there is a conciliation between Carter and Sid who go into partnership. Sid's new idea of a band-and-dance show in Twenties style is incorporated in the hotel.
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The Day and the Hour
Title: The Day and the Hour
Character: Un aviateur anglais
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Businessman
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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A Prize of Arms
Title: A Prize of Arms
Character: Lt. Ellison
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Elliott Stratton
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: Studio Four
Character: Marston
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Spence
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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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Lt. O'Hara
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Naval Rating on Phone (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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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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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Soldier
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.