Stratford Johns

Stratford Johns

Born: September 22, 1925
Died: January 29, 2002
in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Movies for Stratford Johns...

Title: Neverwhere
Character: Mr Stockton
Released: September 12, 1996
Type: TV
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below. Pursued by the murderous Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.
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Title: Scarlet and Black
Character: Abbe Pirard
Released: October 31, 1993
Type: TV
An ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.
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Splitting Heirs
Title: Splitting Heirs
Character: Butler
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
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The Secret Agent
Title: The Secret Agent
Character: Home Secretary
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Cyril Isaiah Greengrass
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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Title: Murder Most Horrid
Character: Mr. Maddox
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
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A Demon in My View
Title: A Demon in My View
Character: Stanley Caspian
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
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'Itch
Title: 'Itch
Character: Clive
Released: February 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Mr. Groves
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
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Title: Perfect Scoundrels
Character: Lord Keighley
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their money
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A Small Mourning
Title: A Small Mourning
Character: Arnold
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.
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The Lair of the White Worm
Title: The Lair of the White Worm
Character: Peters
Released: September 21, 1988
Type: Movie
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
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Salome's Last Dance
Title: Salome's Last Dance
Character: Herod / Alfred Taylor
Released: May 6, 1988
Type: Movie
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
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The Little Match Girl
Title: The Little Match Girl
Character: Rich Man
Released: December 28, 1986
Type: Movie
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Mr. Plumb
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Car Trouble
Title: Car Trouble
Character: Reg Sampson
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
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Wild Geese II
Title: Wild Geese II
Character: Mustapha El Ali
Released: October 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
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Dance with a Stranger
Title: Dance with a Stranger
Character: Morrie Conley
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
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Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Title: Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Character: Uncle Walter
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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Title: Surprise, Surprise
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: TV
Surprise, Surprise is a British television programme originally hosted by Cilla Black and produced by London Weekend Television for ITV. It ran for 14 series from 6 May 1984 to 5 September 1997, after which four annual specials were produced between 1998 to 2001. In 2012, the show returned after a 11-year hiatus. The revived version is produced by ITV Studios and presented by Holly Willoughby. The show is currently in its second series.
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The Beggar's Opera
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Character: Peachum
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
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Mr Moon's Last Case
Title: Mr Moon's Last Case
Character: Mr Moon
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the local police.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Title: Union Castle
Released: April 19, 1982
Type: TV
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Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Title: Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Character: Monarch
Released: January 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the leaders of the Urbankan race. What are the Urbankans' intentions when they reach Earth?
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Title: Great Expectations
Character: Magwitch
Released: October 4, 1981
Type: TV
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest creations, his most piercing examination of upward mobility.
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Dear Brutus
Title: Dear Brutus
Character: Matey
Released: January 27, 1981
Type: Movie
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
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George & Mildred
Title: George & Mildred
Character: Harry Pinto
Released: October 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Title: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Character: Ismail
Released: August 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
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Title: Minder
Character: Knowles
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: The Marti Caine Show
Released: January 8, 1979
Type: TV
Marti Caine presents a star studded variety show in which she performs comedy material, sings and dances alongside special guests.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: George Duchamp
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Title: Blake's 7
Character: Belkov
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Title: The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Character: Chief Commisioner Blocker
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
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Title: I, Claudius
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Title: Jack the Ripper
Released: July 13, 1973
Type: TV
The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.
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Title: Barlow
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Barlow at Large began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from Softly, Softly: Taskforce in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the home office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office. This second series, rather than telling one story in serial form, as the 1971 series had, was instead ten 50-minute episodes, each with a self-contained story. In this series, Barlow was supported by Norman Comer as Detective Sergeant Rees, who had been helpful to him during the first series. He also had to deal with the political machinations of the senior civil servant Fenton. In 1974 the series was renamed Barlow and a further two series of eight episodes each followed, introducing the character of Detective Inspector Tucker, played by Derek Newark. The final episode was transmitted in February 1975. The Barlow character was seen again in the series Second Verdict in which he, along with his former colleague John Watt, looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions from history.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: President Bradshaw
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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Title: Softly Softly: Task Force
Character: Det. Chief Supt. Charles Barlow
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: TV
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.
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Title: Softly Softly: Task Force
Character: Det. Chief Supt. Barlow
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: TV
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.
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Title: Department S
Character: Paul Trenton
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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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Title: Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Character: Warrant Officer
Released: July 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
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The Plank
Title: The Plank
Character: Station Sergeant
Released: May 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Title: The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Character: The Voice (voice)
Released: March 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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Title: Softly, Softly
Released: January 5, 1966
Type: TV
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Monarch
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Z-Cars
Character: Det. Chief Inspector Charles Barlow
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Title: Z-Cars
Character: DCI Charlie Barlow
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Title: Z-Cars
Character: Det. Chief Insp. Barlow
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Two Letter Alibi
Title: Two Letter Alibi
Character: Bates
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Title: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Character: Mayor
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
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Hand in Hand
Title: Hand in Hand
Character: Farmer
Released: February 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Sidney
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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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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The Professionals
Title: The Professionals
Character: Lawson
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.
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Title: International Detective
Character: The Registrar
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: Interpol Calling
Character: Inspector Chaublin
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Crewman on Upturned Lifeboat (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Violent Playground
Title: Violent Playground
Character: Police Constable (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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The One That Got Away
Title: The One That Got Away
Character: Second Detective
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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Tiger in the Smoke
Title: Tiger in the Smoke
Character: Police Constable
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Constable (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: PC Coleman
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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The Ladykillers
Title: The Ladykillers
Character: Security Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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Title: Lilli Palmer Theatre
Character: Andrew
Released: September 25, 1955
Type: TV
A half-hour anthology series.
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The Ship That Died of Shame
Title: The Ship That Died of Shame
Character: Garage Worker (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
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Burnt Evidence
Title: Burnt Evidence
Character: 2nd Fireman (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
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The Saint and the Brave Goose
Title: The Saint and the Brave Goose
Character: Duchamp
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.