Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell

Born: January 1, 1955
in Essex, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown.

Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992).

Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty.

Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet.

He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet.

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Movies for Nicholas Farrell...

Title: Fool Me Once
Character: Neville Lockwood
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: TV
When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.
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Title: Bodies
Character: Chief Inspector Paxman
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
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Title: The Gold
Character: Jim Clark
Released: February 12, 2023
Type: TV
On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Title: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: November 27, 2022
Type: Movie
It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first, he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters.
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Title: Everything I Know About Love
Character: Graham
Released: June 7, 2022
Type: TV
In a 2012 London house-share, childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy — now in their 20s — experience bad dates, heartaches and humiliation. With flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early noughties, the series begs the question: can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up?
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Munich: The Edge of War
Title: Munich: The Edge of War
Character: Sir Alexander Cadogan
Released: January 6, 2022
Type: Movie
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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Dream Horse
Title: Dream Horse
Character: Philip Hobbs
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
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Title: The Nevers
Character: Prince Albrecht
Released: April 11, 2021
Type: TV
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.
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Christmas in the Highlands
Title: Christmas in the Highlands
Character: Duke of Glenmorie
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A New York sales manager is sent to the remote Scottish Highlands at Christmas to acquire a limited edition perfume from a dashing Earl preparing for his annual ball and falls in love instead.
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The Man Who Saw Too Much
Title: The Man Who Saw Too Much
Character: Yurka Galitzine (voice)
Released: December 1, 2019
Type: Movie
The Man Who Saw Too Much tells the story of 106-year-old Boris Pahor, believed to be the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. He was sent to Dachau, Dora, Harzungen, Bergen-Belsen and Natzweiler – one of the Nazis' least known but most deadly camps. Twenty years after the war, Pahor wrote an extraordinary book about his experiences called Necropolis - City of the Dead. Pahor’s harrowing descriptions are illustrated with remarkable drawings by fellow prisoners, creating a unique record of conditions in the Nazi death camps. His testimony, along with details from a shocking report into the camp by British intelligence officer Captain Yurka Galitzine and the chilling testimony by SS commandant Josef Kramer, infamous as the Beast of Belsen, combine to tell an extraordinary story.
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The Coldest Game
Title: The Coldest Game
Character: G. Moran
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
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Cosmos Within Us
Title: Cosmos Within Us
Character: Aiken
Released: August 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Aiken, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, returns to his former family home to try and keep hold of his memories.
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Hurricane
Title: Hurricane
Character: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of a Polish fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles—driven across Europe by the German war machine—finally make their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.
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White Chamber
Title: White Chamber
Character: Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The United Kingdom. Soon. Civil war rages. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated functionality, her captor tortures her for information; information she claims not to have - or does she?
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Lies We Tell
Title: Lies We Tell
Character: Anthony Quest
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.
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Another Mother's Son
Title: Another Mother's Son
Character: De La Haye
Released: March 24, 2017
Type: Movie
The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
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Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
Title: Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
Character: Samuel Harris
Released: November 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police Service Investigation.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Michael Shea
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Mindhorn
Title: Mindhorn
Character: Mayor
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
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Tear Me Apart
Title: Tear Me Apart
Character: Old Man (voice)
Released: July 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive, only to fall for their prey, a teenage girl... and possibly the last female left alive.
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Finding Altamira
Title: Finding Altamira
Character: Vilanova
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
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Title: Thirteen
Character: Henry Stone
Released: February 28, 2016
Type: TV
Today is the day Ivy Moxham will escape from the cellar that's been her prison for the last 13 years. Today is the day she'll return to her home, to her family, to her life. Today is only the beginning.
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Remainder
Title: Remainder
Character: Daubenay
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: Movie
A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.
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Legend
Title: Legend
Character: Dr Humphries
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
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Mortdecai
Title: Mortdecai
Character: Auctioneer
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: Movie
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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Robot Overlords
Title: Robot Overlords
Character: Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
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Robot Overlords
Title: Robot Overlords
Character: Sentry Robot / Air Drone (voice)
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
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Testament of Youth
Title: Testament of Youth
Character: Headmaster
Released: October 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Title: Siblings
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: TV
Each week, through their own selfishness and idiocy, we see Hannah and Dan — the worst brother and sister in the world — spectacularly wreck the lives of those around them — old friends, love interests, family members, and the unlucky individuals who just happen to cross their paths.
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Grace of Monaco
Title: Grace of Monaco
Character: Jean-Charles Rey
Released: April 22, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
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Title: 37 Days
Character: Eyre Crowe
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: TV
This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping miniseries set among the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.
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Summer in February
Title: Summer in February
Character: Mr. Carter-Wood
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
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Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Title: Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Character: General von Thoma
Released: June 2, 2013
Type: Movie
British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: Sir Alexander Lermontov
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Title: The Village
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: TV
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
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Title: Jo
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: TV
Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Belgian Stromboli Pictures companies in association with broadcast partners TF1, RTBF, Sat.1, ORF and RTS.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Sir Raleigh Beresford
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Title: Secret State
Character: General Munnery
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: TV
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Charles Newgarden
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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The Iron Lady
Title: The Iron Lady
Character: Airey Neave
Released: December 26, 2011
Type: Movie
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Nicholas Dunham
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Late Bloomers
Title: Late Bloomers
Character: Francis
Released: July 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
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Title: Going Postal
Character: Mr. Pump
Released: May 30, 2010
Type: TV
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!
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Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Albert Dussel
Released: January 5, 2009
Type: TV
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
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Fiona's Story
Title: Fiona's Story
Character: Edward
Released: August 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
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Title: Casualty 1900s
Character: Sydney Holland
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: TV
Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago.
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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Mr. Musgrove
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Royal Navy captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. First the former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Charles Milner
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Brian Green
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Amazing Grace
Title: Amazing Grace
Character: Henry Thornton
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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Driving Lessons
Title: Driving Lessons
Character: Robert
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
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Title: Suburban Shootout
Character: Raymond
Released: March 22, 2006
Type: TV
Suburban Shootout is a British satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction in association with Oxygen. The first series aired in the UK on Channel 5 from 27 April 2006. It began airing in the United States on 22 March 2006 on Oxygen and in Germany on Comedy Central in 2007. The second series began on Channel 5 on 6 September 2007.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Charles Hewitt
Released: October 16, 2005
Type: TV
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.
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The Genius of Beethoven
Title: The Genius of Beethoven
Character: Stephan von Breuning
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A three-part BBC dramatized documentary series taking a look at the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Red Mercury
Title: Red Mercury
Character: Minister
Released: May 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
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Prometheus Bound
Title: Prometheus Bound
Character: Prometheus (voice)
Released: June 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on the play of the same name by Aeschylus , it retells the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods to benefit mankind, and as a result was crucified atop a mountain.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: James Winslow
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Reversals
Title: Reversals
Character: Edward Leitch
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Young medical professional couple set out to prove that gender is not a factor in the ability to do a job well. Hilarity ensues as they swap jobs, clothes, and gender, in order to see what life is like from a different perspective.
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The Third Wave
Title: The Third Wave
Character: Devlin
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
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Title: Sparkhouse
Character: Paul Lawton
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: TV
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Richard Maynard
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character: Sam Oborne
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: TV
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Bait
Title: Bait
Character: Alfred White
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered child. Jack sees an opportunity to unwittingly involve both women in a scheme which he hopes will unmask his daughter's killer. Written
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Title: The Jury
Character: Jeremy Crawford
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.
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Bloody Sunday
Title: Bloody Sunday
Character: Brigadier Maclellan
Released: January 16, 2002
Type: Movie
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Charlotte Gray
Title: Charlotte Gray
Character: Mr. Jackson
Released: December 28, 2001
Type: Movie
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
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Arthur's Dyke
Title: Arthur's Dyke
Character: Geoffrey
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk, but this time they are joined by a forty year old wife and mother who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
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Title: Bedtime
Character: Ray
Released: August 28, 2001
Type: TV
Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes. Series 1 and 2 were released on DVD.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Douglas Malham
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Pearl Harbor
Title: Pearl Harbor
Character: RAF Squadron Leader
Released: May 21, 2001
Type: Movie
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Title: Rebus
Character: Davis Haigh
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: TV
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.
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Beautiful People
Title: Beautiful People
Character: Dr Mouldy
Released: September 16, 1999
Type: Movie
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
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Title: Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Character: Howard
Released: September 5, 1999
Type: TV
Ellie and Arden Brooks seem to be destined to play out their lives behind a Manchester chip shop counter. Mercilessly put down by their strict grandmother, the swinging sixties have yet to impact upon their fun-starved, sexually repressed lives. But it's 1965 and times are changing - fast!
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Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Title: Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Released: September 5, 1999
Type: Movie
The BBC drama about growing up in the turbulent, tuneful '60s. Manchester, England, 1965. "You'll never meet anybody worth knowing working at the Chip Shop," says Ellie and Arden Brookes' overbearing granny. But that's where the sisters meet The Ice Cubes, a struggling rock trio that opens their eyes to the whole swingin' world beyond staid Manchester. Arden sees lead singer Dallas McCabe as her ticket out. Ellie has more practical plans, but she and Dallas get drawn together by the music and their irresistible attraction to each other. A story of twin sisters who are each other's best friend-and worst enemy.
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Plunkett & MacLeane
Title: Plunkett & MacLeane
Character: MP's Secretary
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
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Legionnaire
Title: Legionnaire
Character: Mackintosh
Released: December 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Isaac Starling
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Horatio
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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The Treasure Seekers
Title: The Treasure Seekers
Character: Bastable
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Antonio
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
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Sharpe's Regiment
Title: Sharpe's Regiment
Character: Lord Fenner
Released: May 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Professor Adrian Cowley
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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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Montano
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Title: In the Bleak Midwinter
Character: Tom Newman
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
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Title: Bramwell
Character: Major Stuart Hyde
Released: May 1, 1995
Type: TV
The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress.
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Title: The Choir
Character: Leo Beckford
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: TV
Based on Joanna Trollope's novel. Explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school.
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A Breed of Heroes
Title: A Breed of Heroes
Character: Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
Released: September 4, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
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Title: To Play the King
Character: David Mycroft
Released: November 21, 1993
Type: TV
Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.
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The Vision Thing
Title: The Vision Thing
Character: Batt Prender
Released: October 6, 1993
Type: Movie
In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
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Title: Harry
Character: Baily
Released: September 18, 1993
Type: TV
Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. Harry Salter is the ruthless owner of a news agency in Darlington who will resort to any under-hand means or exploit anyone in order to get a story that he can sell to a newspaper. He is assisted at his agency by Alice, his secretary/PA, and Snappy, his photographer.
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Title: The Riff Raff Element
Character: Boyd Tundish
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: TV
The Riff Raff Element is a 1990's British comedy-drama series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who also directed Dressing for Breakfast and episodes of The Bill and Bergerac. It was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.
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Title: Lipstick on Your Collar
Character: Major Church
Released: February 21, 1993
Type: TV
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Simon Slater
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Hamlet (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: Heartbeat
Character: Traumatised Man / Buckley
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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The Trials of Oz
Title: The Trials of Oz
Character: Dr. Michael Schofield
Released: November 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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Title: Drop the Dead Donkey
Released: August 9, 1990
Type: TV
Drop the Dead Donkey is a situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of “GlobeLink News”, a fictional TV news company. Recorded close to transmission, it made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism. It was created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. The series had an ensemble cast, making stars of Haydn Gwynne, Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson. The series began with the acquisition of GlobeLink by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant, an allusion to either Robert Maxwell or Rupert Murdoch. Indeed, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin note on their DVDs that it was fortunate for their libel lawyers that the two men shared the same initials. The series is mostly based on the on-going battle between the staff of GlobeLink, led by editor George Dent, as they try to maintain the company as a serious news organisation, and Sir Roysten’s right-hand man Gus Hedges, trying to make the show more sensationalist and suppress stories that might harm Sir Roysten’s business empire. The show was awarded the Best Comedy Award at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. At the British Comedy Awards the show won Best New TV Comedy in 1990, Best Channel 4 Comedy in 1991, and Best Channel 4 Sitcom in 1994.
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Title: The Ginger Tree
Character: Father Anthony
Released: November 26, 1989
Type: TV
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Title: Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Released: November 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Donald Fraser
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Knighton
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Dead Lucky
Title: Dead Lucky
Character: Martin Urban
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax.
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Playing Away
Title: Playing Away
Character: Derek
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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Title: Hold the Dream
Character: Sebastian Cross
Released: October 27, 1986
Type: TV
The follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie O'Neill.
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The Fools on the Hill
Title: The Fools on the Hill
Character: David
Released: October 27, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Phil Byron
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: Lovejoy
Character: Douglas Holden
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Paul Moran
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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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Title: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Character: Sir Hugh Belcher
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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Title: The Jewel in the Crown
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: TV
A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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Title: Mansfield Park
Character: Edmund Bertram
Released: November 6, 1983
Type: TV
Drama series based on the novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is the magnificient country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny is ignored by her cousins, with the exception of Edmund, who alone treats her with care and affection. But will she ever be able to win a valued place in the household and the heart of the man of her dreams?
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The Rocking Horse Winner
Title: The Rocking Horse Winner
Character: Lawyer
Released: November 25, 1982
Type: Movie
In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.
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Title: The Agatha Christie Hour
Character: Edward Robinson
Released: September 7, 1982
Type: TV
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
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Chariots of Fire
Title: Chariots of Fire
Character: Aubrey Montague
Released: May 15, 1981
Type: Movie
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Title: Berlin Tunnel 21
Character: Georg Heptner
Released: March 25, 1981
Type: Movie
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.