Reece Shearsmith

Reece Shearsmith

Born: August 27, 1969
in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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Reeson Wayne "Reece" Shearsmith (born 27 August 1969 in Hull) is an English actor and writer. He is most famous for his work as part of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.

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Movies for Reece Shearsmith...

Title: 3 Body Problem
Character: Alan Turing
Released: March 21, 2024
Type: TV
Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.
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Saltburn
Title: Saltburn
Character: Professor Ware
Released: November 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
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A Brush With Comedy
Title: A Brush With Comedy
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Feature documentary from Louis Moir exploring the relationship between comedy and art, and the inner conflicts that lie within. Featuring the director's father Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, Spencer Jones, Simon Munnery, Miriam Elia and Bec Hill as they each prepare work for an exhibition.
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See How They Run
Title: See How They Run
Character: John Woolf
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
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Title: The Witchfinder
Character: Matthew Hopkins
Released: March 8, 2022
Type: TV
A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Title: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Character: Priest
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.
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Title: Foundation
Character: Jerril
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: TV
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
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In the Earth
Title: In the Earth
Character: Zach Whitehead
Released: April 16, 2021
Type: Movie
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.
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Investigating the Ladykillers
Title: Investigating the Ladykillers
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Program focuses on the lasting appeal and cinematic brilliance of The Ladykillers. Included in it are clips from interviews with broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie, film editor Catherine Shoard, actor and writer Reece Shearsmith, and author Ronald Harwood, amongst others.
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Tales of the Uncanny
Title: Tales of the Uncanny
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2020
Type: Movie
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
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Title: The Adventures of Paddington
Character: Містер Каррі (голос)
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
Journey to London for heart-warming adventures with beloved British bear Paddington in this CG-animated series, which centres on a younger Paddington as he writes letters to Aunt Lucy celebrating the new things he has discovered through the day’s exciting activities.
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Title: Good Omens
Character: Furfur
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: TV
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.
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Title: Good Omens
Character: William Shakespeare
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: TV
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.
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The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Title: The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Character: Various Characters
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: Movie
The League of Gentlemen return to the stage in 2018 for their first UK tour in over 12 years with their brand new 47-date show ‘The League of Gentlemen Live Again!’ In the 2 part show, the BAFTA award winning comedy troupe, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson bring their dark and unhinged fictional village of Royston Vasey to theatres and arenas across the country. Showcasing classic sketches and hilarious new material featuring some of their most memorable characters including “locals” Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup, theatre company Legz Akimbo, The Dentons and job centre trio Pauline, Mickey and Ross.
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Title: The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2018
Type: TV
Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.
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Borley Rectory
Title: Borley Rectory
Character: V.C Wall
Released: June 6, 2017
Type: Movie
An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in England’.
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Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
Title: Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Summer 2003 and Bob Monkhouse entertains a room full of comedians with stand-up, chat and a comedy masterclass. It proved to be his final gig. The night became the stuff of legend among comedians, but was never transmitted until now.
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Title: Diddy TV
Character: Mr. Stockholm
Released: March 14, 2016
Type: TV
Diddy Dick and Dom launch their own television channel.
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Title: Stag
Character: Wendy
Released: February 27, 2016
Type: TV
Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.
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Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny
Title: Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny
Character: Himself
Released: December 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary looking at the career to date of Peter Kay, from Bolton schoolboy to award-winning, record-breaking comic, actor, writer and director.
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High-Rise
Title: High-Rise
Character: Nathan Steele
Released: November 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
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Title: Peter Kay's Car Share
Released: April 29, 2015
Type: TV
John Redmond and Kayleigh Kitson have been thrown together in a company car share scheme, forcing their paths to cross. Each trip brings fresh insight into John and Kayleigh's lives, with twists and turns in their unlikely relationship.
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Title: Galavant
Character: Neo of Sporin
Released: January 4, 2015
Type: TV
Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to take revenge and restore his “happily ever after.” But it won't be without a few twists and turns along the way in this fairytale musical.
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Title: Chasing Shadows
Character: DS Sean Stone
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: TV
Chasing Shadows follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
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Title: Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2014
Type: TV
One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk sparring with Stephen Fry, or even wearing his Jonathan Creek duffle coat… instead, Alan is at his most relaxed and most natural – sitting around chatting with some of his best comedian friends.
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Title: Original Comedy Shorts
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: TV
A series of six comedy shorts, in which each episode is 'taken over' by a different high profile comedian. The result is an exclusive, eclectic and hilarious mix of comedy genres, tastes and styles.
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The Case of the High Foot
Title: The Case of the High Foot
Character: The Doctor
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Comedy short set in the 1930s in which Hilda Stolf (Sally Phillips) visits her doctor (Reece Shearsmith) complaining of a rare case of 'high foot'. But what can be done about it?
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Title: 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
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Title: Good Morning Britain
Character: Self
Released: April 28, 2014
Type: TV
The latest news, sport, and weather from the UK in this daily breakfast show.
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Title: The Widower
Character: Malcolm Webster
Released: March 17, 2014
Type: TV
Over a thirteen year period, a seemingly mild‐mannered male nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
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Remembering 'Dead of Night'
Title: Remembering 'Dead of Night'
Released: February 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Retrospective documentary on the British horror anthology classic Dead of Night (1945).
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Various
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Simon Smethurst
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: James
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Brian
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Eric
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Urban Bedford
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Scaramouche
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: House of Fools
Character: Martin
Released: January 14, 2014
Type: TV
Surreal sitcom with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. A series of anarchic affairs featuring the uninvited lodgers and guests that cause chaos and disruption in their home.
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An Adventure in Space and Time
Title: An Adventure in Space and Time
Character: Patrick Troughton
Released: November 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
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The World's End
Title: The World's End
Character: Collaborator
Released: July 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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A Field in England
Title: A Field in England
Character: Whitehead
Released: July 5, 2013
Type: Movie
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
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Title: Catchphrase
Released: April 7, 2013
Type: TV
Stephen Mulhern hosts this remake of the 1980's game show where contestants have to guess a catchphrase based on animated picture clues. The puzzle is revealed one square at a time. It could be a book, a movie or a catch phrase. The winner with the most money can go on to win up to £50,000.
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Title: Gadget Man
Released: November 19, 2012
Type: TV
Gadget Man shows the world's collection of handy gadgets throughout the ages, from today's smart devices to decades old electronics to even older mechanical devices.
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Bad Sugar
Title: Bad Sugar
Character: Greg
Released: August 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: Davy
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Him Indoors
Title: Him Indoors
Character: Gregory Brewster
Released: May 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Gregory Brewster is a serial killer, only problem is, he's agoraphobic! Facing an impending eviction from his family home, Gregory has a plan that will save him from being subjected to the one thing he's terrified of... the outside world. Things don't quite go to plan however, when a surprise visit from his new neighbor finds him in a very awkward situation.
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Title: Squeamish!
Character: Narrator
Released: October 3, 2011
Type: TV
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Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Title: Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
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Eric & Ernie
Title: Eric & Ernie
Character: Harry Wiseman
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
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Title: Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Character: Jasper
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: TV
Mid Morning Matters is a British mockumentary series written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, starring Coogan as fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge. The first of twelve 15-minute episodes was uploaded to the Foster's Funny website on 5 November 2010, and then available on YouTube. Six 30-minute episodes titled Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters: Special Edition, edited from the web series, began airing on Sky Atlantic HD in July 2012 as part of a deal between producers Baby Cow and BSkyB. Mid Morning Matters 2 began filming a new six part series in February 2012. It will be shown exclusively on Sky Atlantic in 2013.
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Psychoville Halloween Special
Title: Psychoville Halloween Special
Character: Various
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Four tales of terror unfold at the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiactric hospital.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Sergeant Mackenzie
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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The First Men in the Moon
Title: The First Men in the Moon
Character: Moon
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.
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Title: Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: TV
Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club is a British comedy panel show produced by Talkback Thames for ITV4. The programme is presented by Richard Bacon. The programme has aired two series.
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Peacock Season
Title: Peacock Season
Character: Stoaty
Released: August 12, 2010
Type: Movie
The Edinburgh Festival is a funny place to be... When you're not funny.
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Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Title: Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Released: December 24, 2009
Type: Movie
This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’
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Title: You Have Been Watching
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
Notoriously foul-mouthed television critic Charlie Brooker invites three of his friends round to sit in oversized chairs, watch television, and they all take the mick out of it. Each discussion ends with one or more questions to the panel, for which points are awarded. In the final quick-fire round, there are buzzers and a suitable (ie disconcertingly jaunty) game show noise. At the end, a winner is determined, and we reckon that's enough to make it a game show.
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Title: Psychoville
Character: Maureen Sowerbutts
Released: June 18, 2009
Type: TV
Psychoville is a British dark comedy television . Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in additional starring roles.
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Title: Horrible Histories
Released: April 16, 2009
Type: TV
Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
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The Cottage
Title: The Cottage
Character: Peter
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: Movie
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
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Christmas at the Riviera
Title: Christmas at the Riviera
Character: Ashley
Released: December 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
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Title: Comedy Showcase
Character: Freddy
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: TV
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse. The format was replaced in 2012 by 4Funnies.
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Title: Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: TV
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
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Title: Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Character: Himself
Released: April 13, 2007
Type: TV
Derren Brown at his most devilish. He has persuaded members of the public to sign a Faustian pact with him and participate in a macabre game of Trick or Treat.
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Title: The Russell Brand Show
Character: Himself
Released: November 24, 2006
Type: TV
The Russell Brand Show is a chat show presented by Russell Brand. It aired on the British terrestrial TV channel Channel 4 and was broadcast on Friday nights. The programme featured Brand's take on current topics of conversation, a sketch on current topics, guest interviews and live music.
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
Title: The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
Released: November 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! is a pantomime-themed stage show by The League of Gentlemen. The whimsical, pantomime nature of the show was a departure from their trademark dark humour. This performance was filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo.
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
Title: The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
Released: November 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! is a pantomime-themed stage show by comedy troupe The League of Gentlemen.
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Title: The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Character: Benjamin Denton / Papa Lazarou / Pamela Doove / Ross Gaines / Cathy Carter-Smith / Ollie Plimsoles / Vinnie Whytenshawe / Mr Lisgoe / Bernice Woodall / Dean Tavalouris / Edward Tattsyrup / Geoff Tipps / Judee Levinson
Released: November 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The League of Gentlemen bring their dark but brilliant humour to the stage in this "alternative" pantomime... they're behind you!
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Free Jimmy
Title: Free Jimmy
Character: Ante (voice)
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Title: Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Character: Self - The League of Gentlemen
Released: September 5, 2005
Type: Movie
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Title: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Character: Various Characters
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Character: Additional Vogon Voices
Released: April 28, 2005
Type: Movie
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Rassmussen
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Spaced: Skip to the End
Title: Spaced: Skip to the End
Character: Himself
Released: April 12, 2004
Type: Movie
A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It also features an epilogue to the series.
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Shaun of the Dead
Title: Shaun of the Dead
Character: Mark
Released: April 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
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Title: Catterick
Character: Tony
Released: February 15, 2004
Type: TV
Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC2. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of Catterick, though he may produce a spin-off centring on the DI Fowler character. Catterick is arguably Vic and Bob's darkest and most bizarre programme to date, balancing their typically odd, idiosyncratic comedy with some genuinely dark scenes. It plays like a darkly comic road movie, albeit full of Vic and Bob's bizarre, often inscrutable and frequently silly humour. Catterick is probably Vic and Bob's most uncompromising show since their notorious and frequently baffling 1999 sketch series Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, from which most of the characters are taken. It is in some ways stylistically similar to their short film The Weekenders first broadcast in 1992 on British television as part of Channel 4's "Bunch of Five" series. The series is named after Catterick in North Yorkshire, Britain's largest army base. It is about 10 miles away from Darlington where Vic Reeves grew up. It is also about 20 miles away from Middlesbrough where Bob Mortimer grew up.
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Title: New Tricks
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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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Title: Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Character: Viking (voice)
Released: December 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling neglected and decides to give Robbie an ultimatum. Can Robbie save the day, keep his girl and unravel the mystery of the Legend of the Lost Tribe?
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Title: TLC
Released: November 17, 2002
Type: TV
TLC is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality problem. It was first broadcast on the BBC on 11 November 2002 and ran over six episodes until 16 December. There were some very mixed opinions on the show among both critics and viewers, but it achieved decent ratings and featured an excellent comedy cast including Richard Griffiths, Alexander Armstrong and The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith. The series was released on DVD in the UK on 29 October 2007. The show never confirms what "TLC" stands for, although it is presumed to be a sarcastic reference to the widely used abbreviation for "Tender Loving Care", but could equally refer to the alternative yet related abbreviation "Total Lack of Concern".
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The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Title: The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Character: various
Released: November 19, 2001
Type: Movie
The award-winning Black Comedy series takes to the stage of London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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Title: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: TV
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.
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The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Title: The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Character: Various
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: Movie
The award-winning Black Comedy series takes to the stage of London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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Birthday Girl
Title: Birthday Girl
Character: Porter
Released: September 6, 2001
Type: Movie
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
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The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
Title: The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
Released: December 27, 2000
Type: Movie
It's Christmas time in Royston Vasey, the little northern town whose proud motto is 'You'll Never Leave'...
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Title: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: TV
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.
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Title: Spaced
Character: Dexter
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: TV
Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.
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This Year's Love
Title: This Year's Love
Character: Tourist
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.
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Title: The League of Gentlemen
Released: January 11, 1999
Type: TV
The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
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Title: In the Red
Character: Journalist
Released: May 26, 1998
Type: TV
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and the BBC. And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also other sub-plots to be considered.
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Title: Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: TV
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998. Alexei Sayle's final series was almost identical in format to The All New Alexei Sayle Show except with yet another change of writers.. Unusually, there was no studio audience. Sketches included the talents of Noel Fielding, Lee Hurst, Paul Putner, Gemma Rigg, Reece Shearsmith, Jessica Stevenson, David Walliams and Peter Serafinowicz The continuing adventures of Bobby Chariot were chronicled. Now free from any obligation to be Alexei's warm-up man, he traversed a series of other career cul-de-sacs under the appalling management of the repulsive "Edna" Denise Coffey. In one episode, the joke was turned on its head as Chariot performed for an audience of students, who enjoyed his act ironically and responded to his catchphrase "How ya diddling?" with an enthusiastic reply of "We're diddling fine!". Meanwhile Alexei Sayle himself was depicted as living in a Teletubbies-style burrow somewhere in the posh part of North London.
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Auton 2: Sentinel
Title: Auton 2: Sentinel
Character: Dr Dan Matthews
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Two years have passed since the Nestene creature vanished from UNIT's top secret Warehouse... Suddenly and without warning the Nestene strikes, once again using Autons as its deadly foot soldiers. As mysterious UNIT operative Lockwood struggles to unearth the Nestene plan, he finds himself drawn to remote Sentinel Island. There, the population have been caught up in a bizarre frenzy of religious activity. Lockwood is joined by Natasha Alexander, a new scientific advisor with her own, sinister agenda. To defeat the Nestene menace they must both face the terrifying power of a creature from before the dawn of Mankind...
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Auton
Title: Auton
Character: Dr. Daniel Matthews
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
In a top-secret UNIT warehouse Dr Sally Arnold is studying a Nestene energy unit with little success. Until she subjects it to cosmic signals that activate it and it awakens several dormant Autons stored in the facility.
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Ghosts of Winterborne
Title: Ghosts of Winterborne
Character: Andrew Powell
Released: October 31, 1996
Type: Movie
The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last victim disappears, and a book of black magic spells is stolen from a local museum, Liz Shaw begins to wonder if the ghosts of the past have really been laid to rest. Forced into an unholy alliance with the school’s disgraced headmaster, Liz must fight not only her own warring emotions, but a festering evil that threatens to corrupt the Earth again after 100 years. But how do you fight a shadow from Hell?
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Title: Mash and Peas
Released: July 1, 1996
Type: TV
Mash and Peas was a parodic sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas & David Walliams. Their first television work together, it originally aired on Paramount Comedy 1 and Channel 4 between 1996 and 1997. The episodes were repeated before the channel's relaunch in 1999. The programme is made up of parodies of various television genres, introduced by the childish and incompetent Danny Mash and Gareth Peas. Edgar Wright directed and long-standing collaborator Paul Putner appeared throughout.
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The Devil of Winterborne
Title: The Devil of Winterborne
Character: Andrew Powell
Released: August 1, 1995
Type: Movie
When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is disturbed to find evidence of satanic rite near the scene of the crime. She soon discovers a web of deceit and corruption that extends back in time, threatening the current occupants of nearby Winterborne School. With P.R.O.B.E. under threat from within and the death toll mounting, Liz finds herself under increasing pressure from all sides to produce results... The Devil of Winterborne is at large and only Liz can stop it!
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Rogue Trooper
Title: Rogue Trooper
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically created, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching for the Traitor General. His comrades are in the form of biochips – onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval – and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). Rogue is genetically engineered to be immune to almost all known toxins, can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum in his bare skin.
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Highgate House of Horror
Title: Highgate House of Horror
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Before they reached success, comedy team The League of Gentlemen made this home made comedy horror; Three horror stories all set in a flat in Highgate.