Ian McNeice

Ian McNeice

Born: October 2, 1950
in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
Ian McNeice (born October 2, 1950) is a prolific English screen, stage, and television character actor.

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Title: Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
Character: Alfred Hitchcock
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: TV
The four-part drama series will tell the story of Cary Grant’s life, from his humble beginnings as Archie Leach in Bristol, England to the Hollywood leading man he became.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Louis XVIII
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
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Title: The Sandman
Character: Tavern Landlord (1989)
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: TV
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
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Grizzly II: Revenge
Title: Grizzly II: Revenge
Character: Bernie
Released: February 17, 2020
Type: Movie
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [This sequel to "Grizzly" (1976) was left unfinished after production wrapped prematurely in 1983, and was not officially released until 2020, though a bootleg workprint version had been in circulation for some years prior to this.]
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The House of Screaming Death
Title: The House of Screaming Death
Character: The Architect
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Four Tales of The Macabre! Enter the House of The Screaming Death in this feature length anthology gothic horror film... tales of terror to chill you to the bone... One scary night....One mysterious figure, 'The Architect', who has some chilling stories to tell you. Story 1 - What is the mystery of The Lady in Grey? (written by Troy Dennison) Story 2 - A tale of witchcraft and the dark chilling beyond (written by Mark Lees) Story 3 - 1888: The year of the Vampyre (written by David Hastings) Story 4 - Evil is found in the most innocent of places ... a child's toy (written by Alex Bourne)
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Character: Chapman
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
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Title: Delirium
Released: June 20, 2014
Type: TV
Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.
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Title: Dr. Forever!
Character: Himself
Released: March 11, 2013
Type: TV
Dr. Forever! was a five-part series of documentary featurettes that were included on several Doctor Who DVD releases.
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Title: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: TV
Choirmaster John Jasper is obsessed with his nephew's fiancé. Will he take his opportunity to get rid of Edwin Drood?
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Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
Title: Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
Character: Mr. Peterson's Dad
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
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Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Title: Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Character: Cardinal Wolsey
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: Movie
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
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Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer
Title: Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer
Character: Cassius Dio
Released: March 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Cleopatra - the most famous woman in history. We know her as a great queen, a beautiful lover and a political schemer. For 2,000 years almost all evidence of her has disappeared - until now. In one of the world's most exciting finds, archaeologists believe they have discovered the skeleton of her sister, murdered by Cleopatra and Mark Antony. From Egypt to Turkey, Neil Oliver investigates the story of a ruthless queen who would kill her own siblings for power. This is the portrait of a killer.
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Valkyrie
Title: Valkyrie
Character: Pompous General
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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Day of the Dead
Title: Day of the Dead
Character: Paul - DJ
Released: April 8, 2008
Type: Movie
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Reverend King
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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The Black Dahlia
Title: The Black Dahlia
Character: Coroner
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mr. Limbkins
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
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Title: Rome
Character: Newsreader
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: TV
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Character: Kwaltz (voice)
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: Winston Churchill
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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Cherished
Title: Cherished
Character: Bill Bache
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited.
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White Noise
Title: White Noise
Character: Raymond Price
Released: January 7, 2005
Type: Movie
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Character: Quizmaster
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
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Title: Doc Martin
Character: Bert Large
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: TV
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Colonel Kitchener
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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The Rocket Post
Title: The Rocket Post
Character: Alex Miln
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The Rocket Post will give a convincing portrayal of island life, beliefs and culture of the time A definite for those who have even the tiniest drop of Scottish blood..... as it will tug at the heart strings and stir the soul. Something that can be shared with the family and watched time and time again..................a real classic, one that I am sure will walk alongside some of the great films that never die.
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Freeze Frame
Title: Freeze Frame
Character: Forensic Profiler Saul Seger
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Sean Veil is an ultra paranoid murder suspect who takes to filming himself round the clock to provide an alibi, just in case he's ever accused of another crime. Problems arise however when the police do come calling and the one tape that can prove his innocence has mysteriously disappeared.
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Title: Spartacus
Character: Lentulus Batiatus
Released: April 18, 2004
Type: TV
Spartacus, who was enslaved by the Romans after they murdered his father, leads fellow slaves in an attempt to overthrow the repressive Roman Empire.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Lentulus Batiatus
Released: March 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
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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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Title: Strange
Released: May 31, 2003
Type: TV
The world of John Strange is no ordinary place - full of malevolent demons that must be stopped from wreaking havoc upon the Earth. In his quest he is joined by nurse Jude Atkins, computer whiz Toby and Kevin, a man who can pick up on strange vibes. But the mysterious Canon Black remains a thorn in John's side, fervent in his efforts to prove the non-existence of anything remotely demonic or paranormal...
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Blackball
Title: Blackball
Character: Hugh The Sideburns
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
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Chaos and Cadavers
Title: Chaos and Cadavers
Character: Mr. Fraser
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies under bizarre circumstances.
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Title: Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
Character: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: TV
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is a three-part miniseries written by John Harrison and directed by Greg Yaitanes, based on Frank Herbert's novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. First broadcast in the United States on March 16, 2003, Children of Dune is the sequel to the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and produced by the Sci Fi Channel. As of 2004, this miniseries and its predecessor were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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The Final Curtain
Title: The Final Curtain
Character: Priest
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Judge
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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Man and Boy
Title: Man and Boy
Character: Nigel Batty
Released: March 30, 2002
Type: Movie
When television executive Harry has a one-night-stand, his wife Gina walks out on him, leaving Harry to look after the couple's young son.
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Amnèsia
Title: Amnèsia
Character: Doug Chandler
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
In the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is investigating the death of a drug dealer (which was accidentally brought on by Angelino). Jorge's plans to move to America have so far been thwarted by his father, but when he finds out about the affair his dad had been having with a male nightclub dancer, he uses it as blackmail fodder.
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Title: Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
Character: Haywood Donovan
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: TV
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
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The Fourth Angel
Title: The Fourth Angel
Character: Lewison, MI5 Officer
Released: August 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Klopfer
Released: May 19, 2001
Type: Movie
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Town & Country
Title: Town & Country
Character: Peter Principal
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
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The Body
Title: The Body
Character: Dr. Sproul
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....
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From Hell
Title: From Hell
Character: Coroner Robert Drudge
Released: February 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
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Title: Frank Herbert's Dune
Character: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: TV
Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part miniseries written and directed by John Harrison and based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Title: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Character: Potiphar
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the Governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Title: The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Character: The Inspector
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
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Title: Longitude
Character: Dr. Bliss
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: TV
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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Longitude
Title: Longitude
Character: Dr. Bliss
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Title: David Copperfield
Character: Mr. Dick
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Mr. Albert Fezziwig
Released: December 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Auteur Theory
Title: The Auteur Theory
Character: Sir Maximilian Fair Brown
Released: November 3, 1999
Type: Movie
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.
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Title: Relic Hunter
Character: Lord Andrew
Released: September 25, 1999
Type: TV
Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
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The Cherry Orchard
Title: The Cherry Orchard
Character: Pishchik
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Title: Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Character: Tapling
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
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Title: Hornblower
Character: Mr Tapling
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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How to Make the Cruelest Month
Title: How to Make the Cruelest Month
Character: Peggy Asks
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she puts all her energy into the second.
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A Certain Justice
Title: A Certain Justice
Character: Desmond Ulrick
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: Professor Davenport
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?
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A Life Less Ordinary
Title: A Life Less Ordinary
Character: Mayhew
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Father Roderick Alberic
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Dr. Burgess
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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The Beautician and the Beast
Title: The Beautician and the Beast
Character: Ira Grushinsky
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: Movie
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
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Title: Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Ahab (voice)
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: TV
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Title: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Character: Fulton Greenwall
Released: November 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
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Funny Bones
Title: Funny Bones
Character: Stanley Sharkey
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Title: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Character: George Garrad
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
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Sharpe's Battle
Title: Sharpe's Battle
Character: Runciman
Released: April 19, 1995
Type: Movie
When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
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Title: Bugs
Character: Hunter
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: TV
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
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Title: The Wimbledon Poisoner
Character: Dent
Released: December 11, 1994
Type: TV
Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.
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Title: Roughnecks
Character: John
Released: June 16, 1994
Type: TV
Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea.
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Title: Cadfael
Character: Canon Eluard
Released: May 29, 1994
Type: TV
Cadfael is the name given to the TV series of The Cadfael Chronicles adaptations produced by British television company ITV Central between 1994 and 1998. The series was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK, and starred Sir Derek Jacobi as the medieval detective.
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No Escape
Title: No Escape
Character: King
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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Title: Class Act
Character: Gaston Lebrun
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: TV
Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by Verity Lambert. The series starred Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe.
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Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Chuck Purvis
Released: March 20, 1994
Type: TV
When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.
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Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Released: March 20, 1994
Type: TV
When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.
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Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Barry Wilkes
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: TV
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
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Title: Scarlet and Black
Character: Prosecutor
Released: October 31, 1993
Type: TV
An ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.
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Age of Treason
Title: Age of Treason
Character: Casca
Released: June 20, 1993
Type: Movie
It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of a man close to the new emperor, Vespasian. Hired by the victim's sister to discover the truth, Falco and his newly acquired slave, the gladiator Justus, uncover plots involving a cult which reaches into the Imperial household.
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Don't Leave Me This Way
Title: Don't Leave Me This Way
Character: Oscar Ghilardi
Released: May 30, 1993
Type: Movie
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
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Title: The Blackheath Poisonings
Character: George Collard
Released: February 14, 1993
Type: TV
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
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Title: Chef
Character: Gustave LaRoche
Released: January 28, 1993
Type: TV
Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.
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The Blackheath Poisonings
Title: The Blackheath Poisonings
Character: George Collard
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: Movie
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
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Running Late
Title: Running Late
Character: Norman
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
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B&B
Title: B&B
Character: Horace Gilbert
Released: June 19, 1992
Type: Movie
An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Title: An Ungentlemanly Act
Character: Dick Baker
Released: June 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend the Governor Rex Hunt, his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.
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Year of the Comet
Title: Year of the Comet
Character: Ian
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the year it was bottled, 1811, which was known for the Great Comet of 1811, and also as one of the best years in history for European wine.
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The Cloning of Joanna May
Title: The Cloning of Joanna May
Character: Dr. Holly
Released: January 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her
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Title: Time Riders
Character: Leather Hardbones
Released: October 16, 1991
Type: TV
B.B. Miller is a motorcycle riding time traveller who gets into various troubles throughout history with her companion Ben, a Victorian street urchin.
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Secret Friends
Title: Secret Friends
Character: First Businessman
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
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The Russia House
Title: The Russia House
Character: Merrydew
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
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Dark River
Title: Dark River
Character: Hugo Shrike
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An angry father sets out to get revenge for the death of his daughter in a toxic waste accident.
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Title: Stay Lucky
Character: Franklyn Bysouth
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: TV
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.
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Valmont
Title: Valmont
Character: Azolan
Released: November 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Batcular
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: TV
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.
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Flying in the Branches
Title: Flying in the Branches
Character: Man with Dog
Released: January 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the first time, Sue is reminded of things she had tried to forget. Amid the tensions of the sisters' less than joyful reunion, Dana announces that she wants to find a husband.
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The Raggedy Rawney
Title: The Raggedy Rawney
Character: The Farmer
Released: September 20, 1988
Type: Movie
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Title: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Character: Bernard Rice
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Ivan Teal
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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84 Charing Cross Road
Title: 84 Charing Cross Road
Character: Bill Humphries
Released: February 13, 1987
Type: Movie
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Personal Services
Title: Personal Services
Character: Harry
Released: February 12, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows Christine Painter as the down-at-heel waitress who, with the help of prostitute Shirley and cross-dressing Wing Commander Morten, seeks to up her earnings by turning her suburban home into a brothel. Before long she and her girls are chaining up judges, spanking Generals and attending to the needs of Honourable Members. Christine sees herself as providing a vital service to these harmless pervs and when finally the house is busted and the case comes to court, it's fair to say that the presiding judge isn't unfamiliar with her work.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Pathologist
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Call Me Mister
Released: September 5, 1986
Type: TV
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Whoops Apocalypse
Title: Whoops Apocalypse
Character: Thrush
Released: May 6, 1986
Type: Movie
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Gervais Rackham
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: Edge of Darkness
Character: Harcourt
Released: November 4, 1985
Type: TV
Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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Title: C.A.T.S. Eyes
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: TV
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.
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Top Secret!
Title: Top Secret!
Character: Blind Souvenir Vendor
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
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Title: The Cleopatras
Character: Alexander
Released: January 19, 1983
Type: TV
Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
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Voice Over
Title: Voice Over
Character: Ed 'Fats' Bannerman
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
'Fats' Bannerman is enjoying success as the writer and presenter of Thus Engaged, a romantic radio serial about the lives and loves of a Regency heroine. But when grim reality violently intrudes into Fats' life, his frail fantasies become unbalanced and his ability to separate fact from fiction breaks down, with devastating consequences.
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Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Released: November 7, 1982
Type: TV
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the students. Meanwhile, Kate is subjected to the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, aided by her uncle. Nicholas and his new friend, Smike, begin their adventures and eventually set out to rescue Kate, with the usual Dickensian twists, turns and asides.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Fowler
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: Minder
Character: Hargreaves
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Minder
Character: Eric Morgan
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Warship
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: TV
Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero.
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Just Because You're Paranoid...
Title: Just Because You're Paranoid...
Character: The Therapist
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
From babies to butchers, everyone seems to hate Derek. Is he paranoid, or are they really out to get him?