Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Swift

Born: June 27, 1960
in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England
Jeremy Paul Swift (born 27 June 1960) is an English actor. He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981 and worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre company and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period Swift also worked on numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre working alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's production of What the Butler Saw.

Movies for Jeremy Swift...

Descendants: The Rise of Red
Title: Descendants: The Rise of Red
Character: Principal Merlin
Released: July 12, 2024
Type: Movie
The daughters of the Queen of Hearts and Cinderella travel back in time to prevent a coup in Auradon.
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10 Lives
Title: 10 Lives
Character: Happy (voice)
Released: April 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Beckett is a pampered and selfish cat who totally takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt. All that is about to change, however, when he carelessly loses his ninth life.
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The Art Of Love
Title: The Art Of Love
Character: Ben Parker
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Eva is in her mid-50s and is stuck in a rut. Her marriage has lost all passion and she begins to write reviews for a sex toy start-up hoping the extra cash will fund a holiday that could rekindle the spark.
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Title: Ted Lasso
Character: Leslie Higgins
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: TV
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
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Mary Poppins Returns
Title: Mary Poppins Returns
Character: Gooding / Badger (voice)
Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Reverend Chasuble
Released: October 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A new production of one of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, was broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End and is now available as a recorded programme. Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.
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Gun Shy
Title: Gun Shy
Character: Charlie
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.
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Title: Strike
Character: Owen Quine
Released: August 27, 2017
Type: TV
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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Title: National Treasure
Character: Simon
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Character: Edwin
Released: May 8, 2016
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of his mother's death, Edwin reaches out to his extended family for support.
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Title: The Durrells
Character: Dennis
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
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Title: Houdini & Doyle
Character: Dr. Henry Whitaker
Released: March 13, 2016
Type: TV
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
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#Starvecrow
Title: #Starvecrow
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Ben is a control-freak, charmer, abuser and warped product of the digital age. He films everything. Jess is just out of rehab. Their worlds are dominated by each other. Jess now needs some space and time apart from Ben and is invited by her friends to their house in the woods for the weekend. People arrive and the party kicks off… but not everyone attending has been invited.
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Jupiter Ascending
Title: Jupiter Ascending
Character: Vasilliy Bolodnikov
Released: February 4, 2015
Type: Movie
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
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Downhill
Title: Downhill
Character: Steve
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
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Title: The Crimson Field
Character: QMS Reggie Soper
Released: April 6, 2014
Type: TV
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
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Title: Count Arthur Strong
Character: Colin
Released: July 8, 2013
Type: TV
Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he was... or still thinks he is. Believing that another great entertainment triumph is only a phone call away, Arthur spends his day making the most of any opportunity that comes along - gaining a free lunch or selling a dodgy foot-spa he doesn't want - creating chaos and confusion wherever he goes, blissfully unaware that he has done so.
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Title: The Royal Bodyguard
Released: December 26, 2011
Type: TV
The Royal Bodyguard is a British television sitcom, written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni, and starring David Jason, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Downie and Timothy Bentinck. A series of six episodes began on 26 December 2011, concluding on 30 January 2012. The first episode picked up more than 8 million viewers but the series declined in ratings throughout, with the fifth episode barely achieving 2 million viewers. The series was heavily criticised by viewers and critics. At 71 Jason was widely felt to be too old for the lead role. The show was cancelled by the BBC and will not return for further episodes.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Spratt
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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Anton Chekhov's The Duel
Title: Anton Chekhov's The Duel
Character: Deacon
Released: April 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her.
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Canoe Man
Title: Canoe Man
Character: DS Twist
Released: March 30, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
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On Expenses
Title: On Expenses
Released: February 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
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Title: Garrow's Law
Character: William Grove
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: TV
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
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Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
Title: Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
Character: Noddy
Released: April 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Hurled through a portal, the Red Dwarf crew discover they’re just characters in a TV series. Can they track down their creators and discover how long they have left to live?
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The Antiques Rogue Show
Title: The Antiques Rogue Show
Character: Shaun Greenhalgh
Released: January 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculptures to dupe the art world.
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Fred Claus
Title: Fred Claus
Character: Bob Elf
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
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Boy A
Title: Boy A
Character: Dave
Released: October 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
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Are You Ready for Love?
Title: Are You Ready for Love?
Character: James
Released: December 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Live!Girls! present Dogtown
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: TV
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown is a comedy series shown on BBC Three. It tells the story of life for the residents of Horton-le-Hole, a fictional coastal town where things are not all they seem. A controlling optician meets a mild librarian to enact secret fantasies as Oscar-winning movie stars and Olympic champions; a socially inept teacher dreams of becoming a deputy head; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic has set up a business in a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are systematically and mysteriously vandalised, one of the greatest love affairs the world has ever known begins to stir in the library. Written by Sunderland twin sisters Emma and Beth Kilcoyne, and starring Emma Kilcoyne and Sam Battersea, who perform in a number of guises, the series is based on their live act, Live! Girls!, which played in Edinburgh to rave reviews. Emma Kilcoyne plays Eenie Thompson, the 73-year-old arsonist dwarf; Bill Taddler, the misguided and overbearing geography teacher; and Denise Taylor, the put-upon librarian with a secret. Sam Battersea plays Sheila Taddler, Bill's long-suffering wife, and Carol Gomez, the unusual optician with the domineering fantasy life. Dogtown's regular supporting cast includes Geraldine McNulty as Sue McCardle, the ruthlessly ambitious "Scale Two" librarian; and James Gaddas as Geoff Torville, her debonair, film noir-ish boss; as well as Rachel Pickup, Madelaine Newton and Dave Johns. The series also features cameo appearances from Kevin Whately and Imelda Staunton.
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Amazing Grace
Title: Amazing Grace
Character: Richard the Butler
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mr. Bumble
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: Doc Martin
Character: Miles Green
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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Title: 55 Degrees North
Released: July 6, 2004
Type: TV
Armed with a self-effacing manner and a lively sense of humour, Nicky quickly discovers that being a good cop doesn't always win you friends. Stuck away from the land of the living as a night detective, he learns that new friends are in short supply”the other detectives look upon him with suspicion and his boss DI Carter doesn't do much to make his new recruit welcome. Although his methods can, at times, be unorthodox, Nicky always tries to do the right thing, even if it does make him unpopular with his new colleagues.
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Title: The Smoking Room
Released: June 29, 2004
Type: TV
The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on BBC Three between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on 20 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005. The first series, including the Christmas Special, was released on DVD by the BBC on 6 February 2006 and on CD in a four-disc set on 4 April 2005. The second series was released on 16 October 2006; a boxed set containing both series was released on the same date. There will not be a third series; in an interview for the BBC News website on 30 November 2006, the actor Robert Webb who plays Robin, said in passing, "...there is no more Smoking Room". England's smoking ban, which prohibits indoor smoking in workplaces, came into force on 1 July 2007, as a result of which internal smoking rooms, like the one in which the series is set, became illegal.
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Title: The Alan Clark Diaries
Released: January 15, 2004
Type: TV
Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.
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Reversals
Title: Reversals
Character: Owen Doherty
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Young medical professional couple set out to prove that gender is not a factor in the ability to do a job well. Hilarity ensues as they swap jobs, clothes, and gender, in order to see what life is like from a different perspective.
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To Kill a King
Title: To Kill a King
Character: The Earl of Whitby
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
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Bertie and Elizabeth
Title: Bertie and Elizabeth
Character: Royal Page
Released: July 7, 2002
Type: Movie
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Title: The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
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Gosford Park
Title: Gosford Park
Character: Arthur
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
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Dark Blue World
Title: Dark Blue World
Character: Cpl. Pierce
Released: May 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Williams
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 Tale of the Rat That Wrote
Title: The Tale of the Rat That Wrote
Character: J.P. Haddock
Released: September 5, 1999
Type: Movie
A Dickensian tale of rats, recompense and retribution.
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Bostock's Cup
Title: Bostock's Cup
Character: Sam Tilton
Released: June 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Former players and associates of third division club Bostock Stanley gather for a celebratory dinner to commemorate their famous FA Cup victory twenty-five years previously during which a shocking truth is revealed.
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Title: S Club 7
Character: Stewart
Released: April 8, 1999
Type: TV
Be sure to catch this brilliant comedy show starring the brilliant pop group S Club, one of the most successful pop groups around. The show is all about the normal and ab-normal goings on with talented group of friends trying to be famous.
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The Student Prince
Title: The Student Prince
Character: Shaggy
Released: November 22, 1998
Type: Movie
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal family and left school at fifteen. He certainly didn't volunteer for this job, and is damned if he's going to enjoy it. Yet he can't help liking the hopelessly unworldly young prince, at least, until they both set their eyes on the new American student!
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Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Jos Sedley
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: TV
Becky Sharp is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost.
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Title: Blind Men
Released: November 21, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: The Grand
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: TV
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann. The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Character: Dave Fernie
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Title: An Actor's Life For Me
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
An Actor's Life For Me is a British sitcom that aired on BBC Radio 2 from 1989 to 1993 and on BBC television in 1991. Starring John Gordon Sinclair and Gina McKee, it was written by Paul Mayhew-Archer, who later co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley.
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Title: Paul Merton: The Series
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: TV
Fresh from his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, Paul starred in his own comedy series on Channel 4, featuring a mix of surreal sketches, links and stand-up routines
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Title: Red Dwarf
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Noddy
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Noah Fitch
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Mr. Love
Title: Mr. Love
Character: Boy in Projection Room
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Fords on Water
Title: Fords on Water
Character: Southern Soldier
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
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Title: Sweetpea
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Rhiannon never complains, smiling through it all with reserves of serenity and a sparkling wit. She has become skilled at keeping it together. Being normal. But behind this mask is a ferocious power lying dormant, and a long-buried secret that Rhiannon wishes she could forget. When a chance encounter with a stranger leads to a shocking act of violence, Rhiannon's mask slips completely and she is forced to confront the darker side she has long kept hidden.