Douglas Henshall

Douglas Henshall

Born: November 19, 1965
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Douglas Henshall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1965. His mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters. He grew up in Barrhead and attended Barrhead High School. Whilst at school a friend asked him to join The Scottish Youth Theatre based in Glasgow. After leaving school, he moved to London to train at Mountview Theatre School. He returned to Glasgow after training where he joined the 7:84 theater company. Eventually, he went back to live in London where he received critical acclaim for his theater work, notably "Life of Stuff" at the Donmar Warehouse (1993) and "American Buffalo" at the Young Vic (1997). One of his first successful film roles was as Edgar in 

Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998), Lawless Heart (2001) and It's All About Love (2003) . He has also starred in many television series and is known for his roles in 

Psychos(1999), Kid in the Corner (1999), Loving You (2003) and Frances Tuesday (2004). Douglas has also performed in plays for BBC radio, including the role of Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet (1999), David in "The Long Farewell" (2002), Jack Parlabane in "Bampot Central" (2004) and Richard in "Richard III" (2004). In the summer of 2002, Douglas returned to the London stage where he performed the role of Michael Bakunin in 

Tom Stoppard's new trilogy of plays, 'The Coast of Utopia', at The National Theatre. During 2004 he continued stage work starring as John Proctor in 'Arthur Miller' 's 'The Crucible' at The Crucible in Sheffield and Thomas Huxley in 'Darwin in Malibu' by Crispin Whittell, at the Hampstead Theatre. In 2005 Douglas made his West End debut at The Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue playing Biff Loman in the critically acclaimed production of Arthur Miller' 's play 'Death of a Salesman', alongside 

Brian Dennehy.

Movies for Douglas Henshall...

Title: Murder Is Easy
Character: Major Horton
Released: December 27, 2023
Type: TV
England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise — and when she’s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again.
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Title: Who Is Erin Carter?
Character: Daniel Long
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: TV
A British woman's tranquil life in Barcelona spirals out of control when an armed robbery at a supermarket exposes her secret... and violent past.
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Title: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2022
Type: TV
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.
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Wednesday
Title: Wednesday
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A global lockdown might feel like the perfect time to write a piece of reflective drama, but for one bickering couple the creative process leads to nothing but disagreement.
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Susan Hill's Ghost Story
Title: Susan Hill's Ghost Story
Character: Adam Snow
Released: December 26, 2019
Type: Movie
An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate the strange occurrences within his life.
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Title: Power to the People
Character: Narrator
Released: October 14, 2019
Type: TV
Douglas Henshall narrates this series looking back on Scotland's 100-year war for worker power.
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Orphans Reunited
Title: Orphans Reunited
Released: May 11, 2019
Type: Movie
20th anniversary documentary on “Orphans” including interviews with cast and crew.
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Title: Secret Agent Selection: WW2
Character: Narrator
Released: April 9, 2018
Type: TV
The training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.
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Title: Mountain: Life at the Extreme
Character: Narrator
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: TV
A landmark 3-part series from the BBC's Natural History Unit revealing the extraordinary animals and remarkable people who make a home in the iconic mountain ranges of the world. There is one episode each on the Himalaya, Rockies and Andes.
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Title: In Plain Sight
Character: William Muncie
Released: December 7, 2016
Type: TV
Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
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Iona
Title: Iona
Character: Daniel
Released: June 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave through the family she left behind.
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Title: Black Work
Character: DCS Hepburn
Released: June 21, 2015
Type: TV
'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of action, in his job as a undercover cop. Jo, a police officer herself soon has to confront issues in her marriage and family life in order to discover who really killed her husband.
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Scotland In A Day
Title: Scotland In A Day
Released: September 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.
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Title: Outlander
Character: Taran MacQuarrie
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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The Salvation
Title: The Salvation
Character: Sheriff Mallick
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
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Title: Shetland
Character: DI Jimmy Perez
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: TV
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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Doors Open
Title: Doors Open
Character: Mike Mackenzie
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Heist thriller and adaptation of Ian Rankin's book, which sees a bored millionaire plan to swap the contents of a gallery's warehouse with near-perfect forgeries.
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Title: The Secret of Crickley Hall
Character: Augustus Cribben
Released: November 18, 2012
Type: TV
A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open on their own, phantom children's cries are heard through the night and a frenzied cane-wielding specter rears its head - the Caleigh's realize the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for. Just as they're ready to move out, Eve Caleigh hears Cam's cries and all bets are off.
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The Snipist
Title: The Snipist
Character: Harker
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
The struggle of a lone sniper in a dystopian future Britain plagued with rabies and ruled over by a sinistrous Ministry of Information.
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How I Was Stolen by the Germans
Title: How I Was Stolen by the Germans
Character: Werner Kraus
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: Movie
How I Was Stolen by the Germans (Serbian: Koko su me ukrali Nemci) is a Serbian movie. Alex (52) is sufficiently renowned writer who is engaged in repairing other people's texts. It is vital, educated, talented but a bit of a misanthrope. One day in his life enters a girl Roma (6). Alex tells her the stories of his childhood ... The movie is a story of the film director childhood.
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Title: South Riding
Character: Joe Astell
Released: February 20, 2011
Type: TV
The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Character: Cradoc
Released: February 8, 2011
Type: Movie
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
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Title: The Silence
Character: Jim
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Drama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman.
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Title: Collision
Character: D.I. John Tolin
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives.
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Dorian Gray
Title: Dorian Gray
Character: Alan Campbell
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
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French Film
Title: French Film
Character: Marcus
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie Beginnings, endings, tricks...could the French be on to something?
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Lezioni di volo
Title: Lezioni di volo
Character: Aarto
Released: March 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
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Title: Primeval
Character: Nick Cutter
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: TV
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
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Free Jimmy
Title: Free Jimmy
Character: Eddie (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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Ripley Under Ground
Title: Ripley Under Ground
Character: Derwatt
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Title: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Character: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Released: September 8, 2005
Type: Movie
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
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Title: Frances Tuesday
Character: Lucas Pilgrim
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
A gangsters moll changes her identity to go on the run after becoming informant on her boyfriend, who is just about to be released from prison.
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Title: Sea of Souls
Character: Robert Dunbar
Released: February 2, 2004
Type: TV
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
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It's All About Love
Title: It's All About Love
Character: Michael
Released: January 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
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Silent Cry
Title: Silent Cry
Released: July 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
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Lawless Heart
Title: Lawless Heart
Character: Tim
Released: June 28, 2002
Type: Movie
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Title: Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Character: Davis Dawson (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
Released: April 16, 2002
Type: Movie
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
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Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: T.E. Lawrence
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: TV
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history.
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Gentlemen's Relish
Title: Gentlemen's Relish
Character: Cromwell Marsh
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his housekeeper, Violet Askey, that keeps him going and it is she who encourages him to switch to photography. Soon Swann has developed a healthy (and respectable) business with portraits of naked women in classical and exotic settings. However, the nature of Swann's new work is open to misinterpretation and he finds himself at the centre of a scandal involving the misuse of his pictures by a SOHO pornographer, and the focus of a campaign by suffragettes against the expoitation of women. At the same time, he loses the support of the loyal Violet, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about Swann's relationship with one of his models. When Violet then becomes involved in the suffragette and amti-pornography movements, it seems all may be lost for Swann - both professionally...and personally.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Character: T.E. Lawrence
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
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Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Levin
Released: May 9, 2000
Type: TV
In 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the dashing Count Vronsky that could lead to both their ruin. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
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Title: Kid in the Corner
Character: Alex Letts
Released: November 24, 1999
Type: TV
As a couple struggles to cope with the difficulties of raising a child with Attention Deficit Disorder, they fight with a society that can’t agree on what do to with him.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Character: T.E. Lawrence
Released: November 21, 1999
Type: Movie
In the fifteenth film in the series, in October 1917, working with a beautiful lady spy, Indiana Jones is assigned to assist the British forces in their attack on the Turkish-occupied town of Beersheba. With a regiment of the Australian Lighthorsemen approaching, Indy must defuse the explosives the Turks have placed throughout the town.
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Title: Psychos
Released: May 6, 1999
Type: TV
Focuses on a manic-depressive psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Nash, and the mental hospital in Glasgow where he works.
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This Year's Love
Title: This Year's Love
Character: Danny
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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Twice Upon a Yesterday
Title: Twice Upon a Yesterday
Character: Victor Bukowski
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.
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Fast Food
Title: Fast Food
Character: Benny
Released: October 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl he's been in love with since childhood and that's home to his four petty criminal friends, Jacko, Zac, Bisto and Flea.
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Orphans
Title: Orphans
Character: Michael
Released: September 3, 1998
Type: Movie
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
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Kull the Conqueror
Title: Kull the Conqueror
Character: Ducalon
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain the throne, the former king's heirs resurrect Akivasha, a witch queen. However, Akivasha has plans of her own for the throne, and only Kull stands in the way.
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Sharpe's Justice
Title: Sharpe's Justice
Character: Captain George Wickham
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on the verge of strike or outright revolt. Meanwhile, Sharpe's faithless wife and her lover fall within range of Sharpe's wrath. Sharpe, with his two of his devoted Chosen Men nearby, must decide whether to continue to protect the mill owners or to take the side of their fiercely downtrodden workers.
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Crossing the Floor
Title: Crossing the Floor
Character: Clive Colville
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
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Angels and Insects
Title: Angels and Insects
Character: Edgar Alabaster
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
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Title: Common As Muck
Character: Brian Forget
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: TV
Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their management staff. It ran for two series. The first series was screened in 1994 and the second in 1997. Both were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama.
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Rose Red
Title: Rose Red
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The theft of an experimental drug to suppress the immune system reveals a case of virtual reality addiction and forces a detective to confront his nightmares.
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Down Among the Big Boys
Title: Down Among the Big Boys
Character: Louie Gibbons
Released: September 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
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Title: Lipstick on Your Collar
Character: Corporal Berry
Released: February 21, 1993
Type: TV
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
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Title: GMTV
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.
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The Big Man
Title: The Big Man
Character: Davie Dawson
Released: August 31, 1990
Type: Movie
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Dancing in the Dark details the unlikely relationship between an ex skinhead with HIV and and yuppie Asian girl
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Silent Scream
Title: Silent Scream
Character: News Reporter
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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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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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Joep Huizinga
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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One Of Us
Title: One Of Us
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest searches for the stranger in their midst.
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With Friends Like These
Title: With Friends Like These
Character: Phil
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
With Friends Like These is a reunion with a difference, set in the home of Simon, a hitherto struggling actor and minor celebrity whose treading of the boards for the past twenty years has finally paid off with a lead Hollywood film role. To celebrate he invites seven University friends to a large country house for one extraordinary weekend reunion. Life has been kinder to some than others, and what starts with a veneer of friendly banter and mutual respect soon descends into acrimony and resentment as old rivalries resurface. With all of the frictions between them, will they be friends when the weekend is over…?