Victor Maddern

Victor Maddern

Born: March 16, 1926
Died: June 22, 1993
in Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, England
Victor Jack Maddern was an English actor, described by The Telegraph as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema."

Movies for Victor Maddern...

Title: Justice
Released: April 4, 2011
Type: TV
Justice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode was originally broadcast on 4 April 2011 on BBC One.
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The Best Of Dick Emery
Title: The Best Of Dick Emery
Released: July 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.
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Sweet Nothing
Title: Sweet Nothing
Character: Frankie
Released: September 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
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Defrosting the Fridge
Title: Defrosting the Fridge
Character: Barney
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers an English, American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game.
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Title: C.A.B
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Character: P.C. Johnson
Released: February 21, 1985
Type: TV
The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Stanley
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: P.C. Johnson
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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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: Together
Character: Harry Klein
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: TV
Residents of a sheltered accommodation block run by a warden go about their business.
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Carry On Emmannuelle
Title: Carry On Emmannuelle
Character: Man in Launderette
Released: October 12, 1978
Type: Movie
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?
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Title: 1990
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: TV
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
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That's Carry On!
Title: That's Carry On!
Character: Various Characters
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
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Title: Carry On Laughing
Released: January 4, 1975
Type: TV
A series of half-hour stories, mostly historical romps, presented by the Carry On team. Starring Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims and other regulars from the films.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Joe Fisk
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Frighteners
Character: Harry
Released: May 14, 1972
Type: TV
A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
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Steptoe & Son
Title: Steptoe & Son
Character: Chauffeur
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
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Title: Justice
Character: Eddy Plater
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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A Hole Lot of Trouble
Title: A Hole Lot of Trouble
Character: Percy
Released: January 31, 1971
Type: Movie
Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.
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Title: Six Dates with Barker
Released: January 8, 1971
Type: TV
Six Dates with Barker is a series of six one-off, half hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by London Weekend Television early in 1971. Writers on the series included John Cleese and Spike Milligan. The producer was Humphrey Barclay.
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Title: Shadows of Fear
Character: Dawson
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: TV
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Title: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Character: Junkman
Released: December 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
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The Lost Continent
Title: The Lost Continent
Character: The Mate
Released: June 19, 1968
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Title: Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Character: Robson
Released: April 20, 1968
Type: Movie
When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam as well as a major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas” What is really happening at "Euro Sea Gas." Can the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria survive "The Fury from the Deep"!
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Talk of the Devil
Title: Talk of the Devil
Character: Cinders
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.
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Run Like a Thief
Title: Run Like a Thief
Character: Abel Baker
Released: October 11, 1967
Type: Movie
The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Bandmaster
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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The Cuckoo Patrol
Title: The Cuckoo Patrol
Character: Dicko
Released: July 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
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The Magnificent Two
Title: The Magnificent Two
Character: Drunken Soldier
Released: July 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.
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Another Day, Another Dollar
Title: Another Day, Another Dollar
Character: Wagger
Released: March 8, 1967
Type: Movie
A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.
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Circus of Fear
Title: Circus of Fear
Character: Mason
Released: April 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: Cabbie
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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Rotten to the Core
Title: Rotten to the Core
Character: Anxious O'Toole
Released: July 14, 1965
Type: Movie
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Charles Randle
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Carry On Cleo
Title: Carry On Cleo
Character: Segeant-Major
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
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Title: The Wednesday Play
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: TV
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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Carry On Spying
Title: Carry On Spying
Character: Milchmann
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Robson
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Jim Cowdry
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Camp Cook (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Title: Fair Exchange
Released: September 21, 1962
Type: TV
Fair Exchange is an American television comedy that ran from 1962 to 1963 on CBS. It stars Eddie Foy, Jr. and Audrey Christie.
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H.M.S. Defiant
Title: H.M.S. Defiant
Character: Dawlish
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Ship's Cook
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Brewer
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Petticoat Pirates
Title: Petticoat Pirates
Character: CPO Nixon
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: 1st Airman
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Removal Man
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Sergeant
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Crossroads to Crime
Title: Crossroads to Crime
Character: Len
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
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Watch Your Stern
Title: Watch Your Stern
Character: Sailor fishing for bike
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: Movie
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
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Light Up the Sky!
Title: Light Up the Sky!
Character: Lance Bombardier Tomlinson
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Released: March 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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Please Turn Over
Title: Please Turn Over
Character: Manager
Released: December 17, 1959
Type: Movie
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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I'm All Right Jack
Title: I'm All Right Jack
Character: Knowles
Released: August 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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The Siege of Pinchgut
Title: The Siege of Pinchgut
Character: Bert
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
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I Was Monty's Double
Title: I Was Monty's Double
Character: Orderly Sergeant
Released: October 21, 1958
Type: Movie
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Vic
Released: September 19, 1958
Type: TV
'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 1964.
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Blood of the Vampire
Title: Blood of the Vampire
Character: Carl
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
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Cat & Mouse
Title: Cat & Mouse
Character: Supt. Harding
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems.
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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Merchant Seaman
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
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The Safecracker
Title: The Safecracker
Character: Morris
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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Happy Is the Bride
Title: Happy Is the Bride
Character: Shop Steward
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
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Son of a Stranger
Title: Son of a Stranger
Character: Lenny
Released: March 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Figg
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Strangers' Meeting
Title: Strangers' Meeting
Character: Willie Fisher
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence heads a stellar cast, including such reliables as Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips and Reginald Hearne. The plot centers around acrobat Peter Arne, falsely accused of murder. Escaping from the authorities, Arne hides out in a rustic inn, allowing first-time director (and former cinematographer) Robert Day ample opportunity for dark, menacing shadows and sinister underlighting. The genuine murderer is revealed just seconds before the culprit's death. Stranger's Meeting was held back from release until Robert Day's "official" directorial debut, The Green Man, had made the rounds.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Gilbert Tyrell
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Saint Joan
Title: Saint Joan
Character: English Soldier
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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Abandon Ship
Title: Abandon Ship
Character: Willy Hawkins
Released: March 12, 1957
Type: Movie
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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The Man in the Sky
Title: The Man in the Sky
Character: Joe Biggs
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: Pvt. Lindop
Released: September 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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Child in the House
Title: Child in the House
Character: Bert
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Bonaker
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Private George Blake
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Sgt. Craig
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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Josephine and Men
Title: Josephine and Men
Character: Henry
Released: November 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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Footsteps in the Fog
Title: Footsteps in the Fog
Character: Jones
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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The Night My Number Came Up
Title: The Night My Number Came Up
Character: The Engineer
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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It's a Great Day
Title: It's a Great Day
Character: Charlie Mead
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
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Carrington V.C.
Title: Carrington V.C.
Character: Bombardier Owen
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
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The Young Lovers
Title: The Young Lovers
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Gus Westover
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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Street of Shadows
Title: Street of Shadows
Character: Danny 'Limpy' Thomas
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
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The Good Beginning
Title: The Good Beginning
Character: Bookies Runner
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
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Sailor of the King
Title: Sailor of the King
Character: Signalman Willy Earnshaw
Released: June 11, 1953
Type: Movie
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Army Airfield Soldier
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Character: Saboteur
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
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The Planter's Wife
Title: The Planter's Wife
Character: Radio Operator
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: British N.C.O.
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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Angels One Five
Title: Angels One Five
Character: Airman
Released: March 19, 1952
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: Second Soldier
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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The Franchise Affair
Title: The Franchise Affair
Character: Mechanic
Released: February 19, 1951
Type: Movie
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?