Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert Penry-Jones

Born: September 22, 1970
in London, England, UK
​Rupert William Penry-Jones  (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.

Movies for Rupert Penry-Jones...

Title: Those About to Die
Character: Marsus
Released: July 18, 2024
Type: TV
Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.
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Title: Our House
Character: Toby
Released: March 7, 2022
Type: TV
Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
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The Batman
Title: The Batman
Character: Mayor Don Mitchell, Jr.
Released: March 1, 2022
Type: Movie
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Title: The Drowning
Character: Mark
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.
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Title: The Palace and the Press
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: TV
The British Royal Family and the tabloid press have had a long and complicated relationship. THE PALACE AND THE PRESS provides a fresh look at the biggest Royal stories of the last 60 years, told through their sensational royal scoops, iconic pictures and most memorable front pages.
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Title: Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
Character: Lancelot (voice)
Released: August 7, 2020
Type: TV
Merlin’s apprentice joins Arcadia’s heroes on a time-bending adventure in Camelot, where conflict is brewing between the human, troll and magical worlds.
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Title: The Royals and the Tabloids
Character: Voice Over
Released: July 25, 2020
Type: TV
A documentary from channel 5 detailing the royals and their troubled relationship with the press.
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Love Sarah
Title: Love Sarah
Character: Matthew
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
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Getting to Know You
Title: Getting to Know You
Character: Luke
Released: May 26, 2020
Type: Movie
When his drunken ex-girlfriend won't leave him alone, a man asks a married woman staying at the same hotel to pretend to be his wife. What could go wrong? It's not like two strangers spending a weekend in a small town could possibly fall in love - Getting To Know You is a delightful love story for grownups starring Natasha Little, Rupert Penry-Jones and Rachel Blanchard.
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Title: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Character: First Lieutenant Jonathon Lofthouse
Released: February 27, 2020
Type: Movie
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
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Title: The Commons
Character: Dom Boulay
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: TV
Set in a gripping vision of the near future, THE COMMONS is an absorbing character-driven relationship drama and a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity.
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Vita & Virginia
Title: Vita & Virginia
Character: Harold Nicolson
Released: May 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
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Title: Stan Lee's Lucky Man
Character: Samuel Blake
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: TV
London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.
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Crown for Christmas
Title: Crown for Christmas
Character: Maximillian
Released: November 27, 2015
Type: Movie
Allie Foster, a struggling New York artist, reluctantly accepts to act as a governess to a rebellious Princess Theodora of Winshire. When Allie forms an unlikely bond with the princess, she attracts the attention of the handsome King Maximillian, who’s facing an arranged marriage against his heart’s wishes. As Christmas Eve draws near, Allie finds herself swept up in romance, royalty and the spirit of the holidays.
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Title: Life In Squares
Character: Duncan Grant
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: TV
The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
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A Little Chaos
Title: A Little Chaos
Character: Antoine Lauzun
Released: March 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
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Title: The Strain
Character: Mr. Quinlan
Released: July 13, 2014
Type: TV
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
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Defeating the Hackers
Title: Defeating the Hackers
Character: Naarator
Released: October 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.
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Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress
Title: Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: Movie
The extraordinary story of Edward VIII's first love affair, involving a murder trial, a secret cache of vanished letters, and a cover-up to save the reputation of the future King.
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Title: The Last Weekend
Character: Ollie
Released: August 19, 2012
Type: TV
When Ian and Em receive a surprise invitation from their old friend Ollie to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside, they expect an idyllic holiday. But the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
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Red Tails
Title: Red Tails
Character: Campbell
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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Title: Treasure Island
Character: Squire John Trelawney
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: TV
In this two-part miniseries adaptation of the classic adventure novel, young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can direct a schooner to an island known for buried treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious man whose true motives challenge Jim's trust in the entire crew.
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Title: Silk
Character: Clive Reader
Released: February 22, 2011
Type: TV
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
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Title: Whitechapel
Character: DI Joseph Chandler
Released: February 2, 2009
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Richard Hanay
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.
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Title: Burn Up
Character: Tom
Released: June 10, 2008
Type: TV
An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
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Joe's Palace
Title: Joe's Palace
Character: Richard Reece
Released: November 4, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
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Title: The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Captain Wentworth
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Royal Navy captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. First the former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.
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Krakatoa: The Last Days
Title: Krakatoa: The Last Days
Character: Willem Beijerinck
Released: June 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
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Match Point
Title: Match Point
Character: Henry
Released: October 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe fall in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom's fiancee Nola.
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Title: Casanova
Character: Grimani
Released: March 13, 2005
Type: TV
Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2004
Type: TV
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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Title: Cambridge Spies
Character: Donald Maclean
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: TV
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
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Title: Top Gear
Character: Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
Released: October 20, 2002
Type: TV
This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
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The Four Feathers
Title: The Four Feathers
Character: Tom Willoughby
Released: September 8, 2002
Type: Movie
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Adam Carter
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Charlotte Gray
Title: Charlotte Gray
Character: Peter Gregory
Released: December 28, 2001
Type: Movie
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
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Title: North Square
Character: Alex Hay
Released: October 18, 2000
Type: TV
North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal Chambers. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area near the city where the majority of legal firms are concentrated. Despite gaining considerable critical acclaim the show failed to garner a substantial audience resulting in only the one series of ten episodes being produced. In Australia the series was broadcast in 2001 on ABC and repeated in 2004 after popular and critical acclaim. The full series was released on DVD for the first time by Acorn Media UK on 5 March 2012.
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Virtual Sexuality
Title: Virtual Sexuality
Character: Jake
Released: July 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
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Hilary and Jackie
Title: Hilary and Jackie
Character: Piers Du Pré
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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The Student Prince
Title: The Student Prince
Character: The Prince
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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Still Crazy
Title: Still Crazy
Character: Young Ray
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
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The Tribe
Title: The Tribe
Character: Dietrich
Released: June 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
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Bent
Title: Bent
Character: Guard on Road
Released: November 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
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Food of Love
Title: Food of Love
Character: Head office
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: St John Rivers
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Title: The Moth
Character: Stanley Thorman
Released: February 28, 1997
Type: TV
Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man. So he becomes a servant for the destructive Thormans, and falls for the lady of the house, Sarah. But in 1913 this upstairs/downstairs romance can only lead to disaster.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Stanley Thorman
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man. So he becomes a servant for the destructive Thormans, and falls for the lady of the house, Sarah. But in 1913 this upstairs/downstairs romance can only lead to disaster.
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The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: Gerhard von Gotthard
Released: October 20, 1996
Type: Movie
During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.
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Title: The Ring
Character: Gerhard von Gotthard
Released: October 20, 1996
Type: TV
During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.
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Title: Cold Lazarus
Character: Militiaman
Released: May 26, 1996
Type: TV
The year is 2368 and a group of scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.
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Title: Cold Lazarus
Character: Policeman
Released: May 26, 1996
Type: TV
The year is 2368 and a group of scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.
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Title: Faith in the Future
Character: Sam
Released: November 17, 1995
Type: TV
Faith in the Future is a British comedy television show running from 17 November 1995 to 27 February 1998. A sequel to the show Second Thoughts, it aired on ITV for 22 episodes. The show continues the story of Faith Greyshott, newly single after splitting from her long-term partner, Bill, at the end of Second Thoughts. With her daughter Hannah away travelling and her son Joe now in a shared flat, Faith decides it's time to stop being a wife and mother and live her life for herself; however, her plans are scuppered when Hannah returns and expects to move back home.
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Title: Kavanagh Q.C.
Character: Lt. Ralph Kinross
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: TV
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.
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Cold Comfort Farm
Title: Cold Comfort Farm
Character: Dick Hawk-Monitor
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
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Fatherland
Title: Fatherland
Character: Jost
Released: November 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Wild-Looking Young Man
Released: July 29, 1994
Type: Movie
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Released: November 12, 1992
Type: TV
Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Roddy Winter
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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Title: French & Saunders
Character: Stage Manager
Released: March 9, 1987
Type: TV
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Horizon
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: February 4, 1964
Type: TV
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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Title: Persuasion
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's eponymous novel. It was directed by Adrian Shergold and the screenplay was written by Simon Burke. Sally Hawkins stars as the protagonist Anne Elliot, while Rupert Penry-Jones plays Frederick Wentworth. Eight years prior to the film's beginning, Anne was persuaded to reject Wentworth's proposal of marriage. Now 27 and unmarried, Anne re-encounters Wentworth, who has made his fortune in the Napoleonic Wars and is looking for a wife – anyone but Anne, whom he has not forgiven for rejecting him all those years ago. Persuasion was one of three novels adapted for ITV's Jane Austen season. It was the first of the three adaptations to begin development. The drama was co-produced by Clerkenwell Films and American studio WGBH Boston. Persuasion premiered on 1 April 2007 in the United Kingdom and was watched by 5.4 million viewers. Persuasion received mixed reviews from television critics.
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Prisoners of Paradise
Title: Prisoners of Paradise
Character: George Huyton
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1925, 17-year-old orphan Lucy Gladwell is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton. Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna, a laborer working on a nearby plantation.
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Pegasus Bridge
Title: Pegasus Bridge
Character: Colonel Geoffrey Pine-Coffin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied Airborne Forces launched one of most daring assaults in history. 181 men in 6 gliders landed at night to capture two bridges vital to the success of the D-Day landings, one of these would become known as Pegasus Bridge.