Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Born: October 12, 1921
Died: June 25, 2006
in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Kenneth Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

Movies for Kenneth Griffith...

Very Annie Mary
Title: Very Annie Mary
Character: Minister
Released: May 25, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Title: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Character: Reverend Jones
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Character: Mad Old Man - Wedding One
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Title: Shaka Zulu
Character: Zacharias Abrahams
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: TV
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Sir Desmond Clark
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Title: The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Isaac of York
Released: May 22, 1984
Type: Movie
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: Joe
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
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Who Dares Wins
Title: Who Dares Wins
Character: Bishop Crick
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
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Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
Title: Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
Character: himself (presenter)
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Title: Berlin Tunnel 21
Character: Bruno Balderbach
Released: March 25, 1981
Type: Movie
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Charlie Wilton
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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Title: Minder
Character: Dai Llewellyn
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Arthur Witty
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Title: Why Shoot the Teacher?
Character: Inspector Woods
Released: June 23, 1977
Type: Movie
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
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Sky Riders
Title: Sky Riders
Character: Wasserman
Released: March 26, 1976
Type: Movie
When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders.
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S*P*Y*S
Title: S*P*Y*S
Character: Lippet
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
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The Prison
Title: The Prison
Character: Julien Bour
Released: May 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has had an affair for several years.
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Callan
Title: Callan
Character: Waterman
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assasination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
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The House in Nightmare Park
Title: The House in Nightmare Park
Character: Ernest Henderson
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
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Hang Up Your Brightest Colours
Title: Hang Up Your Brightest Colours
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Actor/writer Kenneth Griffith's polemic eulogy to Irish patriot Michael Collins.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Seely
Released: August 26, 1971
Type: Movie
A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mason
Released: December 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: Broadfoot
Released: April 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.
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The Assassination Bureau
Title: The Assassination Bureau
Character: Monsieur Popescu
Released: March 9, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
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Great Catherine
Title: Great Catherine
Character: Naryshkin
Released: November 29, 1968
Type: Movie
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
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The Lion in Winter
Title: The Lion in Winter
Character: Strolling Player
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Title: Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Character: Mr. Church
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
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A Fairy Story
Title: A Fairy Story
Released: September 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A father tells his son a fairy story. Animated short.
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Title: Ooh La La!
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: TV
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Schnipps / Number Two
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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Title: The Prisoner
Character: The President
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 Whisperers
Title: The Whisperers
Character: Mr. Weaver
Released: July 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
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The Bobo
Title: The Bobo
Character: Pepe Gamazo
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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A Walk in the Sea
Title: A Walk in the Sea
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Character: Mr Rounds
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Rotten to the Core
Title: Rotten to the Core
Character: Lenny the Dip
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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The Airy Tomb
Title: The Airy Tomb
Character: Narrator
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girls in the village and to his own isolation as he scratches a living from the farm.
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Heavens Above!
Title: Heavens Above!
Character: Rev. Owen Thomas
Released: May 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
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We Joined the Navy
Title: We Joined the Navy
Character: Orator
Released: May 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
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Nothing to Pay
Title: Nothing to Pay
Character: Lydiat Shell
Released: September 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of Welsh rugby supporters leave their village for the first time to watch an away game in the city.
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The Fishing Match
Title: The Fishing Match
Character: Reuben
Released: August 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.
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The Painted Smile
Title: The Painted Smile
Character: Kleinie
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
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Only Two Can Play
Title: Only Two Can Play
Character: Ieuan Jenkins
Released: January 19, 1962
Type: Movie
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Wally
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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Rag Doll
Title: Rag Doll
Character: Wilson
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
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Payroll
Title: Payroll
Character: Monty
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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Suspect
Title: Suspect
Character: Dr Shole
Released: November 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
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A French Mistress
Title: A French Mistress
Character: Mr Meade
Released: August 25, 1960
Type: Movie
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
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Circus of Horrors
Title: Circus of Horrors
Character: Martin
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
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Snowball
Title: Snowball
Character: Phil Hart
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
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Expresso Bongo
Title: Expresso Bongo
Character: Charlie
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Libel
Title: Libel
Character: Fitch
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
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I'm All Right Jack
Title: I'm All Right Jack
Character: Dai
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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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Title: Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Character: Sir John's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Mr. Seymour
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
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The Two-Headed Spy
Title: The Two-Headed Spy
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
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Chain of Events
Title: Chain of Events
Character: Clarke
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Pollen
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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The Naked Truth
Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Porter
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Title: Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Character: Charlie Bull
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
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Lucky Jim
Title: Lucky Jim
Character: Cyril Johns
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
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Brothers in Law
Title: Brothers in Law
Character: Hearse Driver
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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Tiger in the Smoke
Title: Tiger in the Smoke
Character: Crutches
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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The Baby and the Battleship
Title: The Baby and the Battleship
Character: Sub-Lieutenant
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
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1984
Title: 1984
Character: Prisoner
Released: March 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Private Dai Jones
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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Track the Man Down
Title: Track the Man Down
Character: Ken Orwell (as Kenneth Griffiths)
Released: June 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Secretary
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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The Green Buddha
Title: The Green Buddha
Character: Nobby
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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36 Hours
Title: 36 Hours
Character: Henry Slosson
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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The Starfish
Title: The Starfish
Character: Jack Trevennick
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A fairytale inspired by the Brothers Grimm set in deepest darkest Cornwall.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Jimmy Ellis
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Maurice Bruno
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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Blue Scar
Title: Blue Scar
Character: Thomas Williams
Released: April 9, 1949
Type: Movie
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Johnny
Released: February 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: Nick Martin's BBC Colleague
Released: January 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Len Phillips
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Title: The Shop at Sly Corner
Character: Archie Fellows
Released: March 10, 1947
Type: Movie
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Title: The Shop at Sly Corner
Character: Archie Fellowes
Released: July 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A shrewd ex-prisoner runs a successful antique shop -- until his assistant discovers the collectibles are stolen goods and begins blackmailing him.
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The Forest Rangers
Title: The Forest Rangers
Character: Ranger
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Dixon
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: Butcher's Boy
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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The Farmer's Wife
Title: The Farmer's Wife
Character: George Smerdon
Released: April 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
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Miss Knowall
Title: Miss Knowall
Character: Chris
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
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Channel Incident
Title: Channel Incident
Character: Johnny
Released: April 28, 1940
Type: Movie
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
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Black As Hell and Thick As Grass
Title: Black As Hell and Thick As Grass
Character: Presenter
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An account of two battles between Zulus and the British at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift.
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The Enchanted Loom
Title: The Enchanted Loom
Character: "Quotations read by"
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A study of the brain as miracle. Shows neuron structure, hemispheric organization, and the separation of hemispheric capacities. Discusses the unlimited potential and the interacting mutual construction of the brain and the environment. Examines the implication of the new knowledge for teaching methods