Samuel West

Samuel West

Born: June 19, 1966
in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England as Samuel Alexander Joseph West. He is known for his work on Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).

Movies for Samuel West...

Merchant Ivory
Title: Merchant Ivory
Character: Self
Released: November 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.
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The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour
Title: The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Tubular Bells, one of the iconic musical works of the 20th century, and the highest selling instrumental album of all time, is approaching its 50th anniversary. To mark this, an epic new stage production has been commissioned that re-invents the album with an incredible cinematic score, live musicians and performers.
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Title: The Midwich Cuckoos
Character: Bernard Westcott
Released: June 2, 2022
Type: TV
A small fictional village in England is completely subdued by an alien presence for an entire day. Upon waking, it is discovered that numerous women in the town are pregnant.
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Title: Slow Horses
Character: Peter Judd
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: TV
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
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Title: Small Axe
Character: Mr. Hill
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: TV
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.
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Gatecrash
Title: Gatecrash
Character: Policeman
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no accident.
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Title: All Creatures Great & Small
Character: Siegfried Farnon
Released: September 1, 2020
Type: TV
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
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Title: Trust
Character: Professor Talbot
Released: March 25, 2018
Type: TV
The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
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On Chesil Beach
Title: On Chesil Beach
Character: Geoffrey Ponting
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Darkest Hour
Title: Darkest Hour
Character: Sir Anthony Eden
Released: November 22, 2017
Type: Movie
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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Title: Spying on the Royals
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 2, 2017
Type: TV
This 2-part documentary series reveals the truth about King Edward VIII's affair with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and the espionage operation that accompanied the investigation.
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Title: Edouard VIII, espionnage et liaisons dangereuses
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: The Crown
Character: Anthony Blunt
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Title: Westworld
Character: Security Guard
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: TV
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
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All the world's a stage
Title: All the world's a stage
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 26, 2016
Type: Movie
An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem 'All The World's a Stage' narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West.
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Title: The Frankenstein Chronicles
Character: Sir William Chester
Released: November 11, 2015
Type: TV
Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
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Suffragette
Title: Suffragette
Character: Benedict Haughton
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
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Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Character: Sir Walter Pole
Released: May 17, 2015
Type: TV
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.
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Inside the Court of Henry VIII
Title: Inside the Court of Henry VIII
Character: Narrator
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England had ever done before. He took a country salvaged by his father from the wreck of civil war and set over it a single, sovereign ruler. By the end of his reign the power of the Tudor.
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The Eichmann Show
Title: The Eichmann Show
Character: Narrator
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
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The Riot Club
Title: The Riot Club
Character: Tutor
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
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If I Don't Come Home:  Letters from D-Day
Title: If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Character: Norman Skinner
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
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Secrets of Underground London
Title: Secrets of Underground London
Character: Narrator
Released: May 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Experts examine the ruins and relics hidden under London. Among them, a Roman amphitheater, ditches for victims of the black plague, bomb shelters and more.
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Title: Secrets of Britain
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: TV
The enormous popularity of recent British dramas such as Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, and Sherlock, has led to vast interest in the real-life stories and history of the icons of Great Britain. Each episode of this series visits a famous British building or institution to explore its past and present, meeting a wide range of experts and historians along the way.
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Faberge: A Life of Its Own
Title: Faberge: A Life of Its Own
Character: Narrator
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Faberge name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day, spanning one hundred and fifty years of turbulent history, romance, artistic development and commercial exploitation. From the bejewel led Easter eggs of the Romanov Tsarinas to the 1970s allure of 'Brut by Faberge' aftershave, and from the Russian revolution to today's high-fashion glitz in New York and London, the film explores a multi-faceted world that began with one man: the prodigiously talented Peter Carl Faberge, Court Jeweler of St Petersburg. Shot at locations across Russia, Europe and USA (including the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), the film features interview contributions from the world's foremost Faberge authorities, as well as personal reminiscences from Faberge family members.
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Title: W1A
Character: Richard Cartwright
Released: March 19, 2014
Type: TV
The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future, in particular for Licence Fee Renegotiation and Charter Renewal in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
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Title: Great Canal Journeys
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2014
Type: TV
To celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales embark on four spectacular canal journeys, sharing a passion that they've enjoyed for decades. To start the series, Tim and Pru revisit the Kennet and Avon Canal in the West Country. Back in 1990, to promote the fully restored canal, Tim and Pru were invited to be the first boat in 42 years to travel the full length of the K&A. Almost a quarter of a century later, they navigate the 21 miles along its most picturesque stretch, starting in Bath and ending in Devizes.
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Title: Fleming
Character: Rear Admiral John Godfrey
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: TV
Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.
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Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
Title: Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is its significance? And which forces inspired its creators? Now a group of international archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna believe that a new state-of-the-art approach is the key to unlocking Stonehenge's secrets. For four years the team have surveyed and mapped every monument, both visible and invisible, across ten square kilometres of the sacred landscape to create the most complete digital picture of Stonehenge and the surrounding area over millennia. Operation Stonehenge takes the viewer on a prehistoric journey from 8000BC to 2500BC as the scientists uncover the very origins of Stonehenge, learning why this landscape is sacred, preserved and has been revered by following generations.
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Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy
Title: Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy
Character: Narrator
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: Movie
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Secrets of the Tower of London
Title: Secrets of the Tower of London
Character: Narrator
Released: October 27, 2013
Type: Movie
A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000 years of existence.
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Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court
Title: Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 30, 2013
Type: Movie
The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.
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Title: Mr Selfridge
Character: Frank Edwards
Released: January 6, 2013
Type: TV
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry created a theater of retail where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining - or just eccentric - was showcased.
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Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Title: Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Character: Narrator
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.
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Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies
Title: Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently hot tempered, it documents history in the making and establishes a new frontier for technology and journalism. A definitive factual account of the Wikileaks affair, the film features the first major television interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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Hyde Park on Hudson
Title: Hyde Park on Hudson
Character: Bertie
Released: December 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: Bishop of Winchester
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Secrets of the Manor House
Title: Secrets of the Manor House
Character: Narrator
Released: January 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Find out what went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago.
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Title: Eternal Law
Character: Zak Gist
Released: January 5, 2012
Type: TV
Two angels are sent to Earth in the guise of lawyers in order to help humankind.
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Title: King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy
Character: Narrator (Voice)
Released: January 3, 2012
Type: TV
King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy. Documentary examining the couple who rescued the monarchy. King George V was an unlikely moderniser but his innovations were key. A two-part portrait of Elizabeth II's grandparents, King George V and Queen Mary, which examines the lasting legacy of the couple who rescued the monarchy from potential disaster, and whose influence persists to this day.
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First Man on the Moon
Title: First Man on the Moon
Character: Narrator (Voice UK)
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story of the first man to set foot on the moon. Drawing heavily on unbroadcast archive footage and the unique perspectives of the contributors, this is an exclusive account of Neil Armstrong's extraordinary life story. From his childhood during America's Great Depression to the heady days of the space programme, his historic first step on the Moon and his famously private later life. Seen through the eyes of those who were with him, the film explores the man behind the myth, a man who was very much a product of his time. The film goes beyond his days as an astronaut and shows that his life after the flight of Apollo 11 was, in many ways equally challenging, as Armstrong came to terms with life outside NASA and the relentless demands of fame until his death in August 2012.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Donald McCormack
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
Title: Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
Character: Voice
Released: August 24, 2011
Type: Movie
This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying King Edward VIII.
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Heath Vs Wilson : The 10 Year Duel
Title: Heath Vs Wilson : The 10 Year Duel
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: May 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which Britain changed for ever. For ten years they faced each other in the House of Commons, and swapped in and out of Number Ten. They fought four general elections, three of which were amongst the most exciting of the century.
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Title: Any Human Heart
Character: Peter Scabius
Released: November 21, 2010
Type: TV
Logan Mountstuart, writer and adventurer, narrates his life, from the Paris of the twenties to the eighties in London, passing through the New York of the fifties.
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Dark Relic
Title: Dark Relic
Character: Friar George
Released: March 27, 2010
Type: Movie
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse…
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BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
Title: BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: March 9, 2010
Type: Movie
There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find’. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies – it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe. Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong? .
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Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Title: Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2010
Type: Movie
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
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Albert Schweitzer
Title: Albert Schweitzer
Character: Phil Figgis
Released: December 24, 2009
Type: Movie
1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer tells the story of a philosopher and physician who promoted peace during the Cold War, built a hospital in what is now Gabon and proved stronger than the CIA.
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Title: Garrow's Law
Character: Thomas Erskine
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: TV
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
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Title: Desperate Romantics
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: TV
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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Title: English Heritage
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: TV
An observational documentary series made over four years, following four stories of properties whose conservation falls under the guardianship of English Heritage and its controversial chief executive, Simon Thurley.
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The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India
Title: The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India
Character: Narrator - (Voice)
Released: March 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to the decline after independence.
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Title: World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
Character: narrator
Released: November 10, 2008
Type: TV
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Title: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Character: Ted Heath
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
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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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Random Quest
Title: Random Quest
Character: Colin
Released: November 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.
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The First Emperor
Title: The First Emperor
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: February 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future Emperor's rise to power after the death of his father, becoming King of Qin at the age of thirteen. Mostly told through the use of re-enactments, the story continues to the present day and the discovery of the Emperor's tomb and terracotta army in 1974.
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Einstein's Big Idea
Title: Einstein's Big Idea
Character: Humphry Davy
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.
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Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich
Title: Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary on the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908.
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Title: Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
Character: Narrator
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: TV
This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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Title: Ring of the Nibelungs
Character: Gunther
Released: November 29, 2004
Type: TV
The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
Title: Ring of the Nibelungs
Character: Gunther
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
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Van Helsing
Title: Van Helsing
Character: Dr. Victor Frankenstein
Released: May 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
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Title: Cambridge Spies
Character: Anthony Blunt
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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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Title: 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Character: Pongo (voice)
Released: November 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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Title: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character: Tony Wainwright
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: TV
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Iris
Title: Iris
Character: Young Maurice
Released: December 14, 2001
Type: Movie
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Pandaemonium
Title: Pandaemonium
Character: Robert Southey
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Thomas Rice
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: The Private Life of a Masterpiece
Released: February 16, 2001
Type: TV
Private Life of a Masterpiece is a BBC arts documentary series that tells the stories behind great works of art reaching from the Renaissance to modern art. David by Michelangelo, The Scream by Edvard Munch, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn, Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, ... The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer. For behind the beautiful canvases and sculptures are tales of political revolution, wartime escapes, massive ego clashes, social scandal, financial wrangling and shocking violence. The series reveals the full and fascinating stories behind famous works of art, not just how they came to be created, but also how they influenced others and came to have a life of their own in the modern world.
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Nero's Golden House
Title: Nero's Golden House
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Bread and Roses
Title: Bread and Roses
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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Complicity
Title: Complicity
Character: Neil
Released: May 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
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Longitude
Title: Longitude
Character: Nevil Maskelyne
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Title: Longitude
Character: Nevil Maskelyne
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: TV
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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Title: War of the Century
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: October 5, 1999
Type: TV
The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, is a BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the no-holds-barred war on both sides. It not only examines the war but also the terror inside the Soviet Union at the time due to the paranoia of Joseph Stalin - the revenge atrocities, the Great Purge of army officers, the near-lunacy orders, and the paranoia of being upstaged by others, especially Marshal Zhukov. The historical adviser is Ian Kershaw.
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Runt
Title: Runt
Character: Pork
Released: September 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But who is this man ? And why does he live in the middle of nowhere ? Shane is about to learn something he won't forget.
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Title: Battle of the Sexes - In the Animal World
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
The sexual behaviour and intriguing reproductive strategies of the animal world.
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Notting Hill
Title: Notting Hill
Character: Anna's Co-Star
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.
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Title: The Planets
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: April 29, 1999
Type: TV
Documentary series tracing mankind's exploration of our solar system.
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Title: Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Character: Major Edrington
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
Title: War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to make the most catastrophic mistake of World War II? This acclaimed four-part series investigates what led to the largest military operation in history - and the bloodiest. Assisted by leading historians and granted unique access to Eastern film archives and to both Soviet and German participants, War of the Century is the definitive series on a war that shaped the borders and attitudes of Europe for the second half of the 20th Century.
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The Dance of Shiva
Title: The Dance of Shiva
Character: Lieutenant Davies
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
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Title: Hornblower
Character: Major Edrington
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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Rupert's Land
Title: Rupert's Land
Character: Rupert McKay
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from Vancouver to remote Prince Rupert for their father's funeral. Rupert is a stuffy lawyer who has emigrated to Canada, while Dale ekes out a living dealing drugs. Along the way, they find themselves stranded in a commune where their father once lived, populated by a pack of half hippie/half redneck dropouts who like to get high on mushrooms and drive trucks. George Wendt appears in a supporting role.
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Stiff Upper Lips
Title: Stiff Upper Lips
Character: Edward
Released: June 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
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I Hate Christmas Too
Title: I Hate Christmas Too
Character: Soldier
Released: December 25, 1997
Type: Movie
An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective on the season.
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The Ripper
Title: The Ripper
Character: Prince Albert Victor Edward
Released: December 6, 1997
Type: Movie
It is 1888, and London is in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in history. Under extreme pressure from the Royal family, the head of Scotland Yard assigns its top man to the grisly case.
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Title: The Nazis: A Warning from History
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: TV
Documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences of their reign featuring archive footage and interviews with eyewitnesses.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Jeremy Thacker
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: James Oswood
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Over Here
Character: Archie Bunting
Released: April 7, 1996
Type: TV
Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II. Conflict arose when American soldiers must share their barracks. Samuel West starred as the RAF pilot Archie Bunting. Martin Clunes starred as Group Captain Barker; a man with an inability to say the word "Luftwaffe".
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: St John Rivers
Released: January 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.
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Heavy Weather
Title: Heavy Weather
Character: 'Monty' Bodkin
Released: December 24, 1995
Type: Movie
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
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Danielle Steel's Zoya
Title: Danielle Steel's Zoya
Character: Nicolai
Released: September 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
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Carrington
Title: Carrington
Character: Gerald Brenan
Released: May 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Mr. Elliot
Released: May 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Title: The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Character: Victor
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.
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Open Fire
Title: Open Fire
Character: Steven Waldorf
Released: November 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.
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A Feast At Midnight
Title: A Feast At Midnight
Character: Chef
Released: November 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.
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A Breed of Heroes
Title: A Breed of Heroes
Character: Lt. Charles Thoroughgood
Released: September 4, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Title: Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Character: Cyrian
Released: November 27, 1993
Type: Movie
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.
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The Maitlands
Title: The Maitlands
Character: Jack Maitland
Released: November 13, 1993
Type: Movie
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
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Archipel
Title: Archipel
Character: Alan Stewart
Released: March 17, 1993
Type: Movie
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
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Voices in the Garden
Title: Voices in the Garden
Character: Mark
Released: February 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising have gradually dwindled, and for Cuckoo the villa has become a prison. Then an attractive young couple arrive, resurrecting the tensions and sexual rivalry between Archie and Cuckoo, and forcing all four to learn about themselves.
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Howards End
Title: Howards End
Character: Leonard Bast
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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Title: As Time Goes By
Character: Terry
Released: January 12, 1992
Type: TV
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
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Title: Stanley and the Women
Character: Stephen Duke
Released: November 28, 1991
Type: TV
The life of Stanley Duke, a fortysomething advertising executive, is thrown into turmoil when his son is diagnosed a schizophrenic. Making matters worse, Stanley's quiet home is suddenly besieged by a plethora of women, among them his past and current wives.
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Title: Performance
Character: Jack Maitland
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Character: King Caspian
Released: November 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Count Konradin von Lohenburg
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Dr. Constantine
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: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character: King Caspian
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.
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Frankie and Johnnie
Title: Frankie and Johnnie
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: Movie
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
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Title: Edward the Seventh
Character: Eddy - Albert Victor - Age 5
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: TV
Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipps-Kent and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his youth, Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria, Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan as Queen Alexandra, Robert Hardy as the Prince Consort, Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent, and Felicity Kendal as Princess Vicky. It was directed by John Gorrie, who wrote episodes 7-10 with David Butler writing the remainder of the series. The series also featured John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone, Harry Andrews as young Edward's tutor Colonel Bruce, Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia, Christopher Neame as Kaiser Wilhelm II and, in one of his earliest roles, Charles Dance as Edward's eldest son Eddy, who died at the age of 28. Gielgud previously played Disraeli in the 1941 film The Prime Minister. The actresses playing Edward's mistresses include Moira Redmond as Alice Keppel and Carolyn Seymour as Daisy Greville. Francesca Annis was featured in two episodes as Lillie Langtry which led to Butler writing a full series about Mrs Langtry's life for Annis to star in, Lillie.
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Title: NOVA
Character: Humphry Davy
Released: March 3, 1974
Type: TV
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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The Book of Water
Title: The Book of Water
Character: Narrator/Geiser
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by Swiss author Max Frisch. The work centres around the character of Geiser, a 73-year-old widower, who is dealing with memory loss.
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Time & Tide - A Trilogy
Title: Time & Tide - A Trilogy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the last lighthouse keeper prepares for his final trip ashore: and an actor returns to the stage to play his part in a Greek myth.