Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge

Born: March 24, 1903
Died: November 14, 1990
in Sanderstead, Surrey, England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a prominent socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and the experience turned him into a forceful anti-communist.

During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris. In the aftermath of the war, he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was also a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use.

Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life, which were published in 1981 under the title Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge, and he developed them into two volumes of an uncompleted autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge)

Movies for Malcolm Muggeridge...

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Title: Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
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Title: 60 Minutes
Character: Self
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
America's popular television News magazine in which an ever changing team of CBS News correspondents contribute segments ranging from hard news coverage to politics to lifestyle and pop culture.
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Title: The Jazz Age
Released: September 10, 1968
Type: TV
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Herostratus
Title: Herostratus
Character: Radio Presenter (voice)
Released: July 10, 1967
Type: Movie
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Gryphon
Released: December 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
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Twilight of Empire
Title: Twilight of Empire
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Documentary following British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, as he returns to India for the first time in decades. He discusses his youthful experience teaching in an Indian college and writing for a Calcutta newspaper, and reflects on the changes in India since those days.
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Heavens Above!
Title: Heavens Above!
Character: Cleric
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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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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I'm All Right Jack
Title: I'm All Right Jack
Character: TV Panel Chairman
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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Title: Panorama
Character: Self - Reporter
Released: November 11, 1953
Type: TV
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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Title: Panorama
Character: Self - Interviewer
Released: November 11, 1953
Type: TV
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.