James Aubrey

James Aubrey

Born: August 28, 1947
Died: April 6, 2010
in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
James Aubrey Tregidgo (August 28, 1947 – April 6, 2010), known professionally as James Aubrey, was an English stage and screen actor. He trained for the stage at the Drama Centre London, some years after making his professional acting debut in a production of Isle of Children (1962) and his screen acting debut in the film adaptation of Lord of the Flies (1963). He later performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Spy Game
Title: Spy Game
Character: Mitch Alford
Released: November 18, 2001
Type: Movie
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Full Stretch
Character: Morris Legge
Released: January 5, 1993
Type: TV
Comedy drama series about an ex footballer's limo service business
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A Fatal Inversion
Title: A Fatal Inversion
Character: Dr Swiftson
Released: May 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Gordon Purvis
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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A Demon in My View
Title: A Demon in My View
Character: Brian Kotowsky
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
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Selling Hitler
Title: Selling Hitler
Character: Congo Randy
Released: June 11, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
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Buddy's Song
Title: Buddy's Song
Character: Adrian
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...
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The Final Frame
Title: The Final Frame
Character: Paul Mandell
Released: April 12, 1990
Type: Movie
When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.
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The Rift
Title: The Rift
Character: Contek 1
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...
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The Mountain and the Molehill
Title: The Mountain and the Molehill
Character: Colonel Mitchell
Released: October 15, 1989
Type: Movie
It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.
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Title: Mission: Eureka
Character: Swann
Released: October 9, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Rockliffe's Folly
Character: Det Insp Derek Hoskins
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: TV
Spin-off from Rockliffe's Babies which saw Ian Hogg's detective transferred from the Met to rural Dorset
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Thin Air
Title: Thin Air
Character: Zac Diamond
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
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James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Title: James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Character: Frank Budgen
Released: January 10, 1988
Type: Movie
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book written by Joyce's friend, the artist Frank Budgen, entitled "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses". Amongst those interviewed is author Anthony Burgess.
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The American Way
Title: The American Way
Character: Claude
Released: November 13, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders some nuclear missiles to be launched against the saboteurs, but they manage to avoid the impact and even succeed in exposing a big secret of hers.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Pathologist
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Michael
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 Hunger
Title: The Hunger
Character: Ron
Released: April 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Miriam Blaylock, an ageless vampire, collects Renaissance art, ancient Egyptian pendants, lovers, and souls in Manhattan.
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Title: The Cleopatras
Character: Grypus
Released: January 19, 1983
Type: TV
Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Character: James
Released: January 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge.
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Title: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Character: Record Executive
Released: September 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."
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Title: Minder
Character: Graham Hurst
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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Home Before Midnight
Title: Home Before Midnight
Character: Mike Beresford
Released: October 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Robert Simpson
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: Ingo
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Terror
Title: Terror
Character: Philip
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The descendants of a witch hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.
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Danton's Death
Title: Danton's Death
Character: Lacroix
Released: April 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.
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Title: Another Bouquet
Released: January 5, 1977
Type: TV
Another Bouquet, Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the tangled sexual and emotional relationships of a middle-class family as it is torn apart by its own tangled sexual relationships.
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Title: Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Character: Gavin Sorenson
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
Family life is turned upside down when it's revealed that the daughter's pregnant by her teacher.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Horace Reynes
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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The Sex Thief
Title: The Sex Thief
Character: 1st Reporter
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A struggling pulp fiction writer who doubles as an incompetent jewel thief. He gets caught in the act every time, but he uses his looks and charm to make the best of it. Soon he becomes a celebrity. Wealthy women start leaving their jewels out like milk and cookies for Santa Claus in hopes that the sex thief will unlawfully invade their domiciles.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Jan
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: The Prince
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Lord of the Flies
Title: Lord of the Flies
Character: Ralph
Released: August 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.