Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

Born: May 31, 1922
Died: October 6, 1992
in Ealing, London, England, UK
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits. In the nineteen eighties, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
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Noises Off...
Title: Noises Off...
Character: Selsdon Mowbray / The Burglar
Released: March 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her prime, a male lead with no confidence, and a bit actor that's rarely sober, chaos ensues in the lead up to a Broadway premiere.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: Thomas Wilkins
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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One Against the Wind
Title: One Against the Wind
Character: Father LeBlanc
Released: December 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
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A Murder of Quality
Title: A Murder of Quality
Character: George Smiley
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: Movie
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
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Scorchers
Title: Scorchers
Character: Howler
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.
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Toy Soldiers
Title: Toy Soldiers
Character: Headmaster
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
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The Black Candle
Title: The Black Candle
Character: William Filmore
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her attention to the conniving Lionel Filmore who's determined to marry into the family no matter what.
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Sunday Pursuit
Title: Sunday Pursuit
Character: Thomas Wilkins
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.
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The Love She Sought
Title: The Love She Sought
Character: James O'Hannon
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and moves to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.
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Title: Bangkok Hilton
Character: Hal Stanton
Released: November 5, 1989
Type: TV
This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Title: Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Character: Nathy
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Character: Marcus Brody
Released: May 24, 1989
Type: Movie
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
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Return from the River Kwai
Title: Return from the River Kwai
Character: Colonel Grayson
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
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Stealing Heaven
Title: Stealing Heaven
Character: Fulbert
Released: May 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
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Title: The Bourne Identity
Character: Dr. Geoffrey Washburn
Released: May 8, 1988
Type: TV
An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are attempts to kill him, he is well known in first class hotels across Europe, and worst of all, there are strange similarities between his memories and reported actions of the notorious terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.
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Hanna's War
Title: Hanna's War
Released: April 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
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Codename: Kyril
Title: Codename: Kyril
Character: Povin
Released: March 29, 1988
Type: Movie
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
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Title: Noble House
Released: February 21, 1988
Type: TV
Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock to improve the company's financial standing. Even this, however, has not given him the capital he needs. As a result, he is courting a private investor, American billionaire Linc Bartlett. Bartlett decides secretly to back Dunross' arch enemy, Quillian Gornt, who will stop at nothing to destroy Struan's. When Dunross realises that Gornt is suddenly strong enough to ruin the Noble House, he must urgently forge new alliances or reshape ancient ones.
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Keys to Freedom
Title: Keys to Freedom
Character: Inspector Basil Crisp
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadly black market for passports is thriving, controlled by Hong Kong's warlords.
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
Title: A Child's Christmas in Wales
Character: Old Geraint
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and starts telling colorful, amusing stories about his childhood Christmases that are shown in flashback. Thomas keeps asking his grandfather more questions because he likes the stories and because he doesn't want to go to bed. His parents finally insist that he go to bed, and his grandfather tells him one last story about going to bed on Christmas night while listening to his family singing carols downstairs. After Thomas falls asleep at last, his grandfather opens the bedroom window and sees falling snowflakes.
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September
Title: September
Character: Howard
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Dr. Barry
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice, a young man in early 20th-century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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The Happy Valley
Title: The Happy Valley
Character: Sir Henry 'Jock' Delves Broughton
Released: September 6, 1987
Type: Movie
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
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Brimstone and Treacle
Title: Brimstone and Treacle
Character: Tom Bates
Released: August 25, 1987
Type: Movie
The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into accepting him as a lodger and carer for Pattie, but Martin is not all he seems.
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Scoop
Title: Scoop
Character: Salter
Released: April 26, 1987
Type: Movie
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
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Past Caring
Title: Past Caring
Character: Victor
Released: November 2, 1986
Type: Movie
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
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Defence of the Realm
Title: Defence of the Realm
Character: Vernon Bayliss
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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The Whoopee Boys
Title: The Whoopee Boys
Character: Col. Phelps
Released: August 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Two New York hustlers (Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez) go to Palm Beach, Fla., and enroll in a charm school to please an heiress.
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Title: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Character: George Parker
Released: March 30, 1986
Type: Movie
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
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A Room with a View
Title: A Room with a View
Character: Mr. Emerson
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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Hotel du Lac
Title: Hotel du Lac
Character: Philip Neville
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Character: Dr. Savary
Released: November 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Richard Braling
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Title: Bleak House
Character: John Jarndyce
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: TV
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Count de Noilly
Released: December 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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A Private Function
Title: A Private Function
Character: Dr. Swaby
Released: November 9, 1984
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
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The Razor's Edge
Title: The Razor's Edge
Character: Elliott Templeton
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Dr. Mortimer
Released: November 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Coleman
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: Sir Ralph Skelton
Released: April 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
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Title: Marco Polo
Character: Niccolò Polo
Released: December 5, 1982
Type: TV
Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.
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The Missionary
Title: The Missionary
Character: The Bishop of London
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
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Brimstone & Treacle
Title: Brimstone & Treacle
Character: Tom Bates
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Character: Dr. Marcus Brody
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Sunday Lovers
Title: Sunday Lovers
Character: Parker (segment "An Englishman's Home")
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
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Blade on the Feather
Title: Blade on the Feather
Character: Jack Hill
Released: October 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.
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Title: Hammer House of Horror
Character: Norman Shenley
Released: September 13, 1980
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
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Rising Damp
Title: Rising Damp
Character: Charles Seymour
Released: May 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.
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Bad Timing
Title: Bad Timing
Character: Stefan Vognic
Released: March 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.
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Gentle Folk
Title: Gentle Folk
Character: F J Dobbs
Released: January 19, 1980
Type: Movie
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.
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Donkeys' Years
Title: Donkeys' Years
Character: Alan Quine
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
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Cuba
Title: Cuba
Character: Donald Skinner
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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Game for Vultures
Title: Game for Vultures
Character: Raglan Thistle
Released: June 25, 1979
Type: Movie
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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Zulu Dawn
Title: Zulu Dawn
Character: Colonel Pulleine
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Saint Jack
Title: Saint Jack
Character: William Leigh
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Harold Tinker / Colonel Tinker
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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School Play
Title: School Play
Character: Jeffrey Treasure
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
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Watership Down
Title: Watership Down
Character: Cowslip (voice)
Released: October 14, 1978
Type: Movie
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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The Boys from Brazil
Title: The Boys from Brazil
Character: Sidney Beynon
Released: October 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Stapleton
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to uncover the truth about a hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the heir to the Baskerville estate.
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Title: Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Character: Mike
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
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Sweeney 2
Title: Sweeney 2
Character: ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Jupp
Released: March 30, 1978
Type: Movie
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
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Shooting the Chandelier
Title: Shooting the Chandelier
Character: Semyon
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Title: The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Character: English Delegate
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
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A Bridge Too Far
Title: A Bridge Too Far
Character: RAF meteorologist officer
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
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Title: Supernatural
Released: June 11, 1977
Type: TV
Anthology series in which a prospective “Club of the Damned” member is required to tell a horror story, their application for membership being judged on how frightening it was.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Admiral Canaris
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Signalman
Title: The Signalman
Character: The Signalman
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.
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Robin and Marian
Title: Robin and Marian
Character: Will Scarlet
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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To the Devil a Daughter
Title: To the Devil a Daughter
Character: Henry Beddows
Released: March 4, 1976
Type: Movie
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
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Partners
Title: Partners
Character: John Grey
Released: January 10, 1976
Type: Movie
When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and with the help of her gangster boyfriend learns how to fight back against competitors.
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Title: Ripping Yarns
Released: January 7, 1976
Type: TV
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
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Russian Roulette
Title: Russian Roulette
Character: John Petapiece
Released: August 20, 1975
Type: Movie
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assassination scheme.
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The Crazy Kill
Title: The Crazy Kill
Character: Dr. Frank Henson
Released: February 25, 1975
Type: Movie
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.
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Percy's Progress
Title: Percy's Progress
Character: Sir Emmanuel Whitbread
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Title: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Character: Friar
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
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The Lady From the Sea
Title: The Lady From the Sea
Character: Dr. Wangel
Released: March 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Married to a much older widower with daughters nearly her age, Ellida Wangel starts exhibiting strange and anxious behaviors. When her husband, a doctor, tries to find a cure for her, he finds out that she has a secret with the power to destroy everything they hold dear.
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The Last Chapter
Title: The Last Chapter
Character: Robert Murray
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Dr. Frank Henson
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Nils Krogstad
Released: April 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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The Vault of Horror
Title: The Vault of Horror
Character: Diltant (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
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Anywhere but England
Title: Anywhere but England
Character: Miles
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.
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Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Title: Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Character: Jack Black
Released: July 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
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Title: The Sextet
Released: June 13, 1972
Type: TV
An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.
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Madame Sin
Title: Madame Sin
Character: malcom De Vere
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
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Title: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: TV
A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived in 2005 on BBC Four. With one exception, the original instalments are directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films are all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Roland
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Quest for Love
Title: Quest for Love
Character: Tom Lewis
Released: June 6, 1971
Type: Movie
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
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The House That Dripped Blood
Title: The House That Dripped Blood
Character: Charles Hillyer (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Emmanuel Whitbread
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Title: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Character: Peter NIss
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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Too Late the Hero
Title: Too Late the Hero
Character: Captain Hornsby
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
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Scenes from Family Life
Title: Scenes from Family Life
Character: Walter
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.
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The Sea Gull
Title: The Sea Gull
Character: Dr. Yevgeny Dorn
Released: December 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
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The Night They Raided Minsky's
Title: The Night They Raided Minsky's
Character: Vance Fowler
Released: December 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
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Dracula
Title: Dracula
Character: Count Dracula
Released: November 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the Count and is led back to his cell. Dr. Van Helsing is called to consult on the case. Hypnotized, the patient recounts events in Transylvania, including an attack by Dracula's brides…
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Let's Murder Vivaldi
Title: Let's Murder Vivaldi
Character: Gerald
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Title: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Character: Mr. George Beauchamp
Released: January 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula, and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: George Devlin
Released: January 7, 1968
Type: Movie
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
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Maroc 7
Title: Maroc 7
Character: Inspector Barrada
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
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The Spy with a Cold Nose
Title: The Spy with a Cold Nose
Character: Pond-Jones
Released: December 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
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Alfie
Title: Alfie
Character: The Abortionist
Released: March 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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King Rat
Title: King Rat
Character: Larkin
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
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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You Must Be Joking
Title: You Must Be Joking
Character: Captain Tabasco
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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Title: The Man In Room 17
Character: Imlac Defraits
Released: June 11, 1965
Type: TV
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: Herbert
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word.
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A Little Temptation
Title: A Little Temptation
Character: Vincent
Released: March 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
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The High Bright Sun
Title: The High Bright Sun
Character: Baker
Released: November 1, 1964
Type: Movie
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
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Nothing But the Best
Title: Nothing But the Best
Character: Charlie Prince
Released: March 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Title: The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Character: Montague Corry
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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Station Six-Sahara
Title: Station Six-Sahara
Character: Macey
Released: January 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
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Scent of Mystery
Title: Scent of Mystery
Character: Oliver Larker
Released: January 12, 1960
Type: Movie
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
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The Moon and Sixpence
Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Character: The Writer
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
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The Winslow Boy
Title: The Winslow Boy
Character: Sir Robert Morton
Released: November 13, 1958
Type: Movie
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Edgar Norton
Released: May 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.]
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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Sebastian
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
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Title: Suspicion
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Warwick
Released: February 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.
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Pacific Destiny
Title: Pacific Destiny
Character: Arthur Grimble
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Jack Lyons
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: John Manbridge
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Night My Number Came Up
Title: The Night My Number Came Up
Character: Fl. Lt. McKenzie
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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The Man Who Loved Redheads
Title: The Man Who Loved Redheads
Character: Denis
Released: February 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
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Lease of Life
Title: Lease of Life
Character: Martin Blake
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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They Who Dare
Title: They Who Dare
Character: Sergeant Corcoran
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
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The Heart of the Matter
Title: The Heart of the Matter
Character: Wilson
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
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The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Title: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Character: The Chimney Sweep (voice)
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Morell
Released: February 24, 1953
Type: Movie
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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The Holly and the Ivy
Title: The Holly and the Ivy
Character: Michael Gregory
Released: December 3, 1952
Type: Movie
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: John Lemley
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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The Sound Barrier
Title: The Sound Barrier
Character: Christopher Ridgefield
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Herbert
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Count
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Father LeBlanc
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Montague Corry
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Sebastian
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Warwick
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Dick
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: Oswald Morfrey
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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Title: Suspense
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Eric Inwood
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.