Frank Finlay

Frank Finlay

Born: August 6, 1926
Died: January 30, 2016
in Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement.

His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway.

He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.

Movies for Frank Finlay...

Nothing Like a Dame
Title: Nothing Like a Dame
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 2, 2018
Type: Movie
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Title: Fifty Shades of Erotica
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your own home and as a consenting adult, you can succumb to trailers from carnal classics like The Libertine, Story of O, Venus In Furs, Cruel Passion, Gwendoline, Education Anglaise, Dressage and many, many more as you enter the timeless world of fetishistic fantasy, deviant desires and pulsating pleasure! Submit yourself to the salacious sensations and cruel caresses of this mind-blowing collection of curated carnality, the rare and raunchy, re-mastered from the finest available materials. So, lie back, relax and prepare to enter the sensual world of Fifty Shades of Erotica...
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Title: Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Character: Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: TV
Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled tranquility, life at Endellion is about to enter a turbulent new phase with the return of Stephen's ex-wife, and division over her granddaughter Abby, whose mother had died never revealing the father's name.
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Title: Merlin
Character: Anhora
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: TV
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
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The Waiting Room
Title: The Waiting Room
Character: Roger
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.
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Title: Johnny and the Bomb
Character: Tom Maxwell
Released: January 15, 2006
Type: TV
Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save his own existence.
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Lighthouse Hill
Title: Lighthouse Hill
Character: Alfred
Released: May 4, 2004
Type: Movie
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
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Title: Life Begins
Character: Eric Thornhill
Released: February 16, 2004
Type: TV
Life Begins is a British television drama first broadcast on ITV between February 2004 and October 2006, starring Caroline Quentin and Alexander Armstrong, Anne Reid and Frank Finlay.
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The Statement
Title: The Statement
Character: Commissaire Vionnet
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Title: The Lost Prince
Character: Asquith
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.
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Eroica
Title: Eroica
Character: Josef Haydn
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Father
Released: September 17, 2002
Type: Movie
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Station Jim
Title: Station Jim
Character: Riorden Snr
Released: December 30, 2001
Type: Movie
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.
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The Martins
Title: The Martins
Character: Mr Heath
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
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Title: Sins
Character: Uncle Irwin Green
Released: October 24, 2000
Type: TV
Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertakers run by his uncle. However, his resolve to stay out of the criminal world is tested by temptations based on the seven deadly sins.
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For My Baby
Title: For My Baby
Released: October 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
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Title: The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Character: General Bulstrode
Released: November 7, 1999
Type: TV
In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before the unthinkable happens?
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Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Title: Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Character: General Bulstrode
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before the unthinkable happens?
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Title: Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character: Father
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
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Stiff Upper Lips
Title: Stiff Upper Lips
Character: Hudson Junior
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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Title: How Do You Want Me?
Released: February 24, 1998
Type: TV
Following their marriage, Ian and Lisa move back to the village where she grew up, a village still dominated by her family. In order to try to fit in, Ian takes a job as the village photographer, a profession for which he is not really cut out.
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Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Title: Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Character: Mike's Dad
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Helen. But Mike's life takes several unexpected turns when he meets Sara. After the two depart for an idyllic vacation together, Mike locates his mother (Susannah York), who, 35 years previous, had left his father. Writer-director Kevin W. Smith's feature-film directorial debut.
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Limited Edition
Title: Limited Edition
Character: John Rathbone
Released: January 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
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Virgin Mary
Title: Virgin Mary
Character: Monsignor
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
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A Mind to Murder
Title: A Mind to Murder
Character: Professor Etherege
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases.
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Sparrow
Title: Sparrow
Character: Father Nunzio
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.
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Title: Charlemagne
Character: Alcuin
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: TV
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
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Stalin
Title: Stalin
Character: Sergei
Released: November 21, 1992
Type: Movie
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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The Other Side
Title: The Other Side
Character: Arthur Conan Doyle
Released: August 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Drama documentary about the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Howard Franklin
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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Cthulhu Mansion
Title: Cthulhu Mansion
Character: Chandu
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
After a drug deal gone wrong, a group of punks flee to a secluded mansion where the house itself begins to terrorize and kill the trespassers.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Arnold Tennison
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Title: The Burning Shore
Character: Garrick
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: TV
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
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Mountain of Diamonds
Title: Mountain of Diamonds
Character: Garrick
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
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King of the Wind
Title: King of the Wind
Character: Edward Coke
Released: May 25, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
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The Return of the Musketeers
Title: The Return of the Musketeers
Character: Porthos
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
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Casanova
Title: Casanova
Character: Razetta
Released: March 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Harold Plumb
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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Nineteen Nineteen
Title: Nineteen Nineteen
Character: Sigmund Freud (voice)
Released: November 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
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Lifeforce
Title: Lifeforce
Character: Dr. Hans Fallada
Released: June 21, 1985
Type: Movie
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
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Arch of Triumph
Title: Arch of Triumph
Character: Col. Boris Morosov
Released: May 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
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In the Secret State
Title: In the Secret State
Character: Frank Strange
Released: March 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Jacob Marley
Released: October 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Kravtsov
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Professor Coram / Sergius
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Nino Rolfe
Released: October 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
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Title: Blackadder
Character: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Title: The Ploughman's Lunch
Character: Matthew Fox
Released: May 30, 1983
Type: Movie
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
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The Spanish Civil War
Title: The Spanish Civil War
Character: Narrator
Released: January 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
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The Return of the Soldier
Title: The Return of the Soldier
Character: William Grey
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
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Enigma
Title: Enigma
Character: Canarsky
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
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Mona
Title: Mona
Character: Captain Manson
Released: August 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Dear Brutus
Title: Dear Brutus
Character: Dearth
Released: January 27, 1981
Type: Movie
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
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Ring of Darkness
Title: Ring of Darkness
Character: Paul
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Arthur Pearson
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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Murder by Decree
Title: Murder by Decree
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Fr. Geoghagen
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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The Thief of Baghdad
Title: The Thief of Baghdad
Character: Abu Bakar
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Title: Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Character: Peppino
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
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Count Dracula
Title: Count Dracula
Character: Abraham van Helsing
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: Movie
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
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Title: Count Dracula
Character: Professor Van Helsing
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: TV
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.
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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: Laurence Olivier Presents
Character: Peppino
Released: December 5, 1976
Type: TV
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.
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Title: Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Character: Peter Manson
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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84 Charing Cross Road
Title: 84 Charing Cross Road
Character: Frank Doel
Released: November 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
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The Four Musketeers
Title: The Four Musketeers
Character: Porthos
Released: October 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
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Van der Valk and the Rich
Title: Van der Valk and the Rich
Character: Van der Valk
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Porthos / O'Reilly
Released: December 11, 1973
Type: Movie
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
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Shaft in Africa
Title: Shaft in Africa
Character: Vincent Amafi
Released: June 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Title: The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Character: Sancho Panza
Released: April 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
Title: The Death of Adolf Hitler
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: January 7, 1973
Type: Movie
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
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Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
Title: Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
Character: George Dabernon
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. Together they flee to Scotland. One day they are making love on a beach when the lighthouse keeper dies. But that's only the beginning of the story.
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Sitting Target
Title: Sitting Target
Character: Marty Gold
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
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Danny Jones
Title: Danny Jones
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
In the quiet calm of the Welsh foothills, Danny Jones reaches the age of seventeen with a strong desire to break away from the strict influence of his father.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Shylock
Released: April 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Botticelli serve as the visual inspiration behind this lavish production.
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Gumshoe
Title: Gumshoe
Character: William Ginley
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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Title: Casanova
Character: Casanova
Released: November 16, 1971
Type: TV
The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.
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Assault
Title: Assault
Character: Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Andrew Firth
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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The Body
Title: The Body
Character: Narrator
Released: October 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide commentary that combines the knowledge of human biologists and anatomical experts. The film's soundtrack, Music from the Body, was composed by Ron Geesin and Roger Waters.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: John Carter
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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The Molly Maguires
Title: The Molly Maguires
Character: Davies
Released: February 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
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Blood of the Lamb
Title: Blood of the Lamb
Character: Albert
Released: December 3, 1969
Type: Movie
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Brutus
Released: April 13, 1969
Type: Movie
The play by William Shakespeare.
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The Piano Tuner
Title: The Piano Tuner
Character: Wilfred Tilley
Released: March 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
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Twisted Nerve
Title: Twisted Nerve
Character: Henry Durnley
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Title: The Shoes of the Fisherman
Character: Igor Bounin
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
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Inspector Clouseau
Title: Inspector Clouseau
Character: Supt. Weaver
Released: July 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Title: I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Character: Chaplain
Released: December 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Jean Valjean
Released: October 22, 1967
Type: TV
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Character: Robinson
Released: August 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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The Jokers
Title: The Jokers
Character: Harrassed Man
Released: May 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Dogberry
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
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The Deadly Bees
Title: The Deadly Bees
Character: H.W. Manfred
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Second Fish Porter
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Iago
Released: December 15, 1965
Type: Movie
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
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The Wild Affair
Title: The Wild Affair
Character: Drunk
Released: December 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male colleagues don't miss a chance to comfort her... and flirt.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Marcus Brutus
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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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Voltaire
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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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Sancho Panza
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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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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A Study in Terror
Title: A Study in Terror
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
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Olivier Talks About Othello
Title: Olivier Talks About Othello
Character: Archive Footage
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
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The Comedy Man
Title: The Comedy Man
Character: Prout
Released: September 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
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Hot Enough for June
Title: Hot Enough for June
Character: British Embassy Porter
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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The Informers
Title: The Informers
Character: Leon Sale
Released: November 29, 1963
Type: Movie
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
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Doctor in Distress
Title: Doctor in Distress
Character: Corsetiere
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Character: Booking Office Clerk
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as a prized athlete.
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Life for Ruth
Title: Life for Ruth
Character: Teddy's Father
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
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The Hard Knock
Title: The Hard Knock
Character: Franco Angelo
Released: July 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
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Title: Studio Four
Character: Fernand Destayac
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Private Potter
Title: Private Potter
Character: Capt. Patterson
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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An Exchange of Fire
Title: An Exchange of Fire
Character: Pavel Rhele
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public and private scrutiny.