Leonard Maguire

Leonard Maguire

Born: May 26, 1924
Died: September 12, 1997
in Manchester, England

Movies for Leonard Maguire...

Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Old TRader McNab
Released: December 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
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OcchioPinocchio
Title: OcchioPinocchio
Character: Fratello Brando
Released: December 25, 1994
Type: Movie
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.
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Memento Mori
Title: Memento Mori
Character: Mr Willoughby
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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Title: Dodgem
Character: Badger Smith
Released: February 20, 1991
Type: TV
Simon Leighton is sent to an assessment centre because he is unable to cope with school due to problems in his life – his mother is dead and his father cannot overcome his grief. However Simon is determined to leave the centre to live with his father.
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A Dry White Season
Title: A Dry White Season
Character: Bruwer
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Title: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Character: Dr Bowe
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
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The Shutter Falls
Title: The Shutter Falls
Character: Gaelic Minister
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
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The Doctor and the Devils
Title: The Doctor and the Devils
Character: Nightwatchman
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Uncle
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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The Honorary Consul
Title: The Honorary Consul
Character: Dr. Humphries
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Harry McNeish
Released: April 13, 1983
Type: TV
A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: George Bolingham
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Doctor Who: Full Circle
Title: Doctor Who: Full Circle
Character: Draith
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: John Matthews
Released: July 9, 1980
Type: Movie
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
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The Day Christ Died
Title: The Day Christ Died
Character: The Demoniac
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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A Gift from Nessus
Title: A Gift from Nessus
Character: Mr. Sutton
Released: February 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.
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Title: Kidnapped
Character: Charles Stewart
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: TV
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Title: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Character: Old Galt
Released: February 24, 1976
Type: Movie
TV dramatisation of the trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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The Great Mill Race
Title: The Great Mill Race
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment.
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The Bevellers
Title: The Bevellers
Character: Alex Freer
Released: November 21, 1974
Type: Movie
An ambitious apprentice glassmaker clashes with his new colleagues in a Glasgow workshop.
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Title: Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Character: Dr. McKae
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: TV
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.
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Title: Justice
Character: Captain MacGregor
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: This Man Craig
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: TV
This Man Craig was a TV drama series produced by BBC Scotland and screened over 52 episodes in 1966 and 1967. It was set in a secondary school in the fictional Scottish town of Strathaird. Episodes were filmed at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Academy and Glenwood School. The series dealt with the everyday issues affecting both staff and pupils at Strathaird School, and in particular the titular character, idealistic science teacher and housemaster Ian Craig. The first series was shown over 26 episodes between January 7 1966 and July 1 1966. The second series was shown over 26 episodes between September 17 1966 and March 21 1967. Only one episode is known to be still in existence in the BBC archives. The opening sequence showed him driving over the Forth Road Bridge, which at the time was newly built and a Scottish cultural icon.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Draith
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Character: Lewis Gilbride
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: TV
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
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New Day
Title: New Day
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Life in the Scottish new town of Glenrothes in the Kingdom of Fife, including a royal visit.