Wolfe Morris

Wolfe Morris

Born: January 5, 1925
Died: July 21, 1996
in Portsmouth, England, UK

Movies for Wolfe Morris...

Daisies in December
Title: Daisies in December
Character: Mr. Prager
Released: December 3, 1995
Type: Movie
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romantic human drama. Gerald's a stuffy ex-stockbroker who's been placed in the facility for his own best interest. Katherine's a warm and friendly resident with a soaring spirit and a zest for life. Their union is a transforming one, and also timely, as Katherine stands on the threshhold of a painful and very frightening battle with cancer. Poignant storytelling with a winning pair of costars.
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Shining Through
Title: Shining Through
Character: Male Translator
Released: January 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.
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Alev Gibi Bir Kız
Title: Alev Gibi Bir Kız
Released: April 9, 1990
Type: Movie
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Big George Is Dead
Title: Big George Is Dead
Character: Fat Larry
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Returning to England from Trinidad and Tobago for one night only, a former trickster finds that old friends and communities have moved on.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Mr. Gimson
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
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The Disappearance of Harry
Title: The Disappearance of Harry
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flourishing textile industry. One day, Harry leaves his house and vanishes. A note he left behind alludes to a double life he no longer wishes to lead. His wife Liz (Annette Crosbie) conducts a search for her husband. Her findings raise a disturbing question: Did Harry have anything to do with a series of recent factory bombings?
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Leister
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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Beyond the Pale
Title: Beyond the Pale
Character: Mr. Somper
Released: January 6, 1981
Type: Movie
"The British Brothers leave Hackney at 4:30 today and will march with bands and banners through the Jewish quarters of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green." The story of Jewish immigrants in London's East End in the early 20th century.
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The Dybbuk
Title: The Dybbuk
Character: Meyer
Released: February 24, 1980
Type: Movie
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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The London Connection
Title: The London Connection
Character: Dr. Krause
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
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Cuba
Title: Cuba
Character: Batista
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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Title: Kidnapped
Character: Simon Fraser
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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Beasts: Buddyboy
Title: Beasts: Buddyboy
Character: Hubbard
Released: October 30, 1976
Type: Movie
When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.
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Title: Beasts
Character: Hubbard
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: TV
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
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Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Title: Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Character: Schnorrer
Released: September 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Title: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Character: Frenchman
Released: December 14, 1975
Type: Movie
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
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Title: The Good Life
Character: Michelangelo Lombardi
Released: April 4, 1975
Type: TV
Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Greg Prince
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Screamer
Title: Screamer
Character: Balsam
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.
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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: Maltese Police Commissioner
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Mohammed Aslam
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Emmanuel Lieberman
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Emmanuel Liberman
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Sakuma
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Title: The Onedin Line
Character: Suleyman Pasha
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: TV
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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The House That Dripped Blood
Title: The House That Dripped Blood
Character: Waxworks Proprietor (segment 2 "Waxworks")
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Released: November 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
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Title: The Black Tulip
Character: Isaac Boxtel
Released: September 13, 1970
Type: TV
The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.
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Title: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Character: Thomas Cromwell
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: TV
Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
Title: The Year of the Sex Olympics
Character: Custard Pie Expert
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Title: Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Character: Padmasambhava
Released: November 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.
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The Crunch
Title: The Crunch
Character: Mr Jimson
Released: January 19, 1964
Type: Movie
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
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Title: Doctor Who
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: Doctor Who
Character: Padmasambhava
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: The Saint
Character: Gorgo
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Dr. Lopez
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Clue of the New Pin
Title: Clue of the New Pin
Character: Yeh Ling
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
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The Scent of Fear
Title: The Scent of Fear
Character: Mueller
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.
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Yesterday's Enemy
Title: Yesterday's Enemy
Character: The Informer
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
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Further Up the Creek
Title: Further Up the Creek
Character: Algeroccan Major
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
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The Camp on Blood Island
Title: The Camp on Blood Island
Character: Interpreter
Released: April 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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The Abominable Snowman
Title: The Abominable Snowman
Character: Kusang
Released: August 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Character: Morgue Attendant
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Title: Ill Met by Moonlight
Character: George
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Chef
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.