Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne

Born: November 7, 1943
in London, England, UK
Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Major Schroeder in Force 10 from Navarone, Reinhard Beck in The Scarlet and the Black, General Olbricht in The Plot to Kill Hitler and Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in the BBC radio dramatisation of the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris. Also seen as the aged but fanatical SS General Neurath in "Outpost 2 - Black Sun", former concentration camp commandant and involved in the Nazis's sinister reality-shifting experiments. Byrne appeared as a Jewish concentration camp survivor who is instrumental in the capture of a Nazi war criminal (played by Ian McKellen) in the film Apt Pupil. He is also familiar to audiences as Smythe, a soldier who attempts to rape William Wallace's wife and first inspires Wallace to seek independence from England in the film Braveheart. His other film credits include The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far, The Medusa Touch, The Saint, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Good Father, The Sum of All Fears, Gangs of New York and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. On television, he has appeared in Z-Cars, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals, The Devil's Crown,Smiley's People, Yes, Prime Minister, Lord Mountbatten - the Last Viceroy, Between The Lines, Sharpe, The Mists of Avalon, Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Honest, Hamish Macbeth, and Casualty. From April 2008 to January 2010, Michael starred in Coronation Street, as Ted Page, Gail Platt's long lost father and the ex-lover of Audrey Roberts. It is not known whether he will return to the show. Byrne appeared in State of Play at the Edinburgh Festival written by Zia Trench. He played Romeo to Siân Phillips' Juliet at the Bristol Old Vic. Father of actress Allie Byrne.

Movies for Michael Byrne...

Title: Bodies
Character: Old Mullins
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
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The Gold Machine
Title: The Gold Machine
Character: Andrew Norton
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their journeys flip between continents and centuries to produce an original mediation – part documentary, part fiction – on fate, family and the search for Eldorado.
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Alien Overlords
Title: Alien Overlords
Character: Michael
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
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Intrigo: Death of an Author
Title: Intrigo: Death of an Author
Character: Keller
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
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The Last Witness
Title: The Last Witness
Character: Coroner
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
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Title: The Living and the Dead
Character: Ebenezer Alsop
Released: June 28, 2016
Type: TV
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?
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Title: Agatha Raisin
Character: Bishop Parsons
Released: June 7, 2016
Type: TV
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Title: Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Character: Sir Charles Harwood
Released: December 27, 2015
Type: Movie
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.
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Mortdecai
Title: Mortdecai
Character: The Duke
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: Movie
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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The First Line
Title: The First Line
Character: Richard
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love.
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Diana
Title: Diana
Character: Christiaan Barnard
Released: September 19, 2013
Type: Movie
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
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Title: Crossing Lines
Character: Edward Baxendale
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: TV
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Frank White
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
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Outpost: Black Sun
Title: Outpost: Black Sun
Character: Neurath
Released: April 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character: Gellert Grindelwald
Released: November 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
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Blood: The Last Vampire
Title: Blood: The Last Vampire
Character: Elder
Released: April 2, 2009
Type: Movie
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.
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The Mark of Cain
Title: The Mark of Cain
Character: Lieut General Strathairn
Released: October 18, 2007
Type: Movie
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
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Title: Empire
Character: Cicero
Released: June 28, 2005
Type: TV
As Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest warrior—to an oath to protect his successor, Octavius, his 18-year-old nephew. Tyrannus and Octavius are forced into exile to protect the young man from those who want to sever Caesar's bloodline once and for all.
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Beyond the Sea
Title: Beyond the Sea
Character: Dr. Andretti
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
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Title: Double the Fist
Released: May 21, 2004
Type: TV
Double the Fist is an Australian satirical television show which airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It follows the misadventures of four men and their pursuit of "fistworthiness": host Steve Foxx, and his three offsiders; Rod Foxx, Mephisto, and The Womp. The series has also been broadcast in the UK, Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Brazil.
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Title: The Return of the Dancing Master
Character: Emil Wetterstedt
Released: April 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
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The Crooked Man
Title: The Crooked Man
Character: Archie Saunders
Released: December 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence captured on his camera is used by his unscrupulous boss, Hamilton, to blackmail the very people they are supposed to be protecting. The tables are turned when Fielding and Hamilton themselves become the subject of scrutiny and are plunged into a world of Subterfuge, Intrigue, blackmail and murder.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: Horace Greeley
Released: December 14, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
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Title: Ultimate Force
Released: September 16, 2002
Type: TV
This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.
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The Sum of All Fears
Title: The Sum of All Fears
Character: Anatoli Grushkov
Released: May 31, 2002
Type: Movie
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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Sunday
Title: Sunday
Character: Lord Widgery
Released: January 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
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The Musketeer
Title: The Musketeer
Character: Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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Title: The Mists of Avalon
Character: Merlin
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: TV
The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Joe Brackley
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Proof of Life
Title: Proof of Life
Character: Lord Luthan
Released: December 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Battlefield Earth
Title: Battlefield Earth
Character: Parson Staffer
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Title: Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Character: Mr. Carruthers
Released: October 15, 1999
Type: Movie
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
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Title: The Vice
Released: January 4, 1999
Type: TV
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police force's vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences. Most episodes end in such a way where the main villain is caught but often not in a 'naturally' concluded way that you would expect with other TV dramas, and often ending an episode with more questions unanswered than answered. The small dedicated team is led by Detective Inspector Pat Chappel who struggles to manage the balance between his home life and his work life - as do the other members of the team. Working in the seedy underworld leads to a continual dilemma for the team - the tension between the Vice Squad and the vice-related crimes that they investigate runs throughout the series and gives the show a rich viewing experience. The programme often blurs the line of the team staying on the right side of the law, as almost every member of the team at different points submits briefly or permanently to the temptations of either sex, drugs, money or honey traps. Sometimes with drastic consequences.
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Apt Pupil
Title: Apt Pupil
Character: Ben Kramer
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
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30 Years to Life
Title: 30 Years to Life
Character: Oliver Mather
Released: October 15, 1998
Type: Movie
In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.
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Title: Hornblower
Character: Captain Keene
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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Hornblower: The Even Chance
Title: Hornblower: The Even Chance
Character: Captain Keene
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
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Gunshy
Title: Gunshy
Character: Lange
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
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Title: Heat of the Sun
Released: January 28, 1998
Type: TV
Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya. It began airing in January 1998 in the UK and was broadcast in the United States in 1999 as part of Mystery!.
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Tomorrow Never Dies
Title: Tomorrow Never Dies
Character: Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
Released: December 11, 1997
Type: Movie
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Title: Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Character: Venables
Released: July 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.
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The Island on Bird Street
Title: The Island on Bird Street
Character: Bolek
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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The Saint
Title: The Saint
Character: Vereshagin
Released: April 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Keith Grundy
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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The Fix
Title: The Fix
Character: Sam Campbell
Released: January 4, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
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Title: No Bananas
Character: Edward Grant
Released: May 5, 1996
Type: TV
This 10-episode television miniseries, set in England during World War II, tells the story of two families, the wealthy Hamiltons and the working-class Slaters, now united through marriage.
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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The Infiltrator
Title: The Infiltrator
Character: Dieter Creutz
Released: June 24, 1995
Type: Movie
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
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Title: Oliver's Travels
Released: June 11, 1995
Type: TV
Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
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Title: Oliver's Travels
Character: Moody
Released: June 11, 1995
Type: TV
Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Smythe
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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The Absence of War
Title: The Absence of War
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Duncan Scott
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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Nostradamus
Title: Nostradamus
Character: Inquisitor
Released: August 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.
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A Few Short Journeys Of The Heart
Title: A Few Short Journeys Of The Heart
Released: August 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY FAXES, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.
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Sharpe's Honour
Title: Sharpe's Honour
Character: Major Nairn
Released: June 8, 1994
Type: Movie
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour
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Sharpe's Enemy
Title: Sharpe's Enemy
Character: Major Nairn
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
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Sharpe's Company
Title: Sharpe's Company
Character: Major Nairn
Released: May 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
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Title: Sharpe
Character: Major Nairn
Released: May 5, 1993
Type: TV
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Running Late
Title: Running Late
Character: Clitheroe
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
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Title: Between the Lines
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Mörderische Entscheidung
Title: Mörderische Entscheidung
Character: Octave
Released: December 15, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
Title: The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character: Friedrich Olbricht
Released: January 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
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Title: Saracen
Character: Col. Patrick Ansell
Released: September 2, 1989
Type: TV
Saracen is a 1989 British television drama series. Made for ITV by Central Television, it starred Christian Burgess and Patrick James Clarke in the title roles. 13 episodes were made which were shown throughout the autumn of 1989.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Character: Vogel
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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Buster
Title: Buster
Character: Poyser
Released: September 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
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The Happy Valley
Title: The Happy Valley
Character: John Carberry
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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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: DCC Charles Griswold
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Title: A Sort of Innocence
Released: December 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Title: Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character: Chorus
Released: September 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
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Title: Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Character: George Abell
Released: January 26, 1986
Type: TV
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
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Title: Yes, Prime Minister
Released: January 9, 1986
Type: TV
James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private Secretary, the formidably political Sir Humphrey Appleby who must move to the “Top Job” in Downing Street to support him, together with his much put upon PPS Bernard Wolley. What could possibly go wrong?
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The Good Father
Title: The Good Father
Character: Leonard Scruby
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
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In the Secret State
Title: In the Secret State
Character: Guy Preger
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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Title: Ellis Island
Character: Dr. Carl Travers
Released: November 11, 1984
Type: TV
Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Champions
Title: Champions
Character: Richard Hussey
Released: April 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Title: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Character: Antonio
Released: December 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered Julia. Valentine soon falls in love with Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, but then Proteus meets the captivating Silvia... and he too becomes besotted.
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The Scarlet and the Black
Title: The Scarlet and the Black
Character: Reinhard Beck
Released: February 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
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The Tragedy of Richard III
Title: The Tragedy of Richard III
Character: Duke of Buckingham
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
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Henry VI Part 3
Title: Henry VI Part 3
Character: Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Released: January 16, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 2
Title: Henry VI Part 2
Character: John Hume / Lieutenant
Released: January 9, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 1
Title: Henry VI Part 1
Character: Duke of Alencon
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Man and Superman
Title: Man and Superman
Character: Henry Straker
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
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Title: Smiley's People
Character: Peter Guillam
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: TV
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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The Search for Alexander the Great
Title: The Search for Alexander the Great
Character: Demosthenes
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
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Title: Lady Killers
Character: Edward Marshall-Hall
Released: July 20, 1980
Type: TV
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
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Title: Lady Killers
Character: Edward Marshall-Hall KC
Released: July 20, 1980
Type: TV
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
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Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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Coming Out
Title: Coming Out
Character: Gunnar Wedelman
Released: April 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Patrick Marney
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Force 10 from Navarone
Title: Force 10 from Navarone
Character: Schroeder
Released: August 16, 1978
Type: Movie
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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The Medusa Touch
Title: The Medusa Touch
Character: Duff
Released: April 13, 1978
Type: Movie
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Werner Dreisinger
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Paul Vercors
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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A Bridge Too Far
Title: A Bridge Too Far
Character: Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
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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The Eagle Has Landed
Title: The Eagle Has Landed
Character: Karl
Released: December 24, 1976
Type: Movie
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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Rogue Male
Title: Rogue Male
Character: Interrogator
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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The Omen
Title: The Omen
Character: Monk (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Title: Shades of Greene
Character: Trevor's Father
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Shades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series began in 1975, with each hour-long episode featuring a dramatisation of one of Greene's stories, many of which dealt with issues such as guilt and the Catholic faith, as well as looking at life in general. Actors to have appeared in the series include John Gielgud, Leo McKern, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, and Roy Kinnear. The series began on 9 September 1975 and ran for two seasons.
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Wednesday Love
Title: Wednesday Love
Character: Bruce
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
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If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Title: If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Character: Richard Lovell
Released: April 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.
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Conduct Unbecoming
Title: Conduct Unbecoming
Character: 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
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Vampyres
Title: Vampyres
Character: Playboy
Released: July 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
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Headmaster
Title: Headmaster
Released: March 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40 years ago, Headnaster shows how little has changed in teaching, given its focus on the conflict between old and modern teaching methods, as well as the eternal jockeying for position amongst teaching staff.
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Butley
Title: Butley
Character: Reg Nuttall
Released: January 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
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Title: Within These Walls
Released: January 4, 1974
Type: TV
Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates. The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall. The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes. As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.
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Ms or Jill and Jack
Title: Ms or Jill and Jack
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Richard Lovell
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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Title: Crown Court
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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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Title: Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Character: Edward Seymour
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
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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 Image
Title: The Image
Character: The Artist
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Claudio
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
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The Silent Playground
Title: The Silent Playground
Character: Roger
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
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The Scarlet Blade
Title: The Scarlet Blade
Character: Lt. Hawke
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
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Title: Coronation Street
Character: Ted Page
Released: December 9, 1960
Type: TV
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.