Adrian Lester

Adrian Lester

Born: August 14, 1968
in Birmingham, England, UK

Movies for Adrian Lester...

Title: Renegade Nell
Character: Earl of Poynton
Released: March 29, 2024
Type: TV
England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.
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The Penitent - A Rational Man
Title: The Penitent - A Rational Man
Released: September 4, 2023
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist, Charles, has his career and life become derailed after he refuses to testify on behalf of a former patient who had become clinically violent and unstable, resulting in the deaths of multiple people following a tragic breakdown of his mental complications. The patient then claims that Charles will not testify in court or to the police because the patient is openly part of the LGBT community. Further, the patient claims that Charles has recently gone through a religious conversion in his own personal identity which has resulted in a fully prejudiced reassessment of the gay community as a whole. Charles claims that the basis of these accusations are false and due to a misunderstanding. The resulting recriminations put Charles's entire career at risk and threaten to end his practice permanently.
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David Harewood on Blackface
Title: David Harewood on Blackface
Character: Himself
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a mission to understand the roots of this strange, intensely problematic cultural form: where did the show come from, and what made it popular for so long? With the help of historians, actors and musicians, David uncovers how, at its core, blackface minstrelsy was simply an attempt to make racism into an art form - and can be traced back to a name and a date.
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Elizabeth: Her Passions and Pastimes
Title: Elizabeth: Her Passions and Pastimes
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Throughout her life, The Queen had her passions and pastimes that she enjoyed. From her dogs and horses, through theatre, film, music and TV, to her love of photography, the sea, and family outings, her interests were both many and varied.
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Title: The Undeclared War
Character: PM Andrew Makinde
Released: June 30, 2022
Type: TV
In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
Title: Keeping Company with Sondheim
Character: Self / Bobby (archive footage)
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
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Title: Trigger Point
Character: Joel Nutkins
Released: January 23, 2022
Type: TV
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
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Romeo & Juliet
Title: Romeo & Juliet
Character: Prince
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
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Hymn
Title: Hymn
Character: Gil
Released: July 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Two men meet at a funeral. Benny is a loner anchored by his wife and children. Gil longs to fulfil his potential. They form a deep bond but as cracks appear in their fragile lives they start to realise that true courage comes in different forms.
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Title: Life
Character: David Aston
Released: September 29, 2020
Type: TV
Follow the lives and woes of the residents of a Manchester house divided into four different flats. Gemma Foster's neighbour, Emma, now goes by the name of Belle, looking to start a new life. Three other interconnected stories tell a tale of love, loss, birth, death, the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between.
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Title: Staged
Character: Adrian
Released: June 10, 2020
Type: TV
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put an end to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass them by.
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Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Title: Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Ten big name actors, including Jim Broadbent, Jodie Whittaker, David Tennant and Olivia Colman, come together to record an album for Children In Need
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Title: The Rook
Character: Conrad Grantchester
Released: June 30, 2019
Type: TV
After waking in a park with total amnesia — and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves — a young woman must fight to uncover her past, and resume her position at the head of Britain’s most secret (supernatural) service before the traitors who stole her memory can finish what they started.
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Title: Curfew
Character: Simon Donahue
Released: February 22, 2019
Type: TV
When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.
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Mary Queen of Scots
Title: Mary Queen of Scots
Character: Lord Randolph
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
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Title: Trauma
Character: Jon Allerton
Released: February 12, 2018
Type: TV
A three-part drama set in the trauma unit of a London hospital, a grieving father blames a high-achieving trauma consultant for the death of his teenage son.
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Euphoria
Title: Euphoria
Character: Aron
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.
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Title: Riviera
Character: Robert Carver
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.
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Grey Lady
Title: Grey Lady
Character: Johnson
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
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Breakable You
Title: Breakable You
Character: Ken Yates
Released: January 7, 2017
Type: Movie
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
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Title: Undercover
Character: Nick Johnson
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Title: London Spy
Character: Professor Marcus Shaw
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Title: London Spy
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Britain's Racist Election
Title: Britain's Racist Election
Character: Narrator (Voice Only)
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Channel 4 documentary Britain's Racist Election follows the controversial 1964 Smethwick election battle between Peter Griffiths and Gordon Walker, fought on grounds of racial denomination
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Title: Red Band Society
Character: Dr. Naday
Released: September 17, 2014
Type: TV
Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...
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Title: The Kumars
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: TV
Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop that Ashwin now runs. Sanjeev is divorced from his wife of nearly two years and Ashwin has manged to get a sponsorship deal that has allowed him to resurrect the family's talk show, which takes place in the living room of their flat.
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Respect: A Felix Dexter Special
Title: Respect: A Felix Dexter Special
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: November 17, 2013
Type: Movie
A special programme celebrating the life in comedy of the much-loved and respected actor, Felix Dexter. Charting his influence as a pioneer of black comedy, from his early days in stand-up, then the landmark Real McCoy, The Fast Show, Down the Line, Absolutely Fabulous, Bellamy's People and Citizen Khan. Friends and colleagues gather to remember Felix, including Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson and Adil Ray.
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Title: National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Character: Othello
Released: November 2, 2013
Type: Movie
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
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National Theatre Live: Othello
Title: National Theatre Live: Othello
Character: Othello
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
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Jimi: All Is by My Side
Title: Jimi: All Is by My Side
Character: Michael X
Released: September 7, 2013
Type: Movie
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
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Sleep With Me
Title: Sleep With Me
Character: Richard
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A couple are torn apart when a French woman enters their loves and pulls them into personal a game of lust and obsession.
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Case 39
Title: Case 39
Character: Wayne
Released: August 13, 2009
Type: Movie
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.
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Title: Being Human
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: TV
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
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Title: Merlin
Character: Myror
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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Ballet Shoes
Title: Ballet Shoes
Character: Mr. Sholsky
Released: August 26, 2008
Type: Movie
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
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Title: Bonekickers
Character: Ben Ergha
Released: July 8, 2008
Type: TV
Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah. It was produced by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen Ltd and co-produced with Monastic Productions. Archaeologist and Bristol University academic Mark Horton acted as the series' archaeological consultant. Adrian Lester has described the programme as "CSI meets Indiana Jones [...] There's an element of the crime procedural show, there's science, conspiracy theories – and there's a big underlying mystery that goes through the whole six-episode series." Much of the series was filmed in the City of Bath, Somerset, with locations including the University of Bath campus. Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House, Chavenage House for episodes 5 & 6 and Sheldon Manor. On 21 November 2008 Broadcast magazine revealed the show would not be returning for a second series.
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Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Character: Sergeant Norton
Released: March 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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Starting Out in the Evening
Title: Starting Out in the Evening
Character: Casey Davis
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Title: Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Character: Pete
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Oliver De Boys
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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Title: The Ghost Squad
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating police corruption, the premise of the series is that the squad continued to operate in secret after officially being shut down. It starred Elaine Cassidy as a police constable recruited into the squad and Jonas Armstrong as her handler. The show was cancelled after a single seven episode series.
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Title: Afterlife
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: TV
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
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The Day After Tomorrow
Title: The Day After Tomorrow
Character: Simon
Released: May 26, 2004
Type: Movie
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Michael Stone
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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The Final Curtain
Title: The Final Curtain
Character: Jonathan Stitch
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet
Title: The Tragedy of Hamlet
Character: Hamlet
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast .
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Dust
Title: Dust
Character: Edge
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.
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Born Romantic
Title: Born Romantic
Character: Jimmy
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
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Title: Girlfriends
Released: September 11, 2000
Type: TV
The series revolves around the friendship of four African-American women in different phases of their lives. They explore the many trials and tribulations that most women face today such as relationships, family, friends and other current issues that will interest most women. Whether it’s getting over a divorce, finding a career, or looking for true love, Girlfriends delivers along with comedy and wit.
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Maybe Baby
Title: Maybe Baby
Character: George
Released: June 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.
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Best
Title: Best
Character: Rocky
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Jason and the Argonauts
Character: Orpheus
Released: May 7, 2000
Type: TV
At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Title: Love's Labour's Lost
Character: Dumaine
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
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Storm Damage
Title: Storm Damage
Character: Danny
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.
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Primary Colors
Title: Primary Colors
Character: Henry Burton
Released: March 20, 1998
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
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Up on the Roof
Title: Up on the Roof
Character: Scott
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Five friends who meet at Hull University in the late 1970's and form a barbershop-style quartet. They blow their chance to sing at a graduation gig and vow to meet fifteen years later at the Cote d'Azur villa of one of their parents.
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Company
Title: Company
Character: Bobby
Released: December 10, 1996
Type: Movie
Filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical comes to life through the direction of Sam Mendes. Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
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The Affair
Title: The Affair
Character: Ray
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: Movie
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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Title: Performance
Character: Bobby
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Horizon
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: February 4, 1964
Type: TV
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Title: Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Making of 'Doomsday'