John Rowe

John Rowe

Born: January 1, 1941
in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK

Movies for John Rowe...

Title: The Crown
Character: Chief Telephonist (Buckingham Palace)
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Judge Turpin
Released: March 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim at the Adelphi Theatre, West End, London in 2012.
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Title: Vera
Character: Percy Monkford
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Scouting for Boys
Title: Scouting for Boys
Character: Baden-Powell (voice)
Released: May 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling books of all time. In the 20th century, only the Bible, the Koran and the Thoughts of Chairman Mao sold more. But they had fewer jokes, no pictures and were useless at important stuff like tying knots. In this entertaining and affectionate film, Ian Hislop uncovers the story behind the book which kick-started the Scout Movement - a work which is very eccentric, very Edwardian and very English. Hislop discovers that the book is also very radical and addresses a variety of modern issues, such as citizenship, disaffected youth and social responsibility. He explores the maverick brilliance of Baden-Powell, a national celebrity after his heroism in the Boer War, and considers the book's candid focus on health and well-being.
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The Heart of Me
Title: The Heart of Me
Character: Drysdale
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
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Title: Mayday
Character: Allen Reiss
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: TV
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Title: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Character: Col. Boyer
Released: June 15, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.
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Title: Bad Girls
Character: Judge Shuttlewood
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
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Title: Anna Lee
Character: Commander Martin Brierly
Released: February 27, 1994
Type: TV
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. These were broadcast in the U.S. on the A&E cable network. The title role was played by Imogen Stubbs. Music was by Anne Dudley with theme song "Sister, Sister" and some additional songs by Luciana Caporaso. Considerable alterations were made from the original books so that sometimes they seem to share only their titles. According to actor Ken Stott's webpage:
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Mr. Faraday
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Gladio
Title: Gladio
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due head, Licio Gelli, Italian neofascist and terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Venetian judge Felice Casson, Italian Gladio commander General Gerardo Serravale, Belgian Senator Roger Lallemand, Belgian gendarme Martial Lekue and former CIA director William Colby. Also included was "hoaxer" Oswald LeWinter.
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The Law Lord
Title: The Law Lord
Character: Sir Terence Calthorpe
Released: March 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard
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In Search of Cabaret
Title: In Search of Cabaret
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Ernest Weaver
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Title: Enemy's Enemy
Character: Sir Geoffrey Hunt
Released: December 8, 1990
Type: TV
Someone is killing off Swedish military officers and making it look like the works of Soviet agents. Hamilton has to crack the case before all hell breaks loose and there is a full scale spy-war with the soviets.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Prosecutor
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Reasonable Force
Title: Reasonable Force
Character: D.A.C.
Released: March 27, 1988
Type: Movie
In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?
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Across the Lake
Title: Across the Lake
Character: Jack Stanley
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved BlueBird k7. Unfortunately Campbell never survived the record as his boat hydroplaned out of the water and disintegrated on landing. Campbell's body was never found until 2001.
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Inappropriate Behaviour
Title: Inappropriate Behaviour
Character: Headmaster
Released: March 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding—Cotswold style. Who is going to learn the most?
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Mary Rose
Title: Mary Rose
Character: Mr Amy
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: Councillor Lynch
Released: August 4, 1986
Type: Movie
A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.
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Clockwise
Title: Clockwise
Character: Headmaster
Released: March 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
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The Cold War Killers
Title: The Cold War Killers
Character: Guy Llewellyn
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.
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The Alamut Ambush
Title: The Alamut Ambush
Character: Guy Llewellyn
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.
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Title: Home to Roost
Character: Sally's Dad
Released: April 19, 1985
Type: TV
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.
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Wynne and Penkovsky
Title: Wynne and Penkovsky
Character: Interrogator
Released: February 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Norwegian Diplomat
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Character: First Roman Senator
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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The Chain
Title: The Chain
Character: Alex
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lennox
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
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Title: Widows
Character: Brian Miller
Released: March 16, 1983
Type: TV
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows--Dolly Rawlins, Shirley Miller, and Linda Pirelli--find their husbands' plans for the robbery and decide to stage it themselves.
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Title: Timewatch
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: TV
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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Title: Tenko
Character: Policeman
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: TV
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Raymond Dumoitier
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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Title: Minder
Character: Chief Inspector Baxter
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Minder
Character: Superintendent Copeland
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Henry VIII
Title: Henry VIII
Character: Cromwell
Released: February 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
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Through the Night
Title: Through the Night
Character: Anaesthetist
Released: December 2, 1975
Type: Movie
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
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Breath
Title: Breath
Character: Doctor
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma creates problems. Everyone seems to be helpful - but are they? Is there something sinister about Mrs Pritchett , the new housekeeper, or is it Nell's imagination? Who knows where reality ends and fantasy begins?