Mark Dignam

Mark Dignam

Born: March 20, 1909
Died: September 29, 1989
in Ealing, London, England, UK
Cuthbert Mark Dignam (20 March 1909 - 29 September 1989) was an English actor.

Movies for Mark Dignam...

On the Black Hill
Title: On the Black Hill
Character: Reverend Latimer
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: Movie
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Bob
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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The Biko Inquest
Title: The Biko Inquest
Character: Martinus Prins
Released: November 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
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Squaring the Circle
Title: Squaring the Circle
Character: 2nd Witness
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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The Chain
Title: The Chain
Character: Ambrose
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: Duncan
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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Memoirs of a Survivor
Title: Memoirs of a Survivor
Character: Newsvendor
Released: September 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
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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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Title: Disraeli
Character: Lord Lyndhurst
Released: September 5, 1978
Type: TV
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
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Beasts: Baby
Title: Beasts: Baby
Character: Arthur Grace
Released: November 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
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Title: Beasts
Character: Arthur Grace
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: TV
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Lord Fermor
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, handsome Dorian Gray makes a Faustian deal that his portrait painted by Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett) will age while he remains young. But his vain bargain eventually leads to murder and destroys Gray's life. This 1976 installment of the BBC's long-running "Play of the Month" television series co-stars Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Judi Bowker and John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton.
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Title: The XYY Man
Character: Fairfax
Released: July 3, 1976
Type: TV
The XYY Man began life as a series of novels by Kenneth Royce, featuring the character of William 'Spider' Scott, a one-time cat-burglar who leaves prison aiming to go straight but finds his talents still to be very much in demand by both the criminal underworld and the British secret service. Scott has an extra "y" chromosome that supposedly gives him a criminal predisposition - although he tries to go straight, he is genetically incapable of doing so. Royce's original books were : The XYY Man; Concrete Boot; The Miniatures Frame; Spider Underground and Trap Spider, though he returned to the character in the 80s with The Crypto Man and The Mosley Receipt. Regular characters included Scott's long-suffering girlfriend Maggie Parsons; British secret service head Fairfax; Detective Sergeant George Bulman, the tenacious policeman who wants nothing more than to see Scott back behind bars; journalist Ray Lynch; gay photographer Bluie Palmer and KGB chief Kransouski. In 1976 the first of Royce's novels was transferred to British television by Granada TV, in a three-part adaptation with Stephen Yardley playing Scott. The adventures of Scott caught the public imagination and ten more episodes followed in 1977. He is often co-opted into working for shadowy civil-servant and MI5 officer Fairfax. Doggedly on his trail is his nemesis Bulman and his assistant, Detective Constable Derek Willis.
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Further Up Pompeii
Title: Further Up Pompeii
Character: Ludicrus Sextus
Released: March 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
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Dead Cert
Title: Dead Cert
Character: Clifford Tudor
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the exact same fate as his friend.
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John Keats: His Life and Death
Title: John Keats: His Life and Death
Character: The Surgeon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Dramatization short on British romantic poet John Keats.
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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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Title: Crown Court
Character: Mr. Cross
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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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Haakon Werle
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
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Title: Jude the Obscure
Released: February 6, 1971
Type: TV
Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, Jude, born to poverty, he dreams are big, but are shattered one by one, as his life descends into tragedy.
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There's a Girl in My Soup
Title: There's a Girl in My Soup
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Anna's father
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
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Title: Manhunt
Character: Reichwein
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: TV
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Polonius
Released: December 21, 1969
Type: Movie
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Gen. Airey
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
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Frozen Flashes
Title: Frozen Flashes
Character: Sir John
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
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The Taming of the Shrew
Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Character: Vincentio
Released: March 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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Title: A Slight Case Of...
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: TV
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Clash by Night
Title: Clash by Night
Released: August 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
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The Eyes of Annie Jones
Title: The Eyes of Annie Jones
Character: Mr. Frobisher
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Title: A Jolly Bad Fellow
Character: The Master
Released: March 15, 1964
Type: Movie
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: The Bishop
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Lieutenant
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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Siege of the Saxons
Title: Siege of the Saxons
Character: King Arthur
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Title: Lancelot and Guinevere
Character: Merlin
Released: June 2, 1963
Type: Movie
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
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Das russische Wunder
Title: Das russische Wunder
Character: (English version narrator)
Released: May 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Sir Godfrey
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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In Search of the Castaways
Title: In Search of the Castaways
Character: Rich man at Yacht party
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Major Carter
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Title: The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Character: Prosecuting Counsel
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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Conscience Bay
Title: Conscience Bay
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Melodrama of religion and sex in a village on the coast of Nova Scotia.
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Title: International Detective
Character: Geoffrey Redding
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Councillor Albert Parker
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.
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They Can't Hang Me
Title: They Can't Hang Me
Character: Prison Governor
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Governor
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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Carrington V.C.
Title: Carrington V.C.
Character: Prosecutor
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
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The Passing Stranger
Title: The Passing Stranger
Character: Inspector
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.
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Beau Brummell
Title: Beau Brummell
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency …
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Lease of Life
Title: Lease of Life
Character: Mr. Black
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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The 'Maggie'
Title: The 'Maggie'
Character: The Laird
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
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The Dybbuk
Title: The Dybbuk
Character: Rabbi Azrael of Miropol
Released: October 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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Murder in the Cathedral
Title: Murder in the Cathedral
Released: September 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: Bolingbroke
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Who Killed Jack Robins?
Title: Who Killed Jack Robins?
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Directed by Jirí Weiss