Bernard Lee

Bernard Lee

Born: January 10, 1908
Died: January 16, 1981
in Brentford, London, England, UK
John Bernard "Bernard" Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.

Movies for Bernard Lee...

Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: M (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Title: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Character: Sgt. Ben
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: Movie
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
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Moonraker
Title: Moonraker
Character: M
Released: June 26, 1979
Type: Movie
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Ghost of Christmas Present
Released: December 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Title: The Spy Who Loved Me
Character: M
Released: July 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Beauty and the Beast
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Character: Edward Beaumont
Released: December 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
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From Hong Kong with Love
Title: From Hong Kong with Love
Character: M
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.
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Murrain
Title: Murrain
Character: Beeley
Released: July 27, 1975
Type: Movie
When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.
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The Man with the Golden Gun
Title: The Man with the Golden Gun
Character: M
Released: December 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
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Title: Father Brown
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: TV
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
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Percy's Progress
Title: Percy's Progress
Character: Barraclough
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Title: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Character: Tarmut
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
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Title: Vienna 1900
Released: December 8, 1973
Type: TV
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Live and Let Die
Title: Live and Let Die
Character: M
Released: June 27, 1973
Type: Movie
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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Title: Warship
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: TV
Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero.
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The Man Who Died Twice
Title: The Man Who Died Twice
Character: Francis Cumberland
Released: April 13, 1973
Type: Movie
A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.
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The Man in a Looking Glass
Title: The Man in a Looking Glass
Character: Morgan Travis
Released: October 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.
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Diamonds Are Forever
Title: Diamonds Are Forever
Character: M
Released: December 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
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Dulcima
Title: Dulcima
Character: Mr Gaskain
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place, Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her, and a strange, yet mutually beneficial, relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper, newly arrived on a nearby estate, also catches Dulcima's eye...
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Sam Milford
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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The Raging Moon
Title: The Raging Moon
Character: Uncle Bob
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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Danger Point
Title: Danger Point
Released: January 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in the shape of a sea-mine.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Character: M
Released: December 18, 1969
Type: Movie
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
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Crossplot
Title: Crossplot
Character: Chilmore
Released: November 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
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Title: Strange Report
Character: Arthur Pater
Released: September 21, 1969
Type: TV
Strange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases – which had been marked "Open File" by various government departments – with the help of Hamlyn Gynt, Evelyn and Professor Marks. He employed the latest techniques in forensic investigation, which he undertook in his own laboratory in his flat in Warwick Crescent in the Maida Vale/Little Venice area of Paddington.
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Title: Journey to the Unknown
Character: Ben Loker
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: TV
A British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, very similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary. It featured both British and American actors.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Squires
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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Title: The Jazz Age
Released: September 10, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: The Expert
Character: Harry Kirby
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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You Only Live Twice
Title: You Only Live Twice
Character: M
Released: June 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
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Operation Kid Brother
Title: Operation Kid Brother
Character: Commander Cunningham
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
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Title: King of the River
Released: July 6, 1966
Type: TV
King of the River is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1966 and 1967. The series centred around the King family and their efforts to maintain their sail-driven barge transport business.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Title: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Character: Patmore
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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Thunderball
Title: Thunderball
Character: M
Released: December 11, 1965
Type: Movie
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Title: The Incredible World of James Bond
Character: Bernard Lee: M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG)
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Sir Peter Teazle
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Title: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
Released: February 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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Goldfinger
Title: Goldfinger
Character: M
Released: September 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
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Who Was Maddox?
Title: Who Was Maddox?
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
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Saturday Night Out
Title: Saturday Night Out
Character: George Hudson
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
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Ring of Spies
Title: Ring of Spies
Character: Henry Houghton
Released: March 23, 1964
Type: Movie
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
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From Russia with Love
Title: From Russia with Love
Character: M
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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A Place to Go
Title: A Place to Go
Character: Matt Flint
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Jim Garner
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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Two Left Feet
Title: Two Left Feet
Character: Mr Crabbe
Released: March 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl who can offer him the experience he lacks. Every time Alan tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a trip-and-stumble. Then he meets Eileen (Nyree Dawn Porter), the new waitress at the corner cafe, who signal unmistakable messages with her large inviting eyes.
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The L-Shaped Room
Title: The L-Shaped Room
Character: Charlie
Released: November 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
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Dr. No
Title: Dr. No
Character: M
Released: October 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Dr. Frank Shears
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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The Share Out
Title: The Share Out
Released: February 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
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Clue of the Silver Key
Title: Clue of the Silver Key
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
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Whistle Down the Wind
Title: Whistle Down the Wind
Character: Mr. Bostock
Released: July 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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The Secret Partner
Title: The Secret Partner
Character: D.S. Frank Hanbury
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Inspector Mann
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who Knew" by Edgar Wallace.
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Title: Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Character: Black John
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the rocks of Smugglers Bay, and murdering their crews for the sake of loot, the fishermen begin to fear for their livelihoods. In desperation, they appeal to the local magistrate Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing).
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Title: Danger Man
Character: Lord Ammanford
Released: September 11, 1960
Type: TV
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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Clue of the Twisted Candle
Title: Clue of the Twisted Candle
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.
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Trouble in the Sky
Title: Trouble in the Sky
Character: Capt. George Gort
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
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The Angry Silence
Title: The Angry Silence
Character: Bert Connolly
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Captain Hoseason
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Firing Officer (uncredited)
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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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Firing Officer (uncredited)
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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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Patrick Mathry
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Title: Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: TV
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 46 films in the series, made between 1960 and 1965. The films were loose adaptations of Edgar Wallace's books and stories. Very few used his original titles, and there was no attempt to set them in the period in which Wallace wrote, probably to obviate the need for elaborate costumes and sets. A 1962 article in Scene magazine quotes £22,000 as the budget for an episode then in production.
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Danger Within
Title: Danger Within
Character: Lieutenant Colonel Huxley
Released: February 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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Nowhere to Go
Title: Nowhere to Go
Character: Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Inspector Thompson
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Cmdr. Wadlow
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Charles Foreman
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
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High Flight
Title: High Flight
Character: Flight Sergeant Harris
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
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Across the Bridge
Title: Across the Bridge
Character: Chief Inspector Hadden
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
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Fire Down Below
Title: Fire Down Below
Character: Doctor Sam
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
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The Spanish Gardener
Title: The Spanish Gardener
Character: Leighton Bailey
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
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The Battle of the River Plate
Title: The Battle of the River Plate
Character: Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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The Ship That Died of Shame
Title: The Ship That Died of Shame
Character: Customs Officer Brewster
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
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Out of the Clouds
Title: Out of the Clouds
Character: Customs Officer
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A day following workers at an airport
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The Purple Plain
Title: The Purple Plain
Character: Dr. Harris
Released: September 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
Title: Seagulls Over Sorrento
Character: Lofty Turner
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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Father Brown
Title: Father Brown
Character: Inspector Valentine
Released: June 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Beat the Devil
Title: Beat the Devil
Character: Insp. Jack Clayton
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
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Sailor of the King
Title: Sailor of the King
Character: Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
Released: June 11, 1953
Type: Movie
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.
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The Yellow Balloon
Title: The Yellow Balloon
Character: Constable Chapman
Released: February 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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Gift Horse
Title: Gift Horse
Character: A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Beaumont
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Mr. Denning Drives North
Title: Mr. Denning Drives North
Character: Inspector Dodds
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: Brigadier
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
Title: Calling Bulldog Drummond
Character: Colonel Webson
Released: July 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Fortune in Diamonds
Title: Fortune in Diamonds
Character: O'Connell
Released: March 7, 1951
Type: Movie
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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White Corridors
Title: White Corridors
Character: Burgess
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
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Cage of Gold
Title: Cage of Gold
Character: Inspector Grey
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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Odette
Title: Odette
Character: Jack
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Inspector Wilton
Released: May 15, 1950
Type: Movie
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Character: Cmdr. Gates
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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The Third Man
Title: The Third Man
Character: Sergeant Paine
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Title: Elizabeth of Ladymead
Character: John Beresford in 1903
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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The Fallen Idol
Title: The Fallen Idol
Character: Detective Hart
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
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The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Title: The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Character: Captain Ford
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Title: The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Character: Colonel Gascoyne
Released: April 11, 1947
Type: Movie
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
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This Man Is Mine
Title: This Man Is Mine
Character: James Nicholls
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
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The New Lot
Title: The New Lot
Character: Interviewing Officer
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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Once a Crook
Title: Once a Crook
Character: Duke
Released: August 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Jake
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Oscar
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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The Frozen Limits
Title: The Frozen Limits
Character: Bill McGrew
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.
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Murder in Soho
Title: Murder in Soho
Character: Roy Barnes
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Ferry Fane
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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Rhodes of Africa
Title: Rhodes of Africa
Character: Cartwright
Released: June 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.