Bill Nighy
William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
The Wild Robot
as Longneck (voice)After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To...
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That Christmas
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm...
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
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Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with...
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Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid...
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The First Omen
as Cardinal LawrenceWhen a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she...
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Arthur Christmas
as Grandsanta (voice)For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its...
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10 Lives
as Professor Craven (voice)A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved...
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Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack...
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Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
as Conrad (voice)Family frenemies, Gracie and Pedro, must put their differences aside, embarking on a thrilling...
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When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt,...
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About Time
as DadThe night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men...
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Jack the Giant Slayer
as General FallonThe story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway...
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Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and,...
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Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all...
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
as ViktorA prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud...
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Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by...
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Joy
as Patrick SteptoeA young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church,...
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Howard CliffordIn a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across...
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London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on...
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Total Recall
as MatthiasFactory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for...
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Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the...
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Role Play
as BobEmma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret...
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As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death...
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Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is...
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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native...
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Astro Boy
as Dr. Elefun (voice)Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers...
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The World's End
as The Network (voice)Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier...
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Emma.
as Mr. WoodhouseIn 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
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Notes on a Scandal
as Richard HartA veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one...
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I, Frankenstein
as Naberius200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth....
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G-Force
as Leonard SaberA team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole...
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Living
as WilliamsLondon, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's...
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The Magic Roundabout
as Dylan (voice)A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous...
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Red Nose Day Actually
as Billy MackFourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in...
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Chalet Girl
as Richard MadsenWhile working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and...
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Norm of the North
as Socrates (voice)Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their...
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Wild Target
as Victor MaynardVictor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother,...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
as OfficerYoung Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the...
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Stormbreaker
as Alan BluntAlex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his...
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Curse of the Pink Panther
as ENT DoctorInspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look...
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The Boat That Rocked
as QuentinAn ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music....
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Dad's Army
as Sergeant WilsonA cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard...
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Pride
as CliffIn 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of...
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Minamata
as Robert "Bob" HayesWar photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect...
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The Limehouse Golem
as John KildareA series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a...
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Their Finest
as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle FrankDuring the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's...
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Thirteen at Dinner
as Ronald MarshActress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces...
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Page Eight
as Johnny WorrickerJohnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable...
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas AinslieAs the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming...
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The Bookshop
as Mr. BrundishSet in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas AinslieBritish retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored...
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StarDog and TurboCat
as Sinclair (voice)When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they...
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The Constant Gardener
as Sir Bernard PellegrinJustin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly,...
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Eye of the Needle
as Squadron Leader BlenkinsopGreat Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry...
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The Beautiful Game
as MalA group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to...
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The Phantom of the Opera
as Martin BartonAn aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the...
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The Kindness of Strangers
as TimofeyClara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan...
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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as SelfAn in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
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Hope Gap
as EdwardGrace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down...
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Salting the Battlefield
as Johnny WorrickerDavid Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue...
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I Capture the Castle
as James MortmainA love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes...
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Blow Dry
as Ray RobertsonThe annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian...
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Turks & Caicos
as Johnny WorrickerThe second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker,...
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Enduring Love
as RobinTwo strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful...
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Death Watch
as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even...
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as SelfThe Constant Gardener featurette.
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Guest House Paradiso
as Mr. JohnsonRichie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring...
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FairyTale: A True Story
as Edward GardnerTwo children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of...
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Glorious 39
as Alexander KeyesA mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious...
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The Girl in the Café
as LawrenceLawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes...
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The Little Drummer Girl
as AlAn American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli...
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Still Crazy
as Ray SimmsIn the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies,...
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace...
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The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later
as SelfABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic...
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Being Human
as JulianOne man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Gideon's Daughter
as Gideon WarnerBill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense...
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Longitude
as Lord SandwichParallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at...
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Lucky Break
as RogerHalf-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...
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Sometimes Always Never
as AlanAlan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching...
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Helmut HoffmannThe two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on...
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The Young Visiters
as Earl of ClinchamThe Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal...
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AKA
as Uncle Louis GryffoynIn 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his...
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Absolute Hell
as Hugh MarrinerBlack comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of...
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Bloody Fury
as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)In the Far West, the fur trade is booming. Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves still alive,...
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London: The Modern Babylon
as Spoken Quotations (voice)London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to...
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A Fox's Tale
as Ringmaster (voice)The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and...
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Real Creatures of Dirt
as Self / Rattlesnake JakeIn this fun and educational piece, animal experts talk about the real creatures that inspired...
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Darkling
as uncreditedThe wanderer of Roger Hyams' films Sunday and Grand Union steps out into the night.
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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
as NarratorSpoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom...
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Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
as SelfA documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz.
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil ParishRemake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to...
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True Blue
as Jeremy SavilleThe story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one...
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Dreams of Leaving
as WilliamWilliam came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could...
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Great White Shark
as Self - Narrator (voice)Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic...
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Alive and Kicking
as TristanA passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced...
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Easter 2016
as Connor MullanSet in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated...
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Unnatural Causes
as Oliver LathamRoy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This...
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Antonia and Jane
as Howard NashPlain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris...
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Burst
as Maxwell's Fan 22A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring...
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Lawless Heart
as DanIn a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant...
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A Masculine Ending
as John TraceyWhile English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night...
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National Theatre Live: Skylight
as Tom SergeantOn a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from...
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Buckley's Chance
as SpencerA fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback...
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Mack the Knife
as Tiger BrownIn the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide...
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Spectre of the Bear
as Bennett (voice)One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's...
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Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as SelfDocumentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as...
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Don't Leave Me This Way
as John TraceyBritish academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch....
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Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
as Self - NarratorFollows Christmas celebrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as staff prepare for one of...
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Standing in for Henry
as BrunoAt an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a...
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The Maitlands
as Roger MaitlandThere is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
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Slapper
as Arnold PercyA young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather...
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Under the Skin
as Dave"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an'...
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We Love Cigarettes
as NarratorA day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe,...
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as SelfClassical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her...
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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
as Graham Greene (voice)The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as...
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Lotus: A New Dawn
as Self - NarratorThis short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer 'Lotus'. In the past...
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Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, LiverpoolBill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as BillOne man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and,...
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Astonish Me
as The ProfessorWhen a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard...
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The Hungry Corpse
as The Hungry CorpseIn London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a...
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Deasey (Desperate)
as DeasyDeasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end...
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Doctor Who
as Dr BlackThe Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...
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The One Show
as SelfA topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
as SelfSeth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...
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Bergerac
as BarryBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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This Morning
as SelfThis Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle,...
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Play for Today
as DavePlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Minder
as OatesThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Peak Practice
as Alan SinclairPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Richard & Judy
as SelfRichard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as LockwoodDS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Castlevania
as Saint Germain (voice)A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan,...
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Black Books
as Man at barBlack Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black....
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Performance
as Roger MaitlandAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Performance
as Hugh MarrinerAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Thomas Jerome NewtonAn extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must...
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Parkinson
as SelfMichael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.
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Wycliffe
as David CleeveWycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective...
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
as GoschenReilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...
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State of Play
as Cameron FosterThe murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to...
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Kavanagh Q.C.
as Giles Culpepper QCJames Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling...
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South Of The Border
as Tony FreasonDrama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn...
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Ordeal by Innocence
as Leo ArgyllThe black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a...
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Meerkat Manor
as NarratorMeerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal...
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Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Belshazzar (voice)A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation...
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Grumpy Old Men
as SelfSeries giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.
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The Last Place on Earth
as Cecil MearesThe Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor...
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He Knew He Was Right
as Colonel OsborneHe Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was...
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Longitude
as Lord SandwichThe fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock...
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World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
as Narrator (voice)Bill Nighy narrates the stories of epic train journeys through stunning scenery.
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People Like Us
as Will RushmorePeople Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary...
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Timeshift
as self (voice)Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its...
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The Lost Prince
as StamfordhamThe life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at...
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Jeffrey GraingerSeven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to...
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Agony
as Vincent FishAgony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a...
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Chillers
as Tom DickensonBased on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...
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Canterbury Tales
as JamesThe Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003....
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World's Most Scenic River Journeys
as NarratorBill Nighy narrates a visually stunning trip along a spectacular river.
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Eye of the Storm
as Tom FrewenA father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a...
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Fox
as Colin StreetFox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the...
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Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
as NarratorBill Nighy narrates this series celebrating the beauty of the gorgeous eastern counties.
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Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
as Self - Narrator (voice)Continuing the compelling saga of the heartstring-tugging, dramatic tale of survival revolving...
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Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
as NarratorIn this 2-episode documentary series, we will see the challenges to which the forest dweller...
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Live from Studio Five
as SelfLive from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky...
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Kent: Garden of England
as NarratorCelebrating the county's beauty - from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Thames Estuary.
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