Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born October 10, 1946 in Redditch, Worcestershire) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.
The First Omen
as Father HarrisWhen a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she...
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Me Before You
as Stephen TraynorA small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes...
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Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off...
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As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe...
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Underworld: Blood Wars
as ThomasVampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire...
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The Imitation Game
as Commander DennistonBased on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the...
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After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible...
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Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world...
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Ghostbusters
as Harold FillmoreFollowing a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates,...
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Dracula Untold
as Master VampireVlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to...
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Iron Mask
as Lord DudleyCommissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green...
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After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a...
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Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent SevenDisaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover...
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Child 44
as Major GrachevSet in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Mr. BennetA zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of...
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For Your Eyes Only
as ClausA British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to...
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Rumours
as Edison WolcottEn route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal...
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Forbidden Empire
as Lord DudleyEarly 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to...
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Euphoria
as Mr. DarenThe story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach...
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A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a...
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Victor Frankenstein
as FrankensteinEccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox...
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The Golden Child
as Sardo NumspaAfter a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa,...
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Scoop
as Mr. MalcolmAn American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an...
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Mank
as William Randolph Hearst1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic...
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The Contractor
as DCS Andrew WindsorFormer CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it...
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Woman in Gold
as ShermanMaria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a...
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Swimming Pool
as John BosloadA British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to...
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Gosford Park
as Raymond StockbridgeIn 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of...
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Legantir (voice)A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as...
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Starter for 10
as Michael HarbinsonIn 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of...
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Against the Ice
as Minister NeergaardIn 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition...
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Space Truckers
as Nabel / MacanudoJohn Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him...
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Ironclad
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of CanterburyIn the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his...
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Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David CarltonAli G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister...
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Admiral
as King Charles IIWhen the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces...
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Hilary and Jackie
as Derek Du PréThe tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of...
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White Mischief
as Josslyn HayA millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the...
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Dark Blue World
as Wing Commander BentleyLt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising...
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Michael Collins
as SoamesMichael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s,...
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China Moon
as Rupert MunroDetective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After...
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There Be Dragons
as SolonoArising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated...
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Patrick
as Doctor RogetPatrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary...
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Despite the Falling Snow
as Old Alexander IvanovNew York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the...
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The Hanging Sun
as JacobOn the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village...
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Plenty
as Raymond BrockDavid Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her...
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Midnight's Children
as William MethwoldThe story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England,...
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St George's Day
as TrenchardInfamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food...
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Black and White
as Roderic ChamberlainAustralia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest...
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as John LyeOn an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John...
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The Blood Oranges
as CyrilCyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow...
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self (uncredited)A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film...
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The Book of Vision
as Dr. Johan AnmuthEva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr....
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The Surgeon
as Dr. Ed MittlesbayDr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying...
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Goldeneye
as Ian FlemingBritish writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent...
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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
as Marchese ClementiPiedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as SelfBoasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
as uncreditedAmerican executive Conrad Tucker sees a photograph in a magazine of the wealthy Aird family's...
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Instruments of Darkness
as DuncanA war hero and the lure of ambition and descent into hell. An adaptation of Macbeth.
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Spitfire
as Narrator (voice)A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph NicklebyAdaptation of the Dickens novel.
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Uncle BertieColin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s...
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Master Moley By Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice)The story of a young Mole and his adventure to pick a rose from the Queen's Garden, not knowing...
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Good Morning, Babylon
as D.W. GriffithAfter the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to...
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What Rats Won't Do
as Gerald Burton JrSoon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom...
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Intervention
as Private InvestigatorAn eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for...
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Captain RichterIn the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the...
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Pascali's Island
as Anthony Bowles1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions...
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Century
as Professor MandryTurn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
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Alien Evolution
as Self / ClemensMark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast...
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Consenting Adults
as Jack WolfendenFifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading...
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Undertow
as Lyle YatesAfter his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the...
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Dreams of Leaving
as ColinWilliam came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could...
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Don't Go Breaking My Heart
as FrankWell meaning friends try to persuade Suzanne, a beautiful widow, to remarry and the choice seems...
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First Born
as Edward ForesterEdward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments...
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Twice Upon a Time
as Battar Master of CeremoniesAlice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most...
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That Good Night
as The VisitorA moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled...
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self (archive footage)The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in...
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Hidden City
as James RichardsCassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government...
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The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as SelfJoin acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and...
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The Door
as Thomas ArlingtonA man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.
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La valle di pietra
as SurveyorIn the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained...
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Retrospective
as Jonathan HoyleA wartime photographer takes the last photograph of his career in Palestine, and later uses it...
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Speeches That Shook the World
as SelfSpeech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to...
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Father's Day
as DonJoe wants out but the Don won't take no for an answer. Carl lays a plan to use Alison as the...
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Lancaster
as Narrator (voice)The story of the iconic WW2 bomber told through the words of the last surviving crew members,...
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Kabloonak
as Robert FlahertyIn 1922 the first documentary in the genre sense came on the big screen, "Nanook of the North"...
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The Liar
as TickfordAdrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
as uncreditedLaura Aird becomes a successful publishing executive, returning from America and moving to...
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Out of the Shadows
as Michael HaydenA U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in...
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as NarratorA look at Hammer’s progression from a back off in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status...
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Savage Waters
as uncreditedThe film follows renowned skipper Matt Knight, who teams up with world-class big wave surfer...
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Shortcut to Paradise
as QuinnQuinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico,...
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Rainy Day Women
as John TrumanIn 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a...
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Little Eyolf
as BorghejmAlfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can...
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Portrait of the Queen
as uncreditedQueen Elizabeth II was the most photographed, the most loved and talked about, spied upon,...
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The Science of Doctor Who
as SelfFor one night only, Professor Brian Cox takes an audience of celebrity guests and members of the...
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The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Henry CarlyleArthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about...
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The McGuffin
as Paul HatcherPaul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
as uncreditedIn a flashback, Laura Aird is seen withdrawing totally from society after tragedy strikes....
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Fatal Spring
as Siegfried Sassoon'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
as uncreditedLong-forgotten scandals from the Aird clan's ancestral history continue to be exposed, and the...
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Wimbledon Official Film 2017
as Narrator (voice)The Official Wimbledon Film 2017 delivers an insight into the very best action, on and off the...
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Game of Thrones
as Tywin LannisterSeven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the...
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The Day of the Jackal
as Timothy WinthropAn unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits...
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The One Show
as SelfA topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
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The Crown
as Lord MountbattenThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...
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Top Gear
as SelfThis fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary,...
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Merlin
as AredianThe unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...
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Play for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Natural World
as uncreditedNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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The Professionals
as ParkerThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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Agatha Christie's Marple
as Septimus BlighThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...
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The Flying Doctors
as MinisterThe Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Robert SmytheA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Strike Back
as Conrad KnoxThe series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back...
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The Sandman
as Roderick BurgessAfter years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds...
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Foyle's War
as uncreditedAs WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates...
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An Audience with...
as SelfAn Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...
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Would I Lie to You?
as SelfA comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per...
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BBC Play of the Month
as BorghejmPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - ParticipantAntiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and...
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The Serpent Queen
as Clement VIIConsidered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th century...
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Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice)This illuminating docudrama series chronicles Moses' remarkable life as a prince, prophet and...
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Room 101
as SelfFast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities...
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Trial & Retribution
as uncreditedTrial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began...
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Big Fat Quiz
as Self - GuestPresenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where...
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Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben WilsonNothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate...
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Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice)Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
as SelfA British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering...
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And Then There Were None
as Justice Lawrence WargraveTen strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But...
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The Little Drummer Girl
as Commander PictonBrilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on...
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Father Brown
as uncreditedFather Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
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Bleak House
as Mr. TulkinghornThe generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and...
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Screen Two
as Paul HatcherSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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The Widow
as Martin BensonA woman's search to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of her husband leads her to the...
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Childhood's End
as KarellenThe peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as uncreditedA modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who...
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This England
as Max HastingsInside the halls of power, Boris Johnson grapples with Covid-19, Brexit, and a controversial...
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Neverland
as Dr. FluddRaised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by...
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Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian HamiltonThree journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli...
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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Henry CarlyleIf Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former...
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Going Postal
as Lord VetinariMoist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his...
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Edward the Seventh
as Prince EddyEdward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the...
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Fingersmith
as Mr. Chistopher LillyA young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside...
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The Jewel in the Crown
as Guy PerronA sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with...
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Secret State
as John HodderSecret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business...
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The Great Fire
as Lord DentonInspired by the historical events of 1666 and with the decadent backdrop of King Charles II’s...
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Hang Ups
as Jeremy PittAfter the collapse of his previous group therapy practice, Richard is no longer able to conduct...
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Rebecca
as Maxim de WinterBased on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and...
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Henry VIII
as Edward StaffordThe life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging...
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Time for Murder
as James LatimerWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
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The Singapore Grip
as Mr WebbIn colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both...
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To the Ends of the Earth
as Sir Henry SomersetFrom Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the...
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Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice)A rare look at warring animal clans battling for survival in a remote region of Africa, which is...
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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
as Old MichaelangeloThe greatest art works of all time - born of war and bloodshed - as rival artists Michelangelo,...
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Out on a Limb
as Gerry StamfordAn intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest...
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Trinity
as Dr. Edmund MaltraversAfter 900 years of reserving access exclusively to the rich, Bridgeford University has finally...
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The Phantom of the Opera
as The Phantom of the OperaThe Phantom of the Opera is a 1990 NBC two-part drama television miniseries. It is adapted from...
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The Woman in White
as Frederick FairlieThe lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy...
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Raffles
as uncreditedRaffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung....
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First Born
as uncreditedFirst Born is a British television serial produced by the BBC in 1988. Charles Dance starred as...
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Fallen Angel
as David ByfieldFallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels...
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Nancy Astor
as Edward Hartford-JonesSeries about the life of Nancy Astor who was the first woman to take her seat in the House of...
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Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
as Edmund AirdSHADES OF LOVE takes up the original story twenty years later and tells us how the Aird family's...
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