David Ryall
David John Ryall (January 5, 1935 – December 25, 2014) was an English stage, film and television character actor. He had leading roles in Lytton's Diary and Goodnight Sweetheart, as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King. He also portrayed Billy Buzzle in the ITV sitcom Bless Me, Father and Frank in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered.
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
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City of Ember
as Chief BuilderFor generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of...
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Around the World in 80 Days
as Lord SalisburyA bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that...
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Automata
as Dominic HawkJacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of...
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A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a...
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Hysteria
as JudgeTwo doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their...
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Black Beauty
as CarriagemakerThe fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty...
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Restoration
as Lord BathurstAn aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and...
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The Russia House
as Colonial TypeBarley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working...
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Fatherland
as Administrator KrugerFictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and...
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Mr. Turner
as FootmanEccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes...
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Quartet
as HarryCissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to...
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Unconditional Love
as Funeral DirectorAfter her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor...
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Carrington
as MayorPainter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton...
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Blackball
as Giles WiltonBlackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an...
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Clapham Junction
as VicarSet in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The...
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The Woman in Black
as SweetmanWhen a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by...
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Truly Madly Deeply
as GeorgeNina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for...
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Running Late
as WicksTelevision interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the...
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Two Men Went To War
as Winston ChurchillComedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see...
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Mad Cows
as Man outside HarrodsWhen her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics,...
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Wilt
as Rev. FroudeHenry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant,...
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Justice
as englischer MinisterSenator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is...
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Walter
as Mr. RichardsA man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated...
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Byron
as Sir Ralph MilbankeLife and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen...
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The Borrowers
as CrampfurlThe Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland....
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One Against the Wind
as Dumont, Mary's LawyerMary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps...
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Shuttlecock
as PoundMajor James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code...
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Nineteen96
as Sir Cyril LlewellynBritain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are...
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Black Joy
as ButcherAn innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the...
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Revolver
as Aldo TestiNick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track...
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Dr. Frank SkuseDocudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris...
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The Knowledge
as Titanic WaltersFour men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Secret Agent
as Wurme1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred...
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Dreams of Leaving
as Drunk JournalistWilliam came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could...
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The Tractate Middoth
as RantThe chilling story of Dr Rant, whose wicked streak continues from beyond the grave. Based on the...
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Bertie and Elizabeth
as Winston ChurchillThe duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the...
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Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
as Dr SimmondsWhen a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as RichardettoLord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a...
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Fords on Water
as Mister JackInfluential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who...
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Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
as MeriweatherThe fictional story about the little dog that discovered the FIFA World Cup Trophy after it was...
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The Dance of Death
as SentryAn egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in...
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The Saint: The Software Murders
as TealFrom his home in California, Simon's friend Jack is investigating the deaths of three prominent...
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Midsomer Murders
as Bob MossThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Call the Midwife
as Tommy MillsDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...
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Minder
as Ashley BrownThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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A Touch of Frost
as uncreditedJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...
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Blake's 7
as SelmanA group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran...
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Pie in the Sky
as Jack BollandPie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as BillThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...
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Casualty
as Eddie GashDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Casualty
as Tom HarleyDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Casualty
as Dr. James BakerDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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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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The Paradise Club
as Bishop SykesThe Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank...
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Peak Practice
as Ben JonesPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Enemy at the Door
as Capt. Tom Foster-SmytheEnemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for...
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Enemy at the Door
as Captain Tom Foster-SmytheEnemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for...
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Lewis
as Mr. CooperInspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned...
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Prime Suspect
as Oscar BreamHighly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Inspector Morse
as Derek WhittakerInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Crown Court
as uncreditedCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Heartbeat
as Howard DuftonSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Hamish Macbeth
as Paul JeffreysHamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is...
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
as GlassReilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...
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New Tricks
as Jasper UrquhartNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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Ultimate Force
as uncreditedThis covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British...
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South Of The Border
as Trevor MitchellDrama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn...
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State of Play
as uncreditedThe murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to...
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Lovejoy
as Sam CavendishThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Bless Me Father
as Billy BuzzleBless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye,...
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Bonekickers
as uncreditedBonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex...
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The Singing Detective
as Mr. HallTormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective...
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The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
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Jack the Ripper
as BowyerJack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as DumontHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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In Deep
as DenverLying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick...
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Trollied
as uncreditedSet in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the...
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The Village
as Old Bert MiddletonThe Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central...
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The Legend of Robin Hood
as uncreditedThe Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of...
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Oliver Twist
as Mr. Fang, magistrateOliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by...
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To Play the King
as Sir Bruce BullerbyFrancis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.
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Outnumbered
as GranddadPartly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young...
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Le Grand Charles
as Winston ChurchillLe Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959,...
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Goodnight Sweetheart
as Eric ElwardGary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working...
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Crooked House
as uncreditedA ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost...
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Spyship
as uncreditedWhen an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the...
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In the Red
as Max ParkerA series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And...
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Jake's Progress
as Alex HalliwellJamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.
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The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
as uncreditedReginald Perrin has passed on, bequeathing a fortune to his family and friends. There is one...
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Law and Disorder
as uncreditedLaw and Disorder is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1994. Starring Penelope Keith, it was...
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The River
as Colonel DanversThe River follows the tranquil life of lovable, Cockney, ex-convict Davey Jackson who is lock...
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Plotlands
as Harry CrowleySold a small plot of land for a tiny outlay, Cockney widow Chloe Marsh and her two daughters...
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Byron
as Sir Ralph MilbankeByron revolutionized English poetry and died a hero. He became famous overnight when the poetic...
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The Borrowers
as CrampfurlThe Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out...
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Frank RammageGerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his...
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Witchcraft
as Oxford LibrarianThe director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of...
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