Denholm Elliott

Born: 1922-05-31

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits. In the nineteen eighties, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years Description above from the Wikipedia article Denholm  Elliott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Trading Places

as Coleman
Released: 1983-06-07

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet...

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as Dr. Marcus Brody
Released: 1981-06-12

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated...

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as Marcus Brody
Released: 1989-05-24

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a...

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as Marcus Brody (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2008-05-21

Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a...

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Transmutations

as Dr. Savary
Released: 1985-11-29

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille...

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as RAF meteorologist officer
Released: 1977-06-15

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...

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Maurice

as Dr. Barry
Released: 1987-09-18

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the...

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Watership Down

as Cowslip (voice)
Released: 1978-10-14

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver,...

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Robin and Marian

as Will Scarlet
Released: 1976-03-11

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...

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A Room with a View

as Mr. Emerson
Released: 1985-12-13

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms...

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The Boys from Brazil

as Sidney Beynon
Released: 1978-10-05

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

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Too Late the Hero

as Captain Hornsby
Released: 1970-05-20

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the...

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Voyage of the Damned

as Admiral Canaris
Released: 1976-12-22

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

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Alfie

as The Abortionist
Released: 1966-03-29

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his...

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The Cruel Sea

as Morell
Released: 1953-02-24

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with...

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To the Devil a Daughter

as Henry Beddows
Released: 1976-03-04

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists,...

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Zulu Dawn

as Colonel Pulleine
Released: 1979-05-14

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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King Rat

as Larkin
Released: 1965-10-27

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but...

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as Headmaster
Released: 1991-04-24

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son...

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Noises Off...

as Selsdon Mowbray / The Burglar
Released: 1992-03-20

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to...

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The House That Dripped Blood

as Charles Hillyer (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
Released: 1971-02-22

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

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Bad Timing

as Stefan Vognic
Released: 1980-03-02

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend....

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The Vault of Horror

as Diltant (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Released: 1973-03-16

The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about...

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September

as Howard
Released: 1987-12-18

After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend,...

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The Missionary

as The Bishop of London
Released: 1982-11-02

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to...

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The Holly and the Ivy

as Michael Gregory
Released: 1952-12-03

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners,...

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Cuba

as Donald Skinner
Released: 1979-12-21

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's...

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The Night They Raided Minsky's

as Vance Fowler
Released: 1968-12-22

Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately...

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The Razor's Edge

as Elliott Templeton
Released: 1984-10-19

An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the...

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Saint Jack

as William Leigh
Released: 1979-04-27

Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time...

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The Night My Number Came Up

as Fl. Lt. McKenzie
Released: 1955-03-22

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Dr. Mortimer
Released: 1983-11-03

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse...

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Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Mike
Released: 1978-08-23

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.

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Sweeney 2

as ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Jupp
Released: 1978-03-30

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely...

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Defence of the Realm

as Vernon Bayliss
Released: 1986-05-09

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a...

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A Private Function

as Dr. Swaby
Released: 1984-11-09

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and...

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Sunday Lovers

as Parker (segment "An Englishman's Home")
Released: 1980-10-31

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France,...

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The Black Candle

as William Filmore
Released: 1991-01-01

Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former...

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The Sound Barrier

as Christopher Ridgefield
Released: 1952-10-10

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

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Stealing Heaven

as Fulbert
Released: 1988-05-20

Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love...

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They Who Dare

as Sergeant Corcoran
Released: 1954-02-02

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with...

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Scorchers

as Howler
Released: 1991-07-07

Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and...

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The Heart of the Matter

as Wilson
Released: 1953-11-03

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Stapleton
Released: 1978-08-01

The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville...

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The Spy with a Cold Nose

as Pond-Jones
Released: 1966-12-19

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When...

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as George Devlin
Released: 1968-01-07

In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr....

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The Signalman

as The Signalman
Released: 1976-12-22

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep...

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Brimstone and Treacle

as Tom Bates
Released: 1987-08-25

The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door...

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Return from the River Kwai

as Colonel Grayson
Released: 1989-04-07

A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river...

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The Wicked Lady

as Sir Ralph Skelton
Released: 1983-04-21

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara...

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

as Friar
Released: 1974-04-11

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a...

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Percy's Progress

as Sir Emmanuel Whitbread
Released: 1974-08-01

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in...

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A Murder of Quality

as George Smiley
Released: 1991-10-04

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into...

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The Moon and Sixpence

as The Writer
Released: 1959-10-30

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South...

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

as Peter NIss
Released: 1970-11-12

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running...

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The High Bright Sun

as Baker
Released: 1964-11-01

This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to...

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Camille

as Count de Noilly
Released: 1984-12-11

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand...

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Lease of Life

as Martin Blake
Released: 1954-10-18

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life...

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Madame Sin

as malcom De Vere
Released: 1972-01-15

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

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Quest for Love

as Tom Lewis
Released: 1971-06-06

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds...

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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

as Mr. George Beauchamp
Released: 1968-01-22

Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local...

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A Doll's House

as Nils Krogstad
Released: 1973-04-10

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian...

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Russian Roulette

as John Petapiece
Released: 1975-08-20

An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a...

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The Love She Sought

as James O'Hannon
Released: 1990-10-21

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her...

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A Child's Christmas in Wales

as Old Geraint
Released: 1987-12-23

It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's...

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Codename: Kyril

as Povin
Released: 1988-03-29

At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely...

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The Whoopee Boys

as Col. Phelps
Released: 1986-08-22

Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting...

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Percy

as Emmanuel Whitbread
Released: 1971-02-18

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer....

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The Ringer

as John Lemley
Released: 1952-11-24

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

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You Must Be Joking

as Captain Tabasco
Released: 1965-08-03

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a...

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Station Six-Sahara

as Macey
Released: 1963-01-11

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and...

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Scent of Mystery

as Oliver Larker
Released: 1960-01-12

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

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Hanna's War

as uncredited
Released: 1988-04-14

Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who...

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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

as English Delegate
Released: 1977-09-18

John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of...

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The Happy Valley

as Sir Henry 'Jock' Delves Broughton
Released: 1987-09-06

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a...

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The Last Chapter

as Robert Murray
Released: 1974-01-01

A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.

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Brimstone & Treacle

as Tom Bates
Released: 1982-10-01

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

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One Against the Wind

as Father LeBlanc
Released: 1991-12-01

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps...

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Hotel du Lac

as Philip Neville
Released: 1986-03-02

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a...

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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

as George Parker
Released: 1986-03-30

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced,...

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Nothing But the Best

as Charlie Prince
Released: 1964-03-10

Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his...

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School Play

as Jeffrey Treasure
Released: 1979-01-01

Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

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Dracula

as Count Dracula
Released: 1968-11-18

A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as...

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The Man Who Loved Redheads

as Denis
Released: 1955-02-06

Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin)...

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Blade on the Feather

as Jack Hill
Released: 1980-10-19

A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they...

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Scoop

as Salter
Released: 1987-04-26

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938...

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The Winslow Boy

as Sir Robert Morton
Released: 1958-11-13

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-08-01

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...

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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

as Montague Corry
Released: 1963-04-03

The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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Death Becomes Me

as Roland
Released: 1979-01-01

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair...

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The Wild Duck

as Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
Released: 1971-03-21

A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of...

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The Lady From the Sea

as Dr. Wangel
Released: 1974-03-05

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears...

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Across the Andes by Frog

as Mr. Gregory
Released:

Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are...

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Keys to Freedom

as Inspector Basil Crisp
Released: 1988-01-01

The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the...

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The Sea Gull

as Dr. Yevgeny Dorn
Released: 1968-12-23

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the...

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Sunday Pursuit

as Thomas Wilkins
Released: 1990-11-23

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his...

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Wuthering Heights

as Edgar Norton
Released: 1958-05-09

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries...

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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

as Nathy
Released: 1989-09-01

A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He...

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Dear Mr. Prohack

as Oswald Morfrey
Released: 1949-09-07

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation...

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Rising Damp

as Charles Seymour
Released: 1980-05-03

Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African...

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Game for Vultures

as Raglan Thistle
Released: 1979-06-25

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to...

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Partners

as John Grey
Released: 1976-01-10

When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm,...

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Shooting the Chandelier

as Semyon
Released: 1977-10-26

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is...

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Scenes from Family Life

as Walter
Released: 1969-09-25

The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.

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Pacific Destiny

as Arthur Grimble
Released: 1956-01-01

Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And...

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The Fall of the House of Usher

as Roderick Usher
Released: 1966-02-12

A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into...

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Maroc 7

as Inspector Barrada
Released: 1967-03-22

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan...

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Twelfth Night

as Sebastian
Released: 1957-12-15

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she...

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A Little Temptation

as Vincent
Released: 1965-03-17

A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her...

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The Holy Terror

as Herbert
Released: 1965-04-07

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in...

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The Crazy Kill

as Dr. Frank Henson
Released: 1975-02-25

A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his...

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Gentle Folk

as F J Dobbs
Released: 1980-01-19

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests...

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Past Caring

as Victor
Released: 1986-11-02

67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old...

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You're All Right, How Am I?

as Psychiatrist
Released: 1981-05-01

' If you walked down Piccadilly naked and refused to put your clothes on when the police...

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Crest of a Wave

as Jim
Released: 1978-09-18

Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well...

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In Hiding

as Bernard
Released: 1980-03-10

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

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The Persuaders!

as Roland
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Harold Tinker / Colonel Tinker
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Studio One

as Eric Inwood
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Thriller

as Dr. Frank Henson
First aired: 1973-04-14

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...

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Suspense

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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The Ray Bradbury Theater

as Richard Braling
First aired: 1985-05-21

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray...

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Hammer House of Horror

as Norman Shenley
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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Suspicion

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Jack Lyons
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as John Manbridge
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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The Bourne Identity

as Dr. Geoffrey Washburn
First aired: 1988-05-08

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm....

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DuPont Show of the Month

as Charles Darnay
First aired: 1957-09-29

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired...

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Marco Polo

as Niccolò Polo
First aired: 1982-12-05

The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China...

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-12-24

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing...

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Mystery and Imagination

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-29

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...

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Bangkok Hilton

as Hal Stanton
First aired: 1989-11-05

This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes...

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Noble House

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-02-21

Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in...

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The Man In Room 17

as Imlac Defraits
First aired: 1965-06-11

The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s,...

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Bleak House

as John Jarndyce
First aired: 1985-04-10

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur...

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Playhouse

as Geoffrey Treasure
First aired: 1974-03-13

BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...

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Playhouse

as Bernard
First aired: 1974-03-13

BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...

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Supernatural

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-06-11

Anthology series in which a prospective “Club of the Damned” member is required to tell a horror...

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Ripping Yarns

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-01-07

A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Warwick
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Count
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Father LeBlanc
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Sebastian
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Montague Corry
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Herbert
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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