Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave...
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As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient...
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Ratatouille
as Skinner (voice)Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Old Bilbo BagginsImmediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend...
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Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey...
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Brazil
as Mr. KurtzmannLow-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring...
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The Aviator
as Professor FitzA biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947,...
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Time Bandits
as NapoleonYoung history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one...
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Chariots of Fire
as Sam MussabiniIn the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Baron FrankensteinVictor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Capitaine Phillippe D'ArnotA shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The...
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Robin and Marian
as King JohnRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...
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eXistenZ
as Kiri VinokurA game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a...
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From Hell
as Sir William GullFrederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack...
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Naked Lunch
as Tom FrostBlank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest...
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Garden State
as Gideon LargemanAndrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with...
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At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight....
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Night Falls on Manhattan
as Liam CaseyA newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption...
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The Sweet Hereafter
as Mitchell StephensA small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a...
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Juggernaut
as Nicholas PorterA terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs...
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Big Night
as PascalPrimo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to...
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Henry V
as Captain FluellenGritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
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The Miracle Maker
as Pontius Pilate (voice)A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary...
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The Madness of King George
as WillisAging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in...
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Hamlet
as PoloniusHamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
as DuvalThe story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe...
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Kafka
as Dr. MurnauKafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered....
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Animal Farm
as Squealer (voice)Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands....
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Bless the Child
as Reverend GrissomWhen Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's...
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The Fixer
as GrubeshovSet in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian...
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A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next...
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Loch Ness
as Water BailiffDr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch...
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March or Die
as El KrimJust after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign...
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Les Misérables
as ThénardierIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
as David RiccioMary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman...
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Strangers with Candy
as Dr. PutneyA prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie,...
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Another Woman
as KenMarion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene LenormandNapoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene...
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Incognito
as John (uncredited)Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets...
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The Return of the Soldier
as Doctor AndersonThe horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
as President PoincareThe working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...
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S.O.S. Titanic
as J. Bruce IsmayThe Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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O Jerusalem
as Ben GurionA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is...
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Young Winston
as George E. BuckleThis historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill,...
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Dreamchild
as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis CarrollEighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in...
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The Wars of the Roses
as King Richard IIIA 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
as PuckPeter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country...
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The Thief of Baghdad
as The GatekeeperA resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a...
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Shout at the Devil
as MohammedDuring World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
as White KnightA modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which...
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Chromophobia
as Edward AylesburyEncouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private...
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The Hour of the Pig
as AlbertusIn medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the...
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Dance with a Stranger
as Desmond CussenRuth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David...
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The Homecoming
as LennyIn a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy...
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The Match
as Big TamRomantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for...
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The Queen of Trees
as NarratorIn Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but...
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Joe Gould's Secret
as Joe GouldAround 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character...
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The Bofors Gun
as Gunner FlynnA national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol...
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Inside the Third Reich
as Dr. Joseph GoebbelsA dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and...
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Esther Kahn
as Nathan QuellenA Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Wisconsin Death Trip
as Narrator (voice)Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder...
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A Season of Giants
as Lorenzo de' MediciAt the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and...
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Wetherby
as Stanley PilboroughThe mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases...
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Blue Ice
as Sir HectorAn ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid...
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Girls at Sea
as Marine (uncredited)When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to...
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A Severed Head
as Martin Lynch-GibbonAntonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as PatrickAfter Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when...
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Beautiful Joe
as George The GeekA bad girl becomes a con artist, gets into trouble with the mob and taps a nice-guy florist for...
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The Deep Blue Sea
as Sir William CollyerHester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her...
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Discovering Hamlet
as Polonius (archive footage)Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors...
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The Treatment
as Dr. Ernesto MoralesJake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr....
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Little Red Riding Hood
as Don MiniRoald Dahl's version of Little Red Riding Hood
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The Last Dragon
as Narrator"The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to...
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Simon Magus
as Sirius / Boris / The DevilSimon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and...
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
as (archive footage)A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew...
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Polonius (archive footage)Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.
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The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Narrator (voice) (UK version, Timewatch: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald)An investigative biography originally broadcast in 1993 for BBC Timewatch about the man at the...
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D-Day 6.6.1944
as Narrator (voice)On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred....
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The Endless Game
as ControlA British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his...
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A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as SelfA documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.
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Soft Targets
as AlexeiStephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that...
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Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
as (voice)Documentary following the journey of the Dalai Lama's personal envoy to the remote feudal...
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Jesus Of Nazareth
as ZerahRobert Powell stars in the epic 1977 drama chronicling the birth, life, crucifixion and...
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The Real Middle Earth
as NarratorThis fascinating documentary takes us in Tolkien's footsteps and investigates the landscapes and...
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The Cherry Orchard
as TrofimovMadame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family...
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Shergar
as Joseph MaguireShergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time,...
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The Tailor of Gloucester
as The TailorAn ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped...
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The Wood Demon
as KhrushchovA luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll...
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The Lost Boys
as J.M. BarrieThe story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes...
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Prisoner of Paradise
as Narrator (voice)The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the...
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The Misanthrope
as AlcesteOne man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic...
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Moonlight on the Highway
as uncreditedWriting for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that...
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The Last Romantics
as F.R. LeavisA semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch,...
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The Kingdom of Fun
as NarratorThe largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its...
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Murder by the Book
as Hercule PoirotAgatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote...
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
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Opus
as Lenny (The Homecoming)Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in...
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The Browning Version
as Andrew Crocker-HarrisAdaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Lech WalesaBritish TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union
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Laughterhouse
as Ben SingletonA farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000...
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Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)Join the BBC cameras as they go behind the glitter of Buckingham Palace and the pomp of Windsor...
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Edward the Confessor
as Edward GobeyEdward Gobey has a strange compulsion.
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Uncle Vanya
as AstrovVanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He...
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Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Narrator (voice)A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and...
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Tale of the Tides
as NarratorIn Africa there is a fable that explains the creation of the tides. When a hyaena challenged a...
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Emma's Time
as Mark LangAfter the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon...
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The Tailor of Gloucester
as The Tailor (voice)A tailor is making a coat for the Mayor of Gloucester. He is nearly finished except for some...
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The Cost of Treachery
as NarratorIn 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight...
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Frankenstein
as Frankenstein / The MonsterA version of the famous story in which Ian Holm plays both Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature he...
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Flayed
as The Man'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to...
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The Fishing Party
as NarratorFour prosperous City men take a fishing holiday in Scotland. Their aim is a world record for...
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Cry From Home
as Narrator'I'm British', says the young lady with strawberry blonde hair and a Midlands accent, 'but I...
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NOVA
as NarratorPBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines....
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NOVA
as Narrator (voice)PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines....
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Tony Awards
as Self - NomineeThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
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Horizon
as NarratorHorizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen...
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Play for Today
as AlexeiPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Natural World
as NarratorNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Alan CorwinA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Jesus of Nazareth
as ZerahDramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely...
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Performance
as Sir William CollyerAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Performance
as DuffAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Performance
as LearAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Performance
as AstrovAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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BBC Play of the Month
as OedipusPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Play of the Month
as KhrushchovPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Holocaust
as Heinrich HimmlerBerlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...
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Days That Shook the World
as Narrator (voice)Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two...
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National Geographic Specials
as Narrator (voice)For decades, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture,...
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Screen Two
as F.R. LeavisSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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The Borrowers
as PodThe Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as The Tailor (voice)Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
as GeschichtenerzählerIn this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year...
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Mystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
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Chillers
as Christopher WaggonerBased on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...
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Napoleon and Love
as uncreditedNapoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9...
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The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as WedderburnBenjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin...
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Game, Set, and Match
as Bernard SamsonFocuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens...
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Survival
as uncreditedClassic long-running British nature documentary series featuring different subjects each time.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as HimmelstossHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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The Frighteners
as GordonA horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
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The Lost Boys
as J.M. BarrieThe story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes...
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Korea: The Unknown War
as Narrator (voice)A documentary about the Korean War by Thames Television that aired in the Summer of 1988 and in...
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Monsters We Met
as NarratorThree part series detailing the dangerous prehistoric creatures humans met as they explored the...
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Shanghai Vice
as Himself - NarratorIn a city where heroin dealing can bring the death sentence, drug rings mean business…and so do...
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Stalin
as Self - Narrator (voice)Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary...
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Television
as Self - Narrator (voice)Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to...
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