Kenneth Cranham
Scottish born actor Kenneth Cranham is one of the most recognisable character actors in Britain. Having trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, Cranham first came to prominence as Noah Claypole in the 1968 Carol Reed musical Oliver! In the late '70s, Cranham memorably played Sapper Salt in Euston Films' Danger UXB, before taking the title role in the popular postwar set period comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. His most famous film role from around this time was Dr. Philip Channard in Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2016, Cranham won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Andre in Florian Zeller's The Father. The play originated at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in the Autumn of 2014, before touring the country and transferring to the West End in the Summer of 2015, and returning to the Duke of York's Theatre in Spring 2016. The play received an unprecedented five star review from every leading national press publication, and Cranham's performance was described as "the performance of his life" His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory, whom he met on the set of Shine on Harvey Moon.
Maleficent
as King HenryA beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable...
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Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the...
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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native...
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Official Secrets
as Judge HyamThe true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq...
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When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and...
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A Good Year
as Sir NigelFailed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many...
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard CenobiteJulia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty, and the sinister Dr. Channard are sent into the dominion...
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The Boxer
as Matt MaGuireNineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He...
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Oliver!
as Noah ClaypoleMusical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away...
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Under Suspicion
as Frank VanceIn the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with...
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The Legend of Hercules
as LuciusIn Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to...
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Mr. Jones
as Lloyd GeorgeIn 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
as VicarWhen stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the...
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Robin and Marian
as Jack's ApprenticeRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joe TurnerLiverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric...
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Closed Circuit
as Cameron FischerA high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team -...
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A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked...
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Blackball
as Chairman CollinsBlackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an...
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Trauma
as DC JacksonAwaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as...
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Gangster No. 1
as TommyAn old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His...
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Midnight Man
as Brig. Charles FergusonBritish soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as PaoloIn his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the...
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Bed of Roses
as SimonThe seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from...
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Otley
as KidA petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Vampira
as PaddyIn order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from...
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Chocolat
as BoothbyOn her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young...
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Shiner
as GibsonThe past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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Flying Blind
as VictorFrankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at...
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Joseph Andrews
as The Wicked SquireLady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty...
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Prospero's Books
as SebastianAn exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter...
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Stealing Heaven
as Vice Chancellor SugerAbelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love...
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RPM
as BiggermanA professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
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Born Romantic
as BarneyIn modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three...
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Dead Man's Folly
as Insp. BlandDuring a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert",...
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Pollyanna
as Mr. PendletonPollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her...
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The Changeling
as AntonioSexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a...
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
as NarratorIt is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world....
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Night Flight
as Ted AtwellNight Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War...
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Sparkling Cyanide
as George BartonBased on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and...
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Vigo
as The ProducerBased on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle...
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as SelfLeviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary...
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Born a King
as Lord CurzonA coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched...
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Royal Celebration
as DouglasA bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal...
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The Night Watch
as Horace MundyFour Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers...
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Two Men Went To War
as Sgt. Peter KingComedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see...
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Requiem Apache
as TonyAlan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to...
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Women Talking Dirty
as GeorgeA lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
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Fragment of Fear
as JoeA reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Monkey Boy
as HennesseyHalf man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist,...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as SelfIn June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a...
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Achilles Heel
as GordonA professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
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Suspension of Disbelief
as BullockMartin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead...
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Normal Service
as PeterIt's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under...
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Killing Hitler
as Brigadier Sir Stewart MenziesA drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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On Dangerous Ground
as Brig. Charles FergusonVusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing...
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Tale of a Vampire
as EdgarCondemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a...
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The Merchant of Venice
as GratianoA rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes...
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Joe Orton Laid Bare
as HimselfExploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those...
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All the Way Up
as Tom MidwayFred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he...
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Michael Mansfield QCStephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents...
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The Caretaker
as AstonThe story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.
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The Party
as Joe Shawcross10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police...
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The Vision Thing
as Dick NaughtonIn the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages...
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Lady Audley's Secret
as Sir Michael AudleyWhen Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his...
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Panto!
as JerryMorecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Colonel SchmidtIn the fourteenth film in the series, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones joins an international trio...
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Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
as Captain TurnerThe story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast....
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Graffiti Wars
as Narrator (Voice)A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
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Just Another Secret
as BroschAn American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at...
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Making Waves
as Joe NashA group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and...
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
as FirsMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as GiovanniLord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a...
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Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
as Leopold CzihaczekThe dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic...
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Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
as General CarteauxTwenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the...
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
as DaUnimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother,...
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as MJ O'LoughlinSpanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's...
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The Birthday Party
as Stanley WebberIt is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC...
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The Sin Bin
as Alan GrievesTV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers...
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Deep in the Heart
as Robert FlahertyTwo British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange...
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The Dumb Waiter
as GusIn the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
as uncreditedSatirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police...
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Sling Your Hook
as RolandA group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
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A Little Bit of Lippy
as Reggie TitheringtonKenneth Cranham and Rachel Davies star as the parents of 19-year-old Marian Fairley, who finds a...
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Butterflies Don't Count
as TomA young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
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A Master of the Marionettes
as TeddyTeddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban...
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Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
as The HostSeven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find...
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Midsomer Murders
as Jude LanghamThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Minder
as WalterThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Bergerac
as GascoigneBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Death in Paradise
as Father JohnA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...
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Hustle
as Francis OwenA motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Heartbeat
as Charlie WallaceSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Van der Valk
as Dirk BoutsenVan der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as Tommy CollingwoodBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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New Tricks
as uncreditedNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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Inspector Morse
as Cedric DownesInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Inside No. 9
as RupertAn anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Merlin
as AulfricThe unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...
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Rome
as Gnaeus Pompey MagnusA down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last...
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Lovejoy
as LitvakThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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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 Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Colonel SchmidtAt the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family...
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Enemy at the Door
as Jack FosterEnemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for...
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Between the Lines
as uncreditedDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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Crown Court
as John TuckerCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Kavanagh Q.C.
as Roy LawrenceJames Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling...
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Casualty
as James LawrenceDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Murder Most Horrid
as Inspector SalfordA comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various...
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
as LeninReilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...
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The Spanish Princess
as John MortonThe beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with...
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Shine on Harvey Moon
as uncreditedShine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8...
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Danger UXB
as Sapper SaltDanger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John...
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Danger UXB
as L / Corporal SaltDanger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John...
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War and Peace
as Uncle MikhailA story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I,...
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Brideshead Revisited
as Sergeant BlockCharles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family...
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In the Flesh
as Vicar OddieThousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has...
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The White Princess
as John MortonThe story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster...
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The Line of Beauty
as Sir Maurice TipperCrawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a...
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Hatton Garden
as Brian ReaderThe story of the audacious jewellery, gold and cash burglary at the heart of London's diamond...
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Murder Investigation Team
as Ray MorganMurder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV...
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Moving On
as MikeMoving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Mr ClareThe story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble...
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Budgie
as uncreditedBudgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Reverend MillwardThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's...
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From a Bird's Eye View
as Tim O'DonovanFrom a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United...
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Bancroft
as Charlie HaverstockA dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a...
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Our Mutual Friend
as uncreditedEpic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living...
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Heroes and Villains
as uncreditedHeroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in...
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Lilies
as uncreditedLilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one...
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Lilies
as Health InspectorLilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one...
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as Pastor FinchSeven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
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Sins
as GilbertLen Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and...
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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
as uncreditedA unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman,...
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Finding Alice
as GerryAlice's partner of 20 years, Harry, falls down the stairs and dies soon after the couple move...
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37 Days
as John BurnsThis three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World...
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Thérèse Raquin
as Camille RaquinIn order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but...
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Believe Nothing
as uncreditedBelieve Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut,...
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Without Motive
as DCS Derek HendersonDetective Constable Jack Mowbray has seen a lot of disturbing things on the job. But somehow the...
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The Genius of Mozart
as Leopold MozartLooks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of...
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Chimera
as HennesseyA journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and...
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Dickens
as uncreditedDickens was a 2002 BBC docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by...
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