Maurice Denham

Born: 1909-12-23

Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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The Day of the Jackal

as General Colbert
Released: 1973-05-16

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to...

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The Heroes of Telemark

as Doctor
Released: 1965-11-12

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist...

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Oliver Twist

as Chief of Police
Released: 1948-06-28

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second...

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Animal Farm

as All animals (voice)
Released: 1954-12-28

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands....

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Operation Crossbow

as RAF Officer
Released: 1965-04-01

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

as Trawler Skipper
Released: 1965-06-16

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers...

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

as Mr. Greville
Released: 1971-07-01

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod...

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Sink the Bismarck!

as Commander Richards
Released: 1960-02-11

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...

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H.M.S. Defiant

as Mr. Goss (Ship's Surgeon)
Released: 1962-04-15

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...

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84 Charing Cross Road

as George Martin
Released: 1987-02-13

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of...

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Night of the Demon

as Professor Henry Harrington
Released: 1957-11-09

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to...

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Countess Dracula

as Master Fabio
Released: 1971-01-30

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory...

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Julia

as Undertaker
Released: 1977-10-01

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous...

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The Alphabet Murders

as Japp
Released: 1965-12-26

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the...

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The Million Pound Note

as Jonathan Reid
Released: 1954-01-07

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...

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The Purple Plain

as Blore
Released: 1954-09-14

A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a...

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Two Way Stretch

as The Governor
Released: 1960-12-20

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a...

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After the Fox

as Chief of Interpol
Released: 1966-09-08

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

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as Kokovtsov
Released: 1971-11-29

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is...

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Torture Garden

as Uncle Roger (segment 1 "Enoch")
Released: 1967-11-01

Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a...

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The Nanny

as Dr. Beamaster
Released: 1965-10-07

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric...

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Doctor at Sea

as Easter
Released: 1955-07-12

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...

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Our Man in Havana

as Admiral
Released: 1960-01-27

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage...

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Paranoiac

as John Kossett
Released: 1963-01-07

A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a...

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Landfall

as Wing Commander Hewitt
Released: 1949-09-30

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a...

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They Made Me a Fugitive

as Mr. Fenshaw
Released: 1947-06-24

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

as Luther Crackenthorpe
Released: 1987-02-25

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train -...

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Danger Route

as Peter Ravenspur
Released: 1967-10-01

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work,...

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Released: 1978-11-06

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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No Highway

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-28

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded...

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The Blue Lagoon

as Captain
Released: 1949-03-01

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After...

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Shout at the Devil

as Mr. Smythe
Released: 1976-04-12

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's...

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Some Girls Do

as Mr. Mortimer
Released: 1969-01-23

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing...

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The Last Vampyre

as Augustus Merridew
Released: 1993-03-14

Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a...

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The Mark

as Arnold Cartwright
Released: 1961-01-26

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the...

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Quartet

as Coroner
Released: 1948-10-26

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The...

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The Best House in London

as Editor, The Times
Released: 1969-01-01

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution...

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Time Bomb

as Jim Warrilow
Released: 1953-02-05

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call...

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Malta Story

as British Officer
Released: 1953-06-01

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island,...

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Simon and Laura

as Wilson
Released: 1955-11-02

Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

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The Upturned Glass

as Mobile Policeman
Released: 1947-06-17

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a...

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Captain Boycott

as Lt. Col. Strickland
Released: 1947-08-26

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when...

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The Spanish Gardener

as Pedro (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1956-12-25

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a...

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Miranda

as Cockle Vendor
Released: 1948-04-06

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see...

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Tears in the Rain

as Fordingbridge
Released: 1988-01-01

When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to...

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23 Paces to Baker Street

as Inspector Grovening
Released: 1956-05-18

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that...

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Mr. Love

as Theo
Released: 1985-01-01

An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to...

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The 7th Dawn

as Tarlton
Released: 1964-09-02

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of...

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Monsignor Quixote

as Senor Diego
Released: 1985-01-01

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest...

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Street Corner

as Dawson
Released: 1953-03-17

London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

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The Chain

as Grandpa
Released: 1984-01-01

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on...

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Luther

as Johann von Staupitz Vicar General
Released: 1974-01-21

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

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Take My Life

as Defense Counsel
Released: 1947-05-30

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

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Blanche Fury

as Maj. Fraser
Released: 1948-02-19

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury...

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My Brother's Keeper

as Trent
Released: 1948-08-19

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive...

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Midas Run

as Charles Crittenden
Released: 1969-05-07

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of...

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The Night Caller

as Dr. Morley
Released: 1965-12-31

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct....

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A Touch of Love

as Doctor Prothero
Released: 1969-09-01

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the...

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The Greengage Summer

as Mr. Bullock
Released: 1961-05-01

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in...

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Easy Money

as Detective-Inspector Kirby
Released: 1948-01-20

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an...

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Poet's Pub

as PC Windle
Released: 1949-07-05

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching...

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Checkpoint

as Ted Thornhill
Released: 1956-12-25

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to...

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The End of the River

as Defence Counsel
Released: 1947-12-01

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he...

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Hysteria

as Hemmings
Released: 1965-04-01

An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a...

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The Long Duel

as Governor
Released: 1967-07-27

An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the...

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Holiday Camp

as Camp Doctor
Released: 1947-08-05

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on...

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All Passion Spent

as Gervase Bucktrout
Released: 1986-12-09

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by...

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Barnacle Bill

as Crowley
Released: 1957-12-17

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S....

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Jassy

as Jim Stoner
Released: 1947-08-13

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight....

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From a Far Country

as Sapieha
Released: 1981-09-15

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...

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Here Come the Huggetts

as 1st Engineer
Released: 1948-12-02

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for...

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Memento Mori

as Guy Leet
Released: 1992-04-19

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious...

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The Spider and the Fly

as Colonel de la Roche
Released: 1949-12-01

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline...

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Bed

as Man
Released: 1995-10-20

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

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The Virgin and the Gypsy

as The Rector
Released: 1970-06-01

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death...

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Look Before You Love

as Fosser
Released: 1948-01-06

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

as (voice)
Released: 1990-09-28

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could...

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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

as Edgeworth
Released: 1984-03-30

A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends...

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London Belongs to Me

as Jack Rufus
Released: 1948-11-05

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas...

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Madness of the Heart

as Dr. Simon Blake
Released: 1949-12-20

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly...

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Carrington V.C.

as Lt. Col. Reeve
Released: 1954-12-09

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also...

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The Trial of Klaus Barbie

as Klaus Barbie
Released: 1987-07-15

Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.

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Once Upon a Dream

as Vicar
Released: 1949-02-01

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it...

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The Blind Goddess

as Johnson
Released: 1948-09-14

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a...

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The Net

as Prof. Carrington
Released: 1953-02-09

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by...

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The Very Edge

as Crawford
Released: 1963-04-30

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds...

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It's Not Cricket

as Otto Fisch
Released: 1949-04-01

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The...

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Invasion Quartet

as uncredited
Released: 1961-09-01

This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers...

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The Captain's Table

as Major Broster
Released: 1959-01-06

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner....

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The Hope and the Glory

as Joe
Released: 1984-04-25

Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely,...

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Daybreak

as Inspector
Released: 1948-05-18

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

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Fame Is the Spur

as Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)
Released: 1947-09-23

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately...

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Robert Rylands' Last Journey

as Hume
Released: 1996-10-18

Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the...

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The Man Within

as Smuggler
Released: 1947-05-19

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

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Don't Ever Leave Me

as Mr. Knowles
Released: 1949-07-19

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap...

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Love's Labour's Lost

as Don Adriano de Armando
Released: 1975-12-14

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only...

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The Uncle

as Mr. Ream
Released: 1965-04-23

Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his...

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Traveller's Joy

as Fowler
Released: 1950-12-25

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before...

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Julius Caesar

as Julius Caesar
Released: 1969-04-13

The play by William Shakespeare.

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Eight O'Clock Walk

as Horace Clifford
Released: 1954-03-16

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr)...

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Schalcken the Painter

as Gerrit Dou
Released: 1979-12-22

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

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Seeing in the Dark

as Old Man
Released: 1989-09-13

Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels...

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The King's Breakfast

as The King
Released: 1963-01-01

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as Bill Martin
Released: 1949-05-23

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic...

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A Desperate Case

as Narrator
Released: 1958-01-02

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly...

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The Dog It Was That Died

as Vicar
Released: 1989-01-01

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5....

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Downfall

as uncredited
Released: 1964-01-01

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming...

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Piping Hot

as Narrator
Released: 1959-01-01

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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Martin Luther, Heretic

as Father Staupitz
Released: 1983-11-08

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of...

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The Set Up

as Theo Gaunt
Released: 1963-01-01

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his...

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A Slight Ache

as Edward
Released: 1967-02-06

Harold Pinter play televised on the BBC.

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Recluse

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of...

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The History of the Cinema

as Narrator
Released: 1956-07-31

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

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Doctor Who

as Edgeworth / Azmael
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Minder

as Billings
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Minder

as Meredith Gascoyne
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Julius Caesar
First aired: 1965-10-19

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

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Sherlock Holmes

as Reverend Merridew
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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Pie in the Sky

as Striker of the Yard
First aired: 1994-03-13

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...

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Rumpole of the Bailey

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-12-17

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Crowther
First aired: 1965-10-07

Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...

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Return of the Saint

as Prince Lorenzo
First aired: 1978-09-10

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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Dr. Finlay's Casebook

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-08-16

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971....

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Peak Practice

as Douglas Hart
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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Peak Practice

as Mr. Hart
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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The Professionals

as Sir James Temple
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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Inspector Morse

as Lance Mandeville
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Fall of Eagles

as Kaiser Wilhelm I
First aired: 1974-03-15

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series...

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Miss Marple

as Luther Crackenthorpe
First aired: 1984-12-26

Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...

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Great Performances

as Senor Diego
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

as Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
First aired: 1978-11-08

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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The Agatha Christie Hour

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-07

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with...

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The Agatha Christie Hour

as Parker Pyne
First aired: 1982-09-07

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with...

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Casualty

as William Turnbull
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-01

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...

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Porridge

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-05

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three...

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Porridge

as Rawley
First aired: 1974-09-05

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three...

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Out of This World

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-06-30

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC...

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Secret Army

as Father Girard
First aired: 1977-09-07

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...

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The Chinese Detective

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-04-30

Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the...

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Boon

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-01-14

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David...

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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

as Mr. Fielding
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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Maigret

as Tiburce de St. Hilaire
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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Danger Man

as Volos
First aired: 1960-09-11

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...

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Performance

as Don Francisco
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Lovejoy

as Sir Max Spence
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

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The Lotus Eaters

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-04-23

They say that once you have eaten from the lotus plant - you will never want to return home. To...

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Sherlock Holmes

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-05-17

Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television...

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Behaving Badly

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-02-20

Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by...

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Talking to a Stranger

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-10-02

A grown-up brother and sister's visit to their parents home culminates in a shocking tragedy....

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All Passion Spent

as Bucktrout
First aired: 1986-12-09

With the death of her husband, elderly Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her...

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