Michael Byrne
Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Major Schroeder in Force 10 from Navarone, Reinhard Beck in The Scarlet and the Black, General Olbricht in The Plot to Kill Hitler and Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in the BBC radio dramatisation of the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris. Also seen as the aged but fanatical SS General Neurath in "Outpost 2 - Black Sun", former concentration camp commandant and involved in the Nazis's sinister reality-shifting experiments. Byrne appeared as a Jewish concentration camp survivor who is instrumental in the capture of a Nazi war criminal (played by Ian McKellen) in the film Apt Pupil. He is also familiar to audiences as Smythe, a soldier who attempts to rape William Wallace's wife and first inspires Wallace to seek independence from England in the film Braveheart. His other film credits include The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far, The Medusa Touch, The Saint, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Good Father, The Sum of All Fears, Gangs of New York and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. On television, he has appeared in Z-Cars, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals, The Devil's Crown,Smiley's People, Yes, Prime Minister, Lord Mountbatten - the Last Viceroy, Between The Lines, Sharpe, The Mists of Avalon, Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Honest, Hamish Macbeth, and Casualty. From April 2008 to January 2010, Michael starred in Coronation Street, as Ted Page, Gail Platt's long lost father and the ex-lover of Audrey Roberts. It is not known whether he will return to the show. Byrne appeared in State of Play at the Edinburgh Festival written by Zia Trench. He played Romeo to Siân Phillips' Juliet at the Bristol Old Vic. Father of actress Allie Byrne.
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
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Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William...
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In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a...
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Gangs of New York
as Horace GreeleyIn 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the...
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A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against...
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The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...
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The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli GrushkovWhen the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds...
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The Omen
as Monk (uncredited)Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien...
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An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret...
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Force 10 from Navarone
as SchroederWorld War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent...
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The Eagle Has Landed
as KarlWhen the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a...
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The Medusa Touch
as DuffA French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe...
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The Saint
as VereshaginSimon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for...
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In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a...
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Diana
as Christiaan BarnardDuring the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines...
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Vampyres
as PlayboyA duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the...
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Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has...
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Apt Pupil
as Ben KramerOne day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism,...
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Blood: The Last Vampire
as ElderOn the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented...
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The Last Witness
as CoronerAn ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during...
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The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the MusketeersYoung D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death -...
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Conduct Unbecoming
as 2nd Lt. Toby StrangA company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored...
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Buster
as PoyserBuster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not...
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Outpost: Black Sun
as NeurathA pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging...
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Quartet
as Frank WhiteCissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to...
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Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain KeenePortsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio...
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Beyond the Sea
as Dr. AndrettiBased on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and...
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The Scarlet and the Black
as Reinhard BeckFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped...
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The Island on Bird Street
as BolekAlex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his...
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Edward SeymourAdapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken...
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Alien Overlords
as MichaelA man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Friedrich OlbrichtA historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to...
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Coming Out
as Gunnar WedelmanLewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of...
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Nostradamus
as InquisitorA dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor...
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The Scarlet Blade
as Lt. HawkeA cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters...
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Gunshy
as LangeWhen the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to...
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Intrigo: Death of an Author
as KellerA young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer,...
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The Happy Valley
as John CarberryIn 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a...
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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles HarwoodWhen MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to...
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The Infiltrator
as Dieter CreutzIn the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a...
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Rogue Male
as InterrogatorIn 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot...
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The Tragedy of Richard III
as Duke of BuckinghamRichard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the...
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Sharpe's Company
as Major NairnSpain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...
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Champions
as Richard HusseyThe true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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Sharpe's Enemy
as Major NairnPortugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...
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The Image
as The ArtistAn artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
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The Fix
as Sam CampbellThe story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw...
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The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General StrathairnAfter a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are...
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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as VenablesWriter Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because...
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Sharpe: The Legend
as NairnSeveral years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London...
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The Good Father
as Leonard ScrubyBill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of...
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30 Years to Life
as Oliver MatherIn a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he...
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Sharpe's Honour
as Major Nairn1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely...
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Butley
as Reg NuttallButley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben...
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. CarruthersA movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time,...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as ChorusPlagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King,...
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The Absence of War
as Bryden ThomasPolitical drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous...
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The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil WetterstedtStefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner...
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The Silent Playground
as RogerPolice hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
as AntonioTwo great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus...
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The Search for Alexander the Great
as DemosthenesFriends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his...
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Sunday
as Lord WidgerySunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that...
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The Gold Machine
as Andrew NortonInspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their...
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Imogen's Face
as PatrickThe beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her...
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Henry VI Part 3
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his sonThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of AlenconThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Henry VI Part 2
as John Hume / LieutenantThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
as Blank/German/Old GeezerA surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY...
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Hildegard
as VolmarAn abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by...
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Wednesday Love
as BruceTwo women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
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Headmaster
as uncreditedFrank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his...
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In the Secret State
as Guy PregerA Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its...
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The First Line
as RichardTwo Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze...
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Running Late
as ClitheroeTelevision interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the...
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The Silence of the Sea
as Werner Von EbrennacIn a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted...
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Break In
as ClarkeWritten by Willy Russell, Break In tells the story of three boys who break in to their school...
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Midsomer Murders
as Keith GrundyThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Coronation Street
as Ted PageThe residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them...
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Silent Witness
as uncreditedSilent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...
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The Practice
as Officer (uncredited)A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...
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Crown Court
as uncreditedCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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A Touch of Frost
as Alex OrmrodJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...
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Waking the Dead
as Joe BrackleyA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Patrick MarneyA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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The Professionals
as Werner DreisingerThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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Play for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as RussellPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as BrucePlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Crossing Lines
as Edward BaxendaleThrough globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy...
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Bodies
as Old MullinsOne victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must...
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The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
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Hornblower
as Captain KeeneSet during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman,...
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Agatha Raisin
as Bishop ParsonsBurnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the...
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Secret Army
as Paul VercorsWorld War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...
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Ultimate Force
as uncreditedThis covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British...
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Thriller
as Richard LovellThriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...
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Sharpe
as Major NairnSharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...
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Yes, Prime Minister
as uncreditedJames Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled...
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as DCC Charles GriswoldThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...
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Hamish Macbeth
as Duncan ScottHamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is...
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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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The Vice
as uncreditedThe Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. It ran for five short...
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Within These Walls
as uncreditedWithin These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...
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The Mists of Avalon
as MerlinThe Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer...
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Between the Lines
as uncreditedDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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Lady Killers
as Edward Marshall-Hall KCCompelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Lady Killers
as Edward Marshall-HallCompelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Smiley's People
as Peter GuillamCalled out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization,...
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Empire
as CiceroAs Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest...
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The Living and the Dead
as Ebenezer AlsopSomerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live...
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The Enigma Files
as David StanleyThe Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen...
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Ellis Island
as Dr. Carl TraversEllis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television...
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Oliver's Travels
as MoodyOliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan...
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Oliver's Travels
as uncreditedOliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan...
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Shades of Greene
as Trevor's FatherShades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author...
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Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
as George AbellLord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in...
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Saracen
as Col. Patrick AnsellSaracen is a 1989 British television drama series. Made for ITV by Central Television, it...
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No Bananas
as Edward GrantThis 10-episode television miniseries, set in England during World War II, tells the story of...
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Heat of the Sun
as uncreditedHeat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring...
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