T. P. McKenna

Born: 1929-09-07

Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.


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Straw Dogs

as Maj. John Scott
Released: 1971-11-25

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In...

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Anne of the Thousand Days

as Norris
Released: 1969-12-18

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male...

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as General Vortek
Released: 1988-12-24

A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he...

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The Libertine

as Black Rod
Released: 2004-09-16

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank...

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Valmont

as Baron
Released: 1989-11-17

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a...

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The Scarlet and the Black

as Himmler
Released: 1983-02-02

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped...

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Britannia Hospital

as Theatre Surgeon
Released: 1982-05-27

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

as William Russel
Released: 1968-04-10

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led...

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All Creatures Great and Small

as Soames
Released: 1975-07-27

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice...

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Villain

as Frank Fletcher
Released: 1971-05-26

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses...

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Pascali's Island

as Dr. Hogan
Released: 1988-07-22

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions...

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Girl with Green Eyes

as The Priest
Released: 1964-05-14

A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author...

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The Doctor and the Devils

as O'Connor
Released: 1985-10-04

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy...

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Longitude

as Edmund Burke
Released: 2000-01-02

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at...

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Silver Dream Racer

as Bank Manager
Released: 1980-06-13

David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother,...

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Percy's Progress

as London News Editor
Released: 1974-08-01

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

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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

as Dr. Grahame
Released: 1989-12-25

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the...

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Perfect Friday

as Smith
Released: 1970-11-10

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he...

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The 5th Day of Peace

as Nick
Released: 1970-04-17

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied...

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Memed My Hawk

as Dursan
Released: 1984-05-10

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised...

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Monarch

as Henry VIII
Released: 2000-10-08

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction...

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The Quare Fellow

as Walsh
Released: 1962-10-02

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and...

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The Beast in the Cellar

as Det. Chief Sup. Paddick
Released: 1970-08-01

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he...

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The Boys & Girl from County Clare

as The Announcer
Released: 2003-09-12

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at...

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Young Cassidy

as Tom
Released: 1965-02-25

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are...

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The Outsider

as John Russell
Released: 1980-06-02

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to...

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Ulysses

as Buck Mulligan
Released: 1967-03-14

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of...

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Ferry Cross the Mersey

as Jack Hanson
Released: 1965-02-10

Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp...

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The Siege of Sidney Street

as Lapidos
Released: 1960-10-11

A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter...

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Strong Medicine

as Dr. Sweeting
Released: 1986-01-01

TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a...

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Percy

as Meet The People Compere
Released: 1971-02-18

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

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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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The Changeling

as Tomazo de Piracquo
Released: 1974-01-20

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a...

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Pasmore

as Helen's husband
Released: 1980-10-21

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever...

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To the Lighthouse

as Augustus Carmichael
Released: 1983-03-22

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt...

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A Warm December

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1973-05-23

Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While...

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Unreported Incident

as Michael
Released: 1988-02-23

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish...

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The Next Victim

as Frampton
Released: 1975-09-23

A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.

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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

as Captain Cook
Released: 1988-12-14

The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

as Simon Dedalus
Released: 1977-09-01

Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part...

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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut

as Self - Actor / Major John Scott
Released: 2003-03-08

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

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Crimes

as Melvyn
Released: 1982-04-13

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting,...

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Lady Killer

as Jack Hardisty
Released: 1973-01-18

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England,...

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Shoot to Kill

as Chief Constable Sir John Harmon
Released: 1990-06-03

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the...

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Events at Drimaghleen

as Father Sallins
Released: 1991-07-17

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just...

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Moving on the Edge

as Liam
Released: 1984-03-06

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

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Freedom to Die

as Mike
Released: 1961-01-01

Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the...

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Random Moments in a May Garden

as Digby
Released: 1981-05-22

A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of...

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Stones

as Harvey Fenton-Jones
Released: 1976-10-27

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that...

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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

as Dennis Naylor
Released: 1984-12-31

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

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The Law Lord

as Judge Selwyn
Released: 1992-03-22

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home...

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Beasts: Baby

as Dick Pummery
Released: 1976-11-06

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of...

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A Child's Voice

as Ainsley Rupert Macreadie
Released: 1978-10-13

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a...

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Deasey (Desperate)

as FG
Released: 1979-12-06

Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end...

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Doctor Who

as The Captain
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 J.J.Mooney
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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The Avengers

as Grant
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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Inspector Morse

as Professor Sir Lionel Phelps
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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The Saint

as Tony
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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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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Waking the Dead

as Phil Brown
First aired: 2001-06-18

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Casualty

as Arthur Jackson
First aired: 1986-09-06

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

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Casualty

as Dr. Archie Whitlock
First aired: 1986-09-06

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

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Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Crown Court

as Henry Burnett
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Heartbeat

as Michael O'Leary
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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The Sweeney

as Det. Supt. Grant
First aired: 1975-01-02

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...

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Blake's 7

as Sarkoff
First aired: 1978-01-02

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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The Wednesday Play

as John Joe Moran
First aired: 1964-09-30

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...

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Justice

as Supt. George Lester
First aired: 1971-10-08

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...

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Thriller

as Jack Hardisty
First aired: 1973-04-14

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

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Thriller

as Frampton
First aired: 1973-04-14

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

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Man in a Suitcase

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Lovejoy

as Bertram Montserrat
First aired: 1986-01-10

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

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Jason King

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-15

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Sir Lucius O'Trigger
First aired: 1965-10-19

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

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BBC Play of the Month

as Kommissarov
First aired: 1965-10-19

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

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Miss Marple

as Dr. Grahame
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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Holocaust

as Blobel
First aired: 1978-04-16

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...

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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

as uncredited
First aired: 1983-10-09

Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence...

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Testament: The Bible in Animation

as God (voice)
First aired: 1996-12-11

A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation...

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Lady Killers

as Sir Hardinge Giffard Q.C.
First aired: 1980-07-20

Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...

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The Play on One

as Michael Flynn
First aired: 1988-01-19

A series of plays specially written for television.

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Jack the Ripper

as O'Connor
First aired: 1988-10-11

Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account...

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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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The Duchess of Duke Street

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-04

Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous...

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Callan

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-07-08

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....

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Father Brown

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-26

Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.

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Manhunt

as Louis Sampere
First aired: 1970-01-02

Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend...

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Fall of Eagles

as Count Conrad von Hotzendorf
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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Longitude

as Edmund Burke
First aired: 2000-01-02

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock...

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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

as Citizen
First aired: 1988-01-10

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph...

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Quiller

as Buchanan
First aired: 1975-08-29

Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by...

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Target

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-09

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

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Bleak House

as Harold Skimpole
First aired: 1985-04-10

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

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Napoleon and Love

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-03-05

Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9...

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Beasts

as Dick Pummery
First aired: 1976-10-16

Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a...

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Scarlet and Black

as Marquis de la Mole
First aired: 1993-10-31

An ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Soames
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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Levkas Man

as Holroyd
First aired: 1981-03-18

Levkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove...

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The Manions of America

as Harry Clement
First aired: 1981-09-30

Epic mini-series chronicling the lives of two 19th-century families -- one Irish, the other...

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Kings in Grass Castles

as Lord Dunraven
First aired: 1998-03-28

The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century.

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Shoot to Kill

as Chief Constable Sir John Hermon
First aired: 1990-06-03

A reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six...

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