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A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

Impulse

Act like uncredited

event1954 star_border 4.6 top_panel_open

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.

Jackpot

Act like Snack Bar Customer (uncredited)

event1960 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.

A Question of Time

Act like Sam (as old man)

event1978 top_panel_open

Set in 1914, lodger Sam and his married landlady, Ann (10 lears his senior), fall in love. He marries a tart who falsely claims to be pregnant. But, when he returns from the war that killed his landlady's husband, he finds his wife with another man. He returns to his first love, Ann. But the widow has remarried.

An Englishman Abroad

Act like George

event1983 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

Jigsaw

event1962 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_

The Nun's Story

Act like Pascin (uncredited)

event1959 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

The End of Arthur's Marriage

Act like Dad

event1965 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.

The Tommy Steele Story

Act like Mr. Steele

event1957 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.

Quatermass and the Pit

Act like Newsvendor

event1967 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

The Curse of the Werewolf

Act like Chef

event1961 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.

Lucky Jim

Act like Contractor

event1957 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Dog Ends

Act like Grandad

event1984 top_panel_open

A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.

The Tall Guy

Act like Old Man in Wheelchair

event1989 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

An American actor in England tries to find love and work.

Charlie Bubbles

Act like Mr. Noseworthy

event1968 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

Life at the Top

Act like Wincastle

event1965 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.

Curtain Up

Act like George

event1952 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

The Criminal

Act like Mr Able

event1960 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.

Tumbledown

Act like Elderly Man

event1988 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Act like Old Bowyer

event1960 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?

Genevieve

Act like Publican (Uncredited)

event1953 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

School for Scoundrels

Act like Carpenter

event1960 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

Model for Murder

Act like Lock-Keeper

event1959 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.

One Jump Ahead

Act like Mr. Lamb

event1955 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.

The Southern Star

Act like Todd

event1969 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.

Come Back Peter

Act like Mr. Hapgood

event1952 star_border 6 top_panel_open

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.

Davy

Act like Henry

event1958 star_border 5 top_panel_open

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.

Delayed Action

Act like Bank clerk

event1954 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.

Appointment with Venus

Act like Jean - The Cowman

event1951 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.

Dial a Deadly Number

Act like Caretaker

event1975 star_border 7 top_panel_open

A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally dials a desperate out -of-work actor.

The Feminine Touch

Act like Jenkins

event1956 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.

Marks

Act like Dad

event1982 top_panel_open

Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a present - her name tattooed on his arm…

Quatermass

Act like Orderly (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6 top_panel_open

In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.

Upstairs, Downstairs

Act like Harris (1 ep.)

event1971 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

Casualty

Act like Harry (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Bergerac

Act like Locksmith (1 ep.)

event1981 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.

The Black Arrow

Act like Nicholas Appleyard (1 ep.)

event1972 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow tells the tale of Richard Shelton, a knight who avenges the death of his father during the War of the Roses. Richard is surrounded by enemies, some of whom he considers his most trusted companions.

Play for Today

Act like Grandad (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Objects of Affection

Act like Dad (1 ep.)

event1982 star_border 7 top_panel_open

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

Danger UXB

Act like Gardener (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz has been made a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The programme was titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London. The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television.

Sykes

Act like George (1 ep.)

event1972 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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