Birthday:
12-12-1949
(75 years)
Birthplace:
Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination.
Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination.
Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Act like Davy Jones
event2006 star_border 7.4
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Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
Underworld
Act like Viktor
event2003 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Act like Davy Jones
event2007 star_border 7.3
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Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
Love Actually
Act like Billy Mack
event2003 star_border 7.1
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Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Notes on a Scandal
Act like Richard Hart
event2006 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Still Crazy
Act like Ray Simms
event1998 star_border 6.8
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In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Shaun of the Dead
Act like Phillip
event2004 star_border 7.5
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Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Underworld: Evolution
Act like Viktor
event2006 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Valkyrie
Act like Friedrich Olbricht
event2008 star_border 6.9
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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
10 Lives
Act like Professor Craven (voice)
event2024 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student. When he loses his ninth life, fate steps in to set him on a transformative journey.
The Constant Gardener
Act like Sir Bernard Pellegrin
event2005 star_border 7
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Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Guest House Paradiso
Act like Mr. Johnson
event1999 star_border 6.2
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Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!
Hot Fuzz
Act like Met Chief Inspector
event2007 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Thirteen at Dinner
Act like Ronald Marsh
event1985 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Act like Slartibartfast
event2005 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Flushed Away
Act like Whitey (voice)
event2006 star_border 6.3
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London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
The Little Drummer Girl
Act like Al
event1984 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Act like Viktor
event2009 star_border 6.5
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A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Act like Rufus Scrimgeour
event2010 star_border 7.7
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Act like Self
event2006 star_border 4
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The Constant Gardener featurette.
Enduring Love
Act like Robin
event2004 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
Stormbreaker
Act like Alan Blunt
event2006 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
The Girl in the Café
Act like Lawrence
event2005 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Lucky Break
Act like Roger
event2001 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Glorious 39
Act like Alexander Keyes
event2009 star_border 6
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A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
FairyTale: A True Story
Act like Edward Gardner
event1997 star_border 6.4
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Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Wild Target
Act like Victor Maynard
event2010 star_border 6.4
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Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
Rango
Act like Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
event2011 star_border 6.9
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When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
The Magic Roundabout
Act like Dylan (voice)
event2005 star_border 5.4
top_panel_open
A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twin). As the world is placed in mortal danger Zeebad who wants to turn the world to ice. Doogal and his friends must recover 3 diamonds that are needed to stop him.
Astro Boy
Act like Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
event2009 star_border 6.3
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Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.
Total Recall
Act like Matthias
event2012 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
Blow Dry
Act like Ray Robertson
event2001 star_border 5.9
top_panel_open
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
I Capture the Castle
Act like James Mortmain
event2003 star_border 6.8
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A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
True Blue
Act like Jeremy Saville
event1996 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
The Boat That Rocked
Act like Quentin
event2009 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
Longitude
Act like Lord Sandwich
event2000 star_border 7.3
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Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Arthur Christmas
Act like Grandsanta (voice)
event2011 star_border 6.8
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For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
G-Force
Act like Leonard Saber
event2009 star_border 5.5
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A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But the government shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Can they escape to defeat the villain and save the world?
Real Creatures of Dirt
Act like Self / Rattlesnake Jake
event2011 star_border 6
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In this fun and educational piece, animal experts talk about the real creatures that inspired the characters of Rango and the filmmakers explain why they chose specific animals to reflect certain personality traits.
Mack the Knife
Act like Tiger Brown
event1989 star_border 6.6
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In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.
Jack the Giant Slayer
Act like General Fallon
event2013 star_border 5.8
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The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Page Eight
Act like Johnny Worricker
event2011 star_border 6.6
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Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
The Young Visiters
Act like Earl of Clincham
event2003 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
Unnatural Causes
Act like Oliver Latham
event1993
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Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Act like Douglas Ainslie
event2012 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Wrath of the Titans
Act like Hephaestus
event2012 star_border 5.7
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Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control of the long-imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos.
Chalet Girl
Act like Richard Madsen
event2011 star_border 6.4
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While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.
Lawless Heart
Act like Dan
event2002 star_border 5.3
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In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
Gideon's Daughter
Act like Gideon Warner
event2005 star_border 6.3
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Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
The Phantom of the Opera
Act like Martin Barton
event1989 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.
I, Frankenstein
Act like Naberius
event2014 star_border 5.4
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200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Act like Helmut Hoffmann
event1985 star_border 4.5
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The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
The World's End
Act like The Network (voice)
event2013 star_border 6.8
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Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
About Time
Act like Dad
event2013 star_border 7.9
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The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
The First Omen
Act like Cardinal Lawrence
event2024 star_border 6.8
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When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Alive and Kicking
Act like Tristan
event1996 star_border 4.9
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A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Pride
Act like Cliff
event2014 star_border 7.7
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In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Joy
Act like Patrick Steptoe
event2024 star_border 6.9
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A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Act like Officer
event1980 star_border 7.4
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Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Turks & Caicos
Act like Johnny Worricker
event2014 star_border 6.3
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The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Salting the Battlefield
Act like Johnny Worricker
event2014 star_border 6.3
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David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Easter 2016
Act like Connor Mullan
event1982
top_panel_open
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Act like Douglas Ainslie
event2015 star_border 6.4
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As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Role Play
Act like Bob
event2023 star_border 6
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Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret life as an assassin for hire – a secret that her husband David discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play.
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
Act like Conrad (voice)
event2024 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Family frenemies, Gracie and Pedro, must put their differences aside, embarking on a thrilling quest packed with perilous escapades in order to reunite with their owners.
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Act like Tom Sergeant
event2014 star_border 9.1
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On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
Act like Self - Narrator
event2021
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Follows Christmas celebrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as staff prepare for one of their busiest times of year. Vegetables are prepared ready for a special feast and lights are hung from Britian's tallest living Christmas tree.
The Maitlands
Act like Roger Maitland
event1993
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There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Act like Self
event2007
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A documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz.
Curse of the Pink Panther
Act like ENT Doctor
event1983 star_border 4.6
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Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
A Fox's Tale
Act like Ringmaster (voice)
event2008 star_border 1.7
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The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage.
Darkling
event2023
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The wanderer of Roger Hyams' films Sunday and Grand Union steps out into the night.
The Wild Robot
Act like Longneck (voice)
event2024 star_border 8.3
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After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
500 Miles
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A broken family is forced to come together when 16 year old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.
Norm of the North
Act like Socrates (voice)
event2016 star_border 4.6
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Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
Their Finest
Act like Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
event2017 star_border 6.7
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During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later
Act like Self
event2022
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ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the special looks at how the film became a beloved Christmas tradition and a global sensation, with new insight into behind-the-scenes secrets and iconic scenes.
Being Human
Act like Julian
event1994 star_border 5.1
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One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Dad's Army
Act like Sergeant Wilson
event2016 star_border 5
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A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Slapper
Act like Arnold Percy
event2008 star_border 3.5
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A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...
Spectre of the Bear
Act like Bennett (voice)
event2023
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One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped snacks.
That Christmas
Act like Lighthouse Bill (voice)
event2024 star_border 7.1
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It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.
Bloody Fury
Act like Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
event2023
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In the Far West, the fur trade is booming. Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves still alive, decides to avenge his slaughtered family. But is revenge the best solution to find the road to redemption?
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Act like Narrator
event2003 star_border 6
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Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Act like Phil Parish
event2004 star_border 7.3
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Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
Burst
Act like Maxwell's Fan 22
event2004
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A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Act like Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
event2015 star_border 7
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Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Don't Leave Me This Way
Act like John Tracey
event1993 star_border 7
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British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
Absolute Hell
Act like Hugh Marriner
event1991 star_border 5.7
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Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
& Sons
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Andrew is a novelist best known to the world as A.N. Dyer. He wrote his first book when he was 27, and it became an instant classic, selling 45 million copies and creating a cult around its elusive author. Andrew wakes up one morning, convinced that he is about to die. He knows that with his time on Earth dwindling, he needs to set right the major relationships of his life, and so he summons his sons to be with him. It’s been almost 20 years since an ‘incident’ tore apart the Dyer home. An incident has a name: Andy. Andy’s the reason his world-famous father, Andrew, no longer speaks to his adult sons, Richard and Jamie, nor to his ex-wife, Isabel. However, when his sons arrive, laden with their own problems, Andrew does not seek their forgiveness, as they expected; instead, he tells them something so wild it couldn’t possibly be true. Or could it?
A Masculine Ending
Act like John Tracey
event1992
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While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Astonish Me
Act like The Professor
event2011 star_border 8
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When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of the museum, where a professor and a guide show him examples of the wondrous new species of animals being discovered every day on Earth.
Fox
Act like Colin Street
event1980 star_border 1
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The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
The Limehouse Golem
Act like John Kildare
event2016 star_border 6.2
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A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
London: The Modern Babylon
Act like Spoken Quotations (voice)
event2012 star_border 6.5
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London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Dreams of Leaving
Act like William
event1980 star_border 7
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William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very strange summer ... Caroline said the best of her life.
The Bookshop
Act like Mr. Brundish
event2017 star_border 6.5
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Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Red Nose Day Actually
Act like Billy Mack
event2017 star_border 7.1
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Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
We Love Cigarettes
Act like Narrator
event2006
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A day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed, tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man's fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the weirdest love affairs ever.
Antonia and Jane
Act like Howard Nash
event1990 star_border 5.5
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Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Act like Self
event2005
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Documentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as a radio series through to becoming a Hollywood blockbuster.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Act like Howard Clifford
event2019 star_border 6.9
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In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.
The Kindness of Strangers
Act like Timofey
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Hope Gap
Act like Edward
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger -- and with support from her son -- Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it's never too late to be happy.
Great White Shark
Act like Self - Narrator (voice)
event2013 star_border 6.2
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Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic predator: the creature we love to fear. Great White Shark will explore the great white's place in our imaginations, in our fears and in the reality of its role at the top of the oceanic food chain. The film will concentrate on key aggregation points around the world: Mexico, South Africa, Los Angeles and New Zealand. Key figures in the history of shark research, people whose lives have been changed by contact with the great white, will tell us of their experiences, culminating in a direct encounter between man and shark.
Sometimes Always Never
Act like Alan
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Act like Graham Greene (voice)
event2013 star_border 1
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The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Emma.
Act like Mr. Woodhouse
event2020 star_border 7
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In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Minamata
Act like Robert "Bob" Hayes
event2020 star_border 7
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War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
StarDog and TurboCat
Act like Sinclair (voice)
event2019 star_border 7.1
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When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they discover not only the power of friendship, but their inner superpowers along the way.
The Hungry Corpse
Act like The Hungry Corpse
event2013
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In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a broken wing.
Eye of the Needle
Act like Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
event1981 star_border 6.6
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Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Death Watch
Act like Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
event1980 star_border 6.3
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In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Act like Bill
event1978
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One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
Living
Act like Williams
event2022 star_border 7
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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Under the Skin
Act like Dave
event1982
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"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Act like Self
event2020 star_border 8.5
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Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique and unforgettable Christmas musical to play in cinemas worldwide from 1 December. Katherine Jenkins: Christmas Spectacular sees the Welsh sensation perform seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour and wonder. The production was given unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue which also marked the 50th time that Katherine has performed there. Katherine and friends, including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more will bring joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world this Christmas.
AKA
Act like Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
event2002 star_border 5.6
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In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
Buckley's Chance
Act like Spencer
event2021 star_border 6.2
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A fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback with nothing but his camcorder and new friend, a wayward Dingo.
Occupy!
Act like Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
event1976
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Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hybrid about the occupation of the Fisher-Bendix Factory in Kirkby. Dohany uses a variety of imaginative techniques to explore the longstanding dispute, and a pronounced sense of urgency pervades this act of solidarity.
Lotus: A New Dawn
Act like Self - Narrator
event2021 star_border 6
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This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer 'Lotus'. In the past 'Lotus' has been famous for producing championship winning race cars and iconic sports cars, but it has struggled to remain in profit. With a new investor and managing director at the helm, they set out to build the first new Lotus road cars in over a decade. From the last ever petrol powered car, the 'Emira' and also their first pure electric British hypercar the 2000 brake horsepower 'Evija'.
The Beautiful Game
Act like Mal
event2024 star_border 6.4
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A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Act like Self
event2005
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An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
Deasey (Desperate)
Act like Deasy
event1979
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Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.
Standing in for Henry
Act like Bruno
event1980
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At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
The Bass Player
event1999
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In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an awkward situation.
Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller
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Mason's isolated life on a remote island of Scotland is life is upended when he rescues a girl from the ocean in a terrible storm, which brings on the unforeseen chain of events forcing him to confront his past.
Wycliffe
Act like David Cleeve (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6
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Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane.
Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Act like Lockwood (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.1
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DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
The One Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 4.6
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A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
Bergerac
Act like Barry (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6.5
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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.
Meerkat Manor
Act like Narrator (52 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.5
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Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.
Meerkat Manor premiered in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on 24 October 2005. With the success of the programme in the United Kingdom, Animal Planet started broadcasting it on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the US. It has since been rebroadcast in more than 160 other countries. The fourth, and final, series aired initially in the United States from 6 June 2008 to 22 August 2008; it aired in the United Kingdom in April 2009. In August 2009, it was reported that the programme had been cancelled.
Performance
Act like Roger Maitland (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6
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An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Agony
Act like Vincent Fish (20 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.5
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Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT.
Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.
Richard & Judy
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 2.9
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Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4, from 2001 to 2008, but later moved to digital channel, Watch, in October 2008. The programme featured a number of celebrities and a book club. Its final episode aired in July 2009 due to low ratings.
State of Play
Act like Cameron Foster (6 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.5
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The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
Act like Narrator (16 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8
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Bill Nighy narrates a visually stunning trip along a spectacular river.
He Knew He Was Right
Act like Colonel Osborne (4 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.8
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He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.
Making News
Act like Sam Courtney (6 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6
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Making News is a television drama set in the world of journalism produced by Thames Television for the ITV network.
A pilot was screened in 1989, followed by one series of six episodes in 1990. The leading cast members included Bill Nighy, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Paul Darrow, Annie Lambert and Tony Osoba.
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
Act like Self - Narrator (voice) (13 ep.)
event2021 star_border 9
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Continuing the compelling saga of the heartstring-tugging, dramatic tale of survival revolving around three families of meerkats who are descendants of the legendary meerkat matriarch, Flower. Neighbors and rivals who share a bloodline are forced to compete for food and resources in an environment that is undergoing a great deal of change: the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.
The Lost Prince
Act like Stamfordham (2 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7
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The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.
The Big Art Project
Act like Narrator (4 ep.)
event2009
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The Big Art Project is a UK-wide public art initiative funded by the Channel 4 and Arts Council England. The four part TV series was first broadcast on Sunday 10 May 2009 on Channel 4. The project also comprises a website centred on The Big Art Mob - designed to create the first comprehensive map of public art across the UK using photographs from people's mobile phones - and significant public art works such as Jaume Plensa's Dream in St Helens, Merseyside.
The TV series was narrated by Bill Nighy.
The Last Place on Earth
Act like Cecil Meares (7 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.8
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The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole.
The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant.
Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.
Live from Studio Five
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 3.3
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Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness news and celebrity gossip, after originally covering stories from a popular news agenda. It aired its final edition on 4 February 2011 and was replaced by OK! TV in February 2011 which lasted just nine months on air before itself being axed.
Doctor Who
Act like Dr Black (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.5
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The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Minder
Act like Oates (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.8
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This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Canterbury Tales
Act like James (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6.9
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The Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003. Each story is an adaptation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales which are transferred to a modern, 21st century setting, but still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury.
Fox
Act like Colin Street (2 ep.)
event1980 star_border 5.7
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Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980.
The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections.
The series was written by Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.
People Like Us
Act like Will Rushmore (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.9
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People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.
Peak Practice
Act like Alan Sinclair (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.1
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Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series.
Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Chillers
Act like Tom Dickenson (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.2
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Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Act like Thomas Jerome Newton (10 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.4
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An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
Kavanagh Q.C.
Act like Giles Culpepper QC (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7
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James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.
Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
Act like Narrator (6 ep.)
event2023
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Bill Nighy narrates this series celebrating the beauty of the gorgeous eastern counties.
South Of The Border
Act like Tony Freason (1 ep.)
event1988
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Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
Ordeal by Innocence
Act like Leo Argyll (3 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7
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The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.
10 Minute Tales
(1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.5
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The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive period. Experience a novel Noel with these original, uplifting and highly creative slices of silent cinema that prove actions do speak louder than words. Starring Mackenzie Crook, Bill Nighy, Peter Capaldi, Ross Kemp, and a host of major stars, each of the 10 Minute Tales promises to be a unique and engaging look at life, loss, and love.
Black Books
Act like Man at bar (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 8.1
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Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn’t and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran, their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction.
Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group’s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
Act like Narrator (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 10
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In this 2-episode documentary series, we will see the challenges to which the forest dweller must battle each day to survive. When at certain times of the year the environmental conditions harden, the competition and rivalry put them all to the test, A mix of adaptation and luck will decide who manages to survive.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Act like Jeffrey Grainger (6 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.9
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Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Eye of the Storm
Act like Tom Frewen (6 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8
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A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her disturbed young boy, and the evil legacy of his seventeenth century alchemist ancestor in a fantastical eco-thriller.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.4
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Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
Lazarus
Act like Doctor Lazarus ' Dr L' (2 ep.)
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A man who returns home after his father’s suicide and begins to have disturbing experiences that can’t be explained. He quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death and his sister’s murder 25 years ago.
Grumpy Old Men
Act like Self (14 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.2
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Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.
Longitude
Act like Lord Sandwich (2 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7
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The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
Castlevania
Act like Saint Germain (voice) (20 ep.)
event2017 star_border 8.3
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A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Act like Belshazzar (voice) (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6
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A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
Play for Today
Act like Dave (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.1
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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.
Timeshift
Act like self (voice) (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7
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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Act like Goschen (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7
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Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Act like Narrator (voice) (39 ep.)
event2019 star_border 8.1
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Bill Nighy narrates the stories of epic train journeys through stunning scenery.
Kent: Garden of England
Act like Narrator (5 ep.)
event2024
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Celebrating the county's beauty - from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Thames Estuary.
Parkinson
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1998
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Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.
This Morning
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 5.5
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This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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