
Birthday:
04-29-1888
Deathday:
12-22-1966 (78 years)
Birthplace:
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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A Countess from Hong Kong
Act like Clark
event1967 star_border 6.1
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A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
A King in New York
Act like Ambassador Jaume
event1957 star_border 6.8
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A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
The Tomb of Ligeia
Act like Kenrick
event1964 star_border 6.3
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Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
Kidnapped
Act like Mr. Campbell
event1960 star_border 6.4
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Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
The Fast Lady
Act like Bulmer
event1962 star_border 5.6
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A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Dangerous Voyage
Act like Dr. Waverley
event1954 star_border 5.9
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A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
A Touch of Larceny
Act like Minister
event1960 star_border 5.8
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After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Francis of Assisi
Act like Father Livoni
event1961 star_border 7.6
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In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Island of Love
Act like Prof. Krumwitz
event1963 star_border 5.3
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Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
Room in the House
Act like Dr. Gordon
event1955
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Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Tale of Three Women
Act like Butler (segment "Wedding Gift")
event1954
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A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Stolen Life
Act like Prof. Bardesley
event1939 star_border 6.8
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Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
The Good Beginning
Act like Owen
event1953
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After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
It!
Act like Curator Trimingham
event1967 star_border 6.2
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After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
Web of Evidence
Act like Albert Prusty
event1959 star_border 4.8
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A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Backfire!
Act like Bernard Curzon
event1962 star_border 5
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Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.
The Siege of Manchester
Act like Thomas Prestwich
event1965
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A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
Kate Plus Ten
Act like Cunningham
event1938
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Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
The Hypnotist
Act like Dr. Kenyon
event1957 star_border 5.3
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Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Son of Robin Hood
Act like Apothecary
event1958 star_border 4.4
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Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Indiscreet
Act like Finleigh
event1958 star_border 6.6
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Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Nowhere to Go
Act like Mr. Hobbs, vault official
event1958 star_border 6.7
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A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Johnson Over Jordan
Act like The First Old Man
event1965
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Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Act like Poole
event1956
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American horror television movie from 1956.
Raising the Wind
Act like Prof. Parkin
event1961 star_border 6.6
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'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Dr. Crippen
Act like Lord Chief Justice
event1963 star_border 6
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A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
The Corridor People
Act like Samson Whitby (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 4
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The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd.
A surreal black-and-white detective series, The Corridor People pitched security agent Kronk against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp over the course of four episodes.
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