Birthday:
08-28-1943
Deathday:
04-10-2020 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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The Assassination Bureau
Act like Blind hatmaker (Uncredited)
event1969 star_border 6.4
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In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Thwum
Act like Joy
event1975
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Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed play sees UFO fanatic Bernard (Paul Moriarty) trying to convince skeptical reporter Duffy (Pete Postlethwaite) to report on the imminent landing of an alien craft. An almost complete copy – two minutes are missing – was recovered from a domestic video recording kept by director Pedr James. [adapted from wearecult.rocks] Part of the anthology series Second City Firsts.
Scream and Scream Again
Act like Valerie
event1970 star_border 5.4
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A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
All Neat in Black Stockings
Act like New Bird
event1969 star_border 4
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A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
Bartleby
Act like Miss Brown - Secretary
event1970 star_border 5.9
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An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Under the Age
Act like Alison
event1972 star_border 4.5
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The story concerns Susie, a transgender bartender, dealing with four patrons who stumble into her place of work. Susie grows wary of the two men and the two women, the latter of which are underage, and tension begins to mount and escalate between all of the characters.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Act like Gabrielle
event1971 star_border 5.2
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In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Alfie Darling
Act like Secretary
event1975 star_border 4.4
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Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
The Family Way
Act like Marriage Guidance Counsellor's Secretary (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.7
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Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their honeymoon in Spain, they have to spend their first night together at the home of Arthur's parents. The couple are prevented from having any intimacy, but it only gets worse. They find out that their trip to Spain is canceled, which sets the tone for a rocky few weeks.
A Day Out
Act like Plain Girl, Luisa
event1972 star_border 4.8
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Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
After a Lifetime
Act like Maureen
event1971
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Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Beloved
Act like Consumptive girl
event1976
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When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.
Porridge
Act like Elaine (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 8.1
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Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons.
The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Citizen Smith
Act like Fiona Sykes (2 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.2
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Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation.
Victorian Scandals
Act like Consumptive girl (1 ep.)
event1976
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Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
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