
Birthday:
03-08-1924
Deathday:
01-15-2011 (86 years)
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Casanova
Act like Vittorio
event2005 star_border 6.4
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With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.
Consuming Passions
Act like Tramp
event1988 star_border 8
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Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
Victor/Victoria
Act like René the Photographer
event1982 star_border 7.3
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A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
The Fool
event1990 star_border 7
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A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Waking Ned
Act like Brendy O'Toole
event1998 star_border 7
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When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
The Patriot Game
Act like Barman
event1969
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Dominic Behan's play concerning the IRA’s bombing campaign in London in 1939
Predator: The Quietus
Act like Mr Rooney
event1988 star_border 10
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A New York reporter investigates disappearances in an English village, where she must overcome their distrust while dealing with a evil force.
Henry V
Act like MacMorris
event1979 star_border 6
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The life of King Henry the Fifth.
The Railway Children
Act like Cart Man
event1970 star_border 6.7
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After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Act like Bus Driver
event1972 star_border 6.2
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Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?
Richard II
Act like Keeper
event1978 star_border 7.5
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Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
The Fools on the Hill
Act like Sales Executive
event1986
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This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Grange Hill
Act like Man in Street (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.5
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Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
EastEnders
Act like Show Judge (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 4.1
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The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Emergency – Ward 10
Act like Mr. Booker (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 5
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Emergency – Ward 10 is a British television series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like The Grove Family, a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, Emergency – Ward 10 is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas.
Sunday Night Theatre
(1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 3.5
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Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.
The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
The Railway Children
Act like Workman (1 ep.)
event1957
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A serial in eight parts adapted for television from the book by E. Nesbit.
ITV Playhouse
Act like Barman (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.5
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ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Doctor at Large
Act like Mr. Coates (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 4.3
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Doctor at Large is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors. The series follows directly from its predecessor Doctor in the House, and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1971.
Writers for the Doctor at Large episodes were Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna, Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Jonathan Lynn and David Yallop, as well as George Layton.
Doctor at Sea
Act like Sandy Patterson (2 ep.)
event1974 star_border 1
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Doctor at Sea is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of Doctors at sea. The series follows directly from its predecessor Doctor in Charge, and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1974.
Writers for the Doctor at Sea episodes were Richard Laing, George Layton, Jonathan Lynn, Bernard McKenna, Gail Renard and Phil Redmond.
Kizzy
Act like Nat (5 ep.)
event1976 star_border 6
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Kizzy is the name given to the 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi. It starred Vanessa Furst as Kizzy.
It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. This is a moving tale of human fallibility and sorrow, but also of strength, courage and redemption.
It was dramatised as a television serial, Kizzy, which was produced by Dorothea Brooking for the BBC, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. The novel has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl, and has been adapted as a BBC radio drama of the same name. This adaptation features Nisa Cole.[2]
World in Ferment
Act like Various Roles (1 ep.)
event1969
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A British send-up of news magazine programmes, celebrities, and broadcasters that proudly declared “no matter where in the world news is being made, we will be somewhere else – poised to bring you the facts without fear or favour about something totally different and to bring them to you late, wrong, and garbled.”
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Act like Bartender (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.1
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Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
The Barchester Chronicles
Act like Hotel Waiter (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 7
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Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.
Father Charlie
Act like Father Dempsey (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6
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Sitcom about a troublesome clergyman who is sent to a convent to be kept watch over.
Chance in a Million
Act like The Reverend Paul Abel-Smith (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.7
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Chance in a Million is a British sitcom broadcast between 1984 and 1986, produced by Thames Television for Channel 4.
The series was co-written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen and starred Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn.
The producer and director of the series was Michael Mills.
The Pickwick Papers
Act like Manservant (2 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.5
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Mr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through the England of stage-coaches and coaching inns.
Hi-de-Hi!
Act like Percy (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 7
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Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988.
The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens.
The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season.
The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.
The Brief
Act like Judge (1 ep.)
event1984
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Barrister Lucas Hellier goes to Germany to defend a British officer accused of spying and disloyalty. Within a short time, he finds himself romantically linked to the Court Officer Annika Newman and involved in a series of astonishing and bizarre intrigues.
Waiting for God
Act like Jamie Edwards (8 ep.)
event1990 star_border 7.2
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Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.
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