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Birthday:

07-18-1948 (76 years)

Birthplace:

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Biography

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James Sebastian Faulkner (born 18 July 1948) is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, usually in supporting roles.

Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972. He appeared in other films such as Whispering Death, Minder on the Orient Express, played Lt Teignmouth Melvill in Zulu Dawn that he co-produced, and appeared as Uncle Geoffrey in both Bridget Jones films. He played Herod in BBC's 1976 television adaptation of I, Claudius. In 1988 he portrayed one of the biggest enemies of Sherlock Holmes, as Stapleton in Granada Television's production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, opposite Jeremy Brett. In 1991, he played Alex Mair, the manager of the Larksoken nuclear power plant, in an Anglia production of the P.D. James novel featuring her character Inspector Adam Dalgleish, Devices and Desires. He has also portrayed Agent Smith in the film Hitman. He was also the principal antagonist Baron Mullins in the short-lived US/UK television show, Covington Cross. He voiced Severus Snape in the video game version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He also starred as Lord Kenworth in the film Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.

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Hitman

Act like Smith Jamison

event2007 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island

Act like Bill/Victor Hugenay

event2007 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

The hobby detectives “The Three Investigators” want to take a little break. So they take advantage of an offer from Peter's father, who has accepted a job in South Africa and wants to take the detectives there. But Jupiter, Peter and Bob wouldn't be the three investigators marks feared by the criminal world if they just lounged around in the sun on their vacation. So it's no wonder that the clever boys soon have their next case to solve...

The Piano Player

Act like Nicholas Farrel

event2002 star_border 4.3 top_panel_open

A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.

The Bank Job

Act like Guy Singer

event2008 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle

Act like Victor Hugenay

event2009 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

A new case for the cult detectives! Not by coincidence, a mysterious videotape falls into the hands of Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews during Jupiter's birthday party in Rocky Beach. On it is a recording of Jupiter's long dead parents. In their message they want to communicate to their son the key to an especially tricky riddle.

The Octopus

Act like Thomas

event1998 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.

Great Expectations

Act like Bentley Drummle

event1974 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

All the Little Animals

Act like Mr. Stuart Whiteside

event1999 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers, who spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars. Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.

Miss Nightingale

Act like Henry Nicholson

event1974 top_panel_open

The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.

The Conclave

Act like Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville

event2006 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game.

Catherine

Act like John Dunbar

event1988 star_border 4 top_panel_open

The true story of Catherine Dunbar's struggle with anorexia, that began when she was 15.

Hounded

Act like Remington Redwick

event2022 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A stately home robbery takes an evil turn one night when a gang of young thieves are caught by the owners of the house and then hunted across the estate for the proprietor's entertainment.

Machotaildrop

Act like The Baron

event2009 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Walter Rhum, an amateur skateboarder, realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company, Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company.

Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms

star_border 7 top_panel_open

This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the dark days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London. The programme combines superb archive film from the Imperial War Museum’s vast collection, with atmospheric dramatisations actually filmed inside the Cabinet War Rooms – the real locations from where Churchill led the nation. Includes first-hand accounts which reveal the challenges of working with Britain’s bullish war leader at close quarters.

Conduct Unbecoming

Act like Tenente Edward Millington

event1975 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.

The Maid

Act like Laurent Leclair

event1991 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.

Crimetime

Act like Crowley

event1996 star_border 4.1 top_panel_open

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

Hell Swarm

Act like Albion

event2000 star_border 4.9 top_panel_open

An ex-convict teams with government agents to battle an advanced race bent on conquering Earth.

Death in the Sun

Act like Terrick

event1976 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.

The Yellow Wallpaper

event1989 top_panel_open

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

Jolly Good Christmas

Act like Simon

event2022 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

David is an American architect who relocates across the pond to take up a job at a prestigious London firm. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day, David is running out of time to buy his girlfriend – who also happens to be his boss’s daughter – a thoughtful present so he resorts to buying her a somewhat uninspired gift card.

Boudica

Act like Old Druid

event2023 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.

Eureka

Act like Roger

event1983 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.

E=MC²

Act like Dr. Eric Amore

event1996 top_panel_open

A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work with his experiments. All of which explodes when she discovers otherwise. Written by John Sacksteder

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Act like Uncle Geoffrey

event2004 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

Franklyn

Act like Pastor Bone

event2008 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.

The Great Waltz

Act like Josef Strauss

event1972 star_border 5 top_panel_open

A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.

Nuremberg

Act like Narrator

event1996 top_panel_open

On 20 November 1945, in what had once been the spiritual centre of the Nazi Empire, the first Nuremberg trial opened. Nuremberg examines the first trail in detail: the scale and speed of the US-led effort to place the Third Reich's leaders in the dock; the charges brought against them; the courtroom drama; the final judgements. Of the 21 defendants, three were acquitted, seven given jail sentences and the remaining eleven sentenced to death, among them Hitler's right-hand man, Hermann Goering. This programme also explores the twelve subsequent trials against the backdrop of the emerging Cold War and the shifting allegiances of allies and enemies in the immediate post-war period.

The Abdication

Act like Magnus

event1974 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Act like Uncle Geoffrey

event2001 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.

Day of Wrath

Act like Friar Anselmo

event2006 star_border 4.2 top_panel_open

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza discern who's responsible when no one wants to cooperate? After all, before Mendoza can even identify the bodies, the crime scenes are mysteriously cleared - and the villagers pretend the murders never happened.

The Blackheath Poisonings

Act like Roger Vandervent

event1992 top_panel_open

The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.

The Wolf of the West Coast

Act like Lew Millar

event2002 star_border 4.4 top_panel_open

James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French hideaway, the gangster is already dead. Among the people Millar investigates are the gangster's brother, the man's sister-in-law, and their teenage daughter. A judge may also offer insight into the case, as well as Millar's own past.

Repeater

Act like Richard Silver

event2023 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

A hired hitman is in the crosshairs when rival contract killers come gunning for him. For hired hitman John Smith, his directive is straightforward: seek, locate, and terminate. But rival assassins have him in their sights as they track and target each other and aim for their latest assignment – take out a hacker who threatens to expose the malicious criminality of a conglomerate head.

Zulu Dawn

Act like Lt. Melvill

event1979 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Lace 2

Act like Charles Chazelle

event1985 top_panel_open

While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.

I Capture the Castle

Act like Aubrey Fox-Cotton

event2003 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

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.

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Act like Kenworth

event2004 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

Bible Code

Act like Kardinal Emad Rhades

event2008 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Johanna Bachmann is a young police received an emergency call from his father he believed dead, but to meet him, kill him. Nevertheless, the man gets to give her daughter a bag with various personal items. These will put you on the track of a manuscript that will reveal the secret to interpret the Bible. Vatican Party disagrees with the search performs young as they believe in a God who must punish humanity

Atomic Blonde

Act like Chief "C"

event2017 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Just Another Secret

Act like Markus Vogel

event1989 top_panel_open

An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.

Chief of Station

Act like Deputy Director Williams

event2024 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.

X-Men: First Class

Act like Swiss Bank Manager

event2011 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

Final Portrait

Act like Pierre Matisse

event2017 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

Still Crazy Like a Fox

Act like The Duke of Trent

event1987 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.

Underworld: Blood Wars

Act like Cassius

event2016 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Priest of Love

Act like Aldous Huxley

event1981 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Colour Me Kubrick

Act like Oliver

event2005 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

Flashpoint Africa

Act like Ramon Funes

event1980 top_panel_open

A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Act like Paul

event2018 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.

Bridget Jones's Baby

Act like Uncle Geoffrey

event2016 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

Zero Point

Act like Felix

event1982 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story.

Carry On Columbus

Act like Torquemada

event1992 star_border 3.8 top_panel_open

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

The Sonata

Act like Sir Victor Ferdinand

event2018 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.

The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife

Act like Dr. Fritz

event2022 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope through his surgeries and spiritual cures. Based on a true story, Arigó, with the help of the spirit of Dr. Fritz, performed numerous spiritual surgeries on people from Brazil and the world.

As I Am

Act like Mr. Hurt

event2019 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, one week of school remains for Kai, an aspiring writer, and his friends. How they choose to spend this time will cost one of them their life and leave them all changed forever.

Real Life

Act like Robin

event1984 top_panel_open

A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.

The Devil Conspiracy

Act like Cardinal Vincini

event2023 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

Deceptions

Act like Richard Blackwell

event1985 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results.

The Commissioner

Act like Gordon Cartwright

event1998 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.

Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

Act like John Aspinall

event1998 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard John Bingham after the murder of his children's nanny.

The Good Shepherd

Act like Lord Cooper

event2006 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Never Back Down: Revolt

Act like Julian

event2021 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.

A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

Act like Luxor

event1997 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the "Great Deliverer" by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the boy is his only hope for deliverance, the genie lures him back to the eigth century where he must join forces with Ali Baba in order to save Aladdin from the evil hands of Luxor.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Act like Stapleton

event1988 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.

All Those Small Things

Act like Jonathan Robbins

event2021 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Long time British game show host, Jonathan Robbins, finds himself questioning his mortality and legacy after the recent death of a close friend. When he comes across an unexpected letter from a young fan, he heads into the backwoods of America in search of deeper meaning for his life.

Vigo

Act like Dr. Gerard

event1998 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.

The Last Supper

Act like Caiaphas

new_releases Release: March 14, 2025

A powerful cinematic Biblical journey that brings to life the ultimate act of love and sacrifice as seen through the eyes of those who walked alongside Jesus.

The Trial of Lord Lucan

Act like Sir James Hallows

event1994 star_border 6 top_panel_open

An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. He disappeared the day after the killing and was never found.

The Mystery of the Giant Birds

Act like Narrator

top_panel_open

Journey to far-flung islands off Africa, South America, Australia and Oceania for a look at the bird species that lived alongside our ancestors.

Wycliffe

Act like Steven Lander (1 ep.)

event1994 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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 Bill

(1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

Tales of the Unexpected

Act like Patrick (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

A Touch of Frost

(1 ep.)

event1992 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

The Martian Chronicles

Act like Mr. K (1 ep.)

event1980 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.

The Professionals

Act like Major Nairn (1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Heartbeat

Act like Ronald Meeks (1 ep.)

event1992 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Inspector Morse

Act like Basilios Vasilakis (1 ep.)

event1987 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

Sherlock Holmes

Act like Stapleton (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

I, Claudius

Act like Herod Agrippa (12 ep.)

event1976 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

Lovejoy

Act like Alfredo Pereira (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

Hazell

(22 ep.)

event1978 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.

Covington Cross

Act like John Mullens (13 ep.)

event1992 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Covington Cross is a British/American television series that was broadcast on the ABC in the United States from August 25 to October 31, 1992. The program also aired in the United Kingdom and was scheduled to be broadcast in France. The series was filmed and produced in the UK, by a British production company, but it was ultimately accountable to an American network.

Der Bibelcode

Act like Kardinal Emad Rhades (2 ep.)

event2008

First Among Equals

Act like Simon Kerslake (10 ep.)

event1986 top_panel_open

First Among Equals is a ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and first shown in 1986. As in the novel, the series follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister. Several situations in the novel are drawn from Archer's own early political career in the British House of Commons. While the novel depitcts the fictional characters interacting with actual political figures from the UK and elsewhere, this adaptation uses different names for the real-life politicians.

Ben Hur

Act like Marcellus (2 ep.)

event2010 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

The struggle between the Roman Empire and its rebellious conquest Judaea, and two best friends caught in a terrible moment in history.

Scene of the Crime

Act like Rupert Farr (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Devices and Desires

Act like Dr. Alex Mair (6 ep.)

event1991 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession...

Minder

Act like Apsimon (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

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.

Wetten, dass..?

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1981 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.

Relic Hunter

Act like Guy Rocher (1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

Downton Abbey

Act like Lord Sinderby (4 ep.)

event2010 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

The Royal

Act like Sir Charles (1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

Game of Thrones

Act like Randyll Tarly (5 ep.)

event2011 star_border 8.5 top_panel_open

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Deceptions

Act like Richard Blackwell (2 ep.)

event1985 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A bored U.S. housewife trades places in London with her jet-set twin, and one of them winds up dead.

Slow Horses

Act like Charles Partner (2 ep.)

event2022 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

The Contract

Act like Charles Mawby (3 ep.)

event1988 top_panel_open

A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

The Bourne Identity

Act like D'Anjou (2 ep.)

event1988 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are attempts to kill him, he is well known in first class hotels across Europe, and worst of all, there are strange similarities between his memories and reported actions of the notorious terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Act like Major Eustace (1 ep.)

event1989 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Muck and Brass

Act like Maurice Taylor (6 ep.)

event1982 star_border 6 top_panel_open

The story of a no-holds-barred, go-getting property dealer played by celebrated comedian Mel Smith, who has the view that everyone has a price though the price may not always be money.

Pie in the Sky

Act like Ronald Quicke (1 ep.)

event1994 star_border 8.4 top_panel_open

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

Bergerac

Act like Anton Charet (1 ep.)

event1981 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

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

Death in Paradise

Act like Frank O'Toole (1 ep.)

event2011 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

Watership Down

Act like Frith (voice) (2 ep.)

event2018 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.

Home & Family

(1 ep.)

event2012 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

Host Debbie Matenopoulos & her expert guests present the best in cooking, crafting, decorating & more.

Highlander: The Series

Act like Marcus Constantine (1 ep.)

event1992 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

Spooks

Act like Robert Westhouse (1 ep.)

event2002 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Peter and Paul

Act like Menachem (2 ep.)

event1981 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.

The Lost Empire

Act like Marcus Harding (2 ep.)

event2001 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

American journalist Nick Orton is caught up in the world of Chinese gods and monsters while on a search for the long lost manuscript to 'Hsi Yu Chi' (The Journey to the West) by Wu Ch'eng En. He is accompanied on his journey by a humanoid ape with incredible strength and magical powers, a humanoid pig-man, and his brother-in-arms, an ex-cannibal. Based on one of the greatest stories in Chinese history.

The Blackheath Poisonings

Act like Roger Vandervent (3 ep.)

event1993 star_border 6 top_panel_open

The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.

The Alienist

Act like Cornelius Vanderbilt (1 ep.)

event2018 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia

Act like King Arthur (voice) (10 ep.)

event2020 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

Merlin’s apprentice joins Arcadia’s heroes on a time-bending adventure in Camelot, where conflict is brewing between the human, troll and magical worlds.

Tribes of Europa

Act like General Francis F. Cameron (6 ep.)

event2021 star_border 7 top_panel_open

2074. In the wake of a mysterious global disaster, war rages between the Tribes that have emerged from the wreckage of Europe. Three siblings from the peaceful Origine tribe are separated and forced to forge their own paths in an action-packed fight for the future of this new Europa.

Hamish Macbeth

Act like Colonel Don Maxwell (1 ep.)

event1995 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.

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