
Birthday:
09-28-1880
Deathday:
09-25-1970 (89 years)
Birthplace:
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
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The Angry Silence
Act like Arkwright
event1960 star_border 7.1
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When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Portrait of Clare
Act like Bissell
event1950 star_border 6.5
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The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
South Riding
Act like Foreman on Road Building Site
event1938 star_border 6.2
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Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Pool of London
Act like The Murdered Watchman (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.4
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Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Let's Be Happy
Act like Rev. MacDonald
event1957 star_border 4.8
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On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
Lease of Life
Act like Mr. Sproatley
event1954 star_border 7.4
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The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Second Fiddle
Act like General
event1957 star_border 5.6
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Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
Black Diamonds
Act like John Morgan
event1932
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Inspired by the Cadeby Main pit disaster, this is former miner and amateur director Charles Hanmer's innovative and audaciously ambitious feature debut. It's the tale of brassy Yorkshireman John Morgan's (played by Dewsbury's Beckett Bould) quest to convince an MP to finance a film about pit life. Threading stories about safety and technology with sketches of miners' hobbies, it's a holistic portrait of Barnsley pitmen.
What Every Woman Wants
Act like Grandfather Brown
event1954 star_border 6
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Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
The Outcast
event1934 star_border 5.3
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A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
Rock You Sinners
Act like McIver
event1957 star_border 4.5
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In the early days of rock and roll, a disc jockey and his friend, a writer, want to put a rock show on TV.
The Day Will Dawn
Act like Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
event1942 star_border 5.6
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Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Fighting Mad
Act like Jake
event1957 star_border 5
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Muscles Tanner, a boxer, gives up the ring after two fatalities and emigrates to Canada and gets involved with two crooked lumbermen trying to evict a landowner from his plot.
The Shipbuilders
Act like Peter Menzies
event1943 star_border 6
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A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Don't Bother to Knock
Act like Old Man
event1961 star_border 5.1
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An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
Read All About It
Act like 1st Policeman
event1945 star_border 4.6
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An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Loyal Heart
Act like Burton
event1947 star_border 6
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This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is unsuccessful in his efforts to purchase Beth for his own, he spitefully accuses the dog’s owner of sheep stealing.
Old Mother Riley's Circus
Act like Davis
event1941 star_border 4.4
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Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
The Flesh and the Fiends
Act like Old Angus
event1960 star_border 6.6
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Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Anna Karenina
Act like Matvey
event1948 star_border 6
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Maigret
Act like Albert (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.9
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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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