Birthday:
08-03-1926
Deathday:
07-23-2013 (86 years)
Birthplace:
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Scrooge
Act like Alice
event1951 star_border 7.4
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Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Little Red Monkey
Act like Julia Jackson
event1955 star_border 5.8
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Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
A Time to Kill
Act like Sallie Harbord
event1955 star_border 6.5
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A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
Spin a Dark Web
Act like Betty Walker
event1956 star_border 5.8
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A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).
Devils of Darkness
Act like Anne Forest
event1965 star_border 5
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A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Home to Danger
Act like Barbara
event1951 star_border 6
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A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Act like Mary Game
event1950 star_border 5.5
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The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
Noose for a Lady
Act like Jill Hallam
event1953 star_border 5.7
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An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Floodtide
Act like Mary Anstruther
event1949 star_border 6
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David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building
Poet's Pub
Act like Joanna Benbow
event1949 star_border 6.6
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A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
The Hide-Out
Act like Helen Grant
event1956 star_border 3.7
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An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
The Flaw
Act like Monica Oliveri
event1955 star_border 5.6
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A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Act like Joan Maxted
event1948 star_border 6.7
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Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
The Black Rider
Act like Mary Plack
event1954 star_border 6.2
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When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
The Solitary Child
Act like Jean
event1958 star_border 5
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A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
Man with a Gun
Act like Stella
event1958 star_border 5
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A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
Stock Car
Act like Katie Glebe
event1955 star_border 6.7
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Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke, but unfortunately one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
Torment
Act like Joan
event1950 star_border 5.5
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A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. They are both in love with their shared-stenographer-secretary.
The Bay of St. Michel
event1963
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A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.
Her Favourite Husband
Act like Stellina
event1950 star_border 5.5
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While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Shadow of a Man
Act like Linda Bryant
event1955 star_border 5.3
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After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Act like Anne Carter
event1952 star_border 6
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Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Double Exposure
Act like Barbara Leyland
event1954 star_border 5
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A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Act like Miss Lockhart
event1969 star_border 6.8
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A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Circumstantial Evidence
Act like Linda Harrison
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
Black 13
Act like Claire
event1953
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The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
The Professionals
Act like Mrs. Grant (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 7.4
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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.
Interpol Calling
Act like Lena (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 6.7
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The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
The Human Jungle
Act like Sister Campbell (3 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
An Audience with...
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.3
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An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
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