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The Little Match Girl (1974)
Character: Blind Man
As a little girl is daydreaming out the window, her wicked father comes home. It's Christmas Eve. She tells her father that she was thinking about her Grandmother and of how nice Christmas was when she was alive. The father, angry and bitter, tells the girl that she must be out early to sell the matches or she can think about a beating. He tells her she needs to keep her mind on selling the matches and that she cannot come home until every one of them is sold. Then he laments about how, since her momma died, she is more than pain and trouble and is always in the way.
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It's Not Quite Cricket (1977)
Character: Harold
Four people intend to register a protest at their firm's outing and cricket match. But it proves a strain on their team spirit.
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The House on the Hill (1975)
Character: Foster
A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property.
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Strife (1965)
Character: John Bulgin
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
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The Man with the Power (1976)
Character: Farmer
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
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The Coming Out Party (1965)
Character: Police sergeant
When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
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Kate: The Good Neighbour (1980)
Character: Mr. Pritchard
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
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Steven (1974)
Character: Storeman
Steven is a beautiful, lovable little boy, but there is something about him that sets him apart.
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The Tempest (1980)
Character: Master
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
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No Further Cause for Concern (1988)
Character: Prison Officer King
Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.
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A Tap on the Shoulder (1965)
Character: George
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
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Nightmare for a Nightingale (1975)
Character: Theatre Manager
An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
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Jazz Boat (1960)
Character: Sailor
An electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when he's sought to participate in a jewel heist.
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Inspector Clouseau (1968)
Character: Beckman, Bank Guard
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
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In Two Minds (1967)
Character: Mental Welfare Officer
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
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10 Rillington Place (1971)
Character: N/A
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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Three Clear Sundays (1965)
Character: Chief Prison Officer
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
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Family Life (1971)
Character: N/A
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.
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Whirlpool (1970)
Character: -
Tulia, a young model, is invited to a photographer's country home for what purports to be a quiet weekend retreat - but soon appears to be anything but.
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The Pied Piper (1972)
Character: Burger
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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Two-Way Stretch (1960)
Character: Warder Charlie
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
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