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The Embezzler (1954)
Character: Bank Clerk
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1 (1957)
Character: Pilot
Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comedy performer. Here's a chance to see what made him so special - the surviving episodes from Series 2 and Series 3 of Hancock's Half Hour, plus a Christmas special. Episodes include: "The Alpine Holiday", "Air Steward Hancock", "The Last Of The Many", "The Lawyer: The Crown vs Sidney James", "Competitions: How To Win Money And Influence People" and "There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden". The Christmas special is "Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes: The East Cheam Repertory Company".
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The Thought of Tomorrow (1959)
Character: Keith Bradley
Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business.
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat (1978)
Character: Someone
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?
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Game, Set and Match (1968)
Character: Station Sergeant
The police bring in a man for questioning after he has thrown a brick through a shop window and violently resisted arrest. Sgt. Taylor is landed with interrogating the prisoner. It seems a routine case at first until Taylor discovers that the prisoner refuses to talk...
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The Interview (1968)
Character: N/A
A waiting room, with eight chairs, a table with magazines on it, and a picture on the wall. Sitting on the eight chairs - eight men. One by one they go into the interview room. But not one ever comes out
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Delayed Action (1954)
Character: Bank cashier
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
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'That Crazy Woman' (1980)
Character: Counsel
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
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Escape by Night (1953)
Character: Reporter
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
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All the Way Up (1970)
Character: Makepeace's Chauffeur
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
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Percy (1971)
Character: Newsreader
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Character: Sylvest
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.
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Crossplot (1969)
Character: First Reporter
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
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Rogue Male (1976)
Character: Tube Passenger
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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Doctor Who: The Chase (1965)
Character: Albert C Richardson
The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.
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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Character: Constable Christian
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.
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Hour of Decision (1957)
Character: Studio Photographer
A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
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The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
Character: Business Man
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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The Crazy Kill (1975)
Character: Sergeant
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.
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The Body Stealers (1969)
Character: Control Officer
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.
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Bullseye! (1990)
Character: Vault Guard
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.
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