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The Victim (1980)
Character: Neecham
When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way. He believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping--and that the motives are personal, not financial.
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Spy Story (1976)
Character: Commander Wheeler
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.
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Sakharov (1984)
Character: Prosecutor
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970)
Character: N/A
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
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The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Character: Maissonal
A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve into the mystery of Duchamp’s major work, the once-notorious Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, even) 1915-23.
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Kremlin Farewell (1990)
Character: Stalin
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
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In Possession (1984)
Character: Mr. Donald Prentice
A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past.
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Luther (1968)
Character: Weinand
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
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Torture Garden (1967)
Character: Dr. Heim (segment 2 "Terror Over Hollywood")
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.
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Darling Lili (1970)
Character: Bedford
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space (1971)
Character: Caldwell
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.
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The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1980)
Character: Commissaire
A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.
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Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Character: Cuba Harbour Pilot (uncredited)
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Character: Zabid
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
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Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? (1965)
Character: Det. Sgt. Crouch
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby, with an attention to detail closer to obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
Character: Uncle Tom
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
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Bomber Harris (1989)
Character: A.M. Sir Robert Saundby
Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
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Running Scared (1972)
Character: Mr. Willis
When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.
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Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Character: Injured Recruit
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
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Doctor Who: The Crusade (1965)
Character: Saladin
In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin.
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Witchfinder General (1968)
Character: Fisherman
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
Character: Police Chief Gutier
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
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Harlan County War (2000)
Character: Judge Doyle Harris
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
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Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Character: Benson
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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The Hunting Party (1971)
Character: Buford King
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
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Joy Division (2006)
Character: Bothringaye
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
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Interlude (1968)
Character: George Selworth
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
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Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2 (2009)
Character: Arthur Manley (archive footage)
Harry Hill returns to DVD for a second volume of TV Burp Gold, with a brand new selection of the funniest bits from the Multi BAFTA winning, hit series, TV Burp. Some of TV's biggest shows such as Coronation Street, East Enders, Dancing On Ice and The X Factor get the full Harry treatment. It's crammed with hilarious jokes, funny clips and silly sketches plus a host of extras including "unseen" TV Burp and side-splitting out-takes.
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They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Character: Richard Arlen
When meteors in a curious V-formation crash on a Cornwall field, an alien force possesses several scientists and infects bystanders with a deadly disease. Shielded from the meteor's influence by a metal plate in his head, Dr Curtis Temple discovers that an alien race on the moon seeks to use the manipulated geniuses for seemingly nefarious purposes. But, as he learns more about the invaders, they may not be as evil as initially thought.
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The Hiding Place (1975)
Character: Fred Koonstra
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.
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Trog (1970)
Character: Inspector Greenham
Anthropologist Dr Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte — an Ice Age 'missing link': half-caveman, half-ape — in a local cave. Through experimentation, she manages to communicate with and domesticate him before he's released by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorising the local citizenry.
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Steal This Movie (2000)
Character: John Hoffman
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
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Sweeney! (1977)
Character: Matthews
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
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The Shuttered Room (1967)
Character: Tait
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (1967)
Character: Inspector Crossland
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Character: The Bolshevik
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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