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Night Call (1977)
Character: N/A
A dramatised road safety film. Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about what makes a good driver. But the journalist turns out to be the ghost of the man killed in the crash.
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Hijack (1971)
Character: Self/Prosecution
The fictional trial of two aeroplane hijackers, exploring their political motivation and whether hijacking a passenger plane can be justified.
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The Chauffeur (1976)
Character: Ambassador
Joe, the chauffeur to an unnamed South American embassy, enjoys the small prks of privilege that his job provides him. When a coup in the country results in the ambassador's recall, his halycon life is upended.
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Fothergill (1981)
Character: Curtis Bennett
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
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Ice Age (1978)
Character: Axel Reich
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
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Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts (2004)
Character: Mr Green
Brought to the station after nicking some sweets, a waifish Eastern European girl refuses to give even her name. What starts out as a simple case of shoplifting turns into apparent murder, however, after Davies finds the girl's mother strangled. The trail leads to some surprising suspects from a video matchmaking service.
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Night Conspirators (1962)
Character: Man in the Shadows
An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler...
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Martin Luther, Heretic (1983)
Character: Duke Frederick
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.
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Still (2001)
Character: Ludwig
An ambitious short in which the story plays out in the mind of an old man about to die from a heart attack in a public park.
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Man in the Sky (1983)
Character: Narrator
A profile of David Perrin, one of Britain's most talented aerobatic pilots.
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Song of London (1964)
Character: Commentator (Voice)
A look at 60s London with Tommy Trinder and a host of other stars.
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Out of the Shadows (1988)
Character: James Bluminfeld
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
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Red King, White Knight (1989)
Character: N/A
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
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Professional Foul (1977)
Character: Captain
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
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A Dry White Season (1989)
Character: Susan's Father
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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A Woman Called Golda (1982)
Character: David Ben-Gurion
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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A Touch of Class (1973)
Character: Doctor Alvarez
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
Character: Brunel (voice) (uncredited)
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Separation (1968)
Character: Husband
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
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The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Character: N/A
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu and his sadistic daughter Lin Tang have discovered a deadly venom that affects only men. Using mind control Fu Manchu recruits six women to become carriers of the 'kiss of death' targeting key people of political influence. This will prevent them from interfering with his own ambition to spread his venomous death around the World's major cities in a plan to gain World domination.
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You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
Character: Gunner Major (uncredited) (voice)
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
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Bequest to the Nation (1973)
Character: French Commander
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Leon the Pig Farmer (1993)
Character: Sidney Geller
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Character: Cook (voice)
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
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Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Character: Joseph Joseph
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Ike (1979)
Character: FM Sir Alan Booke
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Character: Exhumed rabbi
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
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Catch Us If You Can (1965)
Character: Zissell
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
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Valentino (1977)
Character: Joseph Schenck
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
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God on Trial (2008)
Character: Hugo
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984)
Character: Belmont
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?
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The Designated Mourner (1997)
Character: Howard
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
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samuel-613 (2015)
Character: Zeidy
The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London.
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Simon Magus (1999)
Character: Rabbi
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
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The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Character: George
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
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King David (1985)
Character: Ahitophel
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
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The Secret Place (1957)
Character: Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
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Yentl (1983)
Character: Rabbi Zalman
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
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Superman (1978)
Character: Warden (voice) (uncredited)
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Character: Doctor
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
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Closer to the Moon (2014)
Character: Moritz
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Character: Turkish Ticket Collector (uncredited)
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
Character: Gold
As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
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The Statement (2003)
Character: Dom André (as David De Keyser)
An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.
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The Horsemen (1971)
Character: Mukhi (uncredited)
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn to ride again and win with a special, one-of-a-kind horse.
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Someone at the Top of the Stairs (1973)
Character: Cartney
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
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Sunshine (1999)
Character: Emmanuel Sonnenschein
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
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The Hiding Place (1975)
Character: Eusie 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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Leo the Last (1970)
Character: David
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
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Caprice (1986)
Character: Emilio (voice)
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
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Zardoz (1974)
Character: Tabernacle (voice) (uncredited)
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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Paper Tiger (1975)
Character: Ambassador Kagoyama (voice)
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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