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Lapland (2011)
Character: Maurice
Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
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Red Riding Hood (1973)
Character: Henry
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
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Last Tango in Croydon (2010)
Character: Joe
An elderly man, Joe (Keith Barron) is lost, bored and tired of his Care Home existence. In steps young Joe, a bored, lost and smart kid on a trip to visit his Grandma in the home. After a chance meet, the two chat, young Joe and old Joe share a daydream or two and make a connection. There's a little romance and a tango with young Joe's Gran, and a bank heist with a child getaway driver. Old Joe and his nemesis, moody pensioner Arthur, also make a funny duo too.
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Silver Lining (1977)
Character: Edgar Parker
1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.
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The House Mouse (1966)
Character: Victor
A couple's relaxing evening is disturbed by the discovery of a mouse in the house.
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The Devil's Eggshell (1966)
Character: Dr Quilliam
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.
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The Best of Friends (1980)
Character: Peter Rudolf
What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?
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Grain Drain (1975)
Character: (voice)
A short film informing viewers about the dangers of grain silos. Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?".
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Cross Now (1977)
Character: Michael Ponsford
In Cross Now, during a blazing row with his boss, strangely enough architect Michael Ponsford still gets his promotion. However, he does not get much time to enjoy it, because, in the middle of the argument, his boss suffers a heart attack. And he is not the only one to die. Ponsford is haunted by death: the woman with whom he had been flirting for too long, his wife's father, one of his competitors, they all succumb. Finally, Ponsford's young son also dies.
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The Firechasers (1971)
Character: Jim Maxwell
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
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La Passione (1997)
Character: Roy
For one young boy, a passion can be more than just a dream.
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Fable (1965)
Character: Narrator
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
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Jessie (1980)
Character: Harry
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.
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Ramp Ahead (1980)
Character: Patrick Dench
Patrick Dench is a successful loudmouth barrister and professional womanizer who treats everybody with disrespect but still manages to bed every beautiful woman in sight.
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It’s Dearer After Midnight (1968)
Character: Harry
A two-hander, set in a fictional Northern city, featuring Keith Barron as a taxi driver and Sian Phillips as the customer he takes to a strip club in the city.
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Gobble (1997)
Character: Arthur Hedley
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
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Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965)
Character: Nigel Barton
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
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Plain Jane (2002)
Character: Thomas Reynolds
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
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Nineteen96 (1989)
Character: Commander Jack Bentham
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
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Police 2020 (1997)
Character: Eddie Longshaw
In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that killed most of his family
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England Expects (2004)
Character: N/A
The story follows former football hooligan Ray Knight (Steven Mackintosh), a normal everyday family man who works as a security guard at a financial trading company in Canary Wharf, the symbol of corporate wealth which looms high over the impoverished communities below. Newfound social responsibilities are trampled underfoot when Ray's racist past is revived amid tensions between Whites and Asians jostling for position on the council housing list. Among those who are wanting to be rehoused in a new development is Ray's alcoholic ex-wife Sadie (Camille Coduri), and his teenage daughter Nikki (Sadie Thompson). After a failed attempt to rehouse Sadie and Nikki, and soon discovering that Nikki is involved in heroin addiction, Ray's anger drives him to re-join a BNP organisation led by his old friend Larry Knowles (Keith Barron).
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Home Run (1989)
Character: McAlister
Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: 'Where are the ghosts Bill?'
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Doctor Who: Enlightenment (1983)
Character: Striker
An Edwardian yacht in deep space races around the planets. There is a double agent in the TARDIS crew. The White Guardian warns the Fifth Doctor of great danger. Turlough must finally choose sides and at the end of the race lies the prize of Enlightenment.
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God's Outlaw (1986)
Character: Henry VIII
A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
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Random Quest (1969)
Character: Colin Trafford
Following an explosion in a laboratory accident, physicist Colin Trafford is sent to a parallel universe where he enters the body of his counterpart, a popular writer married to an attractive woman who hates him.
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Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Character: Purser Mueller
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Only Make Believe (1973)
Character: Christopher Hudson
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.
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The Last Vampyre (1993)
Character: Rob Ferguson
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
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Nothing But the Night (1973)
Character: Dr. Haynes
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
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Melody (1971)
Character: Mr Latimer (uncredited)
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
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Freelance (1970)
Character: Gary
A street-smart witness to a gangland slaying tries to beat the hit man at his own game.
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Another Audience With Ken Dodd (2002)
Character: Self
Once again, Ken Dodd (with over 40 years in his trade) performs his unique set in front of a host of celebrities gathered to show their appreciation of his enduring talent.
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In Love with Alma Cogan (2011)
Character: Cedric
The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, but will not accept that the local council, which own the theatre are planning to install more commercial management in an attempt to boost audience numbers. As the story unfolds he realises it may be time to move on and put behind him the ghost of 50s & 60s singer Alma Cogan, who performed at the theatre many years ago. Sandra, his devoted long-suffering assistant and Norman decide to leave the theatre to fulfill her dream of being a professional singer and unexpectedly enjoying a late blossoming romance. From Wikipedia.
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)
Character: Jake Braid
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
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The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Character: Bradley
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals.
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She'll Follow You Anywhere (1971)
Character: Alan Simpson
By chance the perfume creators Mike and Al produce a scent that makes women go wild for sex. While they desperately try to find the recipe for their product of chance, they use it on random women they meet in the train and fuck their brains out in a hut in the forest. A central problem is to explain their absence from work to wives and colleagues.
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Baby Love (1969)
Character: Robert Quayle
When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
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At the Earth's Core (1976)
Character: Dowsett
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.
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