Brian Bovell

AKA: برایان بوول
0.9481

1959-10-26

London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {74}

St Claire Du Bois

2015-01-01 0

Sealed with a Kiss

Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge. ...
Genre :Drama

Frank

2021-10-22 0

The Football Monologues

The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately, unveiling their innermost hopes and fears. One by on ...
Genre :Drama

Ian

2021-01-01 0

Ecstasy

A short comedy film about a disabled father and his son's crazy attempt to buy drugs so that the dad can dance with his wife on her birthday... one last time. ...
Genre :Comedy

Driver 3

1992-10-11 0

Running Late

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

DS Ibbotsen

1993-10-17 0

Wall of Silence

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

2015-12-14 0

The Service

On a regular morning, MI6 operative, Jenny calls at her colleague’s house on their usual car pool run to the office. What she discovers sparks a series of events that leads Jenny to make an impossible ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Bones

2007-09-12 0

Deadmeat

Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean streets. If Clarkie makes one false move he is...DEAD ...
Genre :

Interrogator

2017-04-27 0

How to be Human

If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive? ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Cardinal

2001-09-12 3.326

Hotel

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu. ...
Genre :Comedy

Councillor Watts

2006-04-26 5.4

Shoot the Messenger

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged. ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle

1999-02-18 5.7

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Long John Standing

2015-09-24 5.959

Pan

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior T ...
Genre :Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Action

Officer Bovell / Slave Hand

1995-01-20 5.778

Welcome II the Terrordome

Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white girlfriend, ran away from an abusive white boyfriend wh ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Chad

2003-11-28 3

Shoreditch

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Mystery

Young Man

1991-10-03 6.2

The Body Beautiful

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain o ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1997-10-02 10

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racis ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie, History, War

2017-02-17 0

Never Land

After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The only person who takes an interest in his plan is Katie ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

2001-04-28 5

Digitopia

Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world. ...
Genre :

Nat West

1981-11-13 5.2

Burning an Illusion

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better. ...
Genre :Drama

Brent Blakey

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The Man in My Basement

Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagined. ...
Genre :Thriller

Bill

1984-03-03 0

Driving Ambition

A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver ...
Genre :

Spark

1980-11-07 6.9

Babylon

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems a ...
Genre :Drama

Radio Watford DJ

2003-09-07 7.105

Love Actually

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Ralph

2025-03-28 5.4

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop. Mixing reality with fanta ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comedy

Policeman

2014-12-05 6

Get Santa

A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Joe Jeffries

1988-04-08 0

Thin Air

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripp ...
Genre :

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Tiny Little Voices

Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary friend Walter. Eventually, Nina, her best friend, drags ...
Genre :

Joseph

2024-01-11 5.917

The Book of Clarence

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His ap ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hortense's Brother

1996-05-24 7.564

Secrets & Lies

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman. ...
Genre :Drama

Biccle

2017-03-11 0

Cla'am

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy, Drama

Jez (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016-09-12 5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Customs Officer

2000-10-06 5.643

Sorted

A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stuart

1987-01-02 5.6

Playing Away

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

Richard

1990-01-20 0

When Love Dies

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide. ...
Genre :

1996-06-01 0

The Final Passage

In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England. ...
Genre :

Olu (segment "Hang Time")

2002-06-07 0

Mama Africa

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales fro ...
Genre :Drama

Grant

2021-02-05 4.667

Dark Corners

Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered wife, Veronique. Convinced of her evil intent and ...
Genre :Thriller

Garage Owner

2002-10-18 7.1

All or Nothing

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and ...
Genre :Drama

Harry

2020-08-31 5.1

Solitary

A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Reginald

2020-10-26 6.365

Roald Dahl's The Witches

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabo ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Family, Horror

Social Services Officer

2020-10-22 7.2

Listen

In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social ser ...
Genre :Drama

Annoyed Vendor

2021-02-10 6.76

Tom & Jerry

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Animation

Dr. MacMillan

2018-08-01 5.57

Down a Dark Hall

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the o ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama

Tim

1996-05-06 0

Lord of Misrule

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Comedy

The Narrator

2023-08-09 4

The Licensed Fool

A travelling court jester, known as The Licensed Fool, begins to unravel when he learns of a sinister motive behind him being hired for an upcoming performance. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Horror

1984-10-16 6.646

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1999-01-08 7

Gimme Gimme Gimme

Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed wit ...
Genre :Comedy

1992-12-06 7.507

A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superin ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

2003-06-02 5

The Terry and Gaby Show

The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Ga ...
Genre :

1996-02-21 7.6

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Pierre

1987-01-06 7.845

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1992-09-04 5.6

Between the Lines

Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wale ...
Genre :Drama

Eric Gladberry

1997-03-23 7.515

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

2001-11-26 6.727

Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a Hig ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama, Crime

Innkeeper

2021-04-23 7.823

Shadow and Bone

In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces pl ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1986-02-19 6

Prospects

Prospects is a British television comedy drama series that was written by Alan Janes and originally shown on Channel 4 in 1986. Created by Euston Films who had a pedigree of producing successful, grit ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Brigstock

2001-02-19 10

In Deep

Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infil ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Sir Anthony Owusu

2023-04-23 6.854

Malpractice

Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervi ...
Genre :Drama

D.C. Stephen Holmes

1998-07-28 0

Maisie Raine

Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Trantorian Seer Priest

2021-09-23 7.753

Foundation

Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Ray Wilton

2015-10-08 7.561

Unforgotten

London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

George Marsden

2021-11-18 6.4

Crime

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Fitz

1988-10-25 0

South Of The Border

Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The serie ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Detective Andy Sharp

2003-03-23 5.5

My Dad's the Prime Minister

My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor. Its main cast include Robert Ba ...
Genre :Comedy

Antiques Expert

2019-04-15 7.925

Ghosts

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants. ...
Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Jed

1986-09-06 6.139

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Jemboc

2022-09-21 8.27

Andor

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destin ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Gaz Jones

1986-09-06 6.139

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Erol Dumas

2011-10-25 7.4

Death in Paradise

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Barney

2023-05-04 8.137

Silo

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking sec ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Barry

1990-08-09 6.962

Drop the Dead Donkey

Drop the Dead Donkey is a situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of “GlobeLink News”, a fictional TV news company. Recorde ...
Genre :Comedy

Solomon

2020-03-31 7.395

Miss Scarlet

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detect ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Billy Ford

2022-02-07 6.3

The Chelsea Detective

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the af ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

PC Charlie Webb

1990-04-20 6

The Chief

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its ...
Genre :Drama