David Swift

AKA:
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1931-04-03

Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {56}

Michael

1995-06-02 6.718

Jack & Sarah

Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Montclair

1973-05-16 7.5

The Day of the Jackal

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

John Sparrow

1972-12-17 5.885

Travels with My Aunt

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to resc ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Det. Supt. David Gosling

1985-01-02 2

Operation Julie

A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sent ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Self

1994-05-21 7

An Audience with Bob Monkhouse

The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Mandy Smith and Eamonn Holmes in this 1994 special. Watch him answer questions, tell funny tales and c ...
Genre :Comedy

Sender

1980-02-24 0

The Dybbuk

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding. ...
Genre :

Troufiat

1978-12-27 7.1

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the m ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie

Det. Chief Superintendent

1977-12-26 5.6

The Black Panther

A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1977-07-11 6

The Assignment

A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups. ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr Armistead

1972-01-09 0

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's ha ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Henry Davenport

1991-12-28 4

Amnesty International's Big 30

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Lionel

1984-10-30 7

Arthur's Hallowed Ground

Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Joe Morris

1984-12-31 0

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Walter

1971-03-23 0

The Mosedale Horseshoe

The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredo ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Beddow

1989-09-10 0

One Way Out

James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Harold McEwan

2003-12-29 6

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, fri ...
Genre :Comedy

Gadsden

1980-03-10 1

Fox

The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Councillor Bass

1973-01-29 0

Highway Robbery

Terry and his family fight against a planned eviction when the council decides on a road building programme and their house is in its path. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Inspector Paul

1973-07-25 5

No Sex Please - We're British

A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife ...
Genre :Comedy

J.C. Roebuck

1985-11-10 5

Star Quality

Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful ...
Genre :Comedy

Gen. Rattenhuber

1981-04-15 6.208

The Bunker

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Duke of Northumberland

1978-12-10 7.5

Richard II

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in h ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Bill

1988-12-22 6.294

We Think the World of You

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home ...
Genre :Drama

Daladier

1989-04-07 5

Countdown to War

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by ...
Genre :Drama, History, War, TV Movie

Chester Drake

1974-07-24 5.9

The Internecine Project

Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Richard Rees

1983-12-12 7

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Insp. Havelock

1974-02-04 0

Who Killed Lamb?

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Charles Fox

1975-05-30 0

Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert

1799: George, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of mad King George III, awaits the Pope's judgement on his marriage to the twice-widowed Mrs. Fitzherbert. ...
Genre :

Mr King

1985-08-20 0

Broken Homes

Mrs Malby's liking for a visitor leads to a meeting with four unconventional young people. ...
Genre :

Sir Kenneth

1977-12-30 7.5

The Professionals

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1979-09-27 5.5

Bloomers

Bloomers was a short-lived British sitcom starring Richard Beckinsale that was aired in 1979. It was in production in 1979 but only five episodes were made before Beckinsale died suddenly from a heart ...
Genre :

Henry Davenport

1990-08-09 6.7

Drop the Dead Donkey

A sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by editor George Dent, the staff of GlobeLink battle to maintain the company as a serious ...
Genre :Comedy

1982-09-29 6.9

Timewatch

Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, ...
Genre :Documentary

Councillor Bass

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

Oscar Spinner

2001-09-26 0

Oscar Charlie

About a boy, Charlie Spinner, who discovers that his grandfather, Oscar Spinner, is actually a secret agent. He acts senile but it is just a cover so that nobody would notice. After Charlie confronts ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Kids

Henry Reedburn

1989-01-08 8.2

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first clas ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Barnard

1981-10-18 6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...
Genre :Drama

Max Wartbug

1989-09-19 5.8

The Paradise Club

The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Alan Taylor

1975-10-19 0

Couples

Couples TV Show ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Rafferty

1979-04-23 6

Turtle's Progress

Turtle's Progress is a British television series broadcast between 1979 and 1980. The offbeat humour of the show attracted a small but cult audience, and the show only ran for two series. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Nikolai Vavilov

1974-03-03 7

NOVA

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific ...
Genre :Documentary

Sir Marcus Cohen

1983-04-08 6.9

Dalgliesh

Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Gray

1974-09-02 7.5

Rising Damp

Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants. ...
Genre :Comedy

Beadley

1981-09-10 6.458

The Day of the Triffids

Following mysterious bright lights in the sky, the human race is rendered blind and helpless. The survivors find themselves stalked by sentient flesh-eating plants. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Professor Lindemann

1981-09-06 5

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and ...
Genre :Documentary

Sergeant Oxley

1971-04-09 7

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. Th ...
Genre :

Mr McEwan

1978-02-24 7.7

Going Straight

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had ...
Genre :Comedy

Norman Phipps

1965-05-13 0

Londoners

London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, rangin ...
Genre :Drama

Euphrates

2002-04-21 8.5

Born and Bred

In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service. ...
Genre :Drama

Waldemar

1978-01-17 5.5

Wilde Alliance

Wilde Alliance is a British television series created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1978. The programme was a light-hearted mystery series about husband ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Sir William Logie

1984-09-12 0

Cold Warrior

Head of SIS, Capt. Aubrey Percival (Blood Money and Skorpian) has put a team together to stop the arms industry selling secretly to the USSR. ...
Genre :

Turner

1976-10-22 7

The New Avengers

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and B ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Mr Sedley

1987-09-06 0

Vanity Fair

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. ...
Genre :Drama

Hymie Kossof

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and ...
Genre :Drama

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

1972-09-29 7.1

War & Peace

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Joseph Breuer

1984-09-14 3

Freud

Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Each episode ...
Genre :Drama