Timothy West

AKA: Tim West, Timothy Lancaster West, Timothy West CBE
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1934-10-20

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.

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Prof. Gebhardt

1973-04-19 6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and withou ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Parvus

1990-04-30 6.2

Lenin: The Train

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand unde ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Commissioner Berthier

1973-05-16 7.533

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

Hrothgar ( voice )

1998-01-01 4.3

Animated Epics: Beowulf

Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found. ...
Genre :Animation

Lawrence Bauford

2003-10-23 6.431

Beyond Borders

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to suppor ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Adventure, War

Adolf Hitler

2022-08-01 8

Night of the Broken

In 1965, a Jewish doctor, Gertrude Rosen, is called to a remote care home in England to help identify and treat a dying patient. As Gertrude slowly wins the patient's trust, she discovers the horrible ...
Genre :Drama

Derek Blore MP

1989-10-22 1

Blore M.P.

Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national sc ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Geoffrey Cowper

1990-10-21 0

Survival of the Fittest

Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps t ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Dr. Botkin

1971-11-29 6.9

Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Russell

1985-04-07 5.7

Florence Nightingale

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mr. Bumble

1982-03-23 6.8

Oliver Twist

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Geiser

0

The Book of Water

The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by Swiss author Max Frisch. The work centres around the character of Geiser, a 73-year-old widower, who ...
Genre :

Hugh Burrell

2002-02-27 5.3

Villa Des Roses

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Jones

2001-08-15 5.2

The Fourth Angel

Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among th ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Adventure

Superintendant Dakin

1968-12-20 6.8

Twisted Nerve

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he call ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Horror

Matrvis (in Edward II)

1967-01-26 6.3

The Deadly Affair

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Martin Luther

2003-07-09 6.1

Martin Luther

Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redef ...
Genre :Documentary, History, Drama

Mr. Tow-Wouse

1977-03-09 4.7

Joseph Andrews

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Spam

2010-04-30 5.5

Idle-Hands

Catastrophe is the fruit of boredom when a man with too much time on his hands becomes involved in an unexpected surprise. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr Rance

1987-05-23 1

What the Butler Saw

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical ...
Genre :

Gloucester

1998-03-21 8

King Lear

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Col. Wilfred Wood

1990-12-09 6.5

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Dymas (voice)

2003-07-02 6.977

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Pri ...
Genre :Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Action

King Francis

1998-07-31 7.426

EverAfter

Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cook ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Father Anselmo

1977-10-26 6.5

The Devil's Advocate

A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Chairman of the Inquiry

1997-01-18 5.3

The Place of the Dead

It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to climb down into it and explore what the locals call, ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Thriller, TV Movie

Narrator

1990-01-02 0

Dirty Beasts

Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse. Including ...
Genre :Family, Animation

Narrator

1990-01-02 0

Revolting Rhymes

Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl. ...
Genre :Family, Animation

Self

2024-01-01 0

The Big Snow of '47

Houses buried under snow. Rivers frozen solid. World War II bombers dropping bread to isolated villages. How did Brits survive the snowiest winter ever recorded - and could it happen again? A host of ...
Genre :Documentary

Roger

2022-08-08 0

Bring Back My Bonnie

An elderly man with dementia continues to speak with his late wife to keep her alive. When his daughter sees his decline she tries her best to make him comfortable and the memories they share embolden ...
Genre :

Man in Pub

2012-05-16 4.2

Run For Your Wife

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves vary ...
Genre :Comedy

William Morris

1978-01-01 0

News from Nowhere

In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socia ...
Genre :Drama

Fred Norris

2015-05-07 8.4

The Vote

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a re ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Nigel Lawton

1980-06-19 5.7

Rough Cut

Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Mikhail Gorbachev

1987-12-06 0

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik ...
Genre :Drama

1988-04-06 8

Consuming Passions

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidenta ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr Eager

2007-11-04 5.7

A Room with a View

Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class s ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Romance

P.W. Botha

2009-01-18 5.8

Endgame

The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against aparth ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Young Mortimer

1970-08-06 4.8

Edward II

The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Capt. De Wet

1987-11-06 7

Cry Freedom

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Christopher Ellis

2001-12-30 7

Station Jim

At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. H ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Family

Sir Thomas Beecham

1990-01-01 0

Beecham

1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With Timothy West as Beecham. ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Taylor

1970-01-02 5.5

The Looking Glass War

When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Sir Bob Luckton

1995-08-31 6.3

Eleven Men Against Eleven

A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season dra ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Older Maurice

2001-12-14 6.5

Iris

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Lord Gordon Easterfield

1982-01-02 6.4

Murder Is Easy

American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to S ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie

Dr John Bodkin Adams

1986-10-12 5.3

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Winston Churchill

1979-09-23 0

Churchill and the Generals

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War, TV Movie

Kenward

1979-02-09 6.3

Agatha

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Porton

1978-11-04 6.7

The Thirty Nine Steps

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

College Bursar

2017-06-26 0

Delirium

International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: to deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Victor

2018-09-28 10

We the Kings

Jack, on the run for attempted murder, hides in the house of a deaf and mute man. A power struggle forms between the two. ...
Genre :Thriller

Cardinal Wolsey

1979-02-25 6.5

Henry VIII

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Horatio Bottomley

1972-11-28 0

Horatio Bottomley

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publis ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Judge

2000-10-07 5.5

102 Dalmatians

Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who th ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Mark Childers

1975-01-16 6

The After Dinner Game

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and h ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Henry Bolingbroke

1970-07-30 0

The Tragedy of King Richard II

The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall. ...
Genre :Drama

Cauchon

1999-10-27 6.4

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious tur ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action, History, War

Bunny Warren

2005-03-27 7

Colditz

While World War II allied officer Jack Rowe is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the gr ...
Genre :War

Councillor Albert Parker

1987-12-26 0

When We Are Married

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Pries ...
Genre :Comedy

Brack

1975-12-19 6.4

Hedda

Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns th ...
Genre :Drama

Charles Clutterbuck

1988-05-15 3

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer ...
Genre :Drama

Marcus Devere

1997-03-23 7.516

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

Geoffrey Adams

2006-10-06 7.4

Not Going Out

Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Doctor Adams

1991-11-14 6.6

Murder Most Horrid

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with mu ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Andy Maiden

2002-04-08 7.107

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1986-05-21 8

A Very Peculiar Practice

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Albert Taylor

1979-03-24 6.659

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Leicester Dedlock

2005-10-27 8.157

Bleak House

The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make ...
Genre :Drama

1993-11-18 7.2

Goodnight Sweetheart

Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when he stumbles upon a portal to WWII-era London and be ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Self

2014-03-10 8.8

Great Canal Journeys

To celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales embark on four spectacular canal journeys, sharing a passion that they've enjoyed for decades. To start the serie ...
Genre :Documentary

Ridcully

2010-05-30 7.1

Going Postal

Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the ...
Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1983-02-21 6.4

Brass

Brass is a British comedy-drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satiris ...
Genre :Comedy

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Edward VII

1975-04-01 6.9

Edward the Seventh

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipp ...
Genre :Drama

Professor Mears

2004-01-01 7.3

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pul ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Emperor Vespasian

1981-04-05 7.12

Masada

A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers. ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1986-08-31 7

The Monocled Mutineer

The Monocled Mutineer follows the rebellion that took place at the notorious Etaples Training Camp in northern France on the eve of "The Battle of Passchendaele" in 1917. After the mutiny, the dashing ...
Genre :Drama

2004-01-15 6.5

The Alan Clark Diaries

Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Self

2007-09-03 3.7

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus ...
Genre :Talk

Andrew Oldfield

2001-08-28 2

Bedtime

Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The fi ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Josiah Bounderby

1977-10-25 5

Hard Times

Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest and hard fact. His raising of his children to this way of thinking creates opportunity and tragedy. ...
Genre :Drama

1966-01-29 5.5

Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Tham ...
Genre :

Dr. Howard Agister

1967-04-29 0

Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt was a 1967 British supernatural television drama series shown on BBC2. Starring Patrick Kavanagh, and unfolding over 5 episodes, the plot involves a man, Rex Fordham, who moves to the Glouc ...
Genre :Drama

Porfiry Petrovich

1979-05-22 7.3

Crime and Punishment

A three-part adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where a young student commits a murder and is forced into incriminating himself. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Reality

Cardinal Wolsey

1978-12-03 5.2

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Horatio Bottomley

1972-11-21 5.7

The Edwardians

It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

2011-05-01 7.4

Exile

Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Lord Pirrie

2012-03-21 5.817

Titanic

A heart-wrenching journey through Titanic's last moments, featuring both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers and crew to upper class guests and staff. ...
Genre :Drama

DCI Jimmy McKinnes

1992-11-27 6.5

Framed

Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a wife and children. Myers is an escaped criminal turned ...
Genre :Crime

Joe Doyle

2001-06-18 7.3

Waking the Dead

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Reverend Cottrell

1989-01-08 8.1

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

Narrator

1996-04-07 8

Over Here

Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Andrew

2014-02-05 8

Inside No. 9

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Henry Mayhew

2004-05-07 0

London

London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd. ...
Genre :Documentary

Colonel Kindersley

1995-05-01 4.2

Bramwell

The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profes ...
Genre :Drama

William Faraday

1989-01-22 5.6

Campion

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Comedy

2013-10-20 7.4

Toast of London

Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it. ...
Genre :Comedy

Donald Terry

2007-02-18 7.6

Lewis

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1988-01-04 5.7

After Henry

After Henry is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1988 to 1992. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson, it had started on BBC Radio 4 in 1985, finishing in 1989. It was written by Simon Bret ...
Genre :Comedy

2002-05-11 0

Dickens

Dickens was a 2002 BBC docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based, and Dickens was played by Anton Lesser. It wa ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1978-01-08 5.3

An Audience with...

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guest ...
Genre :Talk

Parvus

1988-11-30 6

Lenin... The Train

In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culmi ...
Genre :War & Politics

Mr. Morris

1985-09-23 6.286

Tender Is the Night

Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, M ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. William Collins

2001-04-22 8.4

Murder in Mind

Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Bunny Warren

2005-03-27 6.167

Colditz

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof. The most accomplished escape artists are gathered th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Rex Fortescue

1985-03-07 7.1

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charles Usher

2022-02-08 6.4

Sister Boniface Mysteries

First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jeremy Lister

2019-04-22 7.8

Gentleman Jack

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family ...
Genre :Drama

Rex Fortescue

1984-12-26 8.2

Miss Marple

Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries a ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Prospero (voice)

1992-11-09 6.8

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's ...
Genre :Animation

Mark Childers

1970-10-15 6.1

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

Charles Hayter

1960-12-30 0

Persuasion

Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Ell ...
Genre :Drama

Johnny Falstaff

2018-02-26 7.2

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Private Godfrey

2019-08-25 7.8

Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes

Dad’s Army is Britain’s favourite sitcom but 3 of the original 80 episodes have been lost. Now, using the original scripts by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, those three episodes have been recreated as f ...
Genre :Comedy

Frank Sheringham

1994-01-02 0

Smokescreen

Its the summer of 1907, and cinema is in its infancy. In a northern industrial town two very different movie moguls are battling for the hearts, minds and purses of the local population. In this six-p ...
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Ted

2012-11-20 7.2

Last Tango in Halifax

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Jack Campion

1965-10-07 3.8

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its ...
Genre :Drama

Eric Babbage

1960-12-09 5.338

Coronation Street

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the R ...
Genre :Soap

Doctor Rance

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...
Genre :Drama

David Roberts

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...
Genre :Drama

Ewbank

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...
Genre :Drama

Ralph

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...
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