Tony Britton

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1924-06-09

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anthony Edward Lowry "Tony" Britton (9 June 1924 - 22 December 2019) was an English actor. He is the father of presenter Fern Britton, scriptwriter Cherry Britton and actor Jasper Britton. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Britton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Inspector Thomas

1973-05-16 7.547

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

Capt. Lawton

1977-07-06 5.3

The People That Time Forgot

Major Ben McBride organizes a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by pri ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Simon Bates

1963-12-06 7

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family

Greg Parker

1963-07-07 6.5

The Break

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police. ...
Genre :Crime

George Harding

1971-07-01 6.6

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. Fo ...
Genre :Drama

Major Dillon

1959-01-12 5.8

Operation Amsterdam

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to Engla ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Simon Bates

2008-11-11 8.3

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced fo ...
Genre :

Dr. Robert Marriott

1960-11-15 6.5

Suspect

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female ...
Genre :Thriller

Stephen Burton

1960-09-30 5.2

The Quiet Battle

The Danish resistance movement stepped up its activities towards the end of the war. One night, an English agent arrives by plane, is injured and is taken in by local resistance fighters. The agent an ...
Genre :War, Drama

Self - Narrator

1984-01-01 0

Where Eagles Fly

A look into the lives of eagles. ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Christopher Tomlinson

1974-10-10 0

The Nearly Man

A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Philip Selwood

1958-11-23 6

Behind the Mask

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect. ...
Genre :Drama

Andrew Hunter

1970-12-15 5.5

There's a Girl in My Soup

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romant ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1952-12-25 5

1066 and All That

A memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, five Bad Kings, and two Genuine Dates. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tony Carlisle

1959-08-06 0

The Heart of a Man

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commission ...
Genre :

1962-12-12 0

Stork Talk

A gynecologist's wife leaves him, but returns when she finds out she's pregnant; but so is someone her husband's been very friendly with in her absence. Coincidence? ...
Genre :Comedy

Man on Bus

2012-05-16 4.4

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

Philip

1956-09-09 5.4

Loser Takes All

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young acc ...
Genre :Comedy

1961-10-01 7

The Horsemasters

American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The stri ...
Genre :Adventure, TV Movie

Charles Muspratt

1968-05-27 0

Horizontal Hold

A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller. ...
Genre :

Robert

1969-07-28 0

Remember the Germans

The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his old University. ...
Genre :

Simon Scott

1957-10-31 7.1

The Birthday Present

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by hi ...
Genre :Drama

George Dewport

1971-07-29 5.5

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, maki ...
Genre :Adventure

Tony

1973-11-08 6.321

Night Watch

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Mike Thompson

1959-10-02 5.9

The Rough and the Smooth

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with. ...
Genre :Drama

William Collins

1979-02-09 6.2

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

Deck-hand (uncredited)

1950-07-26 6.409

Waterfront

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years ...
Genre :Drama

Draycott

1952-12-02 5.5

Salute the Toff

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films. ...
Genre :Crime

Freddie

1976-11-02 0

Buffet

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mis ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sir Nevile Henderson

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

Colonel Von Schmettau

1976-12-29 0

The Dame of Sark

1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters. ...
Genre :Drama

1974-05-01 5.3

...And Mother Makes Five

...And Mother Makes Five is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1974 to 1976. Starring Wendy Craig, it is the sequel of ...And Mother Makes Three and aired for four series. ...And Mother Makes Fiv ...
Genre :Comedy

2003-01-19 7.6

The Royal

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1957-02-16 0

Six-Five Special

The Six-Five Special is a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain. ...
Genre :

1983-10-25 6.4

Don't Wait Up

Two doctors, estranged from their spouses, become roommates...but they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? No, but they do it anyway.... Tom ...
Genre :Comedy

Jonathan Roper

1962-10-04 7.312

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

1977-02-25 8

Raffles

Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Lord Alfred Grendall

2001-11-11 7.771

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake C ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Mossman

1968-05-05 5

Father, Dear Father

Patrick Glover is a divorced thriller novelist attempting to raise and keep the peace between his two teenage daughters. ...
Genre :Comedy

James Nicholls

1977-01-11 6.556

Robin's Nest

Robin's Nest is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom, Man About The House, which had ended on 7 April 1976. It aired for six series fro ...
Genre :Comedy

HRH George, Prince of Wales

1950-01-01 3.5

Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were ...
Genre :Drama

1992-04-26 6

Don't Tell Father

An aging, egotistical actor strongly disapproves of his grown-up daughter's boyfriend. ...
Genre :Comedy

1964-04-26 0

Melissa

Melissa is a 1964 British thriller television series which originally aired in six parts on BBC 2 in 1964. It was shown under the umbrella title Francis Durbridge Presents, and was one of a number of ...
Genre :

1962-03-10 0

The Six Proud Walkers

Genre :

Sir Wilfred Grafton

1978-04-29 6

Scorpion Tales

Scorpion Tales was a British thriller television series, originally screened in 1978. Produced by ATV, the series was transmitted on the ITV network. It lasted just one season. ...
Genre :Mystery

1968-04-06 0

Ooh La La!

Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing. ...
Genre :Comedy

George Guthrie

2003-01-19 7.6

The Royal

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ...
Genre :Drama

1979-01-08 0

The Marti Caine Show

Marti Caine presents a star studded variety show in which she performs comedy material, sings and dances alongside special guests. ...
Genre :Comedy

Simon Bates

1954-10-27 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. T ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family

Major George Brooke

1954-10-27 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. T ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family

Freddie

1970-10-15 6.333

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

Albert Landier

1950-01-01 3.5

Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were ...
Genre :Drama

Romeo

1950-01-01 3.5

Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were ...
Genre :Drama

Simon Bates

1964-02-09 0

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced fo ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Christopher Collinson - Chris Tomlinson

1974-08-04 0

The Nearly Man

The Nearly Man was a UK TV series from the mid-1970s created by Arthur Hopcraft about a middle-class Labour MP. Originally screened on ITV on 4 August 1974, the series won the Broadcasting Press Guild ...
Genre :