Maurice Denham

AKA: William Maurice Denham, Морис Денем
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1909-12-23

Beckenham, Kent, England, UK

Biography

Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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1981-01-01 5.8

Recluse

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Trawler Skipper

1965-06-16 6.821

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, p ...
Genre :Comedy

General Colbert

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

Inspector Japp

1965-12-26 5.6

The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

All animals (voice)

1954-12-28 7.016

Animal Farm

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption. ...
Genre :Animation, Drama

British Officer

1953-06-01 5.9

Malta Story

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl. ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Professor Henry Harrington

1957-11-09 6.976

Night of the Demon

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Admiral

1960-01-27 6.726

Our Man in Havana

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorn ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Mr. Mortimer

1969-01-23 5.9

Some Girls Do

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of anothe ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Jonathan Reid

1954-01-07 6.9

The Million Pound Note

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds th ...
Genre :Comedy

Uncle Roger (segment 1 "Enoch")

1967-11-01 6.127

Torture Garden

Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay ...
Genre :Horror

RAF Officer

1965-04-01 6.8

Operation Crossbow

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocke ...
Genre :Drama, War, Thriller

John Kossett

1963-01-07 6.66

Paranoiac

A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Dr. Simon Blake

1949-12-20 5.9

Madness of the Heart

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Dr. Morley

1965-12-31 5.3

The Night Caller

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Mr. Goss (Ship's Surgeon)

1962-04-15 6.541

H.M.S. Defiant

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficu ...
Genre :Adventure, History, War

Defence Counsel

1947-12-01 5

The End of the River

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. ...
Genre :Drama

Sir William Hatchard

1985-04-06 0

Love Song

The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

1978-11-06 10

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King Geor ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Romance

George Martin

1987-02-13 7.167

84 Charing Cross Road

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and fri ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Crowley

1957-12-17 6.4

Barnacle Bill

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea' ...
Genre :Comedy

Kokovtsov

1971-11-29 6.959

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

Mr. Greville

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

Master Fabio

1971-01-30 5.752

Countess Dracula

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Dr. Beamaster

1965-10-07 6.895

The Nanny

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nan ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Horror

The Governor

1960-12-20 6.7

Two-Way Stretch

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First h ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Easter

1955-07-12 5.619

Doctor at Sea

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurs ...
Genre :Comedy

Commander Richards

1960-02-11 6.8

Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most ...
Genre :War, Drama

Inspector Grovening

1956-05-18 6.7

23 Paces to Baker Street

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along w ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Johann von Staupitz Vicar General

1974-01-21 5.6

Luther

A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart. ...
Genre :Drama

Arnold Cartwright

1961-01-26 6.2

The Mark

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist. ...
Genre :Drama

Blore

1954-09-14 6.516

The Purple Plain

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his c ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, War

Smuggler

1947-05-19 5.7

The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Hemmings

1965-04-01 6.4

Hysteria

An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror

Peter Ravenspur

1967-10-01 5.8

Danger Route

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet sc ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Sapieha

1981-09-15 3.9

From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbisho ...
Genre :Drama, History

Detective-Inspector Kirby

1948-01-20 6

Easy Money

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Horace Clifford

1954-03-16 6.7

Eight O'Clock Walk

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1938-10-17 0

Many Waters

Genre :Romance

Narrator

1953-01-01 7

Power to Fly

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets. ...
Genre :Animation, Documentary

Gervase Bucktrout

1986-12-09 8.5

All Passion Spent

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served he ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

1956-07-31 6.3

The History of the Cinema

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema. ...
Genre :History, Animation, Comedy

Wilson

1955-11-02 5.6

Simon and Laura

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Otto Fisch

1949-04-01 5.8

It's Not Cricket

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Mr. Bullock

1961-05-01 6.2

The Greengage Summer

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jim Warrilow

1953-02-05 5.2

Time Bomb

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own. ...
Genre :Thriller

Colonel de la Roche

1949-12-01 6.8

The Spider and the Fly

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Gerrit Dou

1979-12-22 5.7

Schalcken the Painter

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late? ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie

Charles Crittenden

1969-05-07 4

Midas Run

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Man

1995-10-20 0

Bed

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, TV Movie

PC Windle

1949-07-05 6.6

Poet's Pub

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater. ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Don Adriano de Armando

1975-12-14 0

Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Johnson

1948-09-14 5.6

The Blind Goddess

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own ...
Genre :Drama

Captain

1949-03-01 6

The Blue Lagoon

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together the ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jim Stoner

1947-08-13 5.4

Jassy

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately hom ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

1st Engineer

1948-12-02 6.5

Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fowler

1950-12-25 5.7

Traveller's Joy

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married. ...
Genre :Comedy

Fosser

1948-01-06 0

Look Before You Love

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff. ...
Genre :Comedy

Lt. Col. Strickland

1947-08-26 6.7

Captain Boycott

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their ri ...
Genre :Drama, History

Camp Doctor

1947-08-05 6.111

Holiday Camp

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Smythe

1976-04-12 6

Shout at the Devil

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet ju ...
Genre :Adventure, War

1961-09-01 4

Invasion Quartet

This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and ...
Genre :Comedy

Major Broster

1959-01-06 5.8

The Captain's Table

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for th ...
Genre :Comedy

(voice)

1950-02-06 6

Scrapbook for 1933

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933. ...
Genre :Documentary

Jack Rufus

1948-11-05 7

London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Martin

1949-05-23 4.9

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

The Father

1968-09-05 5.7

Negatives

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1958-01-02 0

A Desperate Case

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways transport it from station to station, seeking its ...
Genre :Comedy

Klaus Barbie

1987-07-15 0

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Luther Crackenthorpe

1987-02-25 7.3

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body? ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

Theo

1986-02-21 5.2

Mr. Love

An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Theo Gaunt

1963-01-01 0

The Set Up

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a ...
Genre :Crime

Crawford

1963-04-30 5.6

The Very Edge

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make m ...
Genre :Drama

Augustus Merridew

1993-03-14 6.8

The Last Vampyre

Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, TV Movie, Horror

Editor, The Times

1969-06-01 3.8

The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel. ...
Genre :Comedy

(voice)

1990-09-28 8.1

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant show ...
Genre :Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Vicar

1949-02-01 6

Once Upon a Dream

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ign ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Undertaker

1977-10-01 6.5

Julia

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

Inspector

1948-05-18 6

Daybreak

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Charles

1963-11-17 0

Long Past Glory

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small t ...
Genre :TV Movie

The Rector

1970-06-01 2.2

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seducti ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tom Falconer

1980-04-22 0

The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter

Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue. ...
Genre :

Tom Falconer

1980-04-15 0

The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue

Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world. ...
Genre :

Tom Falconer

1980-04-08 0

The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made ...
Genre :

Old Man

1989-09-13 0

Seeing in the Dark

Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be plagued by a ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Don Fransciso

1991-10-19 0

Nona

British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of her entire family, with her constant craving for fo ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Hume

1996-10-18 6.1

Robert Rylands' Last Journey

Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Ream

1965-04-23 6.8

The Uncle

Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his family. ...
Genre :Drama

Vicar

1989-01-01 0

The Dog It Was That Died

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once h ...
Genre :

Sir Harold Crossley

1964-01-01 6.5

Downfall

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1960-01-01 0

Ali and the Camel

Eight part serial. When Ali's father, a diver, has to go to hospital, Ali is offered money by a Professor involved in a jewel robbery. A camel, who talks only to Ali, persuades Ali to buy him and then ...
Genre :Family, Adventure

Defense Counsel

1947-05-30 7.2

Take My Life

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Tarlton

1964-09-02 6.5

The 7th Dawn

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Julius Caesar

1969-04-13 8

Julius Caesar

The play by William Shakespeare. ...
Genre :

Mr. Knowles

1949-07-19 7.5

Don't Ever Leave Me

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Governor

1967-07-27 5.1

The Long Duel

An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Doctor

1965-11-12 6.9

The Heroes of Telemark

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War

Dawson

1953-03-17 5.8

Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Fordingbridge

1988-01-01 5.1

Tears in the Rain

When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known ...
Genre :TV Movie, Romance, Drama

Prof. Carrington

1953-02-09 5.5

The Net

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious acciden ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Mystery

Chief of Interpol

1966-09-08 6

After the Fox

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Chief of Police

1948-06-28 7.527

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Senor Diego

1985-01-01 8.5

Monsignor Quixote

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their f ...
Genre :

Wing Commander Hewitt

1949-09-30 7

Landfall

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadl ...
Genre :War, Drama

Doctor Prothero

1969-09-01 6.4

A Touch of Love

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of ...
Genre :Drama

Maj. Fraser

1948-02-19 6

Blanche Fury

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she ha ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Trent

1948-08-19 6.1

My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)

1947-09-23 6.5

Fame Is the Spur

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace. ...
Genre :Drama

Edward

1967-02-06 0

A Slight Ache

In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comfortably disputing as to whether the honeysuckle or convolvulus is in flower, and joining forces to d ...
Genre :TV Movie

Mr. Fenshaw

1947-06-24 6.67

They Made Me a Fugitive

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Joe

1984-04-25 0

The Hope and the Glory

Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a room in the same house. ...
Genre :Drama

Mobile Policeman

1947-06-17 6.9

The Upturned Glass

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspe ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Narrator

1959-01-01 0

Piping Hot

An animated film about the history and use of hot water. ...
Genre :Animation, Documentary

Guy Leet

1992-04-19 6.2

Memento Mori

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths... ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Comedy, Mystery

The King

1963-01-01 0

The King's Breakfast

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread. ...
Genre :Comedy

Father Staupitz

1983-11-08 0

Martin Luther, Heretic

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism. ...
Genre :Drama

Cockle Vendor

1948-04-06 6.2

Miranda

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Ted Thornhill

1956-12-25 5.3

Checkpoint

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he trigger ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1951-06-28 6.9

No Highway in the Sky

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Lt. Col. Reeve

1954-12-09 6

Carrington V.C.

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own ...
Genre :Drama

Edgeworth

1984-03-30 3.2

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnap ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

Pedro (voice) (uncredited)

1956-12-25 6.3

The Spanish Gardener

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and b ...
Genre :Drama

1975-01-02 0

Go as You Please in Britain

Traces the development of the Freightliner services and introduces customers with differing freight problems, who describe the advantages the system has for them over other forms of transport. The sto ...
Genre :

Grandpa

1984-01-01 6.8

The Chain

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Fielding

1965-03-01 0

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluctantly establishes himself in the underworld with ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family

1961-01-01 0

For Better, For Worse

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox. ...
Genre :

Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")

1948-10-26 6.2

Quartet

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady." ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Lunn

1958-10-12 0

I Can Destroy the Sun

Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean? ...
Genre :

Alexander Chekhov

1968-02-11 0

From Chekhov with Love

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov. ...
Genre :Drama

Edgeworth / Azmael

1963-11-23 7.9

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1986-01-14 5.5

Boon

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Televi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime

Lance Mandeville

1987-01-06 7.8

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

1962-06-30 4.3

Out of This World

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Reverend Merridew

1984-04-24 8.1

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1981-04-30 7.2

The Chinese Detective

Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged i ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Justice Gwent-Evans

1975-12-17 7.2

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Sir Max Spence

1986-01-10 7.3

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers f ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

1962-08-16 6

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice i ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1966-10-02 8.5

Talking to a Stranger

A grown-up brother and sister's visit to their parents home culminates in a shocking tragedy. The events of the weekend are told over four episodes, each focusing on the point of view of one family me ...
Genre :Drama

Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

1978-11-08 6.2

Edward and Mrs Simpson

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King Geor ...
Genre :Drama

1975-09-01 3.7

Angels

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on d ...
Genre :Drama

Kaiser Wilhelm I

1974-03-15 6.9

Fall of Eagles

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-H ...
Genre :Drama

1964-05-17 6.6

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1989-02-20 3

Behaving Badly

Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast b ...
Genre :Drama

1974-04-21 0

The Carnforth Practice

Genre :

Julius Caesar

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

1974-12-28 0

An Unofficial Rose

Genre :Drama

0

The Gate of Eden

Genre :

Tiburce de St. Hilaire

1960-10-31 6.9

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1979-03-18 5

My Son, My Son

Genre :

Rawley

1974-09-05 8.1

Porridge

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La ...
Genre :Comedy

1982-09-07 6.7

The Agatha Christie Hour

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The comm ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Crime

Douglas Hart

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Hart

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Billings

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Meredith Gascoyne

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Father Girard

1977-09-07 7.5

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Prince Lorenzo

1978-09-10 7

Return of the Saint

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

William Turnbull

1986-09-06 6.1

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

Bucktrout

1986-12-09 7

All Passion Spent

With the death of her husband, elderly Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest co ...
Genre :

Striker of the Yard

1994-03-13 8.3

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Crowther

1965-10-07 3.8

Thirty-Minute Theatre

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted man ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Fielding

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

Volos

1960-09-11 7.2

Danger Man

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart creat ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Don Francisco

1991-10-05 6

Performance

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. ...
Genre :Drama

Senor Diego

1971-01-28 5.5

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performan ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Sir James Temple

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

Captain Cedric Dolby

1990-01-14 7.4

You Rang, M'Lord?

You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. ...
Genre :Comedy

Guy Leet

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Arthur Loudon

1957-01-21 0

Theatre Night

Excerpts from Plays ...
Genre :

Uncle Arthur

1960-09-25 0

Sunday-Night Play

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series. ...
Genre :

Dr. Edwin Leacock

1983-09-15 5

The Old Men at the Zoo

An incompetently managed zoo becomes a metaphor for the state of Britain as a nuclear crisis looms over Europe. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man

1991-10-05 6

Performance

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. ...
Genre :Drama

Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

George Fox

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

Don Adriano de Armando

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Phelps McCarthy

1967-01-15 0

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories embodying the author's interest in boxing, the supernatural, and medical matters. ...
Genre :Drama

Nestor Turton

1972-04-23 5

The Lotus Eaters

Follows the lives of British expatriates living on the island of Crete, where their secrets will soon rise to the surface. ...
Genre :Drama

Benedict

1984-04-18 5

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team tackle complex cases, often involving go ...
Genre :Drama