Joss Ackland
Birthday: 1928-02-29
Place of Birth: North Kensington, London, England, UK
Biography: Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Lethal Weapon 2
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in cri...
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a v...
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The Hunt for Red October
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast un...
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Swept from the Sea
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and ...
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No Good Deed
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon ...
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D3: The Mighty Ducks
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods ...
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Jacob
Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds...
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Nowhere to Run
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict ...
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The Mighty Ducks
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hock...
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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Villain
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the ...
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Lady Jane
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak ...
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of inte...
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It Couldn't Happen Here
Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant embark upon a journey across England - but which England? ...
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The Sicilian
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leadi...
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Asylum
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found gu...
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K-19: The Widowmaker
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
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Citizen X
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...
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A Zed & Two Noughts
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals....
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Lounge Act
Have you ever wondered what happens with your pet when you are not at home? A dog worried about its ...
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Once Upon a Crime
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married coupl...
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Flawless
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual e...
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S*P*Y*S
Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination....
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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand...
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How About You...
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retiremen...
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Mother's Boys
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as sudden...
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a ...
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being kille...
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Surviving Picasso
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Pica...
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White Mischief
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other af...
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Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish fo...
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court
A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Ca...
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Icon
A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a ch...
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Silver Bears
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in orde...
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The Little Prince
After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prin...
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A Murder of Quality
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the mu...
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorio...
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The House That Dripped Blood
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....
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To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it....
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I'll Be There
A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charl...
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Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...
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The Apple
In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subs...
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The Mumbo Jumbo
A cynical young American, Thomas Doubting, stumbles upon a magical amulet which takes him on a myste...
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Jekyll & Hyde
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her fath...
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Crescendo
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in Fr...
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Royal Flash
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19t...
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In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley
"In Search of the Great Beast 666" documents the chilling life, impulses and journey of Aleister Cro...
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The Mind Snatchers
A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that...
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Saint Jack
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimp...
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Giorgino
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a grou...
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First and Last
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of B...
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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the St...
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The Love Tapes
At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients h...
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The Object of Beauty
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a...
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the masterm...
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Miracle on 34th Street
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother...
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Ghost Ship
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their h...
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The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
The story is about Donald McGlone, the boy with chocolate fingers (his fingers are made of chocolate...
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OcchioPinocchio
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers tha...
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Deadly Voyage
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to disp...
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Prisoners of the Sun
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawake...
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Hidden in Silence
Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, ...
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Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry
A Master Painter of Twentieth Century Modern Art, Joan Miro was at once both distinctly modern and a...
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Miss Nightingale
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale....
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Katherine of Alexandria
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...
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The Black Windmill
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca...
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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter...
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To the Ends of Time
In a mythical kingdom, a young boy must fight time for the love of his princess and the future of hi...
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Gorgeous Antonia is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets M...
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh...
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The Lie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Fra...
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The Sheltering Desert
In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Afri...
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Daisies in December
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and ...
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Rough Cut
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels....
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England Made Me
A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor i...
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You Talk Too Much
An old lady seeks help from her doctor after her sun-in-law tells her that she suffers from logorrhe...
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Penny Gold
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the vict...
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
A self-absorbed young biologist takes on a six-month research post in Antarctica to study a penguin ...
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Operation: Daybreak
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal ...
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The Bridge
When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot su...
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Othello
With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello i...
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Passion of Mind
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman lea...
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something w...
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Milk
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy fa...
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Watership Down
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi...
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Hogfather
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-...
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Tales from the Madhouse
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters re...
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The Palermo Connection
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the ele...
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Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis...
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Seven Days to Noon
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhe...
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Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru...
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In Search of the Castaways
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Mauric...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final da...
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The Greek Tycoon
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president....
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious b...
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....
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Project: Shadowchaser
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President'...
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Voices in the Garden
Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war...
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protecti...
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The Princess and the Goblin
The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic ...
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Miracle on 34th Street
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother...
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Firelight
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he wi...
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My Giant
Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a ...
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A Different Loyalty
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His w...
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These Foolish Things
The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest bet...
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Moscow Zero
In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei tha...
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Tre colonne in cronaca
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. ...
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Defining a Style
In this 2005 featurette, many key WATERSHIP DOWN animators and background artists recall their pains...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomati...
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Heading For Glory
The 1974 finals in West Germany saw the emergence of "Total Football" in the shape of the classy Dut...
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Olympus Force: The Key
Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette contai...
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Access to the Children
A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allo...
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The Three Sisters
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their...
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The Portrait
The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting...
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Codename: Kyril
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte...
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Brown Bear's Wedding
The shy Brown Bear falls for the beautiful White Bear and is bound and determined to make her his wi...
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White Bear's Secret
Brown Bear and White Bear are now married, but Brown Bear is finding the married life a little harde...
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The Bankrupt
Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his sit...
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett ...
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When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...
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Elizabeth Alone
"Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!...
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Findings on a Late Afternoon
Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon spent with his father, he starts ...
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Maggie
East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-l...
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Simulacrum
SIMULACRUM is just a step into the future where an insurgent human race rises up against Artificial ...
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The Leather Boys
Documentary lamenting the state of the British motorbike industry in the mid-eighties and looking ba...
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Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina
When Ford launched the Mark 3 version of its popular Cortina model it unveiled a vehicle which would...
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Closing Ranks
A KGB agent defects to UK and offers information about Russian spies within the British Intelligence...
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Getting In
The applicant's forms are in, and his deposit has been paid. He must now submit to a 'few formalitie...
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King's Cross Lunch Hour
This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assi...
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