Louis Mahoney
Birthday: 1938-09-08
Place of Birth: The Gambia
Biography: Gambian Louis Felix Danner Mahoney came to England ostensibly to train as a doctor. However, he abandoned medicine for the stage, probably his original intention. He enrolled at acting school in the 1970s and was a tireless campaigner for racial equality in his profession.
Movies
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the...
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Victoria Falls: The Smoke That Thunders
A tale of life on the Zambezi River, set against the epic backdrop of Victoria Falls. The story is t...
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Jonah
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when ...
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Guns at Batasi
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must u...
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Random
Interspersed with a commentary by a female narrator,who at times assumes their roles,the father,moth...
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Life for Christine
A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?...
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Captain Phillips
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagge...
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A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave
A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Nar...
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All In The Game
A passionate manager is torn apart between loyalty to his son, a dodgy football agent, and his homet...
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A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in ...
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The Plague of the Zombies
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the ...
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Kiss and Tell
Quin and Sophie are happily married but haven't been abroad since their honeymoon. When Quin is sent...
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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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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979....
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Th...
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Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Picking up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find thems...
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Shooting Fish
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam....
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Desert of Lies
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same de...
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National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to...
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Curse of the Voodoo
In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also pract...
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One Foot in the Algarve
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal A...
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Sheena
Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African...
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The Final Conflict
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefa...
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war...
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Death Is Part of the Process
South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Br...
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Cry Freedom
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against ap...
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