Murray Melvin
Birthday: 1932-11-30
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography: Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).
Movies
Barry Lyndon
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...
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Doomsday Gun
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable ...
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The Criminal
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He...
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The Boy Friend
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager i...
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The Devils
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-c...
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A Taste of Honey
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo h...
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Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was als...
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Lisztomania
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keep...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...
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The Fixer
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish p...
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Sparrows Can't Sing
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie ...
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Nutcracker
A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run ...
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Ghost Story
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, th...
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Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comr...
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The Village
A mysterious series of suicides fills the people of a small town with anxiety. Shortly before her ei...
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Stories from a Flying Trunk
A magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk captures t...
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Gulliver's Travels
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu epi...
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Testimony
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career durin...
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Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye...
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Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...
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As You Like It
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguis...
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The Undertaker
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a gro...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, ...
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Solo for Sparrow
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewelle...
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This Office Life
On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled....
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Alfie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...
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The Krays
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but dot...
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H.M.S. Defiant
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty...
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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described ...
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The Fool
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper ...
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young ...
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode c...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets charact...
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The Grey Mile
Terry 'The Taxman' Tempest, the greatest bank robber there ever was, whose true identity was never d...
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The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier....
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The Lost City of Z
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evi...
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Smashing Time
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...
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Shout at the Devil
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive...
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Kaleidoscope
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer bec...
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Sunday Pursuit
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his bos...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely b...
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Sacred Hearts
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, O...
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Stanley and Us
Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny ...
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Let Him Have It
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
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Gawain and the Green Knight
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him....
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenorm...
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Petticoat Pirates
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake...
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Comrades
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one ...
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Slipstream
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the plan...
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The Phantom of the Opera
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath...
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The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so...
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers...
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The Diary of a Nobody
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - Geor...
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Princess Caraboo
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants"...
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David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...
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Testimony
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career durin...
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