Alan Howard
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, (5 August 1937–14 February 2015) was an English actor known for his roles on stage, television and film. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 05, 1937
Deathday: February 14, 2015
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Oxford Blues
1984-08-24
Oxford Blues
Overview: A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-24
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989-10-13
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Overview: The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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The Return of the Musketeers
1989-04-12
The Return of the Musketeers
Overview: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984-02-04
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Overview: Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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Life Story
1987-09-14
Life Story
Overview: Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Strapless
1989-05-14
Strapless
Overview: An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-14
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The Secret Rapture
1993-09-12
The Secret Rapture
Overview: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
1990-01-01
Death Has A Bad Reputation
Overview: A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968-09-15
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Overview: Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-15
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Anna Lee: Headcase
1993-01-10
Anna Lee: Headcase
Overview: A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-10
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The Americanization of Emily
1964-10-27
The Americanization of Emily
Overview: American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-27
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The Way of the World
1975-03-05
The Way of the World
Overview: In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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The Dog It Was That Died
1989-01-01
The Dog It Was That Died
Overview: 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 he finds out what it is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001-12-18
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Overview: Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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A Better Class of Person
1985-01-02
A Better Class of Person
Overview: Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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Just Another Secret
1989-01-01
Just Another Secret
Overview: An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Talk to Me
1984-12-11
Talk to Me
Overview: Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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The Heroes of Telemark
1965-11-12
The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Dakota Road
1992-07-17
Dakota Road
Overview: A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the local U.S. Air Base to escape the guilt and hypocrisy of everyday life. But her dreams of glamour and excitement are shattered when she is seduced by a pilot, setting in motion a chain of events...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1984-03-26
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Overview: A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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A Casualty of War
1989-12-02
A Casualty of War
Overview: David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage for one last job. The mission - foiling a Libyan plot to supply the IRA with a massive shipment of high-tech weapons in order to wreak revenge upon the UK for their support and co-operation with the US during the 1986 bombing of Libya and the attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi .
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-02
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A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990-11-17
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Overview: Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-17
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The Price of the Bride
1990-12-08
The Price of the Bride
Overview: After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but also making sure he isn't a 'plant' to uncover secrets from us. All of this is complicated when it is suspected that another man is the real agent, and the defector but a decoy.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-08
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-12-17
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Overview: As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-17
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Heart to Heart
1962-12-06
Heart to Heart
Overview: A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Poppyland
1985-01-13
Poppyland
Overview: He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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David Copperfield
2001-12-25
David Copperfield
Overview: After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-25
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Victim
1961-08-01
Victim
Overview: A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Royal Flash
1975-10-10
Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Antigone/Rites of Passion
1990-10-31
Antigone/Rites of Passion
Overview: This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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Da Vinci's War
1993-05-12
Da Vinci's War
Overview: A veteran and his war buddies hunt for the killer of the veteran's sister.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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