Nick Stringer
Biography: Nick Stringer (born 10 August 1948 in Torquay, Devon) is an English actor. In a thirty year career, Stringer has appeared in numerous well-known British television shows, including The Bill, Open All Hours, Only Fools and Horses, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Coronation Street, Family Affairs, Minder, Johnny Jarvis, Butterflies and My Family. He also had a small part in the film, The Long Good Friday. Stringer appeared in the first two series of The New Statesman as the fictional Member of Parliament Bob Crippen, a Labour opponent of the Conservative Alan B'Stard. Other roles have included a cameo role in Goodnight Sweetheart in the episode "You're Driving Me Crazy" as an undercover detective, and as a deputy headmaster Mr Sullivan in Press Gang (mainly appearing in the first two seasons). He appeared in the BBC drama Holby City, in an episode entitled "Doctor's Dilemma", on 18 June 2008. Stringer lives in Swansea, Wales, and is married with two children. Stringer has also made two guest appearances in the BBC Sictom Only Fools and Horses, in the episodes Go West Young Man, as an australian man, and in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he plays Del's old business partner, Jumbo Mills. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Stringer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 10, 1948
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Children
1976-11-01
Children
Overview: Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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The Missing Postman
1997-03-28
The Missing Postman
Overview: When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Clockwise
1986-03-01
Clockwise
Overview: School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Personal Services
1987-02-12
Personal Services
Overview: The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows Christine Painter as the down-at-heel waitress who, with the help of prostitute Shirley and cross-dressing Wing Commander Morten, seeks to up her earnings by turning her suburban home into a brothel. Before long she and her girls are chaining up judges, spanking Generals and attending to the needs of Honourable Members. Christine sees herself as providing a vital service to these harmless pervs and when finally the house is busted and the case comes to court, it's fair to say that the presiding judge isn't unfamiliar with her work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide
2009-10-29
Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide
Overview: Throughout the 17th century, the Dutch and English fought desperate wars over which country would dominate world trade for the next two centuries. They waged massive sea battles in Europe and embarked on violent raids in Asia, Africa and North America.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Captain Jack
1999-05-28
Captain Jack
Overview: Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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I Know You Know
2009-02-05
I Know You Know
Overview: Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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Gentlemen's Relish
2001-01-01
Gentlemen's Relish
Overview: The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his housekeeper, Violet Askey, that keeps him going and it is she who encourages him to switch to photography. Soon Swann has developed a healthy (and respectable) business with portraits of naked women in classical and exotic settings. However, the nature of Swann's new work is open to misinterpretation and he finds himself at the centre of a scandal involving the misuse of his pictures by a SOHO pornographer, and the focus of a campaign by suffragettes against the expoitation of women. At the same time, he loses the support of the loyal Violet, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about Swann's relationship with one of his models. When Violet then becomes involved in the suffragette and amti-pornography movements, it seems all may be lost for Swann - both professionally...and personally.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Stella Does Tricks
1997-11-06
Stella Does Tricks
Overview: A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-06
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Home Front
1988-08-24
Home Front
Overview: 17 year old Brendan and his friend Mary, campaign against the closure of the residential home for children in which they live.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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Gaskin
1983-01-01
Gaskin
Overview: Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Black and Blue Lamp
1988-09-07
The Black and Blue Lamp
Overview: Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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Affront
1978-10-17
Affront
Overview: A car mechanic faces prejudice at work because of his ethnicity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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The Edge of Love
2008-06-20
The Edge of Love
Overview: When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
1983-11-01
The Terence Davies Trilogy
Overview: In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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Oliver Twist
2005-09-23
Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Shoot to Kill
1990-06-03
Shoot to Kill
Overview: Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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The Long Good Friday
1980-11-01
The Long Good Friday
Overview: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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The Knowledge
1979-01-01
The Knowledge
Overview: Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Work Experience
Work Experience
Overview: Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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That Summer!
1979-07-06
That Summer!
Overview: A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel chambermaids. However, their fun is interrupted by a gang of Scottish punks who come to cause trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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The Shout
1978-06-16
The Shout
Overview: A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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We Think the World of You
1988-12-22
We Think the World of You
Overview: An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-22
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978-12-05
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Overview: One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Occupy!
1976-01-01
Occupy!
Overview: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hybrid about the occupation of the Fisher-Bendix Factory in Kirkby. Dohany uses a variety of imaginative techniques to explore the longstanding dispute, and a pronounced sense of urgency pervades this act of solidarity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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