Norman Rodway
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Birthday: February 07, 1929
Deathday: March 13, 2001
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Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985-03-26
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Overview: As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's political powerful father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Arrested for corrupting Lord Douglas' morals, Wilde spends a debilitating five years in Reading Gaol, emerging a shattered shell of his former self
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-26
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Chimes at Midnight
1965-12-22
Chimes at Midnight
Overview: Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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A Question of Suspense
1961-10-01
A Question of Suspense
Overview: A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Sakharov
1984-06-20
Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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A Man on Her Back
1966-01-12
A Man on Her Back
Overview: John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-12
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The Girl Who Loved Robots
1965-10-20
The Girl Who Loved Robots
Overview: Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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The Hiding Place
1975-05-04
The Hiding Place
Overview: The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-04
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Four in the Morning
1965-12-16
Four in the Morning
Overview: The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-16
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967-12-18
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Overview: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-18
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The Quare Fellow
1962-10-02
The Quare Fellow
Overview: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-02
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The Critic
1982-08-28
The Critic
Overview: Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-28
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Who Dares Wins
1982-08-26
Who Dares Wins
Overview: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989-11-25
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Overview: Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-25
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The Penthouse
1967-10-03
The Penthouse
Overview: A married man and his young mistress suffer sadistic torture when Tom, Dick and Harry invade their penthouse.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-03
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Mother Night
1996-11-01
Mother Night
Overview: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
1977-09-18
Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
Overview: In 1977 the Old Bailey saw the start of the first trial for blasphemy in this country for over half a century. Begun by Mary Whitehouse against the homosexual newspaper Gay News, it ended in a conviction, heavy fines and a suspended prison sentence for the editor. An appeal is pending. Was this prosecution an attack on free speech? Or was it a necessary defence of the principle that, even in a permissive society, some things must remain sacred? This dramatised documentary reconstructs the crucial moments of this historic trial, and explores the issues it raises. Peter France questions the people on both sides, including Mary Whitehouse and Denis Lemon, Editor, Gay News, about their actions and reactions during the case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Ambush in Leopard Street
1962-06-05
Ambush in Leopard Street
Overview: A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Danton's Death
1978-04-23
Danton's Death
Overview: Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-23
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The Story of David
1976-04-08
The Story of David
Overview: The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba is handled with taste and decorum. Also in the cast are Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Terence Hardiman as Bathsheba's unfortunate warrior husband Uriah.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-08
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The War That Never Ends
1991-03-28
The War That Never Ends
Overview: The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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Timon of Athens
1981-04-16
Timon of Athens
Overview: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-16
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Coming Through
1985-12-27
Coming Through
Overview: While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Shake Hands with the Devil
1959-06-24
Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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A Pattern of Roses
1983-12-29
A Pattern of Roses
Overview: While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Johnny Nobody
1961-10-01
Johnny Nobody
Overview: When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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This Other Eden
1959-01-01
This Other Eden
Overview: A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Vicious Circle
1999-02-09
Vicious Circle
Overview: Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-09
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Tai-Pan
1986-11-07
Tai-Pan
Overview: The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992-12-27
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Overview: A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-27
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
2002-03-17
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
Overview: Indy is ordered to locate and destroy a powerful German artillery gun that is mysteriously able to appear and disappear at will, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Assisting him is a colorful group of soldiers nicknamed "The Old and the Bold" because of their old age and reckless courage. Their mission takes them on a dangerous journey across the German-held veldt via wagon train and hot-air balloon. Overcoming all manner of obstacles presented by the enemy, his own side and the harsh African terrain, Indy relentlessly follows the trail of the mega-gun right into the bowels of a secret mountain hideout, where he plans an explosive end for the phantom train of doom.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-17
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986-09-16
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Overview: Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-16
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Baby Blues
1973-12-06
Baby Blues
Overview: Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984-12-08
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Overview: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-08
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King Lear
1982-09-19
King Lear
Overview: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-19
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County Kilburn
2000-08-17
County Kilburn
Overview: Along the kilometre stretch of Kilburn High road in London, there are twenty-eight pubs: that's one every thirty-six metres. Populated predominantly by the Irish, this area has come to be known as County Kilburn. Here we witness the loves, lives and laughs of a disparate group of dreamers, losers and ever-hopefuls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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The empty mirror
1996-04-09
The empty mirror
Overview: Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-09
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See You at the Pillar
1967-01-01
See You at the Pillar
Overview: A short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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King of the Wind
1990-05-25
King of the Wind
Overview: In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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The Falklands Factor
1983-04-26
The Falklands Factor
Overview: Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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Murder in Eden
1961-04-07
Murder in Eden
Overview: Max Varnel’s British mystery thriller. After discovering a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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A Midsummer Nightmare
1975-09-16
A Midsummer Nightmare
Overview: A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-16
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An Affinity with Dr. Still
1979-11-28
An Affinity with Dr. Still
Overview: A tragic event shatters the complacent calm of a great university. Haunted by it, Peter Molyneux turns up at the Italian villa of Dr Still.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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The Best of Friends
1980-03-08
The Best of Friends
Overview: What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-08
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Marriage
1981-07-10
Marriage
Overview: Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better judgment he finds himself competing for the hand of Miss Agafya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-10
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