Bill Travers
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Lindon-Travers (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was an English actor, screenwriter, director and an animal rights activist, known professionally as Bill Travers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Travers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 03, 1922
Deathday: March 29, 1994
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Duel at Diablo
1966-06-15
Duel at Diablo
Overview: In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Gorgo
1961-02-02
Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Smallest Show on Earth
1957-04-09
The Smallest Show on Earth
Overview: Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-09
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Geordie
1955-09-02
Geordie
Overview: Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Born Free
1966-03-26
Born Free
Overview: At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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Footsteps in the Fog
1955-09-14
Footsteps in the Fog
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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The Browning Version
1951-04-06
The Browning Version
Overview: Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Bridal Path
1959-08-05
The Bridal Path
Overview: Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-05
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Bhowani Junction
1956-05-01
Bhowani Junction
Overview: Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Mantrap
1953-03-10
Mantrap
Overview: Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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Rum Runners
1971-10-13
Rum Runners
Overview: During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Romeo and Juliet
1954-09-01
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Ring of Bright Water
1969-06-18
Ring of Bright Water
Overview: Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-18
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Street of Shadows
1953-10-16
Street of Shadows
Overview: A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957-01-16
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-16
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The Seventh Sin
1957-06-28
The Seventh Sin
Overview: In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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The Planter's Wife
1952-12-04
The Planter's Wife
Overview: The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Hindle Wakes
1952-11-10
Hindle Wakes
Overview: During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Two Living, One Dead
1961-04-03
Two Living, One Dead
Overview: Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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An Elephant Called Slowly
1969-01-01
An Elephant Called Slowly
Overview: Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Invasion Quartet
1961-09-01
Invasion Quartet
Overview: This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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The Green Helmet
1961-04-20
The Green Helmet
Overview: After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
2013-03-19
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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Counterspy
1953-07-27
Counterspy
Overview: While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-27
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The Lions Are Free
1969-01-23
The Lions Are Free
Overview: The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-23
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The Admirable Crichton
1968-05-02
The Admirable Crichton
Overview: A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant, Crichton, is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-02
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Trio
1950-10-10
Trio
Overview: W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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The Square Ring
1953-07-13
The Square Ring
Overview: Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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The Lion at World's End
1971-02-28
The Lion at World's End
Overview: The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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Storm Over Jamaica
1958-09-25
Storm Over Jamaica
Overview: A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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The Wooden Horse
1950-10-16
The Wooden Horse
Overview: True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-16
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The Belstone Fox
1973-01-01
The Belstone Fox
Overview: Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952-05-26
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Overview: Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-26
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