Gawn Grainger
Biography: Gawn Grainger is a Scottish actor. He has been married to Zoë Wanamaker since November 1994. He was previously married to Janet Key and Janet McIntire.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 12, 1937
Deathday: N/A
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Mastermind
1969-06-03
Mastermind
Overview: Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the movie flashes back and forth between present day and ancient times.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-03
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August
1996-08-08
August
Overview: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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Joseph Andrews
1977-03-09
Joseph Andrews
Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Male Bait
1971-12-12
Male Bait
Overview: Apparently a British answer to the Boys in the Band
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-12
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Sixty Six
2006-11-03
Sixty Six
Overview: A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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The Beggar's Opera
1983-01-01
The Beggar's Opera
Overview: A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Love and Death on Long Island
1998-07-03
Love and Death on Long Island
Overview: Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-03
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Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014-06-25
Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-25
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The Raggedy Rawney
1988-09-20
The Raggedy Rawney
Overview: During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016-10-27
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Overview: Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-27
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A Christmas Carol
1999-12-05
A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-05
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Red Monarch
1983-06-16
Red Monarch
Overview: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999-10-29
Janice Beard 45 WPM
Overview: Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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The Little Drummer Girl
1984-10-19
The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Bavarian Night
1981-03-31
Bavarian Night
Overview: The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-31
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Macbeth
1983-11-05
Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-05
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The Incredible Sarah
1976-11-05
The Incredible Sarah
Overview: The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic. At an audition in 1860, the teenage Bernhardt proclaims herself the greatest actress of her time. Her career blossoms, as does her private life. But art and life don't stay balanced, much to the frustration of her lovers. The eccentric Bernhardt eventually does marry another actor, but it's her life on stage that ultimately gives her the most satisfaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-05
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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
1985-02-09
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Overview: The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second rogue Time Lord, has plans of her own...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-09
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Misterioso
1991-07-25
Misterioso
Overview: On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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When We Are Married
1987-12-26
When We Are Married
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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The Party
1988-03-08
The Party
Overview: 10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Three Piece Suite
1977-01-01
Three Piece Suite
Overview: Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Elizabeth Alone
1981-04-03
Elizabeth Alone
Overview: "Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!" But should we condemn her as she condemns herself?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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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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Party Time
1992-11-17
Party Time
Overview: At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-17
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Son of Man
1969-04-16
Son of Man
Overview: Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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