Margaret Tyzack
Biography: Margaret Tyzack was born on September 9, 1931 in Plaistow, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Match Point (2005). She was previously married to Alan R. Stephenson. She died on June 25, 2011 in Blackheath, London, England, UK.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 09, 1931
Deathday: June 25, 2011
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968-04-02
2001: A Space Odyssey
Overview: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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The Quatermass Conclusion
1979-10-24
The Quatermass Conclusion
Overview: Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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The Legacy
1978-09-29
The Legacy
Overview: A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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Mrs. Dalloway
1997-09-01
Mrs. Dalloway
Overview: Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2002-01-13
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
Overview: While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. After solving the mystery, with help from Lawrence of Arabia, Indy is kidnapped by slave traders and taken across the Sahara to the slave market at Marrakech, where all his newly-honed wits are needed to escape.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-13
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The Ginger Man
1962-01-01
The Ginger Man
Overview: The often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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An Inspector Calls
1982-08-17
An Inspector Calls
Overview: An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (in Russia) and 1946 (in the UK). It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992. This is the 1982 BBC TV film adaptation
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-17
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Match Point
2005-10-26
Match Point
Overview: Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom's fiancee Nola.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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The Corsican Brothers
1985-02-05
The Corsican Brothers
Overview: In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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The Wars
1983-11-20
The Wars
Overview: Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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Highway to Battle
1961-05-21
Highway to Battle
Overview: Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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Ring of Spies
1964-03-23
Ring of Spies
Overview: The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-23
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Mr. Love
1985-01-01
Mr. Love
Overview: An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The King's Whore
1990-11-14
The King's Whore
Overview: Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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The Bone Grinder
1968-05-13
The Bone Grinder
Overview: George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-13
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2002-02-24
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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Bright Young Things
2003-10-03
Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Scoop
2006-07-27
Scoop
Overview: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Behind the Mask
1958-11-23
Behind the Mask
Overview: A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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The Winter's Tale
1981-02-08
The Winter's Tale
Overview: The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Prick Up Your Ears
1987-04-17
Prick Up Your Ears
Overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Thacker
1992-04-20
Thacker
Overview: A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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A Touch of Love
1969-09-01
A Touch of Love
Overview: Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
2002-05-12
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Overview: The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the pirates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-12
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000-09-19
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Overview: First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-19
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
2002-02-10
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
Overview: The elder Jones's lecture tour takes parents and son to India, where Indy explores the meaning of faith in oneself with Theosophist philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. Then, when Indy falls victim to typhoid fever in China, his mother must have faith and trust that the villagers' ancient medicines will save him.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
2002-02-03
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
Overview: While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father are forced together by circumstance when they get into a bind in the monasteries of Meteora, where they share some memorable moments.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-03
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
2002-01-20
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
Overview: On safari at the Masai Mara game preserve in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the vast and dangerous wilderness. Later, in Paris, he explores the fine-art scene and the rather wilder cafe scenes of Montmartre with a young Norman Rockwell.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-20
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A Clockwork Orange
1971-12-19
A Clockwork Orange
Overview: In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Genres: Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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The Whisperers
1967-07-18
The Whisperers
Overview: Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-18
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Overview: The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002-09-30
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Overview: The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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Passport to Shame
1958-12-02
Passport to Shame
Overview: British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009-06-25
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Overview: A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982-09-17
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Overview: Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Mother's Milk
2011-11-12
Mother's Milk
Overview: An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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Some of My Best Friends
1980-11-17
Some of My Best Friends
Overview: A farm in the Cotswolds is a far cry from the bagel-strewn Stepney of Natalie's childhood. It smells of manure, the cows frighten her and her neighbours find her rather ' foreign'. A visit from the ladies of her old Jewish girls' club is not going to help matters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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A Silly Little Habit
1982-01-15
A Silly Little Habit
Overview: A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-15
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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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