Frank Singuineau
Biography: Francis Ethlebert Singuineau (April 8, 1913 - September 11, 1992), known as Frank Singuineau, was a Trinidadian actor of stage and screen who worked in Britain, where he moved from Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s. Employed by the Shell Company, he took an active interest in Amateur Dramatics. Just after the Second World War he gave up his job with Shell, travelled to London and became an actor, acting with the Unity Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.[1] His London stage debut was in 1948 in Richard Wright's Native Son (1948), and Singuineau's acting career spanned the subsequent decades until his last roles in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine at the Royal National Theatre and Mustapha Matura's Playboy of the West Indies at the Tricycle Theatre in 1984. Singuineau also appeared in such films as The Pumpkin Eater, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Pressure and An American Werewolf in London and in several television series including Z-Cars, Crane, and Doomwatch. Singuineau retired in the late 1980s. He died on 11 September 1992 in London, England at the age of 79.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 08, 1913
Deathday: September 11, 1992
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The Wrong Box
1966-06-19
The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972-02-03
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Overview: Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Man from Tangier
1957-11-25
Man from Tangier
Overview: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Simba
1955-01-07
Simba
Overview: A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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Guns at Batasi
1964-10-30
Guns at Batasi
Overview: An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Night of the Eagle
1962-04-25
Night of the Eagle
Overview: A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Fable
1965-01-27
Fable
Overview: In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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The Heart of a Man
1959-08-06
The Heart of a Man
Overview: Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Safari
1956-06-20
Safari
Overview: Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964-06-19
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Overview: Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-19
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The World in a Room
1970-06-22
The World in a Room
Overview: Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-22
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Pressure
1976-11-19
Pressure
Overview: A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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An American Werewolf in London
1981-08-21
An American Werewolf in London
Overview: American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Nun's Story
1959-06-18
The Nun's Story
Overview: After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Storm Over the Nile
1955-12-26
Storm Over the Nile
Overview: In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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The Pumpkin Eater
1964-07-16
The Pumpkin Eater
Overview: Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-16
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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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Club Havana
1975-10-25
Club Havana
Overview: After 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. Writer Barry Reckord returns to the theme of an interracial relationship which causes conflict within a Jamaican family. Reconstructed from the surviving unedited studio footage by Simon Coward (Research Manager, Kaleidoscope). An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-25
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Playboy of the West Indies
1985-10-13
Playboy of the West Indies
Overview: Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro, a quiet fishing village in Trinidad. Nothing much happens in Mayaro until a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Firepower
1979-04-27
Firepower
Overview: A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Peeping Tom
1960-05-16
Peeping Tom
Overview: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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The Heart Within
1957-07-01
The Heart Within
Overview: This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Carry On Again Doctor
1969-12-05
Carry On Again Doctor
Overview: Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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The Mummy
1959-08-01
The Mummy
Overview: One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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The Day of the Fox
1961-09-06
The Day of the Fox
Overview: "In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation. The political themes explored remain incredibly prescient." - BFI
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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