Julian Wadham
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julian Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is a British actor of stage, film and television. He has appeared on television as both Charles II (in the 2004 BBC docudrama Wren: The Man Who Built Britain) and George V (in the TV adaptation of the play My Boy Jack). He appeared onstage as Don Pedro (alongside Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale) at the Royal National Theatre's 2007-08 production of Much Ado About Nothing.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 07, 1958
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The English Patient
1996-11-14
The English Patient
Overview: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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High Heels and Low Lifes
2001-07-16
High Heels and Low Lifes
Overview: A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-16
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Exorcist: The Beginning
2004-08-20
Exorcist: The Beginning
Overview: Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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The Madness of King George
1994-12-28
The Madness of King George
Overview: Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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My Boy Jack
2007-11-11
My Boy Jack
Overview: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-11
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Outpost
2008-03-11
Outpost
Overview: In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says...
Genres: Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-11
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Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
2005-05-20
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Overview: Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Wah-Wah
2005-08-17
Wah-Wah
Overview: Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-17
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A Different Loyalty
2004-11-12
A Different Loyalty
Overview: In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Outpost: Black Sun
2012-04-25
Outpost: Black Sun
Overview: A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2012-12-07
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Overview: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
2005-01-01
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Overview: The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Baal
1982-02-02
Baal
Overview: Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A high society party is where the end begins.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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Gypsy Woman
2002-09-12
Gypsy Woman
Overview: A ruthless property developer investigates a builder's death and meets the dead man's wife. Recently widowed himself, he falls for her and is drawn into the secretive world of Gypsies.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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The Search for Tutankhamun
2005-10-30
The Search for Tutankhamun
Overview: Howard Carter hunts for the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-30
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The Last Days of the Raj
2007-03-12
The Last Days of the Raj
Overview: Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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The Government Inspector
2005-03-17
The Government Inspector
Overview: The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Napoleon
2023-11-22
Napoleon
Overview: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Genres: History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Country
1981-10-20
Country
Overview: In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Queen & Country
2014-09-14
Queen & Country
Overview: In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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War Horse
2011-12-25
War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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The Song of Names
2019-12-25
The Song of Names
Overview: A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Maurice
1987-09-18
Maurice
Overview: After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Ghostboat
2006-04-09
Ghostboat
Overview: Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission that led to her original disappearance. But what's waiting for them under the grey waters of the Baltic Sea turns out to be much worse than the Russian submarines they're expecting. Wherever Scorpion has been all this time, it's brought some very bad luck back with it...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-09
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016-09-01
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Overview: A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Churchill
2017-05-25
Churchill
Overview: A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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The Iron Lady
2011-12-26
The Iron Lady
Overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-26
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Legacy
2010-10-15
Legacy
Overview: Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Now Is Good
2012-09-19
Now Is Good
Overview: A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-19
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The Riot Club
2014-09-19
The Riot Club
Overview: Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Wallis & Edward
2005-12-18
Wallis & Edward
Overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have been considered from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004-12-26
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Overview: The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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The Scapegoat
2012-09-09
The Scapegoat
Overview: In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Preaching to the Perverted
1997-07-04
Preaching to the Perverted
Overview: A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-04
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Victoria & Abdul
2017-09-13
Victoria & Abdul
Overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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The Happy Prince
2018-04-12
The Happy Prince
Overview: In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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Eric & Ernie
2011-01-01
Eric & Ernie
Overview: Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Colette
2018-09-21
Colette
Overview: After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-21
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997-11-20
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Overview: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-20
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Goya's Ghosts
2006-11-08
Goya's Ghosts
Overview: Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-08
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Mountain Language
1988-12-11
Mountain Language
Overview: Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer exists. Any questions?'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-11
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The Song of Names
2019-12-25
The Song of Names
Overview: A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Toy Boys
1999-03-31
Toy Boys
Overview: Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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National Theatre Live: This House
2013-05-15
National Theatre Live: This House
Overview: It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians. But this fragile alliance lasts only until October, when another election is called. This time, Labour win with a tiny majority of just three. Now things get tougher as old cross-Party agreements break down and even sick and dying MPs are wheeled into the chamber to cast their votes! James Graham's acclaimed new play whisks us back to the days of the UK's previous hung Parliament, when politics got really dirty in the battle for power.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-15
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The Commissioner
1998-02-22
The Commissioner
Overview: John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-22
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The Guest
1982-03-26
The Guest
Overview: Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary is not so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended ' La Petite Chanson' provides an unexpected solution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-26
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Bright Eyes
1982-04-20
Bright Eyes
Overview: 1999: Examination of family life and political ideals in a war-ravaged future Europe, compared and contrasted with ’60s equivalents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-20
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The Trial of Lord Lucan
1994-11-10
The Trial of Lord Lucan
Overview: An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. He disappeared the day after the killing and was never found.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-10
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