Hugh Fraser
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Matthew Fraser (born 23 October 1945) is an English actor, theatre director, and author. He has regularly appeared on film and in television and is best known for his portrayal of Captain Hastings in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot, and his role as the Duke of Wellington (replacing David Troughton) in the Sharpe television series. Fraser has frequently been cast as upper class or aristocratic characters.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 23, 1945
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The Draughtsman's Contract
1982-11-12
The Draughtsman's Contract
Overview: A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Genres: History Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Deviation
1971-12-18
Deviation
Overview: After a nocturnal car accident on the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious manor occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Patriot Games
1992-06-04
Patriot Games
Overview: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Sharpe's Company
1994-05-25
Sharpe's Company
Overview: Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Genres: War Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-25
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Sharpe's Enemy
1994-06-01
Sharpe's Enemy
Overview: Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
Genres: War History Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Sharpe's Gold
1995-04-01
Sharpe's Gold
Overview: Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
Genres: War TV Movie Adventure Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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The Insurance Man
1986-02-22
The Insurance Man
Overview: Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he looks to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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Murder on the Bluebell Line
1987-01-01
Murder on the Bluebell Line
Overview: Murder on the Bluebell Line features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating the mystery of the Piltdown Man, once thought to be the 'missing link' in the evolution of man, but revealed in the 1950s to be a fraud. - a QED film for the BBC, made in 1987
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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One Fine Day
1979-02-17
One Fine Day
Overview: Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Hands
1980-08-20
Hands
Overview: Pam receives an unusual birthday present from her 23 year old daughter, `The Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-20
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Events at Drimaghleen
1991-07-17
Events at Drimaghleen
Overview: The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-17
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Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020-10-10
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Overview: British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-10
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Lorna Doone
1990-12-26
Lorna Doone
Overview: A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Sharpe's Battle
1995-04-19
Sharpe's Battle
Overview: When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
Genres: War Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-19
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Sharpe's Siege
1996-05-08
Sharpe's Siege
Overview: Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Genres: War Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Sharpe's Waterloo
1997-05-27
Sharpe's Waterloo
Overview: Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Genres: War Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Licking Hitler
1978-01-10
Licking Hitler
Overview: 1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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Crystal Skulls
2014-08-12
Crystal Skulls
Overview: A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Crystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls are united and reek havoc on the earth without the control of the 13th skull.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie Horror Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-12
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Sharpe's Honour
1994-06-08
Sharpe's Honour
Overview: 1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour
Genres: War History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Chaos and Cadavers
2003-05-15
Chaos and Cadavers
Overview: Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies under bizarre circumstances.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Hanover Street
1979-05-18
Hanover Street
Overview: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Genres: Drama Romance War Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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Sharpe: The Legend
1997-10-13
Sharpe: The Legend
Overview: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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The Missionary
1982-11-02
The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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A Very Social Secretary
2005-10-10
A Very Social Secretary
Overview: Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-10
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Jackboots on Whitehall
2010-10-08
Jackboots on Whitehall
Overview: A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
Genres: War Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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The Price
1985-01-10
The Price
Overview: Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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Firefox
1982-06-18
Firefox
Overview: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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Enemy
1976-01-01
Enemy
Overview: Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Stars Have Aligned
2016-04-28
The Stars Have Aligned
Overview: An English correspondent arrives in Astana to interview the named Leader of the Nation Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev is hosting an English guest. The interview turns into Nazarbayev's story about life, fate and the difficult path of gaining independence. The President introduces the writer to local customs, at the same time telling about the most difficult periods of his life, from his appointment in 1984 as chairman of the Council of Ministers to becoming President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1991.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1977-07-17
The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
Genres: History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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Sharpe's Challenge
2006-04-23
Sharpe's Challenge
Overview: Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-23
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101 Dalmatians
1996-11-27
101 Dalmatians
Overview: An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-27
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The Baby Juice Express
2004-04-19
The Baby Juice Express
Overview: A middle class London lad’s gangster fantasies go awry when his dodgy uncle puts them into debt to a real life crime boss. Still pulling strings from behind bars, the kingpin’s only desire is to conceive an heir by smuggling his sperm to his wife on the outside. There’s only one way the boys know how to raise the money fast … hijack the ‘baby juice express’. But kidnapping ‘baby juice’ turns out to be fraught with even more peril than the bumbling wannabes could possibly have imagined in this cheeky spin on the gangster genre. Starring Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), with Julian Clary (one of Britain’s funniest) and Joe Bugner (former boxing champion and one of Australia’s toughest!).
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-19
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The Haunted Hotel
2021-04-02
The Haunted Hotel
Overview: A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Codename: Kyril
1988-03-29
Codename: Kyril
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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The Lost Battalion
2001-12-02
The Lost Battalion
Overview: Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-02
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982-06-13
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Overview: The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-13
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Lawrence After Arabia
2020-05-19
Lawrence After Arabia
Overview: This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies. As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-19
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Heartland
1989-02-21
Heartland
Overview: This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-21
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Sharpe's Mission
1996-05-15
Sharpe's Mission
Overview: Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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The Duellists
1977-08-31
The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Early Struggles
1976-03-30
Early Struggles
Overview: Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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The Ritz
1976-08-12
The Ritz
Overview: To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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