Derek Nimmo
Biography: Nimmo was born in Liverpool, Lancashire,[1] and was educated at Booker Avenue Infants and Junior School as well as Quarry Bank High School and began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire.[1][2] It was during this time that he made a cameo appearance in the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night (in which he appeared as "Leslie Jackson", a magician with doves). He appeared in a number of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series The World of Wooster (as "Bingo Little"),[2] and in the comedy film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing[1] (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film Casino Royale.[2] Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom All Gas and Gaiters (1966). At the time it was considered rather controversial because the main characters were senior churchmen (the Bishop, his chaplain Noote and the Archdeacon) who got into various scrapes as a result of their general incompetence. By the time the series finished, Nimmo was identified with the stereotype of a traditional British clergyman and he went on to play a bungling monk in another BBC clerical sitcom, Oh, Brother! and its sequel series Oh, Father! (now a Roman Catholic priest).[3] Another sitcom in which he appeared in a starring role as a clergyman, many years later, was Hell's Bells (by now promoted to a dean).[2] He also appeared as the Reverend Jonathan Green in a television production of Cluedo. He became so well known for his clerical parody that, in the 1975 The Goodies' episode "Wacky Wales", a "team of Derek Nimmos" played in a spoof "Ecclesiastical Rugby Sevens" competition.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 19, 1930
Deathday: February 24, 1999
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Murder Ahoy
1964-09-22
Murder Ahoy
Overview: During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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Casino Royale
1967-04-13
Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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The Liquidator
1965-11-01
The Liquidator
Overview: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975-07-09
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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The Bargee
1964-01-01
The Bargee
Overview: After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Coast of Skeletons
1965-03-19
Coast of Skeletons
Overview: A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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Mister Ten Per Cent
1967-01-01
Mister Ten Per Cent
Overview: Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, when he wants to stage a flop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sunstruck
1972-12-22
Sunstruck
Overview: Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Heavens Above!
1963-05-20
Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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The System
1964-04-12
The System
Overview: In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it's not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Tamahine
1963-07-30
Tamahine
Overview: The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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The Millionairess
1960-10-18
The Millionairess
Overview: When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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A Hard Day's Night
1964-07-07
A Hard Day's Night
Overview: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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Hot Enough for June
1964-01-01
Hot Enough for June
Overview: A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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It's Trad, Dad!
1962-03-30
It's Trad, Dad!
Overview: The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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The Bruce McMouse Show
1972-01-02
The Bruce McMouse Show
Overview: Concert footage from Wings' 1972/73 European tour combine with the animated antics of a family of mice living beneath the venue's stage.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Joey Boy
1965-01-01
Joey Boy
Overview: While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Amorous Prawn
1962-11-26
The Amorous Prawn
Overview: While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-26
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Go to Blazes
1962-04-18
Go to Blazes
Overview: A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
1963-04-20
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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The Yellow Hat
1966-01-01
The Yellow Hat
Overview: When an exclusive designer hat blows off the head of the milliner's assistant who borrowed it, the quest to recover it leads her to find love.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
Overview: A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence with the Rolling Stones for ONE PLUS ONE. It was broadcast on BBC2 within the framework of the arts magazine RELEASE on the 30 November 1968 to coincide with the screening (which has become famous…) of ONE PLUS ONE at the London Film Festival.
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Original Language: en
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