Brian Pettifer
Biography: Brian Pettifer (born January 1, 1953) is a South African actor who has appeared in many television shows, and also on stage and in film. He is the younger brother of folk musician Linda Thompson. He intended to become a photographer, but pursued a career as an actor. He appeared as a child in the BBC's This Man Craig and Dr Finlay's Casebook, and Madame Bovary (with his friend Alex Norton) which gave him an avid interest in acting on television. His first film role was in Lindsay Anderson's film if.... (1968). He also appeared in Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) playing the same character in all three Anderson films, that of Biles. His other film credits include roles in Amadeus (1984), A Christmas Carol (1984), Gulag (1985), Heavenly Pursuits (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988), Loch Ness (1996), The House of Mirth (2000), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002), The Rocket Post (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Lassie (2005). Pettifer was a regular in Rab C. Nesbitt mainly propping up a bar, but was also known as aircraftman Bruce Leckie in Get Some In!, where he was constantly the butt of jokes directed at him by Corporal Marsh. He also played cousin Hughie in the long running Liverpool based 70s sitcom The Liver Birds. He also played Alfred Meyer in the BBC/HBO film Conspiracy and the part of Dr. Cameron in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag, after appearing in several episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook. He appeared in Hamish Macbeth, as well as guest starring in Still Game. In 2005, he also appeared in the first episode of the BBC drama Bleak House. In 2011 and 2013, he played Father Richards in The Field of Blood. He had the role of Poupart in the BBC One series The Musketeers. In 2012, Brian Pettifer appeared as Archie Milgrow in the episode Old School Ties in the series New Tricks. He has worked extensively in the theatre: writing, directing and acting. He has been in a production of The Fairy-Queen at Glyndebourne, which went to Paris and New York in 2010. In 2015, Pettifer appeared in the crime comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson along with his Hamish Macbeth co-star Robert Carlyle. In 2019, he appeared in an episode of Holby City playing patient Laurie Stocks.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1953
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Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Little Dorrit
1987-12-11
Little Dorrit
Overview: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003-08-27
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of horror, the duality of mankind and the darker side of late Victorian society. Dr Henry Jekyll (John Hannah), a great scientist, handsome, and renowned throughout the scientific community, is developing a formula that will revolutionise human nature by isolating criminal elements. He experiments on himself and intoxicated by the drug he undergoes a monstrous transformation. He is released from conventions of the social order and his own moral code into euphoric, remorseless wickedness - the villainous Mr Hyde. What follows is the gripping and terrifying stuggle of two opposing personalities battling for the soul of one man...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-27
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988-11-05
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Overview: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-05
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Donkeys
2010-10-08
Donkeys
Overview: Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Lucky Sunil
1988-04-17
Lucky Sunil
Overview: Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-17
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The Rocket Post
2004-05-13
The Rocket Post
Overview: Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The Rocket Post will give a convincing portrayal of island life, beliefs and culture of the time A definite for those who have even the tiniest drop of Scottish blood..... as it will tug at the heart strings and stir the soul. Something that can be shared with the family and watched time and time again..................a real classic, one that I am sure will walk alongside some of the great films that never die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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A Risk Worth Taking
2008-05-13
A Risk Worth Taking
Overview: A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-13
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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009-01-01
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Overview: In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999-10-27
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015-07-24
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Overview: Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-24
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The Last Bus
2021-06-18
The Last Bus
Overview: Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Lassie
2005-12-16
Lassie
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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Damaged
2024-04-12
Damaged
Overview: A Chicago detective travels to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those that he investigated five years earlier, one of which was the crime scene of his murdered girlfriend.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Conspiracy
2001-05-19
Conspiracy
Overview: At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-19
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Warm Feet, Warm Heart
1970-09-22
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
Overview: Albert has to chose between his wife Ursula and Molly, the cook in his factory. One empties his wallet regularly, the other other feeds him heartily.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Is That Your Body, Boy
1970-05-09
Is That Your Body, Boy
Overview: Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-09
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The Key
2003-09-16
The Key
Overview: The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-16
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Whisky Galore
2016-06-26
Whisky Galore
Overview: The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-26
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In Dreams
1992-12-23
In Dreams
Overview: Lenny has some perplexing dreams.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Amadeus
1984-09-19
Amadeus
Overview: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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A Christmas Carol
1984-10-09
A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-09
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if....
1968-12-19
if....
Overview: In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005-09-08
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Overview: What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Genres: Mystery Drama Documentary Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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One Last Chance
2004-03-13
One Last Chance
Overview: A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995-08-31
Eleven Men Against Eleven
Overview: A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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In the Bleak Midwinter
1995-09-29
In the Bleak Midwinter
Overview: Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Heavenly Pursuits
1986-07-11
Heavenly Pursuits
Overview: Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-11
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Darkest Hour
2017-11-22
Darkest Hour
Overview: In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-22
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Loch Ness
1996-08-23
Loch Ness
Overview: Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, introduces him to a small family of Nessie-dinosaurs.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Hattie
2011-01-19
Hattie
Overview: Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-19
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Vigo
1998-09-14
Vigo
Overview: Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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The House of Mirth
2000-09-23
The House of Mirth
Overview: In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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Gulag
1985-01-13
Gulag
Overview: Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Just Your Luck
1972-12-04
Just Your Luck
Overview: When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-04
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Get Duked!
2019-03-08
Get Duked!
Overview: An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
Genres: Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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Is That All There Is?
1992-12-01
Is That All There Is?
Overview: Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly means to be Lindsay Anderson.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018-09-25
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
Overview: It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, the film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-25
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Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019-06-22
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Overview: Chris Wade's documentary film is a personal, intimate and affectionate look at the life and work of Lindsay Anderson, the legendary film and theatre director behind if. - and O Lucky Man. With new recollections from director Stephen Frears, if - star David Wood, plus actor and friend Brian Pettifer, Memories of Lindsay Anderson paints a portrait of a stubborn, self assured artist, an anti establishment non conformist who refused to play the game, and a private man who, though on the surface seemed confident, held his emotional cards close to his chest. This is an in depth study of one of our most brilliant yet undervalued filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-22
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The Right Prospectus
1970-01-02
The Right Prospectus
Overview: A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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The James Gang
1997-11-07
The James Gang
Overview: After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Let There Be Light
1970-01-23
Let There Be Light
Overview: What was it like to go to school 100 years ago?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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Go Home
2021-01-01
Go Home
Overview: When a Palestinian woman claims asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy and the disillusionment of an asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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