John Carson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: John Carson was an English actor known for his appearances in film and television. Not to be confused with the American TV entertainer John "Johnny" Carson.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka]
Birthday: February 28, 1927
Deathday: November 05, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Thunderbird 6
Overview: The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-03
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The Plague of the Zombies
Overview: Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Overview: Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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The July Plot
Overview: Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-09
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Overview: When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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City of Blood
Overview: A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Quentin Durward
Overview: During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-09
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Schmoedipus
Overview: Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Heroes
Overview: South African TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-03
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Male Bait
Overview: Apparently a British answer to the Boys in the Band
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-12
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Smokescreen
Overview: A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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This Body Is Mine
Overview: Allen Meredith is a brilliant scientist but too mild-mannered to make an impact or fight for the money he needs. He has invented a process to exchange minds between bodies. His ambitious wife Ann persuades him to invite his boss, the domineering Jack Gregory, to their house for dinner. Once there, they drug him and Allen swaps bodies with Jack, then goes back to work to transfer millions into his account. But meanwhile Ann is finding the combination of Jack's masculine personality in Allen's body rather attractive and they begin making their own plans.
Genres: Thriller Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Paper Roses
Overview: Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-13
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The Last Warrior
Overview: Stranded on a deserted Pacific island during the Second World War an American and Japanese soldier battle it out in this exciting war-time drama.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Master Spy
Overview: Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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Guns of Darkness
Overview: Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-19
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Seven Keys
Overview: Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Man in a Looking Glass
Overview: A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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Schweitzer
Overview: The story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-10
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I Dreamed of Africa
Overview: Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Act of Murder
Overview: A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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The Set Up
Overview: Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Tenth of a Second
Overview: "Tenth of a Second" is the account of one man's desperate attempt to fight the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. This political thriller centres around Michael Wilder (James Whyle), a schoolteacher and political activist, with a failing marriage. Wilder is a member of the "Organisation" which is involved in subversive activities against the state. One day, Raymond (Nicky Rebelo), a fellow member, visits Wilder and leaves him with a suitcase containing a bomb. Wilder is expected to place in a busy shopping centre. But things do not go according to plan and the consequences of his actions result in devastating effects for Wilder and his grip on reality.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Lie
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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The Sheltering Desert
Overview: In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Woman of Desire
Overview: A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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An African Dream
Overview: An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Scent of Fear
Overview: Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Loyalties
Overview: During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-29
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Doomsday
Overview: The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Rehearsal
Overview: Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-19
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Accidental Death
Overview: A man is confronted by a man in his house who declares that he is here to kill him, because he collaborated with the Nazis and caused the death of the intruder's fiancée.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Deal
Overview: Charlie Berns is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew comes bearing the script of a lifetime and Charlie decides to give his career one final shot. The only thing standing in his way is Diedre Hearn, a sharp-witted studio executive brought in to keep Charlie in line.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Amicus Vault of Horrors
Overview: A definitive documentary charting the rise and fall of Amicus film productions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years
Overview: The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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The Night Caller
Overview: The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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Black Velvet Band
Overview: Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-24
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
Overview: Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead
Overview: Explore Hammer's greatest legacy with clips from such classic films as The Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Dracula - Prince of Darkness, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, Scars of Dracula, Kiss of the Vampire and more.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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Survivor
Overview: An astronaut, known only as The Survivor, returns from space only to find Earth a desolate, post-nuclear wasteland. Spending the next ten years searching for others, he finds rumors and signs of a hidden underground city. He finds a woman who claims to know where the city is, but she is kidnapped before she can tell him. Desperate to locate this hidden remnant of humanity, he begins his pursuit of her captors.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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Doctor Who: Snakedance
Overview: Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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The Lady is a Square
Overview: Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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Mandela and de Klerk
Overview: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Guardian of the Abyss
Overview: A scrying glass puts an antiques exporter in the path of a woman fleeing from devil worshipers and the evil hypnotist who leads them. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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The Last Hero
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Possession
Overview: With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Overview: Two American girls go on a vacation to England and mysterious things begin happening when one of them falls to her death from atop a monument.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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The Mountain and the Molehill
Overview: It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-15
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Fothergill
Overview: John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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