George Baker
Also Known As: George Morris Baker
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Varna, Bulgaria
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 07, 2011
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Overview: James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Overview: Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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Tread Softly Stranger
Overview: Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Back to the Secret Garden
Overview: A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to nurture it.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-02
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Justine
Overview: In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-06
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Sword of Lancelot
Overview: Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-02
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The Thirty Nine Steps
Overview: The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-04
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Curse of the Fly
Overview: The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Bird Fancier
Overview: There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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Time After Time
Overview: 'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-26
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Because of the Cats
Overview: A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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The Ship That Died of Shame
Overview: After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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A Hill in Korea
Overview: Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-18
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Sea Area Forties
Overview: A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at the development of the BP Forties oil field in the North Sea.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Coast to Coast
Overview: Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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The Extra Day
Overview: Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Executioner
Overview: A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-06
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Three for All
Overview: A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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A Warm December
Overview: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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The Feminine Touch
Overview: Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-19
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The Moonraker
Overview: After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-02
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These Dangerous Years
Overview: A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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The Dam Busters
Overview: The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-16
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Intimate Games
Overview: A university professor opens a sexual Pandora's box when he hands his class an assignment to explore their deepest carnal fantasies and desires. As the students begin to plumb their secret passions, they find themselves propelled into an erotic world where theory soon yields to practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-31
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For Queen & Country
Overview: A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-17
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The Bone Grinder
Overview: George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-13
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Alice
Overview: In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-13
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Love Life
Overview: Can Theodore Quill, a self-styled Casanova, face the truth of his affairs?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-29
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No Time for Tears
Overview: The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives. One small child risks losing his sight, while twin boys fool the doctors over which one has appendicitis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, new nurse Margaret Collier suffers pangs of unrequited love for houseman Dr. Nigel Barnes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act, something he intends to get the husband to do.
Genres: Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-31
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The Woman for Joe
Overview: A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-25
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You Only Live Twice
Overview: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-13
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The Firefighters
Overview: Young auxiliary fire-fighters are suspected of arson.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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North Sea Hijack
Overview: When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-18
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Hopscotch
Overview: When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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The Finest Hours
Overview: A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-29
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We'll Support You Evermore
Overview: A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Doctor Who: Full Circle
Overview: On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Journey's End
Overview: A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Chorabali
Overview: Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Overview: Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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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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Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Overview: The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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The Secret Adversary
Overview: After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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Chameli Memsaab
Overview: The film is set in a tea garden in Assam, where a British tea estate owner Berkeley (George Baker), he falls in love with Chameli (Binita Borgohain), is local girl who works in the tea estate. Subsequently, Berkeley marries Chameli, however later finds himself accused of her murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: as
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Three Piece Suite
Overview: Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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