Laurence Payne
Also Known As: Laurence Stanley Payne, Laurie Payne
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: June 05, 1919
Deathday: February 23, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Vampire Circus
Overview: After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-30
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The Crawling Eye
Overview: A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-26
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
Overview: Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Overview: Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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The Singer Not the Song
Overview: A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-05
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Dangerous Exile
Overview: Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Overview: Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe's classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-stricken librarian Edgar Marsh becomes infatuated with his next-door neighbor, but when he can't have her, he resorts to murder.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-14
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Crosstrap
Overview: In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up. Listed as lost by the BFI.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Mystery Submarine
Overview: A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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The Queen's Guards
Overview: Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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The Third Alibi
Overview: A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Overview: Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-20
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Barabbas
Overview: Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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Psy-Warriors
Overview: Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Train of Events
Overview: A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
Overview: Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-21
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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Overview: Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own existence in his present.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-02
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One Deadly Owner
Overview: A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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