Ben Howard
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Biography: Ben Howard is a retired British actor famous for playing cockney hardmen and squaddies. He starred in the Richard Attenborough films, Oh What a Lovely War and A Bridge Too Far, and starred in the big police series of the 60s and 70s; Z Cars, The Sweeney and Dixon of Dock Green - the latter as DC Len Clayton in the long running show's final series in 1976. Away from acting Ben designed and created the Benjyboard skateboard which is still admired by skaters to this day as a classic.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: UK
Birthday: January 01, 1940
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Gender: Male
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Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Overview: When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Bread
Overview: On their way home from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, Jeff, Trev and Mick along with girlfriends Marty and Cathy decide to pitch a tent on private land. In the morning the land's owner Rafe turns up and orders them to get off his lawn but changes his mind when one of the girls emerges naked from the tent. Rafe explains he only comes down to the house at weekends and lets them stay providing they redecorate his house. The squatters agree but once Rafe leaves they plot to organize a pop festival at the house. Attempting to raise cash for the venture, the men coerce their girlfriends into making a blue movie. When this proves disastrous Jeff goes to London and poses as a pop journalist in order to book the groups "Crazy Mabel" and "The Juicy Lucy" for the festival.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-06
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Red Shift
Overview: Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-17
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The Land That Time Forgot
Overview: During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-07
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Talkin' Blues
Overview: John and Helen have moved into a house in Brixton, sourh London. John then gets to know a couple of his neighbours, his next door neighbour, who is black, and a white neighbour and his young leather-clad son.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Three Clear Sundays
Overview: Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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From Beyond the Grave
Overview: Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-21
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Who Dares Wins
Overview: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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That Summer!
Overview: A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel chambermaids. However, their fun is interrupted by a gang of Scottish punks who come to cause trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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Doctor Who: The Green Death
Overview: The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It's an adventure that will change Jo Grant's life forever...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-23
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The Sex Victims
Overview: A lone truck driver who is lured into the woods by a nubile Lady Godiva discovers after he’s slept with her that all is not as it seems. The Sex Victims (1973) is very much part of the Britsploitation fold, featuring gratuitous nudity, working-class vernacular and rough sex. Yet director Derek Robbins also veers into some of the same uncanny territory directors like José Larraz would later explore at feature length, making it a unique hybrid. In fact, The Sex Victims would make a perfect bill cousin for Larraz’s Vampyres (1974) for the way in which it combines ample nudity with supernatural elements. (BFI)
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Zeppelin
Overview: The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Running Scared
Overview: When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Overview: British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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