Kenneth Colley
Also Known As: Kenneth Cooley, Ken Colley
Biography: Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979. Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets. Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing". According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven. He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. He currently lives at Hythe in Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: December 07, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Life of Brian
Overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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The Empire Strikes Back
Overview: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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Firefox
Overview: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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I Hired a Contract Killer
Overview: After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Brassed Off
Overview: A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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The Scarlet and the Black
Overview: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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A Master of the Marionettes
Overview: Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspicuous success. Then one Saturday morning a violent street encounter starts a chain of events which calls into question his every assumption and changes his life for good
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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The Blood Beast Terror
Overview: A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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Solomon & Sheba
Overview: In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-26
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Hold Back the Night
Overview: A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway through a forest with the purpose of having sex with their leader. But when morning comes and the authorities show up to disband the protesters, she hits a man with a log. This causes the two to have to go on the run. With the help of a sickly, but sympathetic woman, the two slip through police roadblocks. Traveling with her, they learn she is an ex-army lesbian who just wants to see a final sunrise at the Orkney Islands before her death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-10
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Return to Waterloo
Overview: A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-01
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Kremlin Farewell
Overview: A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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Lisztomania
Overview: In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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The Music Lovers
Overview: Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Robert Rylands' Last Journey
Overview: Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Unnatural Causes
Overview: Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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The Rainbow
Overview: Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Overview: The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-07
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Scar Tissue
Overview: When Luke wakes up and finds a mutilated corpse in his bathroom, his life changes for ever. Stalked by a terrifying psychopathic serial killer, he has to place his trust in the hands of a smart but volatile female cop, Sam Cross. The secret they uncover shatters Luke s life and brings Sam face to face with demons from her tragic childhood..
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Jabberwocky
Overview: A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
Overview: A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-30
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LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
Overview: Luke Skywalker embarks on a mission to destroy an Imperial base, but is relentlessly chased by a group of fanatic girls who think of him as a celebrity. Meanwhile, Darth Vader engages a rivalry with Darth Maul, in order to prove that he's the best Sith Lord.
Genres: Family Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-24
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Casanova
Overview: The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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The Boy Friend
Overview: The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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A Summer Story
Overview: A young lawyer from London, Mr. Ashton, and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor. When he twists his ankle, Ashton is forced to seek help at a nearby farmhouse and stays there for a few days. Innocent beauty Megan David catches the attention of Ashton. He decides to stay longer, and he and Megan fall in love, much to the displeasure of Megan's aunt and her loutish son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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Who Pays?
Overview: After a scout troupe is tragically mowed down by a truck, responsibility passes around the driver,the poorly sited roadworks and the scout master for allowing his charges on the main road.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-19
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Like Father Like Son
Overview: Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and Dee was hounded from her home. Dee has kept all this a secret from her 15-year-old son Jamie. Now he has discovered the truth about his father and demands to see him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-24
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Giro City
Overview: Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Dance of the Seven Veils
Overview: Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche’s philosophy, duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music, and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-15
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Flame
Overview: Light the Rock 'n Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame. Set in the hardships of North England's seventies working class society and music scene. This build-up from rags to riches is a parody of realism and grit, with double-dealings and harsh unforgiving dog eat dog mentalities, and the golden rule; if you play with matches then you're going to get burnt, in the flames of the music industry.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Overview: Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-22
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The Danedyke Mystery
Overview: In the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investigates mysterious goings on linked to his church.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-03
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Juggernaut
Overview: A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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The Triple Echo
Overview: After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant posted nearby.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-16
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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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The Whistle Blower
Overview: A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-21
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Performance
Overview: In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Mahler
Overview: Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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Shadow Run
Overview: Haskell is assigned a job by his boss, the aristocratic Landon-Higgins, to highjack a high security van in broad daylight while it's in the shadow run (out of radio contact with the main security firm). He assembles a team to carry out the heist, but things don't go according to plan and Haskell begins to think his boss might be double crossing him. Add to this, a teenage boarding school pupil has already witnessed some of the meetings of the team and Haskell's in real trouble.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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I Remember Nelson
Overview: Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Genres: History TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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The Devils
Overview: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Seventy Deadly Pills
Overview: A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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How I Won the War
Overview: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Overview: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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La Vie de Bohème
Overview: Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-27
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Greetings
Overview: It's Cathy's party, but she's not having a good time. The boys have found an Ouija board and are out for some harmless fun. When strange things start to happen, they blame each other, but the joke goes too far and soon they realize it isn't a joke at all...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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The Last Island
Overview: After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue fade as the survivors come to realise that the world may have suffered a major disaster.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Prisoner of Honor
Overview: France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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Measure for Measure
Overview: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Overview: A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-22
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One Bummer News Day
Overview: What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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Come the Revolution
Overview: Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-25
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Dan Hawk Psychic Detective
Overview: Dan Hawk, an ex-detective turned writer, is re-instated onto the force after returning to his home town. A serial killer has 'donned the guise' of Hawks most famous book creation, and has begun to kill people off one by one.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-21
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