Terence Rigby
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Biography: Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film credits including Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Dies, Essex Boys and Watership Down. On television, he memorably played police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running 1970s Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly: Taskforce, as well as starring in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Crossroads, Common as Muck and The Beiderbecke Affair.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Birthday: January 02, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 10, 2008
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Tomorrow Never Dies
Overview: A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-11
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Anyone for Denis
Overview: Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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Essex Boys
Overview: Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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The Homecoming
Overview: In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-29
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Mona Lisa Smile
Overview: Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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No Man's Land
Overview: 'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home of a rich writer and they start reminiscing about the 'past,' in a menacing, Pinteresque fashion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-03
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Overview: In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government claiming to have some love letters from the composer to her great-grandmother, the Countess Delfina Potocka.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Plunkett & MacLeane
Overview: Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Watership Down
Overview: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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The Sign of Four
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Lace 2
Overview: While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Girl on the M1
Overview: A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-21
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The Student Prince
Overview: The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal family and left school at fifteen. He certainly didn't volunteer for this job, and is damned if he's going to enjoy it. Yet he can't help liking the hopelessly unworldly young prince, at least, until they both set their eyes on the new American student!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-22
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The Young Americans
Overview: Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American. With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fuelled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Accident
Overview: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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High Tide
Overview: Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last words lead him on a frantic quest for answers in the tidal estuaries of the West of England, where he finds himself on a collision course with other parties who are as eager to solve the mystery as he is, and are seemingly even prepared to kill to find the answer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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England, My England
Overview: The story of Henry Purcell.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Scandal
Overview: An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Flick
Overview: Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Overview: After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Funny Bones
Overview: Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-20
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Colour Me Kubrick
Overview: The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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Testimony
Overview: The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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The Muscle Market
Overview: Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-13
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Simon Magus
Overview: Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-17
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The Mayor's Charity
Overview: Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-29
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The Falklands Factor
Overview: Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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