Richard Shaw
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: November 19, 1920
Deathday: April 11, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Overview: Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-10
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Man from Tangier
Overview: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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The Gambler and the Lady
Overview: A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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The Crooked Sky
Overview: An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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I Am a Groupie
Overview: A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Compelled
Overview: An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Give Us Tomorrow
Overview: Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-30
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The Hour of 13
Overview: 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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West of Suez
Overview: In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Challenge
Overview: Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-17
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Jackpot
Overview: Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Dirty Dozen
Overview: 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Black Orchid
Overview: Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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A Tap on the Shoulder
Overview: Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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Doctor Who: Underworld
Overview: On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before...
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-28
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633 Squadron
Overview: When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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First Man into Space
Overview: The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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No Trees in the Street
Overview: Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Booby Trap
Overview: An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Hidden Homicide
Overview: A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Hide-Out
Overview: An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Date with Disaster
Overview: A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Bottoms Up!
Overview: An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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The Hour of 13
Overview: 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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The Large Rope
Overview: After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Doctor Who: The Space Museum
Overview: On the planet Xeros, the TARDIS crew discover their own future selves frozen in time as exhibits in a galactic museum and must avert this potential future.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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The Big Chance
Overview: A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Overview: In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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A King in New York
Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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