Harry Towb
Also Known As: Гарри Тауб
Biography: Harry Towb was a Northern Irish actor of stage and screen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 24, 2009
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Patton
Overview: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-25
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The Scarlet Blade
Overview: A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring-do.
Genres: Adventure War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Prudence and the Pill
Overview: Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-23
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All Night Long
Overview: Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-06
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Lassiter
Overview: A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Trust Me
Overview: Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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The Big Man Coughed and Died
Overview: Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-13
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All Neat in Black Stockings
Overview: A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Conspiracy of Silence
Overview: When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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The Sleeping Tiger
Overview: A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Sex Play
Overview: Young daughter of High ranking political figure gets into trouble when she and her friends compete at bedding the foreign diplomats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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A Prize of Gold
Overview: A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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Circus Friends
Overview: A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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They Got What They Wanted
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-30
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Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Overview: On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm they're appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire, Mr Budweiser, and his spoilt son, Willy. Julian and Dick are so incensed, they sleep outdoors where they spy 2 heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love Island, where they discover Uncle Quentin and his boyfriend Toby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-02
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Moll Flanders
Overview: The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
Overview: A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Director Joseph McGrath's 1968 British comedy stars Dudley Moore, Suzy Kendall, Eddie Foy Jr. and Patricia Routledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-04
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The Time of His Life
Overview: Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Lamb
Overview: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Monsieur Ripois
Overview: While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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John Wesley
Overview: Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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Carson Country
Overview: Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-23
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Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt
Overview: A mockumentary taking a comic-look at how the Lewinsky scandal is perceived in the year 2028.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-02
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The Stumbling Block
Overview: Alfred decides to move with the times and improve his family business. However, he finds that it's bad enough to be up against strong-minded relations without the biggest stumbling block of all - his own stupid, but well-meaning, son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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Who Pays the Piper?
Overview: A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.
Genres: Music Drama Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Escape Route
Overview: When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Overview: Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Quiet Woman
Overview: The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Overview: The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-23
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Overview: Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Barry Lyndon
Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Eyewitness
Overview: After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Overview: Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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Above Us the Waves
Overview: In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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Crossroads to Crime
Overview: Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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The Girl from Petrovka
Overview: A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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The End of the Line
Overview: The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Overview: The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Overview: Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Carry On at Your Convenience
Overview: At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Overview: Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil) decides that since she has probably slept with every man in town Eamonn should be next on her list. He proves to be quite a catch... and Mary gets pregnant even though she took precautions. A doctor discovers that Eamonn has a very high sperm count and, with the birth rate in Ireland decreasing, Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) decides to hire out Eamonn to women whose husbands have been firing blanks; all with the blessing of the local Catholic church which sees it as morally better than artificial means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-08
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The Folk Singer
Overview: A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Stranger in Town
Overview: A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Elizabeth Alone
Overview: "Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!" But should we condemn her as she condemns herself?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Roger Delgado: The Master
Overview: A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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