Pearce Quigley
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Biography: Pearce Quigley is a Salford born actor known for his work on films such as Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Danny Boyle's Millions, The House of Mirth and The Way Back. He is also a familiar face on TV, specifically in comedy having appeared in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Car Share, Happiness, Rovers, and the detectorists, as well as dramas such as Three Girls, In The Dark, Cutting It, Prime Suspect 3 and Our Friends in the North. He is also a celebrated stage actor, performing at the National Theatre and the Globe.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Overview: A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Overview: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-22
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Grow Your Own
Overview: A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Two Minutes
Overview: An hilariously funny one-off comic sitcom in which some mates attempt to rob a pub of its takings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-07
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Big Dippers
Overview: Two small time crooks steal a briefcase and are amazed to find it contains £2million. But when it seems that the money was going to be used to pay the ransom for a kidnapped boy they try to get the money back to the owner.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-08
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: On a Midsummer’s night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted forest where sprites lurk and fairies rule.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-15
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We Wish You a Mandy Christmas
Overview: Nobody actually likes bread sauce, do they? It tastes like someone’s eaten a piece of bread, chewed it up and spat it onto your plate. Merry Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-20
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Within the Whirlwind
Overview: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
Overview: Two years after founding his own bank, local hero Dave Fishwick takes on the predatory payday lenders bringing misery to his small English town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-10
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The House of Mirth
Overview: In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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Breaking the Bank
Overview: With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-03
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Millions
Overview: Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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Peterloo
Overview: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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The Way Back
Overview: At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-22
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Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Learning of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet comes home to find his uncle married to his mother and installed on the Danish throne. At night, the ghost of the old king demands that Hamlet avenge his ‘foul and most unnatural murder.’ Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare’s genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-26
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The Merry Wives of Windsor - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound as Sir John Falstaff sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of their own at Falstaff’s expense… The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land. Drawing influences from British 1930s fashion, music and dance, the production will celebrate women, the power and beauty of nature, and with its witty mix of verbal and physical humour, it rejoices in a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary English sitcom. The Windsor Locals appear courtesy of Soldiers’ Arts Academy, London Bubble and Clean Break.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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National Theatre Live: The Beaux Stratagem
Overview: The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles: a crooked landlord, a fearsome highwayman, a fervent French Count, a maid on the make, a drunken husband, a furious butler, a natural healer and a strange, turbulent priest. But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Doctor Faustus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe's most renowned and controversial work. Famous for being the first dramatised version of the Faustus tale, the play depicts the sinister aftermath of Faustus's decision to sell his soul to the Devil's henchman in exchange for power and knowledge. In the first-ever staging of this menacing drama at the Globe Theatre, Matthew Dunster's production features Paul Hilton as the arrogant, power-hungry Faustus and Arthur Darvill as the sardonic Mephistopheles, and includes several impressive magical stunts along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Talk Radio
Overview: Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middled aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-08
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The Critic
Overview: Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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