Shelagh McLeod
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Biography: Shelagh was born in Vancouver and relocated to England when she was six years old. She starred in Dennis Potter's, Prix Italia winner, Cream In My Coffee before moving to Toronto and then onto Los Angeles. After appearing in several TV series, films and at the prestigious Stratford festival in Canada, she returned to England to play Dr Kate Webster in Peak Practice for several series. After completing the three year film and screenwriting program at Kingston university- her two short films: RUN And David Rose have won awards and been nominated as best short film at several international film festivals. She went on to take a MA in Creative Writing and graduated with distinction in 2015.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: May 07, 1960
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Gender: Female
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The Sleep of Death
Overview: Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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The American Success Company
Overview: A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Overview: This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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Lady Oscar
Overview: Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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On Island West
Overview: In a dystopian Britain flooded by climate change, Arya is raised as a militant racist on an isolated island. When a mixed race stranger arrives, she sees the monstrous truth of her world through his eyes. Arya must decide between freedom and justice, and the only home she’s ever known.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-30
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Shades
Overview: 1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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Cream in My Coffee
Overview: Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-02
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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Overview: Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage
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Genres: Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-08-15
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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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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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The Wasting
Overview: A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a nightmarish ghost appears that may be real, or may be a deadly creation of her starving body.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-02
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Indian Summer
Overview: Married film director has affair with leading lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Cold Front
Overview: An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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One Thing Left To Do
Overview: Unable to come to terms with the death of his fiance Rosie, Michael escapes to South Africa to fulfill his would-be honeymoon. While there, he meets up with Rosie's estranged sister, Summer. Unwanted and uninvited, she forces herself onto Michael's trip of self destruction in a last ditch effort to connect with her family. If you lost the one you loved, would you recover and live without them....or choose not to?.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-14
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Adventures of a Private Eye
Overview: While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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Camille
Overview: Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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Sky Lark
Overview: PETER: What can I do? PHYLLIDA: Surprise me. Faced with that challenge, Peter's imagination takes off in a way which surprises everyone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Pygmalion
Overview: An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-31
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