Colin Douglas
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newcastle, England, UK
Birthday: July 28, 1912
Deathday: December 21, 1991
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Gender: Male
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Ex
Overview: Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-29
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Dick Barton: Special Agent
Overview: Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Suspect
Overview: The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Overview: On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but why do his rivals keep disappearing? How can he predict so many natural disasters? The Doctor must expose Salamander's schemes before he takes over the world.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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The Crawling Eye
Overview: A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Intensive Care
Overview: When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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Night People
Overview: A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
Overview: The cursed island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England is a place of rumour and tales of beasts from the sea. Three lighthouse men at the turn of the century face their fears when something comes from the sea to bring death to all it touches.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-24
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1914 All Out
Overview: A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-08
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Overview: Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Captain Clegg
Overview: A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide, with narration spoken by Ray Brooks.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-06
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A Man from the Sun
Overview: A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the existing West Indian community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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Even Solomon
Overview: Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret – he likes to wear women’s clothing. When his horrified mother finds out, she takes him to meet a fellow cross-dresser to ‘solve’ the problem. But the meeting ends unexpectedly, when the other man realises that Stephen is not transvestite, but transsexual.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Headmaster
Overview: Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40 years ago, Headnaster shows how little has changed in teaching, given its focus on the conflict between old and modern teaching methods, as well as the eternal jockeying for position amongst teaching staff.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Mister Ten Per Cent
Overview: Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, when he wants to stage a flop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Eleanor
Overview: Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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Thicker Than Water
Overview: The Black Pudding Festival in Normandy, France, brings competitors from all over Europe. The British contingent is there for all the fun of the fair-and determined to win!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-24
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The Hornet's Nest
Overview: Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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