Joe McGann
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Biography: Joe McGann is a British actor best known for his lead role in ITV sitcom The Upper Hand and for his role in the BBC drama Rockliffe's Babies. He is one of the McGann brothers, his siblings being actors Paul, Mark and Stephen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Birthday: July 24, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
Overview: a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-19
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The Murderers
Overview: After discovering the past has caught up with him, a retired hit-man returns to his former territory to face his demons and lay them to rest.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-12
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The Brylcreem Boys
Overview: In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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Truckers
Overview: Truckers, the first of Terry Pratchett's novels to be adapted for TV brings to life the story of the Nomes. 15000 years ago the Nomes crashed to Earth in a scout ship from the starship Swan. Generations of them have come and gone with the passing years and the changing countryside. Suddenly faced with extinction, the ten surviving Nomes, guided by their reluctant leader Masklin, must face many exciting adventures during their search for a new home and hiding place in the big, bad world of the humans.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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The Hanging Gale
Overview: In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Liverpool Nativity
Overview: Inspired by The Manchester Passion, Liverpool Nativity employs the city's great musical heritage as the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago. The live event tells the intimate personal story of a pregnant young girl set against a backdrop of political tension and unrest and stars a host of well- known Liverpool actors and personalities.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-16
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No Surrender
Overview: It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Puckoon
Overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Elf: The Musical
Overview: West End star Ben Forster takes the role Will Ferrell made famous on the silver screen in this toe-tapping stage adaptation of the 2003 festive comedy. Staged at the Lowry in Salford, this family-friendly musical tells the story of Buddy, a young orphan child who crawls into Father Christmas's bag of gifts one year, and is accidentally whisked away to the North Pole, where the nonplussed elves raise him as one of their own. Years later, once Buddy has grown to adulthood, he returns to New York City to find his birth father and help the people of the Big Apple rediscover the true meaning of Christmas. Also starring Liz McClarnon, Louis Emerick, Joe McGann and Jessica Martin.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Madame Bovary
Overview: A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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Food of Love
Overview: A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-19
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Property of the State
Overview: A woman must deal with the devastating effects of having a murderer for a brother.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Semolina Pilchard
Overview: As a terminally ill Liverpool gangster summons his estranged eldest daughter back to their hometown after a five-year absence, his youngest daughter, determined to inherit everything, plots to eliminate her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
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