Lloyd McGuire
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Biography: Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 35 years. Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, McGuire attended Bournville Grammar-Technical School for Boys. He began work as a Commercial Apprentice at the Austin Motor Company in Birmingham in 1964 and toyed with developing a career as a footballer (even playing in King Norton's League and for Alvechurch second team). He became disillusioned with both football and life at "the Austin" and, after watching a Michael Caine film, declared he was going to be an actor. He was encouraged by his apprentice supervisor and gained entry to drama school. While training to be a British Leyland salesman, McGuire made the move to become an actor. Introduced to the Alvechurch Amateur Dramatic Society, he did some work at Crescent Theatre before being trained at the Birmingham College of Speech and Drama His most popular role was that of Bob in the Channel 4 TV series Teachers but he has also appeared in many TV programmes over the last few decades such as Coronation Street, Juliet Bravo, Midsomer Murders and so on. He has often played policemen, including the role of Sgt. Calder on the second series of Prime Suspect, recurring appearances as DS Bernie Duckworth in Juliet Bravo, and multiple characters in The Bill. Other TV show appearances include Bergerac, Boon, Birds of a Feather, Casualty, Doctors, Heartbeat, Holby City, Inspector Morse, Jonathan Creek, Lovejoy and Agatha Christie's Poirot. In 2010, he played the Master of Ceremonies in Chris Shepherd's award winning film Bad Night for the Blues. In 2013, he appeared as Valco boss Martin Shell in the third series of Sky One's Trollied. On stage, McGuire appeared and performed in Scotland and at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company with appearances at Aldwych Theatre and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as Richard II in New York
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Birthday: September 02, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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A Master of the Marionettes
Overview: Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspicuous success. Then one Saturday morning a violent street encounter starts a chain of events which calls into question his every assumption and changes his life for good
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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Out Of My Head
Overview: A teenager who's fed up with his uneventful life of social isolation decides to try drugs to get some excitement. He sets out to learn about their effects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-08
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Love Birds
Overview: Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy mix-ups, collisions and brushes with the law
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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Murder East - Murder West
Overview: This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the former Germany. Edgar Rutchinski, who has made a living smuggling refugees, finds his past catching up with him in the shape of the ex-girlfriend he thought was dead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Bad Night for the Blues
Overview: Blues rinses, portraits of the queen and stand up bingo. Chris Shepherd delves into his past and recalls the world of his Aunty Glad and her local Conservative Club. The hues of blue that make up the Tory heartland are more than just a party - they are a state of mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-13
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Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Overview: The Doctor arrives on a planet where two tribes, the savage Sevateem and the technically brilliant Tesh, are at war. He meets Leela, an exile from the Sevateem, and discovers that the tribes' god of evil is apparently himself...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Mike Bassett: England Manager
Overview: After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Prostitute
Overview: The tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws. As both strive to achieve their goals, a cold dose of reality dashes their hopes, and the built-in biases against women in society are unmasked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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The Crucifer of Blood
Overview: A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-04
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Loophole
Overview: When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-25
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Killing Me Softly
Overview: Sara Thornton was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of the 1989 murder of her violent and alcoholic husband. Thornton never denied the killing, but claimed it had been an accident during an argument.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-07
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Well Thank You, Thursday
Overview: Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-25
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Dear Sarah
Overview: Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-07
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Overview: The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-13
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Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
Overview: While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-04
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Love on a Gunboat
Overview: In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-04
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Broke
Overview: Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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