Ken Drury
Also Known As: Kenneth Drury
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: UK
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Birthday: January 01, 1950
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
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Harpur and Iles: Protection
Overview: Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Set Fire to the Stars
Overview: An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Down Among the Big Boys
Overview: Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-19
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The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
Overview: To one man, it was perfect natural resource to benefit thousands of people. To another, it was a beautiful, sacred land that mustn't be defiled under any circumstance. In this documentary, the debate over the damming and flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is examined by looking at the two most notable faces of the debate, United States Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot, and celebrated Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, two friends and notable conservationists who found themselves in complete opposition with one another in one of the earliest national controversies surrounding the United States wilderness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Shadows in the Sun
Overview: An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-12
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Overview: Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Whisky Galore
Overview: The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-26
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Yanks
Overview: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Wilt
Overview: Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Venus Peter
Overview: Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-05
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Fungus The Bogeyman
Overview: Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door comes to life on Sky 1. Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes star
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-27
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The Queen's Sister
Overview: An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-26
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A Is for Acid
Overview: Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-09
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Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
Overview: For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament. Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November. The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's bodyguard and Fawkes' attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
Genres: Documentary History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-22
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Lassie
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
Overview: Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Day of the Flowers
Overview: Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Fisherman's Friends
Overview: Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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The Vanishing
Overview: Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Simon Magus
Overview: Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-17
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A Sense of Freedom
Overview: The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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The Alchemists
Overview: Grant Show (Melrose Place) stars in this fast-placed thriller based on the best-selling novel set in the chilling world of genetic engineering. Ruth Gemmel (Fever Pitch) joins Shaw as employees who put their lives on the line to discover a world in which all morality has been sacrificed. How can they prevent this powerful multi-national company from exploiting genetic research for monetary gain?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-15
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Pitch Perfect
Overview: Bob and Ellis are screenwriters with integrity, talent and the willingness to do absolutely anything to sell their movie. Over four frustrating meetings with film executives, they desperately rethink their pitch, ready to go to any lengths to make that elusive sale. But how far is too far?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-25
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Overview: As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-30
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A Different Hand
Overview: A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her priest and teacher) towards people like her who are without hands or in other ways different. Everyone is trying to force her to wear artificial hands, everyone except for her disabled friend (Nabil Shaban), who assists in her revolt.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-23
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The Pen
Overview: A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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