Dennis Chinnery
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Biography: Dennis Chinnery was a British actor, noted for his performances in television. Following National service in the navy, he studied acting at RADA, graduating in 1949. His theatre work included appearances at the Old Vic. His TV credits include: Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Champions, Public Eye, Special Branch, Oh, Brother!, The Laughter of a Fool, Thriller and Survivors. He also appeared in three Doctor Who serials - The Chase, Genesis of the Daleks and The Twin Dilemma. The character Dr Chinnery in The League of Gentlemen was named after him. He was born at Romford, Essex, to Arthur F Chinnery and his wife Dorothy (née Mills). Chinnery was also an artist and painter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Romford, Essex, England, UK
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Birthday: May 14, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 29, 2012
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All the Way Up
Overview: Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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The Plague of the Zombies
Overview: Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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The Body Stealers
Overview: A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two investigators, Patrick Allen and Neil Connery, try to unravel how this happened. What they uncover is an alien plot to steal the bodies of earthlings by snatching them out of the air.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Escape by Night
Overview: An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Bullseye!
Overview: Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Hour of Decision
Overview: A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Crossplot
Overview: A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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Rogue Male
Overview: In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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The Thought of Tomorrow
Overview: Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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The Embezzler
Overview: Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Overview: The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Percy
Overview: Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Doctor Who: The Chase
Overview: The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Overview: A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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'That Crazy Woman'
Overview: In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-21
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Delayed Action
Overview: Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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The Crazy Kill
Overview: A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-25
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Overview: Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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