Jack Livesey
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Birthday: June 11, 1901
Deathday: October 12, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Wandering Jew
Overview: Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-15
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The 1002nd Night
Overview: An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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It's Never Too Late to Mend
Overview: An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Variety
Overview: Follows the development of the variety theatre from 1892 to the present day, centred on a family in show business.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-16
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That Touch of Mink
Overview: Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-14
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Penny Paradise
Overview: A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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If War Should Come
Overview: Produced shortly before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, If War Should Come was one of the last films to be produced by the GPO Film Unit before it was re-named the Crown Film Unit and incorporated into the Films Division of the Ministry of Information.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-17
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Patterns
Overview: "Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-12
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The Islanders
Overview: A poetic history of the British Isles and it self-sufficient industries. The film is divided into four chapters: 1.Eriskay; 2.Guernsey; 3.Inner Farne and 4.Great Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Television adaptation of the novel by R.L. Stevenson about the upright Dr Jekyll whose experiments lead him to discover a way to separate out good and evil in a man, and lead to him becoming the persona of the immoral Mr Hyde when taking the substance. However, he finds that the splitting begins to occur of its own accord and he loses control over it.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-14
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Song of the Plough
Overview: 'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-04
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-18
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Murder at the Windmill
Overview: A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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The World Owes Me a Living
Overview: When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Overview: The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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The First Gentleman
Overview: The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Patterns
Overview: Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-27
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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First Night
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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