David Waller
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Street, Somerset, England, UK
Birthday: November 27, 1920
Deathday: January 23, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Secret Garden
Overview: When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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All Passion Spent
Overview: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-09
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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The Woman He Loved
Overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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A Day Out
Overview: Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-24
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Perfect Friday
Overview: The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Overview: Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-15
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Overview: Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-16
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Song at Twilight
Overview: Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-05
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The Tempest
Overview: Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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The Wars of the Roses
Overview: A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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The Bankrupt
Overview: Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-27
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P.Q. 17
Overview: "That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A British Allied convoy designated for the Soviet Union comes under attack from German forces during World War II.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-15
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Dad
Overview: 'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face truths they would rather forget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Shadowlands
Overview: A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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