Sheila Burrell
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blackheath, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: May 09, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 19, 2011
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Cold Comfort Farm
Overview: In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Colonel March Investigates
Overview: This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Paranoiac
Overview: A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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Cloudburst
Overview: Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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The Woodlanders
Overview: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-06
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Black Orchid
Overview: Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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American Roulette
Overview: Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Man in Black
Overview: Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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The Rossiter Case
Overview: The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-21
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Overview: Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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The Desperados
Overview: A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Love Lies Bleeding
Overview: Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are a mixture of the stupid and intelligent, imaginative and unimaginative. One of them is a major politician. However, outside the comfort of the party... is death.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-12
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Overview: Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Hari, only to suffer the pains of deceit.
Genres: Action Adventure War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Hell Is Empty
Overview: On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Women Without Men
Overview: In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Laughter in the Dark
Overview: Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-11
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