Roy Purcell
Also Known As: Roy Douglas Purcell
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 26, 1919
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 31, 2000
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The Man in the Back Seat
Overview: The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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Odissea
Overview: Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-24
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Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms
Overview: This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the dark days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London. The programme combines superb archive film from the Imperial War Museum’s vast collection, with atmospheric dramatisations actually filmed inside the Cabinet War Rooms – the real locations from where Churchill led the nation. Includes first-hand accounts which reveal the challenges of working with Britain’s bullish war leader at close quarters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Alf's Baby
Overview: Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Palmer
Overview: Eddie Palmer attempts to run a private investigation bureau while coping with eccentric staff, an acrimonious divorce and a wayward daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-05
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The Deadly Females
Overview: Toothsome Tracy Reed (remember her in Dr. Strangelove and A Shot in the Dark?) heads the cast of Deadly Females. The ladies in question are female assassins, specializing in knocking off lascivious males. Like the proverbial black widow spider, the girls lure their victims with promises of sexual favors, then strike when said victims are exhausted. Naturally, this requires plenty of exposed female flesh.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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David Macaulay: Castle
Overview: The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Overview: Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-20
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Overview: Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration, things start to go horribly wrong - especially when they discover that the Doctor's old enemy the Master is responsible for the machine.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Overview: A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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The Baby and the Battleship
Overview: After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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