David Schaal
Also Known As: David Schall
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Schaal (born 27 May 1963 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an English actor best known for playing the roles of "Taffy" in The Office and "Terry Cartwright" in The Inbetweeners. Schaal studied Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama (1985–1988) and has worked in television, film and theatre. His television credits include Missing, Casualty, The Wrong Door, Beautiful People, Hancock and Joan, Ashes To Ashes, The IT Crowd, Deceit, Doc Martin, Peak Practice, Silent Witness and Dangerfield. His film credits include Kidulthood, Mr. Nobody, Clubbed and Dirty Weekend. Schaal also appeared as "Norm", Shirley Carter's seedy landlord, in EastEnders and played troubled father "Tom Hargreaves" in Grange Hill. Other notable credits include playing "DS Bevan" in Paul Greengrass' The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, playing opposite William Baldwin in the film Relative Values, and appearing in Philip Davis' English football hooligan film I.D. Schaal also played "Eric" in Ben Wheatley's domestic British gangster film Down Terrace. Schaal wrote the short films Poppy's Present (directed by Chris Jury) and Half Time (directed by Duncan Roe). He also co-wrote the play Reality Chokes and appeared in it as "Rob" in London and directed a production of the play at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. Other writing credits include the plays Shame, No Hiding Place, The Legacy of Colonel Ash and Baby Blue. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Schaal , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Birthday: May 27, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Girl at Party
Overview: An otherworldly teenage girl confronts the limits of her power when she meets a boy at a house party.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-24
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The Bystanders
Overview: An off-the-wall comedy set in the world of the Bystanders - invisible immortals who watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-16
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Down Terrace
Overview: After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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The Great Ghost Rescue
Overview: Young Humphrey is a ghost with a big problem. He and his family, the Craggyfords, have been ousted from their home and left without a place to haunt. As they search for new haunting grounds they soon discover that they are not alone. Ghosts from all over the world have been exorcised from their dwellings, with dark castles and ancient buildings being destroyed by the living, and turned into shopping centers. With time running out, Humphrey digs deep inside, and decides to help save his family and the rest of the haunting community by scaring his way to victory.
Genres: Family Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-04
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What Time Do You Call This?
Overview: What do women really want? When your boyfriend comes home from 'a little drink' with the boys, legless on the living room floor, and looking nothing like Patrick Swayze, what are you to do?
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Original Language: en
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Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead
Overview: When a cursed amulet turns their rival boy band act into a screeching gang of zombies, a group of cheerleaders must learn to use their wits, friendship and assorted power tools before a TV talent show takes a turn for the apocalyptic.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-29
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Fallen
Overview: Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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Mr. Nobody
Overview: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Thicker Than Water
Overview: An estranged brother, Peter, returns home in the hopes to bring his splintered family back together again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Can
Overview: The Can, a steel shipping container housing a site office, stands alone in an isolated scrapyard. Shut inside is Joe, an unstable, disillusioned security guard. What should have been another quiet night at work descends into a gruelling test as he must untangle a web of lies in a race against the clock to save a life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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The Trouble with Jessica
Overview: Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Tied
Overview: After the kidnapping of his wife, Delroso learns that there's only one chance of getting her back. He must trade the lives of his closest friends in order to save the one he loves most.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Overview: Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-29
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A Gangster's Kiss
Overview: For as long as Jack can remember, he and Danny have been friends, and Danny has always gotten Jack into trouble. He's had a few brushes with the law and blows up half a high street before deciding to turn to acting. Everything is going well until Jack lands his first feature film role and Danny agrees to shadow 'the family'. Jack soon realizes he is way over his head with deadly and hilarious consequences.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-24
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Hancock & Joan
Overview: Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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Members Club
Overview: Wet Dreams, a middle aged male stripper group, take one last gig at a rural working mens club only to discover they are to become sacrifices in a plot to raise a murderous 16th century witch from the dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-24
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I.D.
Overview: Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Kidulthood
Overview: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-03
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The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
Overview: Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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Boston Kickout
Overview: School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Fitzroy
Overview: The Fitzroy is a live action black comedy set in an alternative post-apocalyptic 1950s. The world is covered in poisonous gas, and the last place for a traditional seaside holiday is The Fitzroy hotel, an abandoned submarine just off the coast of England. The film centers on Bernard, the hotel's bellboy, cook, maintenance man and general dogsbody, as he faces a constant battle to keep the decaying hotel airtight and afloat. But when he falls in love with a murderous guest, he is thrown into a mad day of lies, backstabbing and chaos. As Bernard struggles to hide her murders from the other guests and suspicious authorities, his world literally begins to sink around him.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Inbetweeners 2
Overview: Neil, Will and Simon receive an invite from Jay to join him in Australia whilst on his gap year, who promises them it’s ”the sex capital of the world”. With their lives now rather dull compared to their hedonistic school days and legendary lads holiday, it’s an offer they can’t refuse. Once again, they put growing up temporarily on-hold, and embark on a backpacking holiday of a lifetime in an awful car, inspired by Peter Andre’s ‘Mysterious Girl’. Will soon finds himself battling with the lads to do something cultural, whilst they focus their attention on drinking, girls, and annoying fellow travelers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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Dead Gorgeous
Overview: Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-21
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Relative Values
Overview: A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets. In 1952 England, Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda, upsetting both Nigel's mother, Countess Felicity, and Miranda's former love fellow Hollywood star Don. Right before the engagement party at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend, reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, devises a plan - but an inebriated Don's arrival at Marshwood to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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Hysteria
Overview: Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Just Desserts
Overview: A compulsive lottery player, Dennis, is on a monthly meal out with his wife and friends. The night turns when a practical joke played on him horribly backfires.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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The Inbetweeners Movie
Overview: High school graduation just wouldn’t be complete without an un-chaperoned, uninhibited and unforgettable final holiday. At least that’s what Will, Jay, Simon and Neil think when they book a two-week stay on an exotic Greek island. As their dreams of sun-drenched days and booze-filled nights are left hopelessly unfulfilled, the lads fight their way into the party scene with hilariously humiliating results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Overview: Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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Keeping Mum
Overview: A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-02
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Mrs Lowry & Son
Overview: An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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A Call to Spy
Overview: The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Genres: History Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Night Shift
Overview: Lenny and Chris are on their way to a job. But it gets complicated. Very complicated. And they haven’t reckoned on just who they’re there to kidnap, and who else might have had the same idea…
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Original Language: en
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The King is Dead
Overview: There's a mole in the organisation, and Lionel doesn't like moles. So he's brought his right hand men Nicky and Frank together, and he's going to find out just who has a loose tongue, whatever it takes...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Dead Air
Overview: Set on a plane traveling to a final gig, Dead Air tells the story of Monster Kitten, an all female punk rock band who end up on a flight with some nasty little creatures with all hell breaking loose at 30,000 feet.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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The Big Game
Overview: Jimmy Harper (Gary Webster) loves to gamble and enjoys enough success to bring him to the attention of a group of men who play for big money. Soon Jimmy decides to change his name to James Harper, to reflect his increased importance, and seeks a way out of his job in a factory. However, as the stakes in the games increase, Jimmy/James may begin to wonder whether he is in over his head and has risked too much...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-28
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Roundheads and Cavaliers
Overview: Alice is invited along to try historical reenactment for the first time, but finds herself caught between a Roundhead and a Cavalier in a battle for her affections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-01
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Jack of Diamonds
Overview: Two jewel thieves take refuge in a remote village where, unbeknownst to them, the government is about to unleash a virus that turns people into savage killers.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-10
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Jim's Gift
Overview: A mysterious stranger presents a boy with a VCR that can "play" the past...and the future. How it affects the boy and his struggling middle-class family is the central story.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Overview: The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. The chaotic adventure takes them from exotic shores to Victorian London, and from a haplessly smitten scientist to a diabolical queen.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-12
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I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
Overview: A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-29
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Knuckledust
Overview: When Police kicks open the doors of the elite underground fight club Knuckledust, they find seven levels of hell, filled with the dead bodies of countless fighters, assassins and goons. Only one man, beaten up to a pulp, is still breathing: Hard Eight.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-08
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The Announcement
Overview: A family dinner out becomes more than just one revelation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Demon
Overview: When an unpaid train fine comes back to haunt him, Ralph, a black British Brummie, flees London to a forest motel where a temporary hideout becomes a nightmarish purgatory and he's forced to confront the loss of his father.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-20
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The Heiress
Overview: Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-15
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The Chippie
Overview: There have always been rumors about the local fast-food joint and its shady owner. When a child goes missing, a young boy musters up his courage and decides to check it out.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-02
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This is English
Overview: A group of grammar enthusiasts wage a war on misspelled words, with an unexpectedly violent vocabulary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-17
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