John Thaw
Also Known As: Джон Тоу, John Edward Thaw
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Edward Thaw, CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series Inspector Morse as title character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, Redcap as Sergeant John Mann, The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan, Home to Roost as Henry Willows, and Kavanagh QC as title character James Kavanagh. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Thaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: January 03, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 21, 2002
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Goodnight, Mister Tom
Overview: A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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The Mystery of Morse
Overview: Documentary on the making of the Inspector Morse series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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The Waiting Time
Overview: When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the events which led to the assault.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Bomber Harris
Overview: Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-03
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Sweeney!
Overview: When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-14
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Sweeney 2
Overview: The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-30
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The Grass Is Singing
Overview: In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-30
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Into the Blue
Overview: Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-30
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Dinner at the Sporting Club
Overview: Vinny Mathews is a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience over what to do with a fighter he knows is unfit to face his opponent. However, Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-07
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Buried Treasure
Overview: Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was at his wife's funeral. When trying to deal with his daughter's affairs, he finds out he is a grandfather of a nine-year-old girl, named Saffron. Since he is her only relative, social services hands over Saffron to him. At first he tries to get rid of her, but he soon finds out that they share more than his daughter, Saffron's mother. They take a trip from Manchester to London, to find Saffron's estranged father, but they find so much more
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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The Last Grenade
Overview: Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-01
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Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Five to One
Overview: Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Overview: The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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The Sign of Four
Overview: Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-07
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Business as Usual
Overview: After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Macbeth
Overview: The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-20
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We'll Support You Evermore
Overview: A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Whatever Became of Me?
Overview: Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-29
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The Absence of War
Overview: Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-18
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Cry Freedom
Overview: A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Overview: A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Capone Investment
Overview: Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-07
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The Life and Death of King John
Overview: The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-24
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Plastic Man
Overview: A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-12
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Drake's Venture
Overview: Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Regan
Overview: Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Overview: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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The Bofors Gun
Overview: A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-04
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Competition
Overview: An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Catch Me a Spy
Overview: While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Overview: Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Masculine Mescaline
Overview: A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Where Is Betty Buchus?
Overview: A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-04
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