Allan Surtees
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Liverpool born actor Allan Surtees was a regular presence on British television with many credits over a thirty year period.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Birthday: December 31, 1924
Deathday: November 01, 2000
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Gender: Male
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The Seagull
Overview: A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-05
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Overview: Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Funny Farm
Overview: Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Brassneck
Overview: Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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The Adding Machine
Overview: An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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Sleepers
Overview: Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Overview: A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-16
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Faith and Henry
Overview: A coming of age story of an interracial relationship. Lancashire lad Henry finds himself attracted to Faith, an independent-thinking black school friend of Jamaican heritage in this captivating exploration of interracial friendship. Director Jack Gold and writer Julia Jones gently and unselfconsciously explore the couple's budding romance as they walk home along the canal, through an industrial landscape of factories and viaducts. The racial conflict of the 1960s is abandoned for an engaging drama that is refreshingly free of stereotypes.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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The Reckoning
Overview: Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Black Island
Overview: Joe and Michael, 13-year-old Brits, become separated from their class outing, stranded on a small island, and captured by armed men.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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I Bring You Frankincense
Overview: "A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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Bavarian Night
Overview: The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-31
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Erik the Viking
Overview: Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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The Luddites
Overview: In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-23
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Murder On Line One
Overview: A series of heinous murders ends with the arrest of the supposed killer. But when similar grisly killings continue, a beautiful reporter sets out to prove that the police are holding the wrong man. Or are they?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Eye of the Needle
Overview: Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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The O'Hooligan File
Overview: ' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-08
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