Anthony Dawes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, UK
Birthday: February 10, 1928
Deathday: January 21, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Man Who Was Nobody
Overview: A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady
Overview: The unnamed Landlady (Siobhan McKenna) is the titular main villainess from "The Landlady", episode 1.05 of Tales of The Unexpected (airdate April 21, 1979), based on the Roald Dahl short story of the same name. The episode begins with Billy Weaver (The main protagonist), arriving in Bath as part of a work trip. While there, he looks for accomdation, and sees a bed and breakfast sign in the window of a house. The unnamed woman then invites him in, claiming that a hotel he had been planning to stay at was booked out. Although finding the landlady's overly friendly demeanour off-putting, Billy decides to spend the night.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-21
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It's All Happening
Overview: Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-01
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Champions
Overview: The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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Emergency
Overview: When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Overview: A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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The Assassination Bureau
Overview: In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-09
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The Midas Plague
Overview: The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-20
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Barry Lyndon
Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-11
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A Room in Town
Overview: A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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Ten Days to D-Day
Overview: Following the lives of ten characters through their letters and diaries in the ten days before D-Day. The mini-series contains documentary interviews with the people on which the book, and this mini-series were based.
Genres: War Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-02
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Smokescreen
Overview: A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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One Deadly Owner
Overview: A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Nightmare for a Nightingale
Overview: An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Pocketful of Dreams
Overview: At the moment money is scarce and times are hard for everyone -even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with a film crew provides them with an eccentric method of getting their hands on a lot of loot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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