Mark Eden
Also Known As: Douglas John MALIN
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: February 14, 1928
Deathday: January 01, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Curse of the Crimson Altar
Overview: When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming, and his niece more demonstrably so, Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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The L-Shaped Room
Overview: Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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Blind Corner
Overview: Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Attack on the Iron Coast
Overview: The film depicts an account of Allied Combined Operations Headquarters commandos executing a daring raid on the German-occupied French coast during the Second World War. The story is based on the commando raid on the French port of St. Nazaire.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-05
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Arthur? Arthur!
Overview: The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Overview: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-18
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Claudia
Overview: Eager to escape her high-society life among the English Elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however has other plans for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-12
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Captured
Overview: Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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A Little Of What You Fancy
Overview: Documentary following the history of British Music Hall, its stars and architecture, interspersed with revivals of old favourites by todays performers.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Game for Three Losers
Overview: A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Operation Snatch
Overview: Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes. When he detects that the animals' morale is slipping, he hatches a plan to go behind the German lines to "kidnap" a new ape for his charges to lift their spirits before the Germans find out about their condition and use it as propaganda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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Danger! Men Working
Overview: In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-07
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Operation Magic Carpet
Overview: “Go on. Go mad – let her in. We’ve let in twenty-odd thousand already. She’s pretty, and Leicester could do with a decent few birds.” 19 Year old Indian girl Taruna Patel arrives at London Airport on her first visit to England but an immigration officer suspects she may be hiding something about the facts of her trip.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-06
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Overview: Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-19
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Richard's Things
Overview: Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise
Overview: Just before copywriter Victor Dean fell to his death, he wrote to his supervisors at Pym's Publicity Ltd., hinting at improprieties within the agency. Concerned, the company's top brass hires Lord Peter Wimsey (Ian Carmichael) to work undercover and investigate. Was Victor's death an accident or murder? Also starring Peter Bowles and Bridget Armstrong, this BBC miniseries is based on the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-30
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The Password Is Courage
Overview: Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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The Partner
Overview: A tax avoidance scheme by a film producer leads to murder and the theft of £300,000.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Fern, the Red Deer
Overview: Cousins raise an orphaned fawn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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Nobody Ordered Love
Overview: During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from distribution shortly after it's release and is considered to be lost and may have been destroyed after the director died.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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An Adventure in Space and Time
Overview: Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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The Pleasure Girls
Overview: When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl in Swinging London. Over one weekend - filled with parties, blossoming friendships, and romantic encounters with Keith and Nikko (Klaus Kinski) - the vivacious girls learn about life's pleasures and pains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Doctor Who: Marco Polo
Overview: The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Vision On
Overview: Vision On was a documentary of Clive Doig discussing the role of the vision mixer in making early Doctor Who episodes, including footage and discussion of studio mishaps that occurred on screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-23
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