John Woodvine
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Woodvine licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
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An American Werewolf in London
Overview: American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Devils
Overview: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Vanity Fair
Overview: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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Flick
Overview: Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-02
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Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Overview: Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-24
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The Secret
Overview: A woman is held for ransom by a bitter past acquaintance who threatens to disclose a secret that could destroy her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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Persuasion
Overview: Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-01
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Murder with Mirrors
Overview: When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Man Failure
Overview: Directed by Michael Shoring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-09
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Danny the Champion of the World
Overview: Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-29
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Joe Maddison's War
Overview: Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-19
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Overview: Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'
Overview: Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf classic An American Werewolf In London. The original cast and crew tell the story of how the film was made over a quarter of a century ago featuring rare footage and never before seen photos.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-14
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Enys Men
Overview: A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-12
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Overview: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef. The filming was undertaken at a live performance at Wembley Conference Centre in April 1978, conducted by Previn.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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Glory Enough For All
Overview: Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-27
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The Trial of Tony Blair
Overview: Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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The Marlowe Inquest
Overview: In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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The Tripods
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Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-07
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Macbeth
Overview: The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-20
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Overview: Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Pirate Prince
Overview: Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-26
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A Song for Jenny
Overview: A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-05
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Fatherland
Overview: Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-26
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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The Black and Blue Lamp
Overview: Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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The Falklands Play
Overview: The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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The Dog It Was That Died
Overview: Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Burke & Hare
Overview: Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Genres: Comedy Thriller History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Squaring the Circle
Overview: An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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And a Nightingale Sang
Overview: Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-17
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Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Overview: The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Miss Potter
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Spaghetti House
Overview: Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Dragonworld
Overview: A young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of an amusement park.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-27
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Assault on Agathon
Overview: CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-24
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Young Winston
Overview: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-20
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The Walking Stick
Overview: A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Overview: Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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A Pinch of Snuff
Overview: Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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The Browning Version
Overview: Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Overview: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-08
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Darling
Overview: The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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Leon the Pig Farmer
Overview: An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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Hamlet
Overview: David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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Deceptions
Overview: Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, with unforseen results.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-26
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The Midnight Drives
Overview: A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Butterflies Don't Count
Overview: A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-28
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Countdown to War
Overview: Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Little Richard Wrecked My Marriage
Overview: A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-20
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The Baron: Mystery Island
Overview: The Baron and Cordelia find themselves held prisoner on a renegade ship up to no good. Two TV episodes of THE BARON edited into a theatrical movie.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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On Expenses
Overview: Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Hilary
Overview: A man tells his child an unusual bedtime story.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Poet
Overview: Film "The Poet" based of the novel "The Poet's Mystery" by Dario Niccodemi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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