Joe Belcher
Also Known As: not available
Biography: He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Practice (1985) and Village Hall (1974).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berkshire, England, UK
Birthday: August 29, 1928
Deathday: August 16, 2006
Adult: No
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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Scab
Overview: Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Life for Christine
Overview: A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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Dracula
Overview: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-20
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The Dresser
Overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Overview: A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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Sunset Across the Bay
Overview: A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Spend Spend Spend
Overview: Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-15
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Threads
Overview: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-23
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Blue Money
Overview: Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Link
Overview: Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-26
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The Lonely Man's Lover
Overview: Poet Daniel Tasker moves to a small Yorkshire village, where he perturbs and disturbs the locals, except for Lizzie, who has feelings awakened in her that change her life.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-17
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Keep an Eye on Albert
Overview: Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-11
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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England's Greens and Peasant Land
Overview: A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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