Del Henney
Also Known As: Del Joseph Henney
Biography: A rugged intense masculine actor who played villains in films such as Straw Dogs (1971) and took the lead role of rugby player Gareth Hopkins in two series of TV drama Fallen Hero (1978-79). He died in January 2019 aged 83.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK
Birthday: July 24, 1935
Deathday: January 14, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Straw Dogs
Overview: David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Devil's Playground
Overview: As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-21
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The Gift
Overview: Robert and Gordon, two talented teenage footballers from Wick, are invited to Glasgow for a week's trial with a big club. It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-28
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Joseph Andrews
Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-28
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Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Overview: Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-31
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Resnick: Rough Treatment
Overview: A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-25
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Going Off Big Time
Overview: After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Genres: Comedy Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Brannigan
Overview: A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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Swing
Overview: When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Dockers
Overview: Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-10
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When Eight Bells Toll
Overview: In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Overview: Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-08
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Soldier of Orange
Overview: The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1977-09-22
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Overview: Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why? Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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