Peter Bowles
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Biography: Peter Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an English television and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as Callan: A Magnum for Schneider and I, Claudius. He is however, best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television dramadies, including: Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, To the Manor Born, The Bounder, The Irish R.M., Lytton's Diary, Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Birthday: October 16, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 2022
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Blow-Up
Overview: A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-18
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The Bank Job
Overview: Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-28
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The Offence
Overview: A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-11
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Endless Night
Overview: Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-05
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The Informers
Overview: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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The Legend of Hell House
Overview: A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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Running Late
Overview: Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-11
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Little White Lies
Overview: The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos. In the aftermath, as Beth begins to pick up the pieces, worrying facts come to light about David's illegal deals with Oliver, the family solicitor, and his apparent long-running, illicit affair with Julia, Oliver's wife. In her distress and disbelief Beth digs deeper into her husband's private affairs and uncovers another layer of lies and deceit concerning Julia's mental stability and her friends' hollow, loveless marriage. Beth's anger and desperation for the truth about the husband she loved drives her ever on toward the truth behind tragic events of the past which lead inevitably towards further tragedy to come.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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Freebird
Overview: A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Love's Kitchen
Overview: Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Shelley
Overview: TV Movie directed by Alan Bridges
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-05
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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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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Overview: A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Stigma
Overview: A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-28
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Eyewitness
Overview: A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-05
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The Masqueraders
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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In Love and War
Overview: After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby (Blue) must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local Italians, and he meets Wanda (Bobulova), a beautiful local girl who helps him learn Italian so he can escape. Slowly, their small friendship turns into a romance, but with the Germans looking for Eric, they are kept apart, not knowing what will happen.
Genres: Drama Romance War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-18
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Three Hats for Lisa
Overview: French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Overview: A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
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Lilting
Overview: A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Passport to Murder
Overview: After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-07
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Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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The Steal
Overview: A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Taste of Excitement
Overview: A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young girl in her early twenties? As she speeds through the French countryside to the South of France, several attempts are made on her life as she is deliberately forced off the road by another car. But when she reports these attempts, the local Cap Ferrat Police Inspector and the sinister psychiatrist, Dr. Forla believe these attempts are in her imagination and Dr Forla, concludes that Jane is mentally disturbed. At her wits end Jane finds an ally in the young English painter, Paul Hedley who finally believes her life is in danger following an attempt to murder him. When Inspector Malling of Scotland Yard and Mr. Breese arrive in Cap Ferrat trying to uncover the connection between Jane and the murdered man on the ferry, this thrilling puzzle of international intrigue begins to unravel against the backdrop of the French Riviera.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Overview: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Peterman
Overview: The death of his safe cracking grandfather has landed Johnny as the only one left alive who can open a safe for a degenerate crew of violent gangsters,but he's just a junkie with little more on his mind than getting that next fix.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Overview: Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-18
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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
Overview: The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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Don't Utter a Note
Overview: Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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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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Some Lapse of Time
Overview: Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The man is the living image of Harrow's nightmare figures, Clutched in his hand is a human finger bone and he speaks a strange, unknown tongue,
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-06
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Murder: Lost Weekend
Overview: Wealthy American philanthropist Arla Breckman has been missing from the affluent district of Belgravia in central London. Her lover, wayward aristocrat Dominic Cotterall, is besieged with accusations that he has killed her. But what's his side of the story?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-10
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Try This One for Size
Overview: The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance company detective, to track down a valuable medieval Russian icon, which was stolen by Bradley (David Carradine), a master thief.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Ballet Shoes
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Colour Me Kubrick
Overview: The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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For the Love of Benji
Overview: Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious people pursue him, in a race to get a code which was secretly tattooed on his paw at the airport. But who are the bad guys and who are the agents that can be trusted? Will Benji and his kids and their nanny ever get to enjoy their vacation?
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-10
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A Magnum for Schneider
Overview: Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Together
Overview: An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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The Disappearance
Overview: The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-30
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One of the Hollywood Ten
Overview: Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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The Crunch
Overview: A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-19
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Laughter in the Dark
Overview: Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-11
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Off the Rails
Overview: Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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