Philip Ray
Also Known As: Roy Edgar Cochrane
Biography: Philip Ray was an English actor of stage, screen and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England, UK
Birthday: November 01, 1898
Deathday: May 11, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sons and Lovers
Overview: The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-29
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Now Let Him Go
Overview: A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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The Extra Day
Overview: Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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They Drive by Night
Overview: “Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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The Mind Benders
Overview: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Overview: An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Overview: In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Twelve Good Men
Overview: A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Overview: Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Another Case of Poisoning
Overview: British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-14
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It's in the Air
Overview: George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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No Place for Jennifer
Overview: A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-17
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: American horror television movie from 1956.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-03
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Adam and Evelyne
Overview: A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
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The Winslow Boy
Overview: In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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The Man Who Made Diamonds
Overview: “Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
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Double or Quits
Overview: A reporter on a transatlantic cruise finds himself accused of the theft of valuable stamps. Knowing that he didn't do it, he sets out to find the real thief, but isn't prepared for what he discovers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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In the Doghouse
Overview: After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-17
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Where There's a Will
Overview: A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Dark Journey
Overview: Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Genres: Thriller War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Emergency Call
Overview: A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Sapphire
Overview: Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Passage Home
Overview: Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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The October Man
Overview: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Fame Is the Spur
Overview: A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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Before I Wake
Overview: A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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Derby Day
Overview: Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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Night and the City
Overview: Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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The Good Die Young
Overview: An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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A Night to Remember
Overview: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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Devil Doll
Overview: An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Tiger in the Smoke
Overview: In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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Second Best Bed
Overview: A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-18
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Frankenstein Created Woman
Overview: A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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Miranda
Overview: A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-06
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The Net
Overview: A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-09
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Overview: Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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The Secret Place
Overview: British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Overview: The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Fortune in Diamonds
Overview: As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Violent Playground
Overview: A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-14
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Quay South
Overview: Facing pressure from authorities to relinquish control of his ship the Ebb Tide, Capt. Daniel Thwaite (Roger Livesey) struggles to decide what course of action he should pursue in this riveting military drama set in 1940 northeastern England. Based on a novel by Howard Clewes, this episode from the "ITV Television Playhouse" series co-stars Michael Bates, Miriam Karlin and Peter Barkworth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-10
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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