John Arnatt
Also Known As: John Edwin Arnatt
Biography: John Edwin Arnatt (9 May 1917 – 21 December 1999) was a British actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russian Empire [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: May 09, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 21, 1999
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Meet Simon Cherry
Overview: Meet Simon Cherry was based on a popular BBC radio program of the 1940s titled Meet the Rev. Hugh Moxey plays the title role, a Father Brown-style clergyman who solves crimes when he isn't saving souls
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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The Impersonator
Overview: When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Set Up
Overview: Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Paganini Strikes Again
Overview: Two schoolboy musicians help to catch a jewel thief
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Clash by Night
Overview: A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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Our Mother's House
Overview: Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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Birds of Prey
Overview: An eccentric old man takes bizarre revenge on a couple preying on the elderly.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Overview: The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is inaugurated President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the Sontarans take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-11
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Crucible of Terror
Overview: An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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A Challenge for Robin Hood
Overview: After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws. Although initially suspicious of the aristocrat's motives, the men are soon won over by his integrity and prowess and Robin transforms them into a formidable fighting force, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As word of his fame and valour spreads, a legend is born.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Licensed to Kill
Overview: An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-05
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Hysteria
Overview: An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Dr. Crippen
Overview: A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Out of the Fog
Overview: Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Dick Barton at Bay
Overview: David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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House of Blackmail
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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The Passionate Stranger
Overview: Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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The Third Alibi
Overview: A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Shadow of Fear
Overview: An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Only Two Can Play
Overview: John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Whistle Down the Wind
Overview: When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-25
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Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Shadow of Fear
Overview: A rich woman, an industrialist's wife, finds her home nearly destroyed and with menacing phrases painted on the walls. Besides calling the police, her husband calls his security manager, an ex-cop, who hesitates before accepting the task of protecting her and finding the responsible party.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-28
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Overview: In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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Sign it Death
Overview: A young woman schemes to marry a wealthy businessman by becoming his secretary.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-09
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The Bulldog Breed
Overview: Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Police 5: The Master
Overview: Shaw Taylor warns viewers to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual known as the Master.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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