Geoffrey Chater
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Birthday: March 23, 1921
Deathday: October 16, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
Overview: a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Overview: True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Genres: Romance Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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In the Secret State
Overview: A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Male of the Species
Overview: Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an aging barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-03
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One of Those Things
Overview: A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man. The girl mentally blackmails our executive through manipulation leading to an affair that threatens Vinther's career and marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-01-22
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The Specialist
Overview: A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-12
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The Confession
Overview: What is the mystery behind the murder of an apparently innocent man? Who was so afraid of the secrets he knew that they would kill him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-04
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The Big Deal
Overview: Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Hotel du Lac
Overview: Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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The Dog It Was That Died
Overview: Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Son of the City
Overview: Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Troilus & Cressida
Overview: The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Life Story
Overview: Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Northanger Abbey
Overview: A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting, remastered dramatization captures the romance of Jane Austin's classic novel "Northanger Abbey".
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-15
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The Aerodrome
Overview: In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-13
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Haunted: The Ferryman
Overview: A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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10 Rillington Place
Overview: The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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The Strange World of Planet X
Overview: Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Overview: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Blunt
Overview: Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-11
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Barry Lyndon
Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Indiscreet
Overview: A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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if....
Overview: In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Sorry
Overview: Play by Carol Bunyan. Two very different ladies share an office, a common enemy and a sense of humour. Sorry follows them through a day and their very different, and in one case, traumatic, lunch hour.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-03
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Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
Overview: They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Othello
Overview: Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-04
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The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Overview: Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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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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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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The Network
Overview: What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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The Burston Rebellion
Overview: Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-24
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The Colour of Blood
Overview: A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-12
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The Next Voice You See
Overview: An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-17
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Braces High
Overview: A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond out of retirement to solve the mystery.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-03
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