Joby Blanshard
Also Known As: Joby Blanchard
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 26, 1992
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Moon Zero Two
Overview: On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a 6000-ton sapphire asteroid, while also assisting a woman in finding her missing miner/prospector brother
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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80,000 Suspects
Overview: A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Brand
Overview: Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-11
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Double Bill
Overview: In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-26
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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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Doomwatch
Overview: The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Stranger in the Family
Overview: A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-18
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Lucy in London
Overview: Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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The Lump
Overview: The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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The Reckoning
Overview: Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Praying Mantis
Overview: A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Hell Is a City
Overview: Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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Crooks Anonymous
Overview: A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-31
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Hamlet at Elsinore
Overview: The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Overview: Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Lay Down Your Arms
Overview: Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Frenzy
Overview: London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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