Frank Mills
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Prolific film and television actor. Best known for playing Betty Turpin's second husband on Coronation Street.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Peckham, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: April 11, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 11, 2021
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The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Chariot of Fire
Overview: A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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Starlings
Overview: Starlings are the charlatans of the bird world; they change their tune to match their company. In this comedy, Gary Wilson is the changeling; he loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and, under the patronage of a wealthy young woman, finds success in the City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-28
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Rough Cut
Overview: Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-19
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Closing Numbers
Overview: Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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The Pigeon Fancier
Overview: When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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The Glitterball
Overview: When a group of small aliens accidentally abandons one of their own on Earth, adventurous kids Max and Pete stumble upon the "Glitterball" and attempt to return it to its mother ship. As the children learn more about the friendly alien and its magical powers, they must protect their new companion from an army corporal and a small-time thief who are both hunting the extraterrestrial for their own cruel purposes.
Genres: Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-22
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Stuart: A Life Backwards
Overview: Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-23
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Diane
Overview: Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close Diane and her father are.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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Kipper
Overview: Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-14
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The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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The Cage
Overview: Written by Ray Jenkins. Paula is the only girl in the assessment centre who doesn't know the date she can leave. Paula worries about what will happen to her
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-03
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Bodywork
Overview: Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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Champions
Overview: The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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The Many Lives of Albert Walker
Overview: After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-24
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The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Overview: Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Overview: The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While studying a stained glass window, they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced abbot.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-23
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Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-04
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The Vanishing Army
Overview: "Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-29
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Butterflies Don't Count
Overview: A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-28
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Overview: The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-23
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Country
Overview: In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Exploits at West Poley
Overview: Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Redemption
Overview: After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-03
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Freedom of the Dig
Overview: After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but there are other problems apart from the weather
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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The Grudge Fight
Overview: As they go by lorry to start their apprenticeship as Royal Naval Artificers, Pike and Brooks take a tacit dislike to one another. It's going to end in a fight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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Keeping in Touch
Overview: When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she has suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-19
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True Patriot
Overview: Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Overview: After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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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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