Duncan Preston
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 11, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Scandalous
Overview: An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-02
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After Thomas
Overview: Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-26
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Five Children and It
Overview: A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Overview: An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-16
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Acorn Antiques: The Musical
Overview: Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End production brought together Julie Walters (Mrs Overall), Celia Imrie (Miss Babs) and Duncan Preston (Mr Clifford) - the original cast of the series. It was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn ("Les Miserables", "Woman in White", "Starlight Express") and written by Julie's understudy, the award-winning Victoria Wood. Filmed during the sell-out run at the beautiful Haymarket Theatre, the musical features an all-star supporting cast of Josie Lawrence, Neil Morrissey & Sally Ann Triplett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-13
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Pat and Margaret
Overview: Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-11
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Say No to Strangers
Overview: A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Acorn Antiques
Overview: Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity announcer played by Susie Blake, Acorn Antiques was a mini soap opera set in a shop on the outskirts of Manchesterford. Viewers were gripped with the everyday dramas that beset Miss Babs (Celia Imrie), Berta (Victoria Wood) and the glamorous Mrs Overall (Julie Walters). Now each thrilling episode is available together for the first time on DVD, including "Babs and the Cup of Coffee", "Mrs Overall and her Apron" and the memorable classic "Berta coming through the Doorway". Re-live the drama as Mrs Overall serves up another batch of macaroons and Babs discusses the future of the shop. What will be this week's riveting cliff hanger? Will the set survive? Written by Victoria Wood, Acorn Antiques was Produced and Directed by Geoff Posner and first transmitted as part of Victoria Wood as Seen on TV… in January 1985.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Happy Since I Met You
Overview: A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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The Maze
Overview: A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!
Overview: This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols and of course Archie the donkey! When their new teacher Mr. Shepherd loses his memory and forgets all about Christmas, as well as his fiancée Sophie and the whereabouts of the beloved Archie, it's up to the pupils of St Bernadette's to save the day. Led by the ever enthusiastic Mr Poppy, they embark on a Christmas journey like never before - but time is against them if they are to help Mr Shepherd get to New York in time for his magical yuletide wedding!
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-14
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Night is the Time For Killing
Overview: Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Harry Enfield Presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager
Overview: Kevin the Teenager (Harry Enfield) presents this guide to those years of acne, angst and, of course, hating your parents, ably assisted by his best mate, Perry (Kathy Burke). All the basic topics are covered, including how to impress your sexy new teacher, and what you can do with your mum's vacuum cleaner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-27
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Milk
Overview: Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Gentry
Overview: Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit. But their expedition quickly turns into a nightmare when three criminals arrive, searching for the money they hid in the building years ago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Overview: A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show to be hosted by a popular husband-and-wife team. There are tips on female problems like seriously split ends, calorie reports, keep-fit with Jolly Polly, Agony Uncle Gerard's phone-in and Britain's first four times daily soap, set in a cosy corner of a shopping mall.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Porridge
Overview: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-12
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Howl
Overview: When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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A Passage to India
Overview: Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
Overview: A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-30
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Buddy
Overview: Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne. Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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