Linda Beckett
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Biography: Linda Beckett was born in 1948 in Salford, Lancashire, England as Linda M Beckett. She is an actress, known for her roles in the Mike Leigh films Secrets & Lies (1996), High Hopes (1988) and Bleak Moments (1971).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salford, England
Birthday: January 01, 1948
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Gender: Female
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Children
Overview: Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Dummy
Overview: Documentary drama based on a true story, highlighting the difficulties faced by a young deaf woman, Sandra, whose attempts to use sign language are prevented in a time when deaf people were encouraged to lip read and speak. Unable to communicate adequately, Sandra becomes a target for abusive men.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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Double Dare
Overview: Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind. As they discuss the play, Martin discovers that a businessman and an escort named Carol are sat at a nearby table and appear to be speaking lines from the as yet unwritten piece. Martin becomes anxious at what will eventually become of the girl, already knowing that the play will not have a happy resolution
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-06
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Vampires
Overview: Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and let their imaginations run wild seeing a man in a local cemetery who they believe to be a vampire.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-09
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High Hopes
Overview: Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-13
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Bleak Moments
Overview: Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-30
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Hard Labour
Overview: A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-12
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
Overview: In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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Secrets & Lies
Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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Under the Skin
Overview: "When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-19
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Waterloo Sunset
Overview: Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-23
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