Tom Bowman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 14, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 08, 1997
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Circus of Fear
Overview: A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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H.M.S. Defiant
Overview: Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Hazard
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Clash by Night
Overview: A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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Tiger Bay
Overview: In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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In the Wake of a Stranger
Overview: An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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The Switch
Overview: A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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The Steel Bayonet
Overview: Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Diamonds on Wheels
Overview: Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-19
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Dangerous Cargo
Overview: Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Radio Cab Murder
Overview: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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I've Gotta Horse
Overview: A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-25
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A Tap on the Shoulder
Overview: Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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The Secret Man
Overview: A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Innocent Bystanders
Overview: Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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The Frightened City
Overview: A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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The Surgeon's Knife
Overview: A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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SOS Pacific
Overview: A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-14
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Village of the Damned
Overview: In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-16
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Overview: The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Children of the Damned
Overview: Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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The Trygon Factor
Overview: A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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The Primitives
Overview: A group of night club entertainers supplement their income by being international jewel thieves
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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