Tony Haygarth
Also Known As: Anthony Haygarth, Antony Haygarth
Biography: Tony Haygarth was born on February 4, 1945 in Liverpool, England. He was an actor, known for Chicken Run (2000), Where the Heart Is (1997) and Rosie (1977). He died on October 3rd, 2017 and is survived by his wife Carol Haygarth and their two children.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 04, 1945
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 10, 2017
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Swept from the Sea
Overview: The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Chicken Run
Overview: The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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Outside In
Overview: A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Fakers
Overview: FAKERS is a sharp, fast moving tale of blackmail and forgery set in the upper echelons of the international art society. Set in present day London and 1911 Italy.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Overview: Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-05
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Ivanhoe
Overview: Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.
Genres: History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-23
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Under The Greenwood Tree
Overview: Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-26
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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The Bouncing Boy
Overview: A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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Class of '76
Overview: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Gracie!
Overview: In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in danger of being interned so Gracie consents to his moving to America whilst she tours Canada, fund-raising for the war effort. She is accused of deserting the country which made her famous and booed offstage, though she later tours battlefields as a singer. With the war over she regains popularity, performing 'Take Me To Your Heart Again' at the London Palladium. Banks dies in 1950 and, though still a successful singer, Gracie never regains her pre-war iconic status.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-23
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The Woodlanders
Overview: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-06
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Overview: A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-13
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The Infiltrator
Overview: In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-24
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Don Quixote
Overview: Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-09
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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London Kills Me
Overview: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Sharpe's Justice
Overview: Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on the verge of strike or outright revolt. Meanwhile, Sharpe's faithless wife and her lover fall within range of Sharpe's wrath. Sharpe, with his two of his devoted Chosen Men nearby, must decide whether to continue to protect the mill owners or to take the side of their fiercely downtrodden workers.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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Agatha
Overview: England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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Dracula
Overview: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-20
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The Insurance Man
Overview: Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he looks to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Vinegar Trip
Overview: The title is taken from a Liverpool saying, "Off on a vinegar trip," which is applied to a person behaving strangely. Barrie plays Sammy Chester, a pensioner who shocks his daughters and whose cavorting leads to a heart attack. His eldest daughter takes him to live with her, and calls a family conference to decide what is to be done Sammy is far from happy with the arrangements.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
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A Private Function
Overview: In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Clockwise
Overview: School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Overview: A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-21
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A Pint of Plain
Overview: 'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use improvisation and gave them no formal script, the film has a raw, gripping and truthful 'drama – documentary' feel about it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Hornblower: Duty
Overview: Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Dreamchild
Overview: Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close friendship with the writer, and their relationship was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she realizes the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Fields of Gold
Overview: A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-08
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Ghostboat
Overview: Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission that led to her original disappearance. But what's waiting for them under the grey waters of the Baltic Sea turns out to be much worse than the Russian submarines they're expecting. Wherever Scorpion has been all this time, it's brought some very bad luck back with it...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-09
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McVicar
Overview: John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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The Bride
Overview: Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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The Dressmaker
Overview: In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Kinvig (TV pilot)
Overview: Lazy repairman Des Kinvig's life changes when he imagines meeting a glamorous alien from Mercury, who looks a lot like his latest customer Miss Griffin.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-04
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A Month in the Country
Overview: A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-27
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Message for Posterity
Overview: A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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Prince of Jutland
Overview: A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-23
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Dark River
Overview: An angry father sets out to get revenge for the death of his daughter in a toxic waste accident.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Human Factor
Overview: When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Coast to Coast
Overview: Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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Percy
Overview: Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Mountain Language
Overview: Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer exists. Any questions?'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-11
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The Love Ban
Overview: In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Scoop
Overview: Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-26
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Overview: Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered Julia. Valentine soon falls in love with Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, but then Proteus meets the captivating Silvia... and he too becomes besotted.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-27
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Wings of Death
Overview: In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - past before slipping into a much more terrifying world. A sinister little girl wanders the corridors, cutting open her doll "to see what's inside" while winos and junkies prowl as flesh-eating zombies...
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Tree of Hands
Overview: A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-07
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Let's Get Laid
Overview: A demobbed soldier, Gordon Laid, returning from World War II meets Maxine Lupercal, a member of a traveling troupe of actors returning to England on the same ship. As Gordon closely resembles a member of the troupe of actors, mistaken identity causes him to become embroiled in various murders and an international espionage plot involving a cigarette lighter that strangely affects electricity. The action reaches its comical climax on stage with Gordon and his double as the spies and the police converge on the theatre is a desperate attempt to retrieve the missing cigarette lighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Overview: The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Play Things
Overview: A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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Prophecy
Overview: When a group of friends hold a séance in the basement of a London café they each receive a prophecy. Five years later and the prophecies have started to come true, but who made them and what is the connection with Oliver Halkin and his troubled son Edward?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-09
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The Death of Captain Doughty
Overview: Captain Doughty is accused by Francis Drake of acts of piracy and of allowing his crew to get drunk. Drake questions the crew to determine the facts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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