Dave Hill
Also Known As: David Hill
Biography: David "Dave" Hill is a British actor. He was born in Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Ermysted's Grammar School for boys in Skipton and started his career with the Ken Campbell Roadshow alongside the likes of Bob Hoskins and Jane Wood, who he subsequently married. He has appeared in The Full Monty as well as many other films and TV series, including regular roles in City Central and EastEnders.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Birthday: October 16, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
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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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Sons and Lovers
Overview: An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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Turtle Diary
Overview: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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The Dress
Overview: A BAFTA award winning drama about a mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-03
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Invitation to the Wedding
Overview: An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Full Monty
Overview: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Death of a Son
Overview: The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-08
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First and Last
Overview: The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-12
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A Day Out
Overview: Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-24
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When Saturday Comes
Overview: Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Seven Days to Live
Overview: A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-25
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Crimes
Overview: 2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-13
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Paradise
Overview: A father can't afford to take his family on holiday so he forces them to spend a week in their basement. He sets up lounge chairs and paints palm trees on the walls. At one point the family hears a burglar upstairs but the father refuses to allow them to investigate as they are supposed to be away at a resort.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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Black Eyes
Overview: Josh and Jim want to know how Jack got his black eye. So the17 year old Jack explains over a couple of beers how their friend Lennie got him into this swanky party, on account of Jack's 'famous' brother, and how they ended up sitting round a swimming pool with a few lads passing around an enormous bag of cocaine......
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Busted
Overview: A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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Through the Night
Overview: The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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The Raggedy Rawney
Overview: During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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In Denial of Murder
Overview: Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-29
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Occasional, Strong
Overview: A man signs up as a driver for a group of criminals on a dangerous job. On the way to the hit the man hears the lottery numbers and realises he's got the winning ticket on him. However the job goes badly and the lottery ticket is collected as litter by a street cleaner. The leader of the gang goes after the cleaner while on a picnic with his daughter to get the ticket back.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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The Moon Over Soho
Overview: A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-18
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Car Trouble
Overview: In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Sin Bin
Overview: A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Overview: A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Genres: History Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Hillsborough
Overview: Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Enemy
Overview: Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Prometheus
Overview: Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very end of the 20th century, as interpreted through the myth of Prometheus.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Remembrance
Overview: A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Overview: Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Shut Down
Overview: During Wakes Week in the Potteries, the factory is deserted except for three electricians on an emergency maintenance job.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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A Sudden Wrench
Overview: Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-23
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T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia
Overview: An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne, who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1974 for corruption. A dynamic and visionary politician, Smith collaborated closely as Amber unpicked the story of a leftwing group of ex-war resisters who took control of the city council in 1960, the socialist and civic ambitions and the betrayals; the claims of MI5 involvement, of ministerial cover-ups and the unseen role of the Privy Council. With Smith appearing as himself and filmmakers Murray Martin and Steve Trafford as two journalists, the film interrogates the interviews and archive footage, weaving them together with a fictional scandal unfolding on the streets around them…
Genres: Documentary Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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In Fading Light
Overview: A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by the unexpected arrival of a young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Steps Back
Overview: When Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they find that the picture is not quite as he painted.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-14
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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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Cries from a Watchtower
Overview: A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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The Moon Over the Alley
Overview: A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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The Fools on the Hill
Overview: This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-27
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The Story of Pantomime
Overview: This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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A Martyr to the System
Overview: 'You said I'm a teacher as if that makes me into a boss. I'm just someone who has to be here, same as you.' Redfern, a student teacher, thinks today's educational system is all wrong...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Overview: An animated adventure following the Seventh Doctor as he attempts to stop General Tannis' plans for conquest of the universe.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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The Gentleman Thief
Overview: An adventure of A J Raffles.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-24
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