Bernard Atha
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Biography: Bernard Atha CBE was an actor known for his many appearances in Ken Loach films and various notable Play for Today productions. He also served as a Labour councillor for the Kirkstall ward in Leeds for 57 years (1957-2014) and was once the Lord Mayor of the city. He trained in ballet and law before taking up his career in acting and politics. He died aged 94 on 22nd October 2022.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Birthday: August 27, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 22, 2022
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Kes
Overview: Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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The Cold War Killers
Overview: A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Lady's Maid's Bell
Overview: Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-27
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All Day on the Sands
Overview: Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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The Rank and File
Overview: Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Leeds United!
Overview: The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-31
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Kisses at Fifty
Overview: A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-22
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Overview: Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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The Spongers
Overview: In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-24
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Family Life
Overview: A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-17
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There Is a Happy Land
Overview: Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-05
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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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