William Hoyland
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Biography: William Hoyland was born in 1943 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. He was an actor, known for Hellboy (2004), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Gandhi (1982). He was married to Carole De Jong. He died in July 2017 in the UK
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
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Birthday: January 01, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 2017
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Overview: A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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For Your Eyes Only
Overview: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-24
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Dark Obsession
Overview: Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Half the Picture
Overview: A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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You're Human Like the Rest of Them
Overview: After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-29
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Paradigm
Overview: William Hoyland stars as a nameless protagonist who speaks to the camera in a fabricated language and, though the course of the film, transforms from young and verbose, to old and inarticulate.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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Poem
Overview: A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and sholders of a woman, a crumbling Victorian chimney stack, a forlorn row of houses, cobblestones, discarded rubbish, and a final tracking shot of a high wall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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Tube Tales
Overview: Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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Blooming Youth
Overview: An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-18
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Hellboy
Overview: In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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The Unfortunates
Overview: Directed by B.S. Johnson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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On Reflection: B.S. Johnson on Dr. Samuel Johnson
Overview: Directed by B.S. Johnson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Not Counting the Savages
Overview: Directed by Mike Newell.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Birth of a Nation
Overview: A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-19
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Sunset Across the Bay
Overview: A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Dead Gorgeous
Overview: Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-21
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All the King's Men
Overview: Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.
Genres: Drama War Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-14
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A Very Open Prison
Overview: The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-09
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A Choice of Evils
Overview: Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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Plain Jane
Overview: Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-27
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A Mighty Heart
Overview: Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Assault
Overview: After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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Resurrected
Overview: A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Genres: War Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-12
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Scoop
Overview: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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The Ragman's Daughter
Overview: Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Skinflicker
Overview: This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Hunt for Justice
Overview: The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she battles world politics and fierce opposition to indict Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Kill Two Birds
Overview: Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-28
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