Pauline Quirke
Also Known As: Pauline Perpetua Quirke, 宝林·奎克
Biography: Pauline Perpetua Quirke is an English television and film actress, known for her role as Sharon in the long-running BBC comedy series "Birds of a Feather".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Birthday: July 08, 1959
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Gender: Female
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Little Dorrit
Overview: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Checkout Girl
Overview: Supermarket checkout girl Dianne Clarke embarks upon a campaign as a modern day Robin Hood, with no inkling of the chaos she is about to create. Within just a few days the Friendly Saver where she works will be brought to its knees. Double-check your receipt!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Arthur's Dyke
Overview: Twenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk, but this time they are joined by a forty year old wife and mother who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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Getting It Right
Overview: Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Parkinson at 50
Overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
Overview: Jenny is an autistic teenager. Her father is concerned about her being withdrawn and hopes that employing her in his own business will bring her out of her shell. He also employs a new young assistant called Brian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-08
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Our Boy
Overview: A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-15
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An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
Overview: The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Mandy Smith and Eamonn Holmes in this 1994 special. Watch him answer questions, tell funny tales and crack jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-21
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: 'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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Sunshine in Brixton
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-19
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Carrie's War
Overview: Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Genres: Drama Family History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Overview: Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-16
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The Elephant Man
Overview: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-09
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Junket 89
Overview: Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Beasts: Special Offer
Overview: A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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The Trouble with 2B
Overview: It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Three, Trial of Strength
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Six, Blackboard Jungle
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
Overview: A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Thieving Headmistress
Overview: A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Last Christmas
Overview: A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Malachi's Cove
Overview: A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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The Return of the Soldier
Overview: The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-06
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Eleanor
Overview: Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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Life After Death
Overview: "We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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Name for the Day
Overview: Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-16
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Baby Talk
Overview: It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help, or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-21
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