John McEnery
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John McEnery (1943-2019) was a British actor and writer. At age 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the British National Theatre Company in 1966. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He starred alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet The Boat on the Grass about a girl between two friends and appeared as Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. He was nominated for a BAFTA for the latter performance. He also appeared in the film Nicholas and Alexandra. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander. In 1998 he wrote the play Merry Christmas, Mr. Burbage in honour of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Globe Theatre. McEnery is survived by two daughters, Phoebe and Chloe, by his former wife, actress Stephanie Beacham. One of his brothers is actor Peter McEnery, and another is photographer David McEnery. Description above from the Wikipedia article John McEnery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birmingham, England
Adult: No
Birthday: November 01, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 12, 2019
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The Boat on the Grass
Overview: Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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Abraham
Overview: Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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The Krays
Overview: The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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The Land That Time Forgot
Overview: During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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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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Black Beauty
Overview: The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: A documentary about Shakespeare's Globe opening performance of "Henry V" in 1997. The documentary combines the performance of Act IV with rehearsal shots and opening gala footage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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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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Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Overview: An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts a couple of other unsavoury confused characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-11
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Overview: Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child of Nature who is tossed around by the dark forces of fate. Jason Flemyng is the dark and sinister Alec D'Urberville whose relentless pursuit of Tess triggers the heroine's downfall. Oliver Milburn plays the handsome young Angel Clare, the caring rebel who falls deeply in love with Tess.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Galileo
Overview: Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: A performance of Shakespeare's Richard II broadcast live from the Globe Theatre, London.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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Gulag
Overview: Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Pope John Paul II
Overview: Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-22
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Prince of Shadows
Overview: Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Der Blinde
Overview: An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-03-05
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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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One Russian Summer
Overview: Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-19
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Bartleby
Overview: An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-30
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Schizo
Overview: A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Overview: Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Dear Roy, Love Gillian
Overview: A naive 16 year-old girl from Skelmersdale becomes a pen pal to an prisoner. Could her subsequent murder may be linked to their on-paper romance?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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Thacker
Overview: A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Overview: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Precious Bane
Overview: In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Codename: Kyril
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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Poppyland
Overview: He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Measure for Measure
Overview: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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Sleep is Lovely
Overview: Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin. One morning Peter, John and Colin see a middle aged man, Clive, fall out of a motor cruiser into the water. They rescue him and decide to ransom him for £1,000. Peter and Elsa are-reunited but Elsa then commences an affair with Colin. Clive turns out to be Elsa's father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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Othello
Overview: General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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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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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-05
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