Lee Montague
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Montague (born 16 October 1927 in London) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television, usually playing tough guys. Film credits include: Moulin Rouge, The Camp on Blood Island, The Savage Innocents, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy and Brother Sun, Sister Moon. Television credits include: Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey and Makepeace, Casualty and Waking the Dead. In the sitcom Seconds Out he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay. He also holds the distinction of being the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Montague, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bow, London, England, UK
Birthday: October 16, 1927
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Gender: Male
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Overview: In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Billy Budd
Overview: Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Deadlier Than the Male
Overview: British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-12
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How I Won the War
Overview: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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The Legacy
Overview: A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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Blind Date
Overview: Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Nobody Runs Forever
Overview: Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-22
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Mahler
Overview: Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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The Secret Partner
Overview: A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Singer Not the Song
Overview: A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-05
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Kim
Overview: A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-16
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Overview: A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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Madame Sousatzka
Overview: In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano. As he struggles to meet the challenges, Manek must also deal with his mother, who vies with his teacher for his attention.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Eagle in a Cage
Overview: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Overview: Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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The Male Animal
Overview: The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-13
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Another Sky
Overview: After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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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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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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You Must Be Joking
Overview: A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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Five to One
Overview: Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-23
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Foxhole in Cairo
Overview: A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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The London Connection
Overview: A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Overview: A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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Judge the Bloody City
Overview: British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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The Silent Enemy
Overview: The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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A Tap on the Shoulder
Overview: Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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Silver Dream Racer
Overview: David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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Red Monarch
Overview: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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The Camp on Blood Island
Overview: Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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The Secret of Blood Island
Overview: Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Regan
Overview: Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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Jekyll & Hyde
Overview: Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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The Savage Innocents
Overview: An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-20
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Brass Target
Overview: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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The Secret Place
Overview: British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Heart of a Child
Overview: A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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The Horse Without a Head
Overview: Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-09
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Countdown to War
Overview: Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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No Visible Scar
Overview: A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-17
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The Spy Killer
Overview: Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-11
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The Workshop
Overview: It is 1945 - just a year since the allied troops entered Paris - and Simone arrives for her first day of work at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Passing Through
Overview: Is Richard the pub bore, or is he someone very intriguing? Arthur is a man of habit - four pints a night and home by 7.0, but tonight it's past 11.0 before he leaves the pub.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-07
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