Bruce Purchase
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thames, New Zealand
Adult: No
Birthday: October 02, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 05, 2008
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Esther
Overview: Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-29
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David
Overview: A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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The Quatermass Conclusion
Overview: Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Overview: Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Sea Change
Overview: Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only Alison is not the kind who can be bought. He promises to change, but promises will not rescue him when a cancelled flight leaves him stranded at the airport in Spain. Now his only hope to win her back lies in Chas, an airline passenger stuck at the airport with him. Chas doesn't tolerate any nonsense, while Rupert complains about everything... but Chas is about to give Rupert the personality makeover of a lifetime, one to put Rupert Granger on the right track to winning Alison back.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Overview: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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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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The Tripods
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Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Other Halves
Overview: A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Optimists of Nine Elms
Overview: A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Exiles
Overview: In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why this was.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Overview: The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-21
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Overview: In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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Lionheart
Overview: A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Playing Away
Overview: To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Henry IV Part 2
Overview: The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Overview: The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-22
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Even Solomon
Overview: Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret – he likes to wear women’s clothing. When his horrified mother finds out, she takes him to meet a fellow cross-dresser to ‘solve’ the problem. But the meeting ends unexpectedly, when the other man realises that Stephen is not transvestite, but transsexual.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Richard III
Overview: A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Macbeth
Overview: Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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Another Life
Overview: A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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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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Henry IV Part 1
Overview: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-09
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Atlantis
Overview: Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-29
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
Overview: After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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Freddie as F.R.O.7.
Overview: The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve the mysterious disappearances of some of Britain's greatest monuments. Several hundred years later, Freddie is now living in modern day Paris -- a six-foot-tall amphibian with the moniker Secret Agent F.R.O.7. Messina, too, is still around causing mischief, joining forces with an arch-villain named El Supremo in a scheme to shrink Big Ben. Freddie, alerted to Messina's nefarious plans, gathers his fellow agents Daffers and Scottie together, planning to hide out in Big Ben and surprise the evil doers when they are set to strike at the much-loved British landmark.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Parrot Fashion
Overview: A 30-minute documentary looking at the writing and production of The Pirate Planet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-24
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