Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 05, 1920
Deathday: September 12, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Frankenstein
Overview: In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-02
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Le Mans
Overview: Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Colonel March Investigates
Overview: This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Smart Money
Overview: Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man who really did it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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Assignment Redhead
Overview: An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Curse of the Voodoo
Overview: In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Clegg
Overview: Harry Clegg is an ex policeman who fights dirty, his mission to track down a crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-04
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The Hand
Overview: During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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The Broken Horseshoe
Overview: When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-10
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The Message
Overview: In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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Face of a Stranger
Overview: A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Overview: Arriving on Space Station Nerva in its distant past, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find its crew threatened by a mysterious plague. Discovering that things are not as they seem, they uncover a Cyberman plot to destroy Voga, planet of gold.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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The Pumpkin Eater
Overview: Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-16
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Shadow of a Man
Overview: After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Baxter!
Overview: A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-04
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Paul Temple Returns
Overview: A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-24
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Johnny-on-the-Spot
Overview: An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Universal Soldier
Overview: A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he is seen as a threat to the powers behind the operation.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Third Secret
Overview: A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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We Joined the Navy
Overview: Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Tread Softly
Overview: Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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A Touch of Larceny
Overview: After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Piccadilly Third Stop
Overview: A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-05
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Overview: The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Hostile Witness
Overview: Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Pasaporte al infierno
Overview: A forger (Carpenter) flees to Spain but his daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Lie
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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The Liquidator
Overview: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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Seventy Deadly Pills
Overview: A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Nightmare for a Nightingale
Overview: An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Man on the Cliff
Overview: A man wakes on a clifftop with no memory of who he is or how he got there and has to piece toigether what happened to him.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Message
Overview: In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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